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Friday Nite Videos | August 18, 2023

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Explosive New Tape: Roger Stone Pushing Elector Plot. Why We Might Be Alone. T-R-E-A-S-O-N (A Musical Parody). NYC Labor Chorus Sings Handel's Hallelujah, With New Lyrics. AI Regenerates Pink Floyd Song from Brain Activity.

Where Am ‘I’? Your Brain and You

Diana Kwon Scientific American
How does your brain create a physical sense of self? New insight comes from zapping a region, known as the anterior precuneus, that causes people to feel dissociated from their body.

Friday Nite Videos | June 9, 2023

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I Tracked Down My Anonymous Landlord... Here's What Happened. How a 1968 Student Protest Fueled a Chicano Rights Movement. Santos' Lawyer Was Part of the J6 Mob. Why Did Our Brains Shrink? The Canadian Village Incinerated by Record Temperature.

Why Did Our Brains Shrink?

We've lost a lemon sized piece of brain. Here are three hypotheses that try to explain what happened.

Cash Assistance to Mothers Boosted Infants’ Brain Activity, Study Shows

Danilo Trisi Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Early neuro-imaging results provide powerful new evidence of what so many other studies have found — a more secure and adequate family income alters children’s lives in concrete ways and expands their opportunities to succeed and thrive.

Brain Computer Interface Turns Mental Handwriting Into Text on Screen

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Researchers have, for the first time, decoded the neural signals associated with writing letters, then displayed typed versions of these letters in real time. They hope their invention could one day help people with paralysis communicate.
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