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Michael Knowles on Why the Viral Sydney Sweeney Dress Was Actually a Subtle Dig at Liberal Feminism - YouTube Added: Nov 7, 2025
Michael Knowles on Why the Viral Sydney Sweeney Dress Was Actually a Subtle Dig at Liberal Feminism
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Michael Knowles of The Daily Wire to talk about the viral Sydney Sweeney dress, why it was actually a subtle dig at liberal feminism...
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Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics | Quanta Magazine
Added: Nov 7, 2025Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics | Quanta Magazine
Site: Quanta Magazine
Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of inquiry.
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Sam Altman’s pants are totally on fire - by Gary Marcus Added: Nov 7, 2025
Sam Altman’s pants are totally on fire
Even for him, his latest whopper is something
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 SUPER GPUs Rumored To Be Delayed Due To 3 GB GDDR7 DRAM Shortages Added: Nov 7, 2025
Bad News for Your Next GPU: RTX 50 SUPER Delay Rumored Over New GDDR7 Shortage
Site: Wccftech
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 SUPER GPUs might face a potential delay, according to rumors, citing shortages of GDDR7 memory as the primary reason.
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The Latest Image of 3I/ATLAS. The latest image of the interstellar… | by Avi Loeb | Nov, 2025 | Medium Added: Nov 7, 2025
The Latest Image of 3I/ATLAS
Site: Medium
The latest image of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was just released. It was taken on November 5, 2025 by the Lowell Discovery Telescope…
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Every Ariana Grande song
Site: YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option
Site: YouTube
(0:00) Brad Gerstner joins the show!(0:38) OpenAI's rough week: Altman's controversial comments on BG2, CFO's "federal backstop" faux pas, clarifications(18:...
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Airlines Cancel Over 700 Flights, Travel APOCALYPSE Is Now, Trump Says END FILIBUSTER | Timcast IRL
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Shop Beam’s Black Friday Sale! Get up to 50% off with my link: https://shopbeam.com/TIMPOOL (limited time only). No code needed - discount will auto apply at...
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Sydney Sweeney Highlights the Wokesters' Fatal Flaw | National Review Added: Nov 7, 2025
Sydney Sweeney Highlights the Wokesters' Fatal Flaw | National Review
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Donald Trump pledges aid to cartoonist Scott Adams amid cancer battle Added: Nov 7, 2025
Trump replies to Scott Adams’s request for cancer treatment help: ‘On it’
Site: The Hill
President Trump said he will help “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams, who pleaded with the president to intervene in his cancer treatment. “On it!” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. The…
President Trump said he will help “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams, who pleaded with the president to intervene in his cancer treatment. “On it!” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. The president included screenshots of the public plea from Adams, the cartoonist who announced earlier this year he was diagnosed with prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones. “On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life,” Adams wrote on the social media platform. “He offered to help me if I needed it. I need it.” Adams said he was approved to receive a new Federal Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drug, Pluvicto, but his health care provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has “dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it and I can't seem to fix that.” “I am declining fast,” Adams said. “I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday. That will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer.” “It is not a cure, but it does give good results to many people,” he added. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy responded to Adams’s request directly, looking to connect him to the president. “Scott. How do I reach you? The President wants to help,” Kennedy wrote. Kaiser Permanente said in a statement the next steps in Adams’s treatment are already underway. “Mr. Adams’ oncology team is working closely with him on the next steps in his cancer care, which are already underway,” the statement read. “Since it was approved by the FDA three years ago, Kaiser Permanente’s nuclear medicine and medical oncology experts have treated more than 150 patients with Lu-177 PSMA (Pluvicto) in Northern California alone. We know this drug and this disease,” the statement continued. Adams, 67, has made headlines for some past controversial statements, which he said were taken out of context. He has also been a strong supporter of Trump’s. Adams revealed his diagnosis shortly after Biden was diagnosed with the same metastatic cancer. Adams, at the time, expressed sympathy for the former president. “I’d like to extend my respect and compassion and sympathy for the ex-president and his family, because they’re going to be going through an especially tough time,” he said.
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Scott Adams and a Cancer Teaching Moment - WSJ Added: Nov 7, 2025
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Sydney Sweeney Rejects Apology for 'Good Genes' Jeans Ad Backlash / X Added: Nov 7, 2025
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There’s a Creepy Reason Why Some Squirrels Are Obsessed With Cats
Added: Nov 7, 2025There’s a Creepy Reason Why Some Squirrels Are Obsessed With Cats
A viral video shows a squirrel curling up beside an orange cat. It feels warm until you know what’s behind it.
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Google vs. FFmpeg — an open-source showdown over AI-found bugs and who must fix them - PiunikaWeb
Added: Nov 7, 2025Google vs. FFmpeg — an open-source showdown over AI-found bugs and who must fix them - PiunikaWeb
Site: PiunikaWeb
The open source community is reeling this week as a dramatic feud explodes on social media, pitting the trillion-dollar resources of Google’s Project Zero and its AI bug hunter, Big Sleep, against the all-volunteer maintainers of the essential multimedia framework, FFmpeg. The core issue isn’t the existence of security vulnerabilities. It’s who should be responsible […]
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How neuroscientists are using AI | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
Added: Nov 7, 2025How neuroscientists are using AI
Site: The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
Eight researchers explain how they are using large language models to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses and interact with complex datasets.
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It may be too late to save coffee, chocolate, and wine production - Earth.com Added: Nov 7, 2025
Scientists claim it's already too late to save the luxury crops that make coffee, chocolate, and wine
Site: Earth.com
Scientists warn solar cooling can’t guarantee stable harvests needed to save the luxury crops that produce coffee, chocolate, and wine.
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Higher fluid intelligence is associated with more structured cognitive maps
Added: Nov 7, 2025Higher fluid intelligence is associated with more structured cognitive maps
Site: PsyPost - Psychology News
A new brain imaging study suggests that people with higher reasoning ability tend to build stronger mental maps when learning how things relate in space.
People with higher reasoning skills appear to be better at forming internal maps of how different objects are related in space, according to a study published in <em><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116033" target="_blank">Cell Reports</a></em>. The research provides evidence that a key feature of intelligence may stem from the way the brain encodes relationships between experiences, especially through a region called the hippocampus.
The findings point to a link between general cognitive ability and how well people integrate separate pieces of information into a structured whole. Rather than focusing on how smart individuals perform in specific tasks, the researchers examined how their brains encode the structure of experiences. The results suggest that intelligence may involve the ability to form a mental map of the world that helps guide flexible thinking and decision making.
The study was conducted by researchers Rebekka Tenderra and Stephanie Theves at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany. They were interested in exploring how intelligence, especially fluid intelligence, might be related to specific patterns of brain activity during learning.
Fluid intelligence refers to the capacity to solve new problems and recognize patterns, often measured by reasoning tests. It has long been considered one of the core components of general intelligence and is strongly associated with performance across a wide range of tasks. Although past studies have identified brain areas linked to intelligence, such as the frontal and parietal cortices, the specific neural processes that underlie it are less well understood.
The researchers hypothesized that one way people differ in intelligence may be through how well they organize information into relational structures. In other words, smarter individuals might be more likely to represent different pieces of information as part of a broader map, capturing how elements relate to each other in space or conceptually. Previous studies had suggested that the hippocampus, a part of the brain known for memory and spatial navigation, plays a role in creating these kinds of cognitive maps.
To test their hypothesis, the researchers used brain imaging to observe how participants learned the locations of various objects placed within a virtual arena. Participants saw six different objects, each assigned to a specific spot in a circular space. They practiced placing the objects in the correct locations and received feedback after each attempt.
As the learning progressed, participants became more accurate at remembering where each object belonged. After completing the task, they were asked to arrange the objects from a bird’s-eye view, demonstrating how well they had internalized the layout. Their answers closely matched the actual object positions, suggesting that most participants were able to form a fairly accurate mental map of the environment.
Meanwhile, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record activity in the hippocampus while participants viewed the objects. They looked for patterns indicating whether the brain represented the spatial relationships between the objects. Specifically, they examined whether neural activity patterns were more similar for objects that were closer together in the learned layout, and more different for objects that were farther apart.
The key finding was that individuals with higher fluid intelligence scores showed stronger signs of this “map-like” encoding in the right hippocampus. That is, their brain activity reflected a clearer sense of the distances between object locations. This connection between relational encoding and intelligence remained even after accounting for how well the participants performed on the memory tasks, suggesting that the brain patterns were not simply a reflection of who remembered more accurately.
Additional analyses showed that this brain-behavior link was consistent across various cognitive tasks, especially those that were more strongly related to fluid intelligence. The correlation was not driven by any single test but rather reflected a broad tendency among smarter individuals to organize their learning experiences in a more structured, map-like way.
When the researchers compared people with higher versus lower fluid intelligence scores, they found differences in how consistently the brain represented object relationships. Those in the lower intelligence group had neural representations that were less consistent with a two-dimensional map. In practical terms, this suggests they may have encoded some object pairs in ways that didn't align well with an overall spatial layout, pointing to lapses in integrating relationships across the whole scene.
To further investigate this idea, the researchers asked participants to estimate distances between object pairs on a sliding scale. Again, the results showed that people with higher intelligence scores provided more geometrically consistent estimates, reinforcing the idea that they were better at integrating object relations into a cohesive map.
The researchers also tested whether the observed relationship between intelligence and brain activity was specific to relational encoding. They did this by including a separate memory task where participants simply had to recognize whether they had seen an object before. This task measured basic item memory, not how the objects related to each other.
While participants performed well overall, the strength of brain responses in the hippocampus during this task did not correlate with intelligence scores. This suggests that general reasoning ability is specifically tied to the ability to encode relationships, not just memory in general.
These results add to a growing body of work that views the hippocampus not only as a center for memory and spatial navigation but also as a hub for organizing information in ways that support flexible thinking. The ability to represent how different elements of an experience are related may provide a foundation for solving problems in new contexts or drawing inferences from limited data.
The researchers acknowledge that their study focused on a specific type of relational learning involving spatial arrangements. It remains to be seen whether the same principles apply to other kinds of abstract relationships, such as those involving concepts or rules. In addition, the study was conducted with a relatively homogenous group of healthy adults, which may limit how broadly the findings apply.
Since the research was cross-sectional, it cannot speak to causality. It’s unclear whether having a more structured way of encoding relationships contributes to higher intelligence or whether people with higher intelligence naturally develop better strategies for organizing information. Long-term studies could help clarify how these abilities develop over time and interact.
The researchers suggest that future studies could explore whether these relational encoding patterns show up in other brain regions involved in reasoning or generalization, such as the prefrontal cortex. There is some evidence that these areas also represent structured information, although it is not yet clear how their role compares to that of the hippocampus.
The study, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116033" target="_blank">Human intelligence relates to neural measures of cognitive map formation</a>,” was authored by Rebekka M. Tenderra and Stephanie Theves.
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First Radio Signal from 3I/ATLAS: Absorption by Hydroxyl Radicals (OH Molecules)
Site: Medium
MeerKAT, a radio telescope with a diameter of 13.5 meters operated by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, detected radio…
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A Complex Jet Structure Emanates from 3I/ATLAS After Perihelion
Site: Medium
This morning, at 4.10 Universal Time (UT) on November 8, 2025, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS showed a complex jet structure. M. Jäger…
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"I've Come to Like Zuckerberg" - Eric Trump
Site: YouTube
Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of Pod Force One: https://www.youtube.com/@PodForce1Watch full clips of Pod Force One with Miranda D...
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Sydney Sweeney Refuses To Apologize For Jeans Ad In Viral Interview
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Real Exorcist Says Levitation Is Real, He's Seen It Himself, Demons Will Make People Float
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Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance Attend the United States Marine Corps Ball
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Newsom urges Democrats to focus on the midterms. But Texans are thinking about 2028. - POLITICO Added: Nov 8, 2025
Newsom urges Democrats to focus on the midterms. But Texans are thinking about 2028.
Site: POLITICO
The California governor and likely 2028 presidential contender called on Democrats to keep turning out for critical races still on the horizon.
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TypeScript’s rise in the AI era: Insights from Lead Architect, Anders Hejlsberg - The GitHub Blog Added: Nov 8, 2025
TypeScript’s rise in the AI era: Insights from Lead Architect, Anders Hejlsberg
Site: The GitHub Blog
TypeScript just became the most-used language on GitHub. Here’s why, according to its creator.
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I'm finally jumping on the CachyOS bandwagon this weekend
Added: Nov 8, 2025I'm finally jumping on the CachyOS bandwagon this weekend
Site: How-To Geek
I'm a sucker for a good Arch-made-easy distro.
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Nick Fuentes and His Groypers Are Losing | National Review Added: Nov 8, 2025
Nick Fuentes and His Groypers Are Losing | National Review
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Trump calls for Obamacare subsidies to be sent to consumers Added: Nov 8, 2025
Trump calls for Obamacare subsidies to be sent to consumers
Site: Axios
His statement puts more pressure on Republicans to reject Democratic demands to renew the subsidies.
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CBS News' Bari Weiss seeks ex-Navy SEAL guards who 'look great in a suit' for security: tongue-in-cheek announcement Added: Nov 8, 2025
CBS News’ Bari Weiss beefs up security detail — seeks ex-Navy SEAL guards who ‘look great in a suit’
Site: New York Post
Sources told Page Six last week that Weiss and her wife Nellie Bowles require a protective detail of up to eight bodyguards.
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How Bari Weiss, a Pittsburgh native and CBS News editor-in-chief, learned to argue, listen and lead | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Added: Nov 8, 2025How Pittsburgh native Bari Weiss learned to argue, listen and lead
Site: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A month before she was named to lead CBS News as editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss hosted an event in Pittsburgh, her hometown, asking whether expectant parents...
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Tech Workers Are in Deep, Deep Trouble
Added: Nov 8, 2025Tech Workers Are in Deep, Deep Trouble
Site: Futurism
A new report found that tech worker layoffs are rising astronomically thanks to AI narratives, overhiring, and a dismal economy.
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CachyOS Continues Delivering Leading Performance Over Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora Workstation 43
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Google AI Studio Vibe Coding Update Adds Gemini AI Model Support - Geeky Gadgets Added: Nov 8, 2025
Google's New AI Studio Vibe Coding Push : Create Full-Stack Apps in a Weekend
Site: Geeky Gadgets
Build full-stack AI apps faster in Google AI Studio, with React templates, Gemini image and speech, plus monitoring tools. Vibe coding has never
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A Scientist Says Humans Will Go Backwards in Time Within 4 Years Added: Nov 8, 2025
A Scientist Says Humans Will Go Backwards in Time Within Just 4 Years
Site: Popular Mechanics
It'll certainly take some work.
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The Surprising Reason Why Giraffes Have Such Very Long Legs : ScienceAlert
Added: Nov 8, 2025The Surprising Reason Why Giraffes Have Such Very Long Legs
Site: ScienceAlert
If you've ever wondered why the giraffe has such a long neck, the answer seems clear: it lets them reach succulent leaves atop tall acacia trees in Africa.
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Here’s the Democratic Socialists of America’s demands to Zohran Mamdani for how to lead an Israel-hating NYC
Site: New York Post
The Democratic Socialists of America have big plans for card-carrying NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani – especially when it comes to pushing its extreme, Israel-hating views on New Yorkers.
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New wave of progressive candidates push Democratic Party further left | Fox News Added: Nov 8, 2025
New wave of progressive candidates push Democratic Party further left | Fox News
