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Trump rejects Iran's offer, says blockade stays until nuclear deal Added: Apr 29, 2026
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Gemini just made it much easier to turn ideas into real files
Added: Apr 29, 2026Gemini just made it much easier to turn ideas into real files
Site: How-To Geek
Copy-pasting AI responses into documents might be a thing of the past.
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Did Humans Evolve To Eat Meat? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains What Your Anatomy Actually Reveals Added: Apr 29, 2026
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Artemis II Crew Visits the Oval - YouTube Added: Apr 29, 2026
Artemis II Crew Visits the Oval
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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Elon Musk on X: "This is how an economy actually works" / X Added: Apr 29, 2026
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Supreme Court's voting rights decision deals big down-ballot blow Added: Apr 29, 2026
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Supreme Court narrows voting law, lifting GOP odds of keeping House Added: Apr 29, 2026
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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The Iran War UPDATE: Collapse, Chaos, and What Comes Next | Victor Davis Hanson
Site: YouTube
Eight weeks into the Iran war, the regime is seriously fractured. Power is divided, internal factions are competing, and the pressure from economic and milit...
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The REAL Story About Violent Threats Against Trump, with VDH, and AI Danger TRUTH, w/ Tristan Harris
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Victor Davis Hanson, author of "The Counterrevolution," to discuss the new information we're learning about the WHCD would-be Trump ...
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Congress in no rush to investigate third Trump assassination attempt | Fox News Added: Apr 29, 2026
Congress in no rush to investigate third Trump assassination attempt | Fox News
Congress is not pushing to probe the apparent third assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, with some lawmakers saying the Secret Service did its job.
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Shared music listening synchronizes brain activity
Added: Apr 29, 2026Shared music listening synchronizes brain activity
Site: PsyPost - Psychology News
Listening to music with a friend syncs up your emotional and brain responses. According to a recent Cortex study, sharing a musical experience increases the moment-to-moment similarity of subjective pleasure and enhances neural alignment between listeners.
While sharing a musical experience with a friend might not drastically alter your overall enjoyment of a song, it tends to synchronize your brain activity and emotional responses. A recent study published in the journal <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2026.02.012" target="_blank">Cortex</a> has found that listening to music with another person increases the moment-to-moment similarity of subjective pleasure and enhances neural alignment. These findings help explain how music acts as a powerful tool for social bonding and collective emotional experiences.
Human beings naturally use music as a social tool to connect with others. From singing lullabies to infants to gathering at large stadium concerts, music helps regulate emotions and foster a sense of group cohesion. The ability of music to align emotions and physical responses among audiences fulfills a basic human need for social connection.
Scientists recognize that both music and social interactions activate the brain's reward centers. This shared activation suggests that the social setting in which people listen to music might alter the fundamental way the brain processes musical pleasure. The mesolimbic reward circuitry, a network in the brain responsible for feelings of intense pleasure, plays a major role in these experiences.
"We were interested in better understanding how sharing music influences both our emotions and our brain activity," said study author Federico Curzel, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pavia, working with the Laboratory of Psychology of Aging and <a href="https://www.musicognitionlab.com/" target="_blank">the MusiCognition lab</a>. "Music is a powerful social tool that can promote bonding and a sense of togetherness, yet the underlying neural mechanisms of these shared experiences are still not well understood," he explained.
To investigate this, the researchers recruited 34 pairs of close friends, totaling 68 healthy participants. The sample consisted mostly of young adult women with an average age of 21 years. Participants filled out questionnaires to gauge their sensitivity to musical reward and their general empathy traits.
The scientists asked these pairs of friends to listen to brief music clips under two distinct social conditions. In the solo condition, participants sat alone in an isolated room, completely unaware of what their friend was doing. In the joint condition, the two friends sat face-to-face across a table in the same room.
The music selection included a total of 15 different songs, each trimmed to exactly 40 seconds. The playlist included five of the participant's own favorite songs and five of their friend's favorite songs. It also included five pop songs selected by the researchers to match the acoustic features of the other tracks.
While listening, participants used a digital slider to continuously rate their level of pleasure on a scale from zero to 100. This allowed the researchers to capture the exact highs and lows of enjoyment as the song progressed. After each song, participants also provided an overall rating of how much they liked the track.
To monitor brain activity, the researchers used a technique called functional near-infrared spectroscopy. This non-invasive method involves placing a specialized fabric cap on the head equipped with small sensors. These sensors emit harmless light through the skull to measure changes in blood flow and oxygen levels in the brain.
"Regarding the neuroimaging technique, fNIRS allowed us to maintain a more ecological setting, in which participants could move naturally, which is a key advantage for studying social interactions," Curzel noted. Because the technique has lower spatial resolution than other imaging methods, the team developed a tool to estimate precise anatomical coordinates from a short video of the participant’s head. They hope to release an open-source version of this tool to help improve replicability in future studies.
