How a New Quantum Approach Can Develop Faster Algorithms to Deduce Complex Networks

https://www.technology.org/2020/03/03/how-a-new-quantum-approach-can-develop-faster-algorithms-to-deduce-complex-networks/

Five amazing facts about your brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-facts-15856/

How smell, emotion, and memory are intertwined, and exploited

https://neurosciencenews.com/memory-emotion-smell-15855/

Artnet Intelligence Report Spring 2020

http://artnet.com/artnet-intelligence-report

Physicist Brian Greene contemplates the beginning (and end) of everything

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/big-bang-big-chill-physicist-brian-greene-contemplates-beginning-end-everything/

The Transhumanist Bill of Rights version 2.0

https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2018/08/transhumanist-bill-rights-version-2-0/

We process a song’s lyric and melody on different sides of the brain

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2235517-we-process-a-songs-lyric-and-melody-on-different-sides-of-the-brain/

Eat less, live longer

https://neurosciencenews.com/caloric-restriction-longevity-15812/

XAVER VARNUS PLAYS BACH’S TOCCATA & FUGUE IN THE BERLINER DOM

Mar 6, 2020 | Song of the Week

Quantum camera snaps objects it cannot ‘see’

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13825-quantum-camera-snaps-objects-it-cannot-see/

Connectedness to Nature: Its Impact on Sustainable Behaviors and Happiness in Children

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00276/full

How the Arabic Alphabet Inspired Abstract Art

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/arts/design/Arab-Abstraction-grey-art-gallery.html

Beethoven, 7th Symphony, mov 2 / karajan / best of the best

Feb 28, 2020 | Song of the Week

The practice of meditation leaves marks in the brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/meditation-brain-15759/

The best recordings of Beethoven’s Symphonies

http://www.classical-music.com/article/best-recordings-beethovens-symphonies

Generosity and selfishness: A neural dance

https://neurosciencenews.com/generosity-selfishness-15774/

Researchers Were Not Right About Left Brains, Study Suggests: Uniquely human cognitive abilities may have evolved by adapting ancestral asymmetry pattern

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200214144339.htm

Dora Maar’s Surrealist Legacy Eclipses her Status as Picasso’s Muse

Feb 28, 2020 | Physics, Uncategorized

Dora Maar’s Surrealist Photography Eclipses Her Reputation as a...

A weak heart also damages the brain

Feb 28, 2020 | Mind Health

https://neurosciencenews.com/heart-brain-15783/

The Mexican Muralists Had a Vital Influence on US Art. Can Their Revolutionary Approach Offer Lessons for the Present?

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/vida-americana-mexican-muralists-whitney-1786695

What’s Everything Made Of?

Feb 28, 2020 | Highlight of the Month

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/whats-everything-made-of

New study allows brain and artificial neurons to link up over the web

https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-artificial-neural-link-15793/

Connectedness to Nature: Its Impact on Sustainable Behaviors and Happiness in Children

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00276/full

How serotonin modulates behavior

https://neurosciencenews.com/serotonin-behavior-15747/

Breakthrough Listen scans Milky Way Galaxy for beacons of civilization

Feb 21, 2020 | Highlight of the Month

Breakthrough Listen scans Milky Way Galaxy for beacons of...

Robots inch closer to ‘feeling’ pain

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/robots-feel-pain-artificial-intelligence

A quantum technique highlights math’s mysterious link to physics

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-quantum-technique-highlights-math-mysterious-link-physics

Mortality from all causes over 40% higher in female domestic abuse survivors

https://neurosciencenews.com/mortality-domestic-violence-15723/

The first molecular oxygen has been spotted beyond the Milky Way

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/molecular-oxygen-spotted-beyond-milky-way-first-time

Your decision-making ability is a superpower physics can’t explain

https://translucidmind.com/your-decision-making-ability-is-a-superpower-physics-cant-explain/

Designing artificial brains can help us learn more about real ones

https://neurosciencenews.com/artificial-brains-15709/

Into the Black Forest With the Greatest Living Artist

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/magazine/anselm-kiefer-art.html

Glenn Gould – Liszt Transcription of Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No.7 – Allegretto

