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An artist’s concept shows the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, with its seven Earth-sized, temperate exoplanets orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star. It’s unusual to have so many planets in the habitable zone. NASA/JPL/Caltec...

Taste Aversion Reveals How Bad Experiences Modify Brain and Behavior

https://neurosciencenews.com/taste-aversion-behavior-17267/

‘Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds’ Review: It’s Raining Mysteries

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/movies/fireball-visitors-from-darker-worlds-review.html

A fast radio burst in our own Galaxy

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03018-5

NASA Missions Help Pinpoint the Source of a Unique X-ray, Radio Burst

Nov 6, 2020 | Highlight of the Month

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-missions-help-pinpoint-the-source-of-a-unique-x-ray-radio-burst

How One Hacker Artist Tricked Google Into Showcasing Her Art When You Search This Election-Related Term

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/gretchen-andrew-next-american-president-1920250

Intuition, insight, and the right hemisphere: Emergence of higher sociocognitive functions

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3218761/

Positive outlook predicts less memory decline

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201029135501.htm

New ‘Epigenetic’ Clock Provides Insight Into How the Human Brain Ages

https://neurosciencenews.com/epigenetic-clock-brain-aging-17238/

Your Favorite Music Can Send Your Brain Into a Pleasure Overload

https://neurosciencenews.com/music-pleasure-eeg-17246/

Specific Brain Region and Circuits Controlling Attention Identified

https://neurosciencenews.com/lc-neurons-attention-17245/

Sébastien Léger at the Great Pyramids of Giza, in Egypt for Cercle

Nov 6, 2020 | Song of the Week

The Marriage of Art and Science: How to Make It Work

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/words-wellness/202011/the-marriage-art-and-science-how-make-it-work

The Biology of Telepathy

Oct 30, 2020 | Highlight of the Month

°Telepathie and Intuition …. tapping synchronicity! Neuroscientist are exploring these human abilities since the mid of the last century with astonishing results. Already applying those faculties of the human brain to enhance artificial intelligence (see...

LIGO and Virgo reveal a huge collection of gravitational waves

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ligo-virgo-gravitational-wave-quadruple-black-hole

Your Eyes Really Are the Window to Your Soul

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-apes/201512/your-eyes-really-are-the-window-your-soul

The Rolling Stones – Time Waits For No One (Subtitulada)

Oct 30, 2020 | Song of the Week

Happiness and the Evolution of Brain Size

https://neurosciencenews.com/serotonin-neocortex-evolution-17209/

Tus ojos realmente son una ventana a tu alma

https://www.psychologytoday.com/es/blog/tus-ojos-realmente-son-una-ventana-a-tu-alma

An iPad Studio Tour Finds Bruce Nauman Pushing Limits

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/arts/design/bruce-nauman-ipad-art.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Art%20%20Design

Right Brain Thinking is the Hottest New Fad! Ways to Enhance Your Intuition

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/right-brain-thinking-is-t_b_160641

Galileo’s famous gravity experiment holds up, even with atoms

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/galileo-gravity-experiment-atoms-general-relativity-einstein

The Left-Hand and Right-Hand Paths in Occultism

https://www.learnreligions.com/left-hand-and-right-hand-paths-95827

Why Human-Like Robots Creep Us Out

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-right-mindset/202010/why-human-robots-creep-us-out

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx just tried to grab a piece of the asteroid Bennu

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa-osiris-rex-spacecraft-asteroid-bennu-sample-collection

Researcher Proposes New Theory of Consciousness

Oct 23, 2020 | Highlight of the Month

This new theory also accounts for why, despite their immense complexity and ultra-fast operation, today’s computers have not exhibited the slightest spark of consciousness; however, with the right technical development, robots that are aware and can think for...

More Proof That Vigorous Workouts Boost Fluid Intelligence

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/more-proof-vigorous-workouts-boost-fluid-intelligence

Scientists Uncovered a Cartoonish, 2,000-Year-Old Cat Figure Etched Into the Earth Among Peru’s Nazca Lines

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cat-appears-peru-nazca-lines-1916414

Clumpy, Recycled Gas From Stars Surrounds Milky Way

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/clumpy-recycled-gas-from-stars-surrounds-milky-way

Happy Endings Trip up the Brain’s Decision-Making

https://neurosciencenews.com/happy-decision-17185/

To the Edge of the Earth – Michael Nyman – in The Piano (2004)

Oct 23, 2020 | Song of the Week

Christian Löffler live @ Botanischer Garten Berlin – United We Stream Festival – ARTE Concert – YouTube

Oct 15, 2020 | Song of the Week

A New Book Traces the Visual Symbolism of the Zodiac Throughout Art History

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-of-the-occult-excerpt-1913636

Brain-inspired computing boosted by new concept of completeness

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02829-w

Earth and Moon Once Shared a Magnetic Shield

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/earth-and-moon-once-shared-a-magnetic-shield-protecting-their-atmospheres

