Summary: Interaction between auditory areas of the brain and the reward system drive pleasure when we listen to music.
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Communication between the brain’s auditory and reward circuits is the reason why humans find music rewarding, according to new research published in Journal of Neuroscience.
1.2 billion pixel panorama of Mars by Curiosity rover at Sol 3060 (March 152021)
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In comments to City Council last year about APD’s intellectual property enforcement grant, I warned council that one thing I was concerned about was that APD might try to confiscate/remove activist videos by issuing takedown notices for copyrighted music playing in the background of the videos. Looks like I was right to be worried.
In at least three cases, Beverly Hills Cops have started playing music seemingly to prevent themselves from being filmed by an activist.
The Dutch engineer’s invention transformed the way people listened to music in the 20th Century.
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Produced by Luke Groskin.
Filmed by Christian Baker.
Music by Audio Network.
Additional Footage and Stills Provided by Joel Simon, Pond5, Shutterstock, Nic Symbios, Pit Schuni (C.C. BY 2.0)Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (C.C. BY 2.0), Eleni Katafori, Bradely Smith, Loic Royer, Alexander Reben.
Inspired by the forces behind evolution, artist and tool designer Joel Simon programmed a network of computers to blend and “breed” together images over and over using users’ preferences as its guide. Although thousands of users, breeding millions of bizarre and beautiful images, Joel’s goal was more conceptual: He wanted to see if the system could evolve art and what types of forms might emerge from the process.
Flux is unmatched in the quality, speed and quantity of neural activity that can record non-invasively and in real time.
So far, all types of data that could be acquired directly from the human brain had serious limitations. To get the best hemodynamic or electric data, for example, the person and their brain needed to be almost perfectly immovable, usually by confinement in noisy and claustrophobic environments. And if the person was able to move freely and, of course, data quality quickly dropped until it was pointless.
With the Flux, you will be able to:
Step into a natural environment, put a helmet on your head and observe the real-time brain activity at the top speed your neurons are shooting;
Talk, gesture and move naturally;
Participate in a video conference, daydream, listen to music or read a book;
Access your brain activity from the most electrophysiological sensor channels from all regions of the cortex.
These capabilities open up new stimulating opportunities for understanding how and why the brain functions.
In October 2020, Flow was announced, a full-coverage TD-FNIRS system, which is the first high-quality scalable brain imaging system of its kind and analyses the hemodynamic signs generated by the use of oxygen in the brain, a good proxy for neural activity Together, Flow and Flux capture two signs of the highest quality and most significant one can capture on the brain in a non-invasive way: blood oxygenation and direct neural activity. There are advantages and disadvantages to what each of these technologies reveals about the mysteries of the brain — together, however, Kernel Flux and Flow combine into the richest neural data sets in history, collected at a record speed.
A new era is here. One where we will be reintroduced ourselves and each other in unique ways. With powers to advance to a new border.
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An AI meditation on the Meaning of Life.
All the imagery is generated by the AI using a text prompt.
I inputed “The Meaning of Life” — and these are the results.
Our Home
By Seán Doran©
Music by Jesse Gallagher / https://www.youtube.com/nightimegallagher.
Time-lapse photography of Earth from ISS converted to real-time video.
Based on ESRSU image archive / eol.jsc.nasa.gov.
Once, holograms were just a scientific curiosity. But thanks to the rapid development of lasers, they have gradually moved center stage, appearing on the security imagery for credit cards and bank notes, in science fiction movies—most memorably Star Wars—and even “live” on stage when long-dead rapper Tupac reincarnated for fans at the Coachella music festival in 2012.
Fascinating!!
By Seán Doran© / Meditate on the beauty of our home.
Music by Phaeleh / https://phaeleh.bandcamp.com/
Time-lapse photography from ISS converted to real-time video.
Based on ESRSU image archive / eol.jsc.nasa.gov.
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