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AnS1i9bVGHU

Neuroimaging reveals empathy can be detected in people whose brains are at rest

https://neurosciencenews.com/empathy-resting-15744/

The right hippocampus leads the bilateral integration of gamma-parsed lateralized information

https://elifesciences.org/articles/16658

Revenge is more enjoyable than forgiveness; at least in stories

https://neurosciencenews.com/revenge-fiction-enjoyment-15671/

Entanglement of two quantum memories via fibres over dozens of kilometres

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1976-7

Bring the Noise to Deep Neural Networks

https://www.technology.org/2020/02/11/bring-the-noise/

Cannabis increases susceptibility to false memory

https://neurosciencenews.com/cannabis-false-memory-15668/

Casting light on the brain’s inner workings

Feb 13, 2020 | Highlight of the Month

https://neurosciencenews.com/pain-depression-device-15670/

Hildur Guðnadóttir sets record for highest number of awards ever received by a female film composer in a single season

http://www.classical-music.com/news/hildur-gu-nad-ttir-sets-record-highest-number-awards-ever-received-female-film-composer-single

L-Theanine in Green Tea Stimulates Neurotransmitter Production & Reduces Anxiety

https://www.zrtlab.com/blog/archive/l-theanine-green-tea-neurotransmitter-anxiety/

Making light work: light beams communicate with one another through solid matter

https://www.technology.org/2020/02/07/making-light-work/

What Mental State Leads to Altruism ?

https://www.matthieuricard.org/en/blog/posts/what-mental-state-leads-to-altruism

HVOB live @ Copa del Sol (Careyes)

Feb 13, 2020 | Song of the Week

Altruistic food sharing behavior by human infants after a hunger manipulation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58645-9

How One Artist Hacked Google Maps to Fake a Traffic Jam and Make a Point About the Flaws of Big Data

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artist-simon-weckert-google-map-hack-1769187

Truth decay: when uncertainty is weaponized

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00273-4

David August & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Boiler Room Berlin Live Performance

Feb 6, 2020 | Song of the Week

The wobbling orbit of a pulsar proves Einstein right, yet again

Feb 6, 2020 | Highlight of the Month

The wobbling orbit of a pulsar proves Einstein right, yet...

Single dose of psilocybin reduces depression and anxiety for a year in cancer patients

https://neurosciencenews.com/psilocybin-depression-cancer-15618/

Love Yourself First? What a Mistake

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/am-i-right/202002/love-yourself-first-what-mistake

Army develops big data approach to neuroscience

https://neurosciencenews.com/big-data-neuroscience-15626/

The way you dance is unique, and computers can tell it’s you

https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-dancing-15509/

What you experience may not exist. Inside the strange truth of reality

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532670-800-what-you-experience-may-not-exist-inside-the-strange-truth-of-reality/

Dopamine signals may guide migration of immune cells to infection sites

https://neurosciencenews.com/immune-cells-infection-15640/

George Steiner, Prodigious Literary Critic, Dies at 90

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/books/george-steiner-dead.html

Ultra-high energy events key to study of ghost particles

https://www.technology.org/2020/02/04/ultra-high-energy-events-key-to-study-of-ghost-particles/

Misbehaving kaons could hint at the existence of new particles

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/kaons-rare-decay-particles-standard-model

Who invented the alphabet? The untold story of a linguistic revolution

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532680-600-who-invented-the-alphabet-the-untold-story-of-a-linguistic-revolution/

Novelty speeds up learning thanks to dopamine activation

https://neurosciencenews.com/dopamine-learning-novelty-15645/

A barrier to colliding particles called muons has been smashed

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/barrier-colliding-particles-called-muons-has-been-smashed

How Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Turned Their Love Affairs Into an Art Form (and 10 Other Wild Romances That Changed Art History)

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/famous-art-romances-1763217

What is reality? Why we still don’t understand the world’s true nature

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532670-700-what-is-reality-why-we-still-dont-understand-the-worlds-true-nature/

A radical idea suggests mental health conditions have a single cause

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532660-500-a-radical-idea-suggests-mental-health-conditions-have-a-single-cause/

On the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, 75 Portraits of Holocaust Survivors Are Going on View in Germany

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/75th-anniversary-auschwitz-exhibition-1762671

Transhumanist Bill of Wrongs

https://www.discovery.org/a/transhumanist-bill-of-wrongs/

Brain networks come ‘online’ during adolescence to prepare teenagers for adult life

https://neurosciencenews.com/teen-adult-brain-networks-15595/

These are the most detailed images of the sun ever taken

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/these-are-most-detailed-images-sun-ever-taken

Chandra Spots a Mega-Cluster of Galaxies in the Making

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/chandra-spots-a-mega-cluster-of-galaxies-in-the-making

Could psychedelics help treat mental health and resolve the climate crisis?

