Impressions from last week's trip
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Secret British ‘black propaganda’ campaign targeted cold war enemies
“It’s very clear now that the UK engaged in more black propaganda than historians assume & these efforts were more systemic, ambitious & offensive. Despite official denials, [this] went far beyond merely exposing Soviet disinformation,” said Rory Cormac…”
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Neurons are fickle. Electric fields are more reliable for information.
A new study suggests that electric fields may represent information held in working memory, allowing the brain to overcome “representational drift,” or the inconsistent participation of individual neurons
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Giant sinkhole with a forest inside found in China - "Species unknown to science could be hiding in this gaping hole."
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Bee-Nomics
In the 80s a Swedish beekeeper created a local currency to see his little village through cash-strapped times. One Clover (the name of the currency) is worth the same as (and exchangeable for) a 0.7kg jar of honey. Honey stores forever and its value fluctuates extremely little. There is currently around 2500 Clovers in circulation, quite enough for the village to run a functional local economy without involving the government.
