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Japanese Textile Designs 33
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Watch: How DarkSword Puts Millions of iPhones at Risk
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3 Days Can Reshape Your Brain
https://www.sciencealert.com/giving-up-your-phone-for-just-3-days-can-reshape-your-brain-activity
Researchers from German universities investigated 25 young adults who limited their phone use to essential tasks for 72 hours, using MRI scans and psychological tests before and after the restriction period. The core finding was that images of smartphones after the restriction triggered changes in brain regions associated with reward processing and cravings, similar to patterns observed in substance addictions. These neural changes were specifically linked to dopamine and serotonin systems, supporting the hypothesis that excessive smartphone use can be addictive. Although brain activity showed these changes, the psychological tests did not register significant changes in the participants’ mood or reported cravings during the brief period of restriction.
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Watch: Why rural hospitals are closing across the USA
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Creative minds ‘mimic schizophrenia’
Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have been studying how the mind works. Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought pathways of highly creative people and those with schizophrenia. Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and direct thought. It could be this uninhibited processing that allows creative people to "think outside the box", say experts from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. more here BBC News
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TravelTuesday: From the Archives-To Town Early Spring
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MusicMonday: Cultura Profética – Bendito Vicio
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Pile o’peeps
In the groups that I helped to co-facilitate in the ’80’s and ’90’s … at the end of a long day of movement and processing, folks would just lay down on the floor very close to each other. That was generally referred to as a puppy pile.
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Seguy Art Deco Designs 34
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Trading Economics
Interesting website with oodles of info and graphics expressing said info: Trading Economics provides its users with accurate information for 232 countries including historical data for more than 300.000 economic indicators, exchange rates, stock market indexes, government bond yields and commodity prices. Our data is regularly checked for inconsistencies and based on official sources; with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, central banks and national statistics bureaus being the most important. TradingEconomics.com has received more than 20 million page views from more than 200 countries.
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