Jan 31, 2020 | Highlight of the Month

https://neurosciencenews.com/psychedelics-climate-change-15587/

Coupled Quantum Dots May Offer a New Way to Store Quantum Information

https://www.technology.org/2020/01/30/coupled-quantum-dots-may-offer-a-new-way-to-store-quantum-information/

R.Wagner “Tristan und Isolde” [ K.Böhm Bayreuth-FO ] (1966)

Jan 31, 2020 | Song of the Week

Musicians Love the Conductor Kirill Petrenko. It Shows

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/arts/music/kirill-petrenko-berlin-philharmonic.html

Children to bear the burden of negative health effects from climate change

https://neurosciencenews.com/climate-change-child-health-15571/

Maya Total War

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/366-2001/trenches/8242-digs-guatemala-witzna-fire

Archaeologists Just Discovered the Bones, Weapons, and Headdresses of Four Real-Life Amazon Warriors in Russia

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/amazon-women-burial-russia-1760256

NASA’s Kepler Witnesses Vampire Star System Undergoing Super-Outburst

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasas-kepler-witnesses-vampire-star-system-undergoing-super-outburst

Silicon Valley’s latest fad is dopamine fasting – and that may not be as crazy as it sounds

https://neurosciencenews.com/dopamine-fasting-trend-15562/

How emotions are mapped in the brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/emotion-brain-mapping-15561/

Physicist Proposes a Testable Theory Stating that Information has Mass and could Account for Universe‘s Dark Matter

https://www.technology.org/2020/01/24/physicist-proposes-a-testable-theory-stating-that-information-has-mass-and-could-account-for-universes-dark-matter/

AI could deceive us as much as the human eye does in the search for extraterrestrials

https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-alien-life-15588/

Emojis Meet Hieroglyphs: If King Tut Could Text

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/arts/design/emojis-hieroglyphs-israel-museum.html

New research confirms lingering mood benefit of psychedelics

https://neurosciencenews.com/psychedelics-mood-15531/

Deep learning enables real-time imaging around corners: Detailed, fast imaging of hidden objects could help self-driving cars detect hazards

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200116101157.htm

Exercise boosts memory like caffeine

https://neurosciencenews.com/exercise-memory-caffeine-15521/

Billions of quantum entangled electrons found in ‘strange metal’

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200116144105.htm

Karlheinz Stockhausen — Mantra.

Jan 24, 2020 | Song of the Week

International Classical Music Awards 2020 names winners

https://www.thestrad.com/news/international-classical-music-awards-2020-names-winners/10071.article

Design Shows Take On the Future. And It’s Not Pretty

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/arts/design/philadelphia-design.html

Google and Janelia researchers unveil biggest, most detailed map of the fly brain to date

Jan 24, 2020 | Highlight of the Month

https://neurosciencenews.com/google-fly-brain-map-15548/ The circuitry shown here is from the fly’s central complex, a region that controls navigation. Image is credited to FlyEM/Janelia Research Campus.

Study explores cognitive function in people with mental illness

https://neurosciencenews.com/mental-health-cognition-15547/

Taking the temperature of dark matter

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200115140512.htm

Astronomers discover class of strange objects near our galaxy’s enormous black hole

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200115132316.htm

The first living robots

https://neurosciencenews.com/living-robots-15470/

Transhuman or Translucid III: The Quantum Computer and the Quantum Brain: Algorithm Reality Computing, or Cosmic Consciousness Synching?

Jan 17, 2020 | Blog, Highlight of the Month

Transhuman or Translucid III: The Quantum Computer and the Quantum Brain: Algorithm Reality Computing, or Cosmic Consciousness Synching?   The promise offered by the transhumanists — always cloaked in a seemingly heroic idealism — is that transhumanism can...

A new torque detector could spot quantum friction in a vacuum

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-torque-detector-could-spot-quantum-friction-vacuum

Cecilia Alemani Named Curator of Next Venice Biennale

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/arts/design/venice-biennale-cecilia-alemani.html

When Pina Bausch Made Tanz Into Tanztheater

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/arts/dance/pina-bausch-bluebeard-revival.html

What it’s like to trip on psilocybin for a scientific research study

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2230189-what-its-like-to-trip-on-psilocybin-for-a-scientific-research-study/