"A large federally-funded study coming out of [US]America, published in Nature, 'marijuana users have enhanced cognitive abilities' ... [they] analysed brain imaging and cognitive data, from 37929 people. The cannabis consumers consistently outperformed the non-users in the cognitive tests. They had brain network characteristics typically associated with younger brains."

#ChrisFowlie, 2025

https://95bfm.com/bcast/95bfm-drive-w-halfqueen-r%C4%81pare-august-14th-2025

#podcasts#95bFM#MarijuanaMedia#UKBioBank #cannabis #cognition #research

As extensive and well researched as a high-level overview can be of #AI's impacts on society, #MentalHealth, human #cognition and the #Internet.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/
(If you still have an Atlantic "free article" or access behind the paywall, that is...)
via @bruces

Quoting a fun paragraph with its deeplinks:

As extensive and well researched as a high-level overview can be of #AI's impacts on society, #MentalHealth, human #cognition and the #Internet.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/
(If you still have an Atlantic "free article" or access behind the paywall, that is...)
via @bruces

Quoting a fun paragraph with its deeplinks:

Starting off the second day of the CogEvo workshop

https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/

in pretty Rovereto, Italy, is Elizabeth Spelke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Spelke

talkng about "From birds, fish and newborn babies to primary school classrooms: Leveraging developmental cognitive science to improve children's learning of mathematics"

#biology #evolution #learning #cognition

Giorgio Vallortigara

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Vallortigara

Kicking off our CogEvo workshop

https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/

in beautifully alpine Rovereto, Italy

#biology #evolution #cognition #neuroscience