Dan MihuSleep This is what actually happens in your brain when you can’t sleepCosmopolitan - By Jennifer SavinWe asked a neuroscientist and brain surgeon for the answers to insomnia. Ever spent a night's sleep tossing, turning and staring at the ceiling, then all of a sudden, the birds outside are singing and
Dan MihuScience Want to sound smarter? Try saying nothingThe Guardian - David ShariatmadariEveryone wants to sound fluent. To speak in fully formed sentences, without gaps, as though they know what they are talking about. Anxiety over stumbling or tying yourself in knots trying to find the words
Dan MihuPhysics Scientists Are Starting to Take Warp Drives Seriously, Especially One Specific ConceptScienceAlert - Matt Williams, Universe Today As Agnew explained to a packed house, the theory behind a warp propulsion system is relatively simple. Originally proposed by Mexican physicist Miguel …
Dan MihuPodcasts Richard Dawkins: Can we live in a world without religion?sciencefocus.com - Amy Barrett We speak to Richard Dawkins, the leading voice on evolution and atheism, about how he lost his faith and found a new community with science. Richard …
Dan MihuMind Will Your Uploaded Mind Still Be You?The Wall Street Journal. - Michael S.A. GrazianoThe day is coming when we will be able to scan our entire consciousness into a computer. How will we coexist with our digital replicas? Imagine a future in which a machine can scan your brain and migrate
Dan Mihu I wake up at 4am every morning and can’t get back to sleep. What can I do to fall asleep again?sciencefocus.com - Alice Gregory Try not to stress about it and try reading a book instead. Early morning waking without the ability to return to sleep can be a symptom of insomnia. …
Dan Mihu Self-enhancement, righteous anger, and moral grandiositytandfonline.com (2019). Self-enhancement, righteous anger, and moral grandiosity. Self and Identity: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 201-216.
Dan Mihu Are We All Wrong About Black Holes?WIRED - Condé Nast In the early 1970s, people studying general relativity, our modern theory of gravity, noticed rough similarities between the properties of black …
Dan MihuHate Groups Strategies for combating online hatenature.com - Noemi Derzsy An analysis of the dynamics of online hate groups on social-media platforms reveals why current methods to ban hate content are ineffective, and …
Dan Mihu Can New Species Evolve From Cancers? Maybe. Here’s How.Quanta Magazine - Christie Wilcox Researchers agree it’s a long shot, but transmissible cancers could theoretically evolve into independent species. Certain weird parasites might be …
Dan Mihu Don’t Believe a Word by David Shariatmadari review – the truth about languageThe Guardian - Joe MoranWords aren’t a condiment you sprinkle on top of reality; they are the marinade that alters the taste of everything As a boy, David Shariatmadari would sit in the hallway and listen to his Iranian father
Dan Mihu Denise Herzing: Do Dolphins Have A Language?NPR - NPR/TED StaffPart 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Anthropomorphic We know that dolphins make distinctive clicks and whistles. But is that a language? Researcher Denise Herzing thinks it might be — and for the past
Dan Mihu Being and Becoming in Modern Physics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)stanford.edu Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet …
Dan Mihu When we start uploading our brains to computers, will our sense of self be uploaded too?sciencefocus.com - Dr Peter Bentley Creating a digital copy of ourselves may sound simple in practice but has the potential to cause complications. Our sense of self emerges from the …
Dan Mihu How to Forget About Work When You’re Not WorkingHarvard Business Review - Art MarkmanWhen was the last time you got away from work? I mean truly got away from it: didn’t think about it, didn’t worry about it, didn’t have a to-do list rattling around in your brain. Most of us know there
Dan Mihu Has this scientist finally found the fountain of youth?MIT Technology Review - Erika Hayasaki Editing the epigenome, which turns our genes on and off, could be the “elixir of life.” The black mouse on the screen sprawls on its belly, back …
Dan Mihu Tomorrow’s Gods: What is the future of religion?BBC Future - Sumit Paul-ChoudhuryThroughout history, people’s faith and their attachments to religious institutions have transformed, argues Sumit Paul-Choudhury. So what’s next? We take it for granted that religions are born, grow and
Dan Mihu First Contact or First Murder?psychologytoday.com - Guy P. Harrison It is an odd sequence of events common to many branches of scientific study: A student falls in love with the beauty, mystery, and complexity of a …
Dan Mihu Why Some Scientists Believe the Universe Is Consciousmindmatters.ai - News It’s easy to mock the idea. But consider what neuroscientists studying consciousness are up against: Traditionally, scientists have been stalwart …
Dan Mihu Humans Aren’t Designed to Be Happy – and That's a Good ThingInverse - Rafael Euba "Happiness is like a feather flying in the air." A huge happiness and positive thinking industry, estimated to be worth $11 billion a year, has helped …
Dan MihuUniverse Does the Universe Rotate?space.com - Mara Johnson-Groh If you look around space, you'll notice a lot of things — the planets, stars, moons, even the galaxy itself — have one thing in common: they're …
Dan Mihu Are we set for a new sexual revolution?BBC Future - Brandon AmbrosinoFrom reproduction without sex to open relationships, our attitudes towards sex may evolve rapidly in the near future, predicts the writer Brandon Ambrosino. Biologically speaking, the purpose of sex may
Dan MihuAlbert Einstein Is the Future Already Written? |discovermagazine.com George Ellis is not afraid to rock the establishment. In his youth in South Africa, his target was a recognizably corrupt and racist government. Now …
Dan Mihu People more likely to trust machines than humans with their private informationphys.org - Matt Swayne Not everyone fears our machine overlords. In fact, according to Penn State researchers, when it comes to private information and access to financial …
Dan Mihu What Are the Ethical Consequences of Immortality Technology? - Aeon - Pocketgetpocket.com - Yowi Fy Immortality has gone secular. Unhooked from the realm of gods and angels, it’s now the subject of serious investment – both intellectual and …
Dan Mihu Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness?BBC Future - David RobsonGiulio Tononi’s "integrated information theory" might solve neuroscience’s biggest puzzle We currently have no way of knowing whether lobsters have a conscious inner life - or if their behaviour is purely
Dan Mihu Philosophers and neuroscientists join forces to see whether science can solve the mystery of free willsciencemag.org - Bahar Gholipour Philosophers have spent millennia debating whether we have free will, without reaching a conclusive answer. Neuroscientists optimistically entered …
Dan MihuIcon version of the Flipboard logo When Did Humans Start to Get Old?discovermagazine.com Age 116, Kane Tanaka of Japan was recently crowned the oldest person on Earth. She’s six years shy of the longest human life on record: 122 years and …
