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By combining brain imaging with AI-based image processing and analysis, our teams have reconstructed nearly every cell and all of its connections within a small volume of human brain tissue about half the size of a grain of rice. Though it’s of a small region of brain, this 3D mapping – which we’ve made freely…

L’Europe est encore le meilleur endroit où vivre. Un pessimisme excessif serait donc aussi contre-productif que l’optimisme excessif d’il y a vingt ans. Le vrai risque, c’est que les Européens se mettent à agir sans discernement, tel celui qui se suicide parce qu’il a peur de la mort. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/05/13/ivan-krastev-les-europeens-ne-sont-pas-menaces-par-l-echec-de-leur-modele-mais-par-ses-succes_6232899_3232.html

Dans son ouvrage qui vient d’être traduit en français, la psychiatre américaine Anna Lembke, spécialiste des addictions, montre la diversité des individus concernés, tout autant que celle des substances ou comportements en cause. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/05/09/un-monde-sous-dopamine-une-addiction-nommee-desir-instantane_6232348_1650684.html

Opal Sandy can hear almost perfectly after groundbreaking surgery that took just 16 minutes — Read on www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/09/uk-toddler-has-hearing-restored-in-world-first-gene-therapy-trial

Google DeepMind launches AlphaFold 3, the next generation of its molecular structure prediction model that can aid drug discovery and other molecular developments. — Read on www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152088/google-deepmind-ai-model-predict-molecular-structure-alphafold

If you expand the parameters of the question to allow the inclusion of sex cells (gametes), eg ova and sperm, then eggs beat chickens by, give or take, 1bn years. The uniformity and commonality of sex among distantly related modern-day groups, such as algae, plants and animals (then mostly little more than single-celled specks, hoovering…

Original voices, ideas, and curating the crud of AI generated content… The Art of Work in the Age of AI Production — Read on kottke.org/24/05/the-art-of-work-in-the-age-of-ai-production

Poète, critique, romancier, essayiste et scénariste, le romancier était devenu célèbre avec ses récits new-yorkais peuplés de personnages marginaux et désorientés. Maître dans l’art de la narration, il est mort dans sa maison de Brooklyn mardi 30 avril dans la soirée. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/05/01/le-grand-ecrivain-americain-paul-auster-auteur-de-moon-palace-et-leviathan-est-mort-a-77-ans_6230916_3382.html I have to go and reread the New York Trilogy

All of the “mid” shows otherwise referenced here are trying to achieve too many things at once or appeal to too many demographics to have much of an impact. They are content, not art. — Read on kottke.org/24/04/were-in-the-golden-age-of-mid-tv

The scroll was preserved in a lavish villa in Herculaneum and discovered in 1750, and is believed to have belonged to Julius Caesar’s father-in-law. — Read on www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-site also, the Guardian has a category “Plato”!