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martedì 23 febbraio 2021
# gst: a slow motion can triggers strong, fast-slip (many miles away)
lunedì 2 marzo 2020
# gst: continuous, (not intermittent, perpetual) tremors and slips ...
martedì 20 dicembre 2022
# gst: slow dynamics of a interacting mobile impurity (in a bath of localized particles)
martedì 7 marzo 2017
# s-age-behav: meditation vs physiology: the tide is tu(r)ning ...
<< a team led by a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist [Elizabeth H. Blackburn] is engaged in serious studies hinting that meditation might slow aging and lengthen life >>
<< “Ten years ago, if you'd told me that I would be seriously thinking about meditation, I would have said one of us is loco,” Blackburn told the New York Times in 2007 >>
<< The tide is now turning >>
Jo Marchant. Can Meditation Really Slow Aging? What the Latest Science Shows.
http://www.rd.com/health/wellness/meditation-slow-aging/
more:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=Blackburn+meditation+telomeres
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=meditation+telomeres
lunedì 2 maggio 2016
# s-brain-evol: lizard, an ancient dreamer
<< Lizards might snooze like humans do. Sleeping lizards appear to share distinctive brain activity patterns with sleeping birds and mammals (..) If true, the results suggest that human sleep patterns evolved by around 300 million years ago in a common ancestor of birds, mammals and reptiles. >>
Sarah Schwartz. Dragons sleep like mammals and birds. Proof of reptiles’ slow-wave and REM cycle could alter understanding of slumber’s evolution. 2:19pm, April 28, 2016
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dragons-sleep-mammals-and-birds
<< Sleep has been described in animals ranging from worms to humans. Yet the electrophysiological characteristics of brain sleep, such as slow-wave (SW) and rapid eye movement (REM) activities, are thought to be restricted to mammals and birds. Recording from the brain of a lizard, the Australian dragon Pogona vitticeps, we identified SW and REM sleep patterns, thus pushing back the probable evolution of these dynamics at least to the emergence of amniotes. The SW and REM sleep patterns that we observed in lizards oscillated continuously for 6 to 10 hours with a period of ~80 seconds. >>
Mark Shein-Idelson , Janie M. Ondracek, et al. Slow waves, sharp waves, ripples, and REM in sleeping dragons. Science 29 Apr 2016: Vol. 352, Issue 6285, pp. 590-595 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf3621
domenica 20 maggio 2018
# lang: we pronounce words more slowly compared with verbs and sometimes pause
AA << study naturalistic speech from linguistically and culturally diverse populations from around the world >>
AA << show a robust tendency for slower speech before nouns as compared with verbs >>
Frank Seifart, Jan Strunk, et al. Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages. PNAS. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1800708115. May 14, 2018.
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2018/05/09/1800708115/F1.large.jpg
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/05/09/1800708115
<< English is peculiar (..) It can never be representative of human language in general >> Frank Seifart
<< In the years to come, as society grows more complex, the number of nouns available to us may grow exponentially. The diversity of its speakers, not so much >>
Alan Burdick. Why Nouns Slow Us Down, and Why Linguistics Might Be in a Bubble. May 15, 2018.
venerdì 9 febbraio 2018
# game: chaotic effects of crosstalk injection in social dilemmas
<< In the theory of repeated games, it is a tacit assumption that the various games that a person plays simultaneously have no effect on each other. [AA] introduce a general framework that allows us to analyze “crosstalk” between a player’s concurrent games. In the presence of crosstalk, the action a person experiences in one game can alter the person’s decision in another. >>
Johannes G. Reiter, Christian Hilbe, et al. Crosstalk in concurrent repeated games impedes direct reciprocity and requires stronger levels of forgiveness. Nature Communications 2018; 9 (555). doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02721-8. Feb 7, 2018.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02721-8
Researchers develop the first model to capture crosstalk in social dilemmas. Institute of Science and Technology, Austria. Feb 8, 2018.
https://m.phys.org/news/2018-02-capture-crosstalk-social-dilemmas.html
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percio' si usano "ambiguita'", "pettegolezzo", "fake news" per direzionare, disorientare, colpevolizzare, isolare individui, gruppi, moltitudini ...