By monitoring both friends at the exact same time, the researchers could measure interpersonal neural synchrony. This concept refers to the way two different brains align their activity patterns when experiencing the same event or environment. High synchrony indicates that the two brains are responding to the stimulus in a highly similar, connected manner.
Curzel pointed out that past research on shared music has yielded mixed results, making this face-to-face study particularly revealing. "We were surprised to find that shared listening increased pleasure specifically for the friend’s favorite songs, rather than in a general way," he said. Merely having a friend present did not drastically increase overall pleasure ratings across all types of music.
More notably, the researchers found that sharing the listening experience increased what they called pleasure similarity within the pair. This means that as the song played, the two friends experienced rises and falls in their enjoyment at the exact same moments.
"Our findings suggest that when we share music with a friend, we don’t just listen together, we actually experience it more similarly," Curzel explained. Even though the friends could not see each other's rating sliders during the joint condition, "without talking or exchanging explicit feedbacks, their feelings of pleasure became aligned over time."
Brain activity data revealed that listening to highly pleasurable music naturally boosted oxygen levels in the prefrontal cortex. An increase in oxygen indicates that a brain region is drawing more blood flow and working harder to process rewards.
This brain activation was specifically stronger when friends listened together rather than alone. The shared social setting appeared to amplify the brain's biological response, making the physiological experience of musical pleasure more intense.
The researchers also discovered that brain synchronization between the two friends was noticeably higher in the joint listening condition. This phenomenon occurs when two separate brains begin to display similar patterns of activity at the exact same time.
"The more closely their pleasure responses matched moment by moment, the more their brain activity synchronized, but only when they were physically together," Curzel said. Because this heightened synchrony primarily occurred in the joint condition, it suggests that the shared social experience drives the alignment. "In other words, we scientifically proved that music can bring people 'onto the same wavelength', both emotionally and neurally."
While these findings offer a detailed look at social music listening, individual differences play a large role. "It is important to remember that findings from scientific studies reflect overall effects observed at the group level," Curzel advised. "In this study, not everyone experienced shared music in the same way: some participants felt more 'in sync' and also reported greater enjoyment, while others did not."
These variations tend to depend on context, the relationship between the individuals, and specific personality traits. Another potential misinterpretation is assuming that the presence of any person will naturally enhance brain synchronization. Since this study specifically used pairs of close friends, the results might look very different if the experiment involved complete strangers.
The research team is currently analyzing movement synchrony during the shared listening sessions, as well as how well participants remembered the songs the following day. "In the longer term, I would like to extend this experimental approach to clinical and relational contexts, such as music therapy," Curzel said. This could help provide objective markers of emotional attunement between a patient and therapist.
He also expressed interest in investigating how neurochemical processes, such as oxytocin and serotonin, relate to shared experiences and neural synchrony. This work was supported by a grant from the French National Research Agency awarded to Laura Ferreri, who co-directs the MusiCognition Laboratory at the University of Pavia with Carlotta Lega.
The study, "<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2026.02.012" target="_blank">Joint music listening enhances interpersonal affective and neural synchrony</a>," was authored by Federico Curzel, Barbara Tillmann, Arnaud Fournel, Giacomo Novembre, and Laura Ferreri.
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The future of software development has less development • The Register Added: Apr 29, 2026
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Google Gives OpenAI 20 Billion Reasons To Worry Added: Apr 29, 2026
Google Gives OpenAI 20 Billion Reasons To Worry
Site: Gizmodo
Google posted giant revenue growth this past quarter and it was thanks to Gemini.
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NASA Spotted a Strange Square Shape on Mars That Went Viral Overnight, Until the Full Picture Emerged
Added: Apr 29, 2026NASA Spotted a Strange Square Shape on Mars That Went Viral Overnight, Until the Full Picture Emerged
Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel
An image of a square on Mars is sparking curiosity. The formation appears strikingly regular, prompting all kinds of theories. Still, the reality behind it isn’t as straightforward as it seems.
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Red-meat retribution: Trump escalates campaign against MAGA foes Added: Apr 29, 2026
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NASA Ignites Lithium Plasma Engine That Could Redefine Human Missions To Mars
Added: Apr 29, 2026
NASA Ignites Lithium Plasma Engine That Could Redefine Human Missions To Mars
Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel
NASA’s high-power lithium plasma engine test marks a decisive step toward faster, more efficient missions to Mars.
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NASA Ignites Lithium Plasma Engine That Could Redefine Human Missions To Mars
Added: Apr 29, 2026
This Ordinary Rock Called “Fool’s Gold” Was Thrown Away, But It Turns Out It Contain Hidden Lithium
Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel
What if one of the most overlooked minerals on Earth has been quietly hiding lithium all along? Scientists took a closer look at a rock most people would ignore and uncovered something they didn’t expect.
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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How to Build a Non-Leftist Future | Tom Woods Show #2745
Site: YouTube
In the first part of this episode I describe the only strategy for liberty that gives me any confidence. In the second part I talk to Mark Monoscalco, author...