Machine Learning Predicts How Long Museum Visitors Will Engage With Exhibits

https://neurosciencenews.com/machine-learning-museum-exhibit-17161/

Automatic decision-making prevents us harming others

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201015101811.htm

ESO telescopes record last moments of star devoured by a black hole

Oct 15, 2020 | Highlight of the Month

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201012115956.htm ESO’s Very Large Telescope complex in Paranal, Chile (stock image). Credit: © CPO / stock.adobe.com

Amygdala inhibitory neurons as loci for translation in emotional memories

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2793-8

How Does Information and the Body Travel Now, When People Cannot?’: Frieze Live’s Experimental New Format Probes New Possibilities for Performance Art

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/frieze-live-2020-1914846

Musical Training Can Improve Attention and Working Memory in Children

https://neurosciencenews.com/music-training-memory-children-17140/

Inevitable Light

Oct 8, 2020 | Highlight of the Month

Inevitable light Truth in bright letters Inscribed in dark cosmic All And deep in your soul. Unausweichlich Licht Wahrheit geschrieben Ewig im Grund des Kosmos Und in der Seele. Luz inevitable Verdad inscrita En el fondo del cosmos Y en tu...

Black hole revelations win the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physics-nobel-prize-2020-black-hole-roger-penrose-reinhard-genzel-andrea-ghez

Neuroscience News Science Magazine – Research Articles – Psychology Neurology Brains

https://neurosciencenews.com/

Martha Argerich – Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3

Oct 8, 2020 | Song of the Week

ESO telescope spots galaxies trapped in the web of a supermassive black hole

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201001090120.htm

Gagosian Goes Netflix? The Mega-Gallery Is Creating Original Content That Pairs Artists With Luminaries Like Malcolm Gladwell and Jeff Tweedy

https://news.artnet.com/market/gagosian-premieres-1912963

4 Reasons Why Dancing is the Best Meditation.

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/04/4-reasons-why-dancing-is-the-best-meditation/

Human Presence III (last observations) The map, the territory, simulation and the glow of awareness

Jun 26, 2020 | Blog

Human Presence III (last observations): The map, the territory, simulation and the glow of awareness Philosophers have called attention to the disappearance of the full potential and authenticity of the human mind in the ages of mass media, mass...

Quantifying creativity to expand it? Better art begins with better understanding

https://neurosciencenews.com/art-understanding-creativity-16570/

The human brain tracks speech more closely in time than other sounds

https://neurosciencenews.com/speech-brain-tracking-16577/

Massive prehistoric circle near Stonehenge: ‘Astonishing discovery’ offers new insights into lives of Neolithic ancestors

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200622164652.htm

Elaine Chew, research

http://elainechew-research.blogspot.com/

Physicists spot a new class of neutrinos from the sun

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neutrinos-sun-core-nuclear-fusion-reactions-borexino

Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown: Signal from 500 million light years away is the first periodic pattern of radio bursts detected

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200617150005.htm

As many as six billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, according to new estimates

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200616100831.htm

LIGO and Virgo detected a black hole colliding with a mystery object

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ligo-virgo-detected-collision-black-hole-mystery-object

Pseudolife: Researchers to develop a synthetic, autonomous, gene-regulated ‘cell’

https://www.technology.org/2020/06/23/pseudolife/

Museums Embrace Art Therapy Techniques for Unsettled Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/arts/design/art-therapy-museums-virus.html

CERN makes bold push to build €21-billion super-collider

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01866-9

Philip Glass: Symphony No. 7 “Toltec” Live Performance

Jun 26, 2020 | Song of the Week

Corpus Callosum

Jun 18, 2020 | Highlight of the Month

The “Highlight of the summer” is the novel Corpus Callosum by Susanne Steines, downloadable as a pdf on this site (click here). It will be a great summer read, you will see. Here is a brief summary: Berlin. Mexico. New York around 9/11. Young translator Anna takes...

Brothers in arms: The brain and its blood vessels

https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-blood-vessels-16544/

Moral reflection can be seen in brain activity and eye movements

https://neurosciencenews.com/moral-reflection-brain-eye-16535/

China’s quantum satellite helps send secure messages over 1200km

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2245885-chinas-quantum-satellite-helps-send-secure-messages-over-1200km/

Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip: The design could advance the development of small, portable AI devices

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200608132518.htm

he Art Angle Podcast: Why Artist Trevor Paglen Is Doing Everything He Can to Warn Humanity About Artificial Intelligence

https://news.artnet.com/the-art-angle/art-angle-podcast-trevor-paglen-1885005

Glenn Gould plays Bach – The Goldberg Variations, BMV 998 (Zenph re-performance)

Jun 18, 2020 | Song of the Week

The “Love Hormone” Oxytocin can also give rise to aggressive behavior

https://neurosciencenews.com/oxytocin-aggression-16552/

The first intuitive programming language for quantum computers

https://www.technology.org/2020/06/15/the-first-intuitive-programming-language-for-quantum-computers/

The brain uses minimum effort to look for key information in text

https://neurosciencenews.com/reading-essential-information-16529/

Human Presence II

Jun 12, 2020 | Blog, Highlight of the Month

Is there anything about humanity and human consciousness that even the most advanced AI, powered by the best quantum computer, would not be able to develop? Let´s be aware that quantum science is the state-of-the-art right now – but sooner or later human scientists...

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