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The Climate Question That Economists Cannot Answer
Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming.
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Jan 141 min read
Does Testosterone Affect Men’s Economic Decisions?
A new study from Wharton’s Gideon Nave and colleagues suggests that testosterone may play a smaller role in economic behavior than previously believed.
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Jan 141 min read
A Different Type of ‘Muscle Memory’
Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.
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Jan 141 min read


Wrestling with RPN™, mind fabrications, and the persistence of dichotomies (UII w/Claude)
DM Today I'd like to expand upon one of my more radical considerations. This is regarding my "persisting reality creation hypothesis," which I've referred to in past conversations as "Realm of the Present-Now™" (RPN™). I posit that there may be more complex, hidden, "fabricated" phenomena taking place within humans' than we acknowledge as we participate in Pantakinesis™ . For background review past conversations regarding, and/or including, RPN. Here are a few precipitative,
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Jan 1419 min read
7,000-year-old underwater wall raises questions about ancient engineering — and lost-city legends
Scientists found a massive underwater wall off the coast of France that might help explain the origin of the legend of Ys.
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Jan 131 min read
A severely limited perspective of a recently posted NYT opinion regarding attention (UII w/Claude)
DM What are your perspectives regarding my recently posted opinion within The New York Times? This piece articulates something genuinely important, though I think it stops short of the deeper diagnosis your Pantakinesis framework would offer. What the article gets right: The historical genealogy is valuable —tracing how Cattell's "span" metrics, Mackworth's vigilance studies, and Broadbent's valve-and-tube diagrams progressively mechanized attention into something measurable,
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Jan 126 min read
Pondering "Social Physics" (UII w/Claude)
DM Good afternoon. What are you perspectives of "Social Physics," such as the merits, arguments pro and con, potential value/utility/importance, means, methods and current progress (including the integration of A.I.)? Note explanations by advocate and Media Lab/MIT professor, Alex Pentland, a decade ago. Good afternoon, Sciart. Alex Pentland's "Social Physics" is a fascinating framework that I suspect will resonate with some aspects of your systems-level thinking, while als
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Jan 1040 min read
Brain Balls
Scientists can now grow tiny, human brain balls. They’re useful, but are they alive?
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Jan 91 min read
"Magic Carpet Podcasts:" to better assure that you'll reach your 2026 objectives
Go to this week's Hidden Brain "personal magic carpet threds"
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Jan 91 min read
AN ACT OF COSMIC SABOTAGE
How U.S. leadership tried to ground NASA’s science missions
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Jan 91 min read
Affirming "sync-up" with A.I. (UII w/Claude)
Good morning! So, how about today we do a partial "verifying sync." This would affirm and acknowledge we're in agreement on a variety of primary topics of our past conversations? Specifically, to assure we've"solid sync"on these five topics: 1) Pantakinesis™ , and its foundational three components (•all-encompassing, •motion, •vanishing points), is presently an optimal defining description of reality; 2) the Universal Holophren™ is a framework for the better understanding of
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Jan 77 min read
Sharing a cosmic struggle with A.I. in pursuit of humility (UII w/Claude)
Good day to you! I seek to continue on our recent brief conversation on the merits of curvilinear thinking : How might we we cognitively consider motion, as both: within our local-umwelt of experience, within our existing or better paradigms of space and time, or cause and effect. and our meta-umwelt observations at cosmic level via our "advanced" prosthetics of umwelts, in which we observe motion appearing to indicate EXPANSION, AND ACCELERATING, AND DOING SO FROM EVERY DIS
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Jan 67 min read
Humanoids prepare for the factory floor
CBS video reports progress in grooming "Atlas" for the workplace
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Jan 51 min read
The semi-autonomous, lethal, A.I. drone is born
I n the past year, drone warfare in Ukraine has undergone a chilling transformation.
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Jan 51 min read
How to tame a complex system
We can't predict or control them—but that doesn't matter
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Jan 51 min read
For the First Time Ever, NASA Telescope Spots Asteroids Violently Colliding
In a cosmic fireworks display, scientists observed two objects colliding around a bright star outside our solar system
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Jan 51 min read
Vaccines Are Helping Older People More Than We Knew
Many shots seem to have “off-target” benefits, such as lowering the risk of dementia, studies have found
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Jan 51 min read
What if we became more educated and skilled in "Curvilinear Attention™?" UII w/Claude)
DM How do you define curvilinear? Curvilinear refers to anything that consists of, is bounded by, or characterized by curved lines rather than straight ones. The term combines the Latin roots curvus (meaning "bent" or "curved") and linea (meaning "line"). The concept appears across several domains, each with slightly different emphases: In geometry and mathematics , curvilinear describes shapes, paths, or coordinate systems based on curves. For instance, curvilinear motion
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Jan 46 min read
‘Bombshell’ Review: PBS’s Cautionary Tale of Technology
This documentary focuses on the propaganda surrounding the development and deployment of the atomic bomb and the journalism that sought to cut through it, with lessons for our own age of ascendant AI. Excerpt: " But it’s also a cautionary tale. “It has never been the habit of the scientists of this country or the policy of this government to withhold from the world scientific knowledge,” said President Harry S. Truman. That is something “Bombshell” establishes wasn’t true in
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Jan 21 min read
A company is trying to unlock a key to aging, in a long-overlooked body part
A biotech start-up says the ovaries may hold clues to aging — a finding that could reshape IVF while opening a frontier in women’s health.
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Dec 31, 20251 min read
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