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LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor Added: Apr 29, 2026
LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor
Site: Simon Willison’s Weblog
I just released LLM 0.32a0, an alpha release of my LLM Python library and CLI tool for accessing LLMs, with some consequential changes that I’ve been working towards for quite …
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Megyn Kelly Just Flipped… Again (WATCH)
Site: YouTube
In Episode 140 (Part 2) of The Erin Molan Show, Erin breaks down what looks like yet another dramatic turn from Megyn Kelly — from sharp criticism of Donald ...
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Velella - Wikipedia Added: Apr 30, 2026
Velella - Wikipedia
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I always get these questions in America 😅😅😅😅 #americasgottalent #standupcomedy
Site: YouTube
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A 9-0 Ruling for Pregnancy Center Donors - WSJ Added: Apr 30, 2026
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THE WAR HAS BEGUN
Site: YouTube
WATCH THE FULL EPISODE HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClhHIfKstTMSUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW COFFEE NOW - https://castbrew.com/JOIN THE DISCORD: ht...
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SCOTUS Ruling Just Gave GOP THIRTY SEATS, This Is NUCLEAR IN Politics | Timcast IRL
Site: YouTube
Visit http://truegoldrepublic.com/tim or call 800-628-GOLDDo not wait for another IRS letter or a frozen bank account.Call (866) 686-1535 or visit http://tnu...
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ITS OVER, HE'S DONE IT
Site: YouTube
Democrats DECLARE WAR After SCOTUS Hands MASSIVE Midterm VICTORY To GOP | Tim PoolBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Green Room - https://...
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I Tested Gemma 4 Against Claude and GPT-5.4. The Truth. | Artificial Intelligence in Plain English
Added: Apr 30, 2026I Tested Gemma 4 Against Claude and GPT-5.4. The Truth.
Site: Medium
One week of real Python work. Not benchmarks. Here is what actually happened.
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Canada Proposes POET Mission to Hunt Earth-Sized Planets - Universe Today Added: Apr 30, 2026
Canada Proposes POET Mission to Hunt Earth-Sized Planets
Site: Universe Today
Exoplanet science and the search for life beyond Earth continue to advance at break-neck speeds, with the number of confirmed exoplanets by NASA rapidly approaching 6,300, with 223 of those exoplanets being designated as terrestrial (rocky) exoplanets. With the promise of discovering an increasing number of Earth-sized exoplanets increasing every day, new telescopes from across the world have the opportunity to contribute to this incredible field.
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Suno | AI Music Generator Added: Apr 30, 2026
Suno | AI Music Generator
Site: Suno
Create stunning original music for free in seconds using our AI generator. Make your own masterpieces, share with friends, and discover music from artists worldwide.
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Jon Stewart SHOCKED Democrats Won't Embrace Nazi Tattoo Guy | Tim Pool
Site: YouTube
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America's Greatest Threat (It's Not What You Think)
Site: YouTube
In the wake of a third assassination attempt on President Trump, Ben Shapiro heads back to campus at the University of Austin (UATX) to explain to students w...
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Suno | AI Music Generator
Site: Suno
Create stunning original music for free in seconds using our AI generator. Make your own masterpieces, share with friends, and discover music from artists worldwide.
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Democrats’ reckless rhetoric is fueling real-world danger
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They embraced for 12,000 years, and now DNA has revealed that this Paleolithic scene was even more moving and mysterious than it initially appeared
Added: Apr 30, 2026They embraced for 12,000 years, and now DNA has revealed that this Paleolithic scene was even more moving and mysterious than it initially appeared
Site: ECOticias.com
DNA reveals a 12,000-year-old embrace in Italy was a mother and daughter, uncovering rare disease and Ice Age survival
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Tardigrades have gone from being tiny, extremely rare creatures to becoming true guardians of the galaxy, in a story that combines extreme biology and planetary protection
Added: Apr 30, 2026
Tardigrades have gone from being tiny, extremely rare creatures to becoming true guardians of the galaxy, in a story that combines extreme biology and planetary protection
Site: ECOticias.com
Even tough tardigrades cannot survive active exposure to simulated Martian dust. See what this means for future astronauts and farming.
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A photon was teleported across 270 meters in stunning quantum breakthrough | ScienceDaily Added: Apr 30, 2026
A photon was teleported across 270 meters in stunning quantum breakthrough
Site: ScienceDaily
Scientists have pulled off a first: teleporting a photon’s state between two separate quantum dots. This was done over a 270-meter open-air link, proving quantum information can travel between independent devices. The achievement marks a key step toward building quantum networks for ultra-secure communication. It also sets the stage for more advanced systems like quantum relays.
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Democrat Calls For Hegseth TO BE EXECUTED In WILD Interview, CIVIL WAR! | Tim Pool
Site: YouTube
Democrat Calls For Hegseth TO BE EXECUTED In WILD Interview, CIVIL WAR! | Tim PoolBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Green Room - https://...
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44 Duos for 2 Violins, Sz. 98, BB 104: No. 35, Rutén Kolomejka | YouTube Music Added: Apr 30, 2026
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