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The surprisingly strong case for feeling great about your coffee habit
Your morning coffee is one of modern life’s underrated miracles.
vox.com
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The surprisingly strong case for feeling great about your coffee habit
Your morning coffee is one of modern life’s underrated miracles.
vox.com
Not sure the aggregated studies mean anything, now anyway, but interesting from a preliminary perspective on learning

How AI Affects Your Brain According to the Studies: A (Very Big) Compilation
The entire literature clearly points to a single surprising finding
substack.com
Interesting analyses on neurotech from a significant contributor to neurolaw debates. I am not optimistic about the efficacy of some of the tech but its adoption in society is what is most at issue. Also good tutorial on law and AI.

The Brain Tech Revolution Won't Look Like Hollywood—It'll Look Like This
Forget mind control. Real neurotechnology breakthroughs are quieter. 3-minute memory tests and AI that decodes what you see.
nitafarahany.substack.com
Interesting in context of convergent / conparative evolution and also how similar vision mechanisms are across animal world.

Cephalopods, vision’s next frontier
For decades, scientists have been teased by the strange but inaccessible cephalopod visual system. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough from a lab in Oregon, data are finally coming straight…
thetransmitter.org