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Whether it’s taking in a stunning mountain view or listening to the inspiring lyrics of our favorite singer, most, if not all, of us have probably been in awe before. And it wouldn’t stretch our minds to learn that Einstein called it the fundamental emotion. But have you ever thought of how important it is to experience awe? Professor Dacher Keltner, who has spent most of his life studying awe, says it’s one of humankind’s most unifying traits. Keltner shares more in this talk from Big Think. Definitely worth the 14 minutes:

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Big ThinkWhy Einstein called awe the fundamental emotionIf you’ve gotten goosebumps when hearing a story about a stranger’s selfless heroism, or you’ve felt your chest swell at a concert, when the audience’s voice and the musician’s instruments align, you have felt awe. And, according to professor Dacher Keltner, who has spent his life studying it, it’s one of humankind’s most unifying traits:
#Science#Psychology#Humans
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Flipboard Culture Desk

What’s a “normal” number of real-life friends to have? Dunbar’s Number is a theory that posits there is a limit to the number of friendships we’re capable of having at any one time. For most people in the U.S., that number is about the same as the average number of Facebook friends per person. Read more from The Independent:

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The Independent · Do you have a ‘normal’ amount of friends? Here’s how to work it outBy Helen Coffey
#Culture#Humans#Relationships
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Mikko Tuomi

The ability of #humans to think rationally and weigh the #evidence when making a choice is well known.

Such decision making requires a metacognitive process in which an individual can evaluate an overall set of evidence and make the best supported choice.

Whether other animals can also do this has been unknown.

Now, researchers have found that #chimpanzees, were able to evaluate weak and strong evidence regarding the location of a food reward.

They found that the chimps correctly inferred the most rational location based on the strength of the evidence that they received about the reward’s location.

We are all Bayesian, humans and chimpanzees alike.

#evolution #biology
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michael

29-Oct-2025
#Neanderthal #DNA reveals ancient long-distance #migrations
Tiny 5 cm long bone allows insights into crucial period when #Neanderthals disappeared and #HomoSapiens replaced them

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EurekAlert!Neanderthal DNA reveals ancient long-distance migrationsIn their new study an international team led by the University of Vienna reports the discovery and extraction of ancient DNA from a tiny 5 cm long Neanderthal bone found in the Crimean peninsula, shedding light on long-distance migrations during the Late Pleistocene period 40,000 - 50,000 years ago. The Neanderthal bone, called "Star 1", after the site from which it was excavated – Starosele Cave – was found using a biomolecular method that uses ancient proteins to determine if a bone belongs to humans or animals. Ancient DNA extracted from the bone showed that it was genetically closest related to Neanderthals from the Altai region of Siberia, over 3,000 kilometers away. Climate modelling suggests that Neanderthal groups probably migrated across the vast Eurasian steppes during a time of favourable climate. The study was published in PNAS.
#science#anthropology#ancientDNA
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Possum Pete

The Good News Network is worth joining. It reminds us that the main purpose of NEWS sites is to sell clicks, and much better, that humans are still great creatures, in spite of our best efforts, to break us.
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newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org

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Plus new glasses are help restoring vision
What's Good · 🎶 Watch a Patient Play Clarinet During SurgeryPlus new glasses are help restoring vision
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Inautilo

#Business #Cartoons
AI productivity and workslop · “It’s hard to get any work done.” ilo.im/167ybr

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#Humans #Machines #Automation #AI #Workslop #Work #Productivity #Distractions

Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne - Marketoonist is the thought bubble of Tom Fishburne. Marketing cartoons, content marketing with a sense of humor, keynote speaking. · AI Productivity and Workslop cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom FishburneGenAI prompts are getting pushier. From productivity apps to search to social media, users have to navigate a constant array of pop-ups, tooltips, and moving icons pushing GenAI features for just about every task. And yet the result is not automatically better output or higher productivity. BetterUp Labs and Stanford Social Media Lab recently published
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Gary Hall

A #video of my 'Liquidate AI Art' talk for the Computer Arts Society is now available:

bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/o

‘This talk expands on my recent #book ‘Masked Media: What It Means To Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence’:

openhumanitiespress.org/books/

It argues for liquidating #AI #art, not out of a dismissal of #artificialintelligence as techno-fascist, nihilist or parrot-like, but an insistence that art has always been created by assemblages of #humans and nonhumans.

The talk references Frieder Nake’s assertion that art should not be divided into commodifiable styles based on the #tools used, but should function as a radical force capable of disrupting the hierarchies of the art world.

Picking up on this challenge, ‘Liquidate AI Art’ shows how UK arts funding today overwhelmingly benefits upper- and middle-class, privately educated #Oxbridge #graduates.
What’s needed is a #redistribution of resources to support radically different artistic practices.

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