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World Reading Club [W[R]C]

 Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander

World Reading Club Celebrates the JOY of Learning by Promoting the LOVE of Literacy.
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Update frequency
every day
Average duration
23 minutes
Episodes
315
Years Active
2022 - 2025
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Why PTSD Patients Relive Highly Charged Fear Memories in Sleep [W[R]C]

Why PTSD Patients Relive Highly Charged Fear Memories in Sleep [W[R]C]

https://neurosciencenews.com/ptsd-sleep-fear-22462/

Summary: In people with PTSD, during REM sleep norepinephrine and serotonin levels remain high, reducing the brain’s ability to inhibit fear-express…
00:15:45  |   Wed 08 Feb 2023
How Sleep Deprivation Affