Parasite gives wolves what it takes to be pack leaders (Nature) - Study is one of the few to show the behavioural effects of Toxoplasma gondii in wild animals.
tag > Biology
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Human Intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe
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Fungal Intelligence (FI): "Amazon Fungi Help Create Clouds & Rain"
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Fungal Intelligence (FI): "This gooey, brainless blob can store memories"
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Genome-wide sperm DNA methylation changes after 3 months of exercise training in humans
Exercise can affect your unborn children's genes by altering the chemistry of DNA in sperm and egg cells. Aerobic exercise for 3 months altered sperm DNA by silencing genes linked to the risk of autism, OCD, Alzheimer’s, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and atherosclerosis.
This is called transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. Animal studies have shown that exercise-induced genetic changes are a direct factor driving beneficial changes to offspring’s brain physiology, cognition, neurogenesis, & mitochondrial activity.
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Was asked today by a ghost from the past about my knowledge of "any teams/companies/individuals who you think do a really good job of providing context for health information". My comment:
Regarding teams that provide context to health info (ML & beyond): I've done my research deep dives on this general topic and have some hunches - fairly obvious insights, nothing particularly groundbreaking. But frankly this entire space is completely full of spooks/intel/military/mafia front-orgs and front-people: From the early days of Tavistock etc. all the way to the digital twining of entire populations under permanent bio-signals surveillance, and the altering of bio/psycho-dynamics of masses as part of new types of "currencies" on the "internet of bodies", all under the framework of full-spectrum dominance extended to all aspects of biological life on earth. As i personally believe in the profound power of relaxation and am a life long explorer of that path, i find this all far to stressful and hence stay far away. From my perspective meditation, relaxation and true kindness and care are more effective than all of the Bio-AI-intelligence-blabla in the world. But ultimately, everybody has to follow their own path and truth - and I'm not here to preach but to practice.
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John Cage speaking of his experience in an anechoic chamber (a room that absorbs all sound)
“In that silent room, I heard two sounds, one high and one low. Afterward I asked the engineer in charge why, if the room was so silent, I had heard two sounds… He said, ‘The high one was your nervous system in operation. The low one was your blood in circulation.’”
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Earth Has 20 Quadrillion Ants, Study Says" - That is 20,000,000,000,000,000, or 20,000 trillion ants. Their weight is estimated at about 12 megatons of dry carbon - more than all the wild birds & mammals together.
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Recent work lead by Omer Hazon and Pablo Jercog reveals that, due to noise correlations, mouse hippocampus only encodes space with a limited resolution of 10cm (about the size of the mouse) & only ~1000 neurons are needed to decode space to this limit.
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Meet Your Interstitium, A Newfound 'Organ'
The new organ is a thin layer of dense connective tissue throughout the body, sandwiched just under our skin and within the middle layer of every visceral organ. The organ also made up all the fascia, or the thin mesh of tissue separating every muscle and all the tissue around every vein and artery, from largest to smallest. What initially seemed to be a solid, dense, connective tissue layer was actually a complex network of fluid-filled cavities that are strong and flexible, yet so tiny that they escaped the attention of the brightest scientific minds for generations.
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Wireless multilateral devices for optogenetic studies of individual and social behaviors ... induction of interbrain neuronal synchrony in the medial prefrontal cortex shapes social interaction within groups of mice.
Implantable Micro-Light-Emitting Diode (µLED)-based optogenetic interfaces toward human applications
Wireless activation of targeted brain circuits in less than one second - Neuroengineers use magnetic fields to activate neurons in fruit flies
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The ½ Hz Sensory Resonance - from the patent "Remote magnetic manipulation of nervous systems"
The human nervous System exhibits a Sensitivity to certain low-frequency Stimuli, as is evident from rocking a baby or relaxing in a rocking chair. In both cases, the maximum Soothing effect is obtained for a periodic motion with a frequency near ½ Hz. The effect is here called “the ½ Hz Sensory resonance'. In the rocking response, the Sensory resonance is excited principally by frequency-coded signals from the vestibular end organ. However, the rocking motion also induces body Strains, and these are detected by Stretch receptors residing in the skin and elsewhere in the body. In addition, relevant Signals may originate from thermal receptors which report skin temperature fluctuations caused by air currents that are induced by the rocking motion. All these receptors employ frequency coding in their Sensory function, and it must be that their signals are combined and compared in the brain with the vestibular nerve signals in an assessment of the Somatic State. One may thus expect that the Sensory resonance can be excited not only through the vestibular nerve, but also Separately through the other Sensory modalities mentioned. This notion is Supported by the observation that gently Stroking of a child with a frequency near ½ Hz has a soothing effect. Further support derives from the successful excitation of the ½ Hz sensory resonance by weak external electric fields, as discussed in “Method and Apparatus for Manipulating Nervous Systems”, U.S. Pat. No. 5,782,874. The ½ Hz sensory resonance involves the autonomic nervous System, and it can be used to induce relaxation, Sleepiness, or Sexual excitement, depending on the precise Stimulation frequency and the affected afferent nerves. Another Sensory resonance has been found at about 2.4 Hz;
Related patent: "Subliminal acoustic manipulation of nervous systems"
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Multiple Intelligences: eight different potential pathways to learning. “It’s not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.” ~ Howard Gardner
