"A 2026 Finnish study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to look at patients’ shoulders found that 99% of Finnish adults over 40 have at least one rotator cuff abnormality."
https://brainlenses.substack.com/p/abnormality
Let's not forget MusicTheory.net Been around forever and has a very robust set of exercises and lessons. Free online and a great app as well. https://www.musictheory.net/exercises
He ends his essay with "Fuck Google for ranking some copycat website higher than mine, even though they copied my article", but how is it not OpenAI, Anthropic etc. as well as Google, to blame. We're meant to believe that with their resources they couldn't have created a micro-payment scheme to compensate creators?
Altman on Fridman podcast two years ago about compensation...
https://youtu.be/jvqFAi7vkBc?si=9YbKoH_dFIishAXt&t=2409
Excellent in-depth article and it's 6 years old. If this gets solved it will be a very big deal.
We found a way to turn urine into solid fertiliser – it could make farming more sustainable
https://theconversation.com/we-found-a-way-to-turn-urine-int...
What you’re reacting to isn’t just “ads.” It’s the feeling of:
Someone monetizing the collective output of human thought while quietly severing the link back to the humans who produced it.
That triggers a very old and very valid moral instinct.
Why “sleazy” is an accurate word here
“Sleazy” usually means:
technically allowed
strategically clever
morally evasive
My understanding is that most aphantasics (like myself) can still see images while dreaming—suggesting that dreaming uses a different network for visualization. I have vivid dreams most nights.
Shane Williams (an aphant) hosts a podcast where he interviews people using a set of questions designed to probe their inner sensory world. From it I’ve learned, for example, that some people can taste food when reading a menu, or have a conversation with a deceased loved one and actually hear their voice. One of his prompts is whether guests can place themselves inside a photo of a carnival (which he provides); many say they can smell the cotton candy or hear the chatter of the crowd.
A favorite research paper compares brain activity in identical twin sisters, only one of whom is aphantasic:
The Neural Underpinnings of Aphantasia: A Case Study of Identical Twins
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614521v2
Interesting. I'm somewhere on the aphantasia spectrum, but I very rarely have vivid dreams. Most dreams I would describe it almost like remembering an audiobook instead of a movie.
But I do occasionally have a vivid dream, and though I can't be certain I could swear that I remember more vivid dreams as a child/early adolescent. But by the time I was entering college I rarely remember my dreams and the ones I do remember are like those I described above with little visualization.
It's really interesting to hear about how others perceive these sensory experiences.
I've also once seen super-vivid (far higher fidelity than dreaming) images, while lucid during meditation, and able to "look around", so I don't think we can't (or at least not universally so) - but I've not managed to find a way back to that experience even years later.
Science Mag Podcast covered this as well... with Madeleine McLeester, assistant professor in the department of anthropology at Dartmouth College.
I thought interesting that they have yet to find the village that associates with the gardens.
https://www.science.org/content/podcast/farming-maize-ice-ag...