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# n-soc: fake news, by slow or/and fast catalysis, everyday, everywhere, in all ages.
https://flashontrack.blogspot.it/2017/02/n-soc-fake-news-by-slow-orand-fast.html
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<< Il ruolo sociale del pettegolezzo e' immenso. [..] Il pettegolezzo e' una inquisizione continua e reciproca, uno spionaggio e una sorveglianza di tutti da parte di tutti, a tutte le ore del giorno e della notte. >>
Tarde, Gabriel. Ecrits de psychologie sociale. Cit. Prigogine, Ilya. La Nuova Alleanza. Milano: Longanesi & C., 1979, pp.147-149. Trad. Morchio, Renzo.
martedì 16 agosto 2016
# s-ageing: the long (and slow) life of Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) ...
<< Greenland sharks live at least as long as 400 years, and they reach sexual maturity at the age of about 150, a new study reports. The results place Greenland sharks as the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth. The Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) is widely distributed across the North Atlantic, with adults reaching lengths of 400 to 500 centimeters (13 to 16 feet). The biology of the Greenland shark is poorly understood, yet their extremely slow growth rates, at about 1 cm per year, hint that these fish benefit from exceptional longevity. >>
AAAS. Winner of the longest-lived vertebrate award goes to... Public release 11-Aug-2016
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/aaft-wot080816.php
Julius Nielsen, Rasmus B. Hedeholm, et al. Eye lens radiocarbon reveals centuries of longevity in the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus). Science. 12 Aug 2016: Vol. 353, Issue 6300, pp. 702-704 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf1703.
sabato 4 gennaio 2020
# life: apropos of fake news, creation of misinformation, and how misinformation can spread via person-to-person communication.
mercoledì 19 agosto 2020
# gst: the role of surface tension during the collapse of a viscous bubble
martedì 9 febbraio 2016
# s-brain: hacking inside (slow gamma) rhythms
<< Brain cells share different kinds of information with one another using a variety of different brain waves, analogous to the way radio stations broadcast on different frequencies. >>
<< one of these frequencies allows us to play back memories — or envision future activities — in fast forward. >>
<< fast gamma rhythms encode memories about things that are happening right now; these waves come rapidly one after another as the brain processes high-resolution information in real time. The scientists learned that slow gamma rhythms — used to retrieve memories of the past, as well as imagine and plan for the future — store more information on their longer waves, contributing to the fast-forward effect as the mind processes many data points with each wave. >>
<< The finding has implications for medicine as well as for criminal justice and other areas where memory reliability can be at issue. >>
https://scienmag.com/scientists-discover-how-we-play-memories-in-fast-forward/
Chenguang Zheng, Laura Lee Colgin. Beta and Gamma Rhythms Go with the Flow. Open Archive. Neuron , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , 236 - 237. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2014.12.067
venerdì 31 marzo 2023
# gst: influence of disorder on the spreading and entanglement properties of coined quantum walks.
mercoledì 11 dicembre 2019
# behav: a great white shark at rest
giovedì 2 marzo 2023
# gst: when science meets poetry, an image of three-dimensional stepped cracks (bistability, and their transition to simple cracks)
martedì 28 novembre 2017
# behav: large-eared bats adopting slow-flight feeding strategies
AA << compare quantitative aerodynamic measures of flight efficiency of two bat species, one large-eared (Plecotus auritus) and one small-eared (Glossophaga soricina), flying freely in a wind tunnel >>
AA << find that the body drag of both species is higher than previously assumed and that the large-eared species has a higher body drag coefficient, but also produces relatively more ear/body lift than the small-eared species >>
<< The relatively higher power of the large-eared species results in lower optimal flight speeds and [AA] findings support the notion of a trade-off between the acoustic benefits of large external ears and aerodynamic performance. The result of this trade-off would be the eco-morphological correlation in bat flight, with large-eared bats generally adopting slow-flight feeding strategies >>
Jonas Hakansson, Lasse Jakobsen, et al. Body lift, drag and power are relatively higher in large-eared than in small-eared bat species. 2017; 14 (135): 4099. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0455. Oct 25, 2017.
http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/135/20170455
The pros and cons of large ears. Nov 10, 2017
http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/the-pros-and-cons-of-large-ears
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171110084634.htm