Category: Human
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Being prepared. (How can you?)
Going into kindergarten already well-prepared gives a child many advantages later in life and lowers costs for society in the long term, researchers in Canada find. (1) Being prepared. For things before they happen. Based on things that have already happened. Things we were never prepared for...
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Can you feel what I feel?
Do we always want people to show empathy? Not so, said researchers. A recently published article suggests that although empathy is often portrayed as a virtue, people who express empathy are not necessarily viewed favorably. (1) Do you understand me? I hate you. Nobody understands me but me! And I never understand myself. Except when…
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Think stupid! (The foundation of thinking)
The brain detects 3D shape fragments (bumps, hollows, shafts, spheres) in the beginning stages of object vision - a newly discovered strategy of natural intelligence that researchers also found in artificial intelligence networks trained to recognize visual objects. (1) Artificial intelligence. Natural intelligence. What difference could they have? You see, the main characteristic of intelligence…
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Knowing. Not knowing.
Tiny movements in Earth's outermost layer may provide a Rosetta Stone for deciphering the physics and warning signs of big quakes. New algorithms that work a little like human vision are now detecting these long-hidden microquakes in the growing mountain of seismic data. (1) Micro-earth quakes. Unseen and undetected by humans. And yet, now seen…
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Decide!
The processes our brains use to avoid harming other people are automatic and reflexive - and quite different from those used when avoiding harm to ourselves, according to new research. (1) Think. And harm will be brought to others. Think. And harm might come to yourself. Don't think. And harm will be brought to others.…
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