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Listening to music is linked to lower dementia risk, study suggests – The Washington Post
The Optimist Listening to music most days could guard against dementia, study suggests A new study finds that regularly listening to music or playing a musical instrument may help older adults protect against cognitive decline. November 13, 2025, 6 min By Maggie Penman Regularly listening to music is linked toa lower risk of developing dementia,…
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Google’s Gemma AI model helps discover new potential cancer therapy pathway
How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway Oct 15, 2025, 4 min read We’re launching a new 27 billion parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on the Gemma family of open models. By Shekoofeh Azizi, Staff Research Scientist, Research Lead, Google DeepMind and By Bryan Perozzi, Senior Staff Research…
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People Are More Likely to Cheat When They Use AI | Scientific American
September 28, 2025, 4 min read People Are More Likely to Cheat When They Use AI Participants in a new study were more likely to cheat when delegating to AI—especially if they could encourage machines to break rules without explicitly asking for it By Rachel Nuwer edited by Allison Parshall Despite what watching the news…
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Daniel Yon Explains Why Your Brain Is a Brilliant Illusionist | Scientific American
September 12, 2025 How Your Brain Constructs—And Sometimes Distorts—Your Experience of the World In his new book, Daniel Yon explains how our brain is constantly constructing reality By Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi & Alex Sugiura Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now.…
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Marc Andreessen: Background and Commentary on Education and Universities – Perplexity
Editor’s Note: See the earlier article on Marc, from The Washington Post. I thought we should see his views on education, via letting AI (Perplexity) examine his history briefly. Below is the research post, with sources, for your information. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen source of below quotes. Netscape’s IPO in 1995 put Andreessen in the public…
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When it comes to finding meaning in life, you need this emotion – Deseret News
When it comes to finding meaning in life, you need this emotion A new study found hope is a ‘powerful emotional force’ Published: June 25, 2025, 11:39 a.m. MDT By Lois M. Collins – Lois is a longtime Deseret News special projects and family issues reporter, including health, parenting, aging and policy. KEY POINTS Reams…
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Want to Raise Successful Kids? Science Says These 5 Habits Matter, Bigtime | Inc.com
The science suggests that if you want to do right by your kids, you should probably do these things. By Bill Murphy Jr., http://www.billmurphyjr.com @BillMurphyJr, July 4, 2022 There comes a time in some people’s lives when their aspirations for their children begin to rival or even exceed their aspirations for themselves. It’s happened to…
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Are News Librarians Making a Comeback? The Past, Present, and Possible Future of News Librarians | Information Today | Online Searcher
By Robert Berkman, Volume 46, Number 3 – May/June 2022 As many information professionals know, the position of news librarian (as well as news researcher) was once quite common inside media organizations. Journalists relied on news librarians as critical partners for carrying out the higher mission of their jobs—that is, to expose sources of unaccountable…
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Baby Boomers more likely to have multiple health issues than earlier generations | StudyFinds
By John Anderer, June 14, 2022 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Baby boomers are more likely to live with numerous chronic health conditions than earlier generations, according to new research from Penn State and Texas State University. Study authors warn that the growing rate of multiple chronic health conditions (multimorbidity) among older Americans represents a real…
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NASA creates team to study UFOs – CNN
By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN, Updated 3:20 PM ET, Thu June 9, 2022 (CNN) NASA is putting a team together to study unidentified aerial phenomena, popularly known as UFOs, the US space agency said Thursday. The team will gather data on “events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known…
