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This is how to rewire your brain in less than a day according to a neuroscientist

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He is the founder and director of The Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , where he conducts groundbreaking research on emotions and the brain, as well as meditation and contemplative practices. You shared that: our brains are constantly being shaped, wittingly or unwittingly. Its not just my opinion.

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Brain damage linked to increased likelihood of religious fundamentalism, new study finds

TechSpot

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, took an innovative approach by examining two groups of individuals with focal brain lesions resulting from injuries or disorders. One cohort consisted of 106 Vietnam veterans who suffered traumatic brain injuries in combat decades ago.

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Blood Typers is a terrifically tense, terror-filled typing tutor

Ars Technica

Credit: Outer Brain Studios Blood Typers adds some much-needed complexity to that basic type-the-word-you-see concept, layering its typing tests on top of a full-fledged survival horror game reminiscent of the original PlayStation era. Typing "gibbon" quickly has rarely felt this tense or important.

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Leveraging AI for Personalized Member Engagement 

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For associations, AI acts like a digital brain that can understand and respond to each member’s unique needs and interests. The result? Start Small and Scale Up : Begin with a single initiative, like personalized email marketing, and gradually expand as you see results.

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Scientists Just Transplanted a Pig Liver Into a Person for the First Time

Singularity Hub

This week, a Chinese team turned to another sourcepig liversand published the first results showing how they function inside a human recipient. In 2021, a team performed the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead person. The recipient was a brain-dead, middle-aged man who still had a working liver.

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Get inside the minds of first-time travelers in this new documentary

Mashable Tech

See how travel changes the brain This documentary does more than capture these first-time travelers' experiences. The result is a stunning visual display that evokes a sense of awe, similar to what you feel when you travel. Refik Anadol and his creative team transformed all this data into a beautiful art piece.

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GM is teaming with Nvidia to produce fleet of self-driving vehicles

Mashable Tech

GM will integrate Nvidia’s AI-powered computing systems into its next-gen vehicles, using the chipmaker’s Drive AGX platform — essentially an “AI brain” designed to boost advanced driver assistance features and autonomy, according to The Verge. The partnership comes at a critical time for GM.

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