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Category Archives: Human Brain
Brains of Potent Euphemisms and Metaphors
It is said that the brain is so complex that it cannot understand itself. Scientists at Harvard and technologists at Google Research have collaborated to map out the massive volume of 1 cubic mm of human cortex! More: Now, a … Continue reading
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Develop Late, Decay Early: The Last-In First-Out Brain Networks That Keep Human Societies on the Treadmill
Some societies seem to have better brains than others. Patents, Nobel Prizes, innovative startups and IPOs, all attest to the presence of brains that seem to be thinking better and faster. Societies with better brains (on average) are more prosperous … Continue reading
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How Can Young Girls Find Their Way Home?
The following is a brief anecdote about a college coed who temporarily lost her smartphone service, just before she was to drive home for the weekend. She asks her professor what to do: … her phone plan was switched by … Continue reading
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Where Babies Are Being Born, Or Not
The global fertility map reveals that the nations with the highest fertility rates are almost all impoverished, backward, third world nations. Surplus persons from these nations are already flooding European countries. But as the above fertility trends continue, out-migrations of … Continue reading
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The Brains that Would Not Die
Can hard-earned knowledge be preserved long enough for a smooth transition of generational skills? Read further for a brief look at brain growth factors and the nootropic peptides that boost them, and how they might help to extend the prosperity … Continue reading
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Biden’s Brain: Why are Human Brains Shrinking?
In a shocking confession, Joe Biden’s own Department of Justice described Biden’s sad descent into twilight senescence this way: We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our … Continue reading
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Zoological Identity and Oppression of Unicorn Youth
Mental Health Problems are Not Reduced After Obesity Surgery in Youth Mental Health Problems are Not Reduced After Surgery in Trans ID Youth Mental Health Problems Not Reduced After Surgery in Unicorn Youth Over 40% of Unicorn Youth living in … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Groupthink, Human Brain, psychology, satire
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In Science & Mathematics: Women Get Special Preferences but Earn Less Credit; Is it Fair?
Women Get Special Preferences: …Cornell University psychologists have found that a highly qualified woman applying for a tenure-track faculty position in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) at a U.S. university is twice as likely to be hired as an … Continue reading
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Mechanisms of Human Brain Evolution Still at Work
What Genetic Mechanisms Made Human Brains so Large? It is not a specific gene that makes the human brain so large. It is instead a segment [Olduvai protein domains]] of a specific gene family [NBPF] that is repeated many times … Continue reading
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Jordan Peterson in Clown Suit Speaks Profound Truth
Often the court jester is the wisest man in the kingdom. Dressing as a clown does not negate the truth in what a man says. In a recent interview with cognitive scientist John Vervaeke, Jordan Peterson delves into deep issues … Continue reading
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The Synergism of Intelligent Minds: Jordan Peterson, Andrew Huberman
The video interaction between psychologist Jordan Peterson and neuroscientist Andrew Huberman is a classic example of what happens when two intelligent minds meet on the same wavelength in order to share cutting edge knowledge. Each man has his areas of … Continue reading
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A Growing Brain Needs to Move and Go Places
Human cognition is based upon the simple concept of movement. The more the growing human moves — and is given good feedback on his movement — the better the brain can grow and integrate its many potential functions. Conversely, if … Continue reading
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All Your Brains Am Belonging to Us
China is developing terrifying brain control weapons which could be used to paralyze and control its enemies and its own people, a report says. NYPost China is rushing to seize the military high ground in the various fields of brain … Continue reading
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Human Brain Networks in Sleep, Anesthesia, Psychoses, Delirium
Human consciousness and other large scale brain functions are thought to be mediated by brain networks that involve synchronous communication between distant brain regions. Whenever the brain undergoes an altered state of consciousness, it is expected that there is an … Continue reading
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The Amygdala and Persistent Dark Mood
Surviving on the wild savannah without amygdalas would have been difficult for ancestral tribes of humans. But it is no picnic trying to be happy in modern hectic times with our amygdalas. Recent research by U. Miami psychologists published in … Continue reading
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Can Your Cinnamon Do This?
Can your cinnamon prevent Alzheimer’s, cure cancer before it starts, control type II diabetes, reverse some effects of Traumatic Brain Injury, prevent heart disease, make you smarter, and promote healthy weight loss? Cinnamon contains vital oils and derivatives which makes … Continue reading
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Black History Month: Will it Ever be Black Future Month?
Or put more clearly: Do black people have a future? Every year as the US once again celebrates “Black History Month,” everyone tries to ignore the fact that blacks still lag in educational achievement, in life expectancy, in wealth and … Continue reading
Anger is All the Rage: Be Prepared
The modern age of “social justice” is being propelled by anger and rage. Children are groomed for victimhood from kindergarten onward, and by the time they reach college age, they are primed to rumble. The link above suggests that keeping … Continue reading
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Can Innate IQ Inequalities be Corrected Using Brain Science?
Different human breeding populations evolved on different continents, reacting to disparate environmental conditions in different genetic ways. The outward differences between different breeding populations are obvious. The inward differences — including a stratification by IQ due to differently evolved brains … Continue reading
A Modern Curse: Depression and Anxiety
Depressive symptoms are common in over 30% of women and 20% of men. Anxiety is seen in over 20% of men and women. Heritability for depression is around 40%, meaning that it often travels in families. Of those with depression, … Continue reading
Are Humans Losing their Grip on Complex Thinking?
We are animals that specialize in thinking and knowing—in cognition—and our extraordinary cognitive powers have enabled us to do remarkable things. We have transformed our eating habits with agriculture and cooking, and transformed our habitats with buildings, bridges and roads. … Continue reading
Finally an Authentic Approach to Anti-Aging
DNA damage is common to our cells, but when we’re young our bodies can fix it pretty easily. Unfortunately we lose that ability over time, leading to many of the symptoms of aging that we know all too well. A … Continue reading
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This is Mind Control to Major Tom
This is mind control to major Tom, you’ve really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare This is major Tom to mind control, I’m … Continue reading
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Can A Single Neuron Understand the Whole Brain?
Neuroscientists are beginning to ask themselves: Can a human brain understand the human brain? The sheer amount of descriptive data on the brain being generated in neuroscience labs is terribly daunting — and is being described as “an existential crisis” … Continue reading
Four Paths to Savant Mental Skills
Savant skills are typically confined to five areas: art, music, calendar calculating, mathematics and mechanical/spatial skills (Treffert 2005). These skills are [ed: in brain-damaged savants] accompanied by an exceptional ability to recall meaningless detail—memory without understanding (Sacks 2007) and a … Continue reading
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