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Research roundup: 2,400-year-old clay puppets; this is your brain on Klingon

Ars Technica

March's list includes fascinating papers on such topics as how the brain responds to speaking Klingon (or Dothraki, or Navi), the discovery of creepy preclassic Salvadoran puppets, the effectiveness of "dazzle camouflage," and how male blue-lined octopuses manage not to be cannibalized by their chosen mates.

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Brainly raises $80M as its platform for crowdsourced homework help balloons to 350M users

TechCrunch

That has in turn led to a surge in the usage of tools to help home learners do their work better, and today, one of them is announcing a growth round that speaks to the opportunity in that market. For more context, PitchBook estimates that the company was valued at $180 million in its last round, a Series C of $30 million in 2019. In the U.S.

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A look at 15 best and (almost) free mind mapping tools for nonprofits

Candid

The same principle lies at the heart of a mind map. Mind maps help us stay organized in the world of content shock, informational chaos, and short attention span. Psychologists revealed the power of this instrument for the human brain a long time ago. They say mind mapping makes people more creative and retentive.

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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project. Most people probably have never thought about donating their brains to science. The Brain Donor Project’s end goal is to get you to register your brain for donation after your death—a major ask that is likely to be shocking or even offensive to some people.

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Data and Maps: Making Place Legible

NTEN

More specifically, what about mapped data? Creating display maps – in print or as digital images – is easier than ever before, and interactive, web-based mapping is all over the place, so to speak. Some of this is a general cognitive truth, but a good part of that comes from poorly designed maps.

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Multi-layered Mapping of Brain Tissue via Segmentation Guided Contrastive Learning

Google Research AI blog

Li, Research Scientist, and Sven Dorkenwald, Student Researcher, Connectomics at Google Mapping the wiring and firing activity of the human brain is fundamental to deciphering how we think — how we sense the world, learn, decide, remember, and create — as well as what issues can arise in brain disease or dysfunction.

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

The Verge

Or do you need more and better structured map data about the world around you, to make self-driving happen? You certainly need to know those rules, but our maps really encode a lot more than just what is encoded in a street sign. It maps a route. But you need to have maps to run your system. Who’s your map provider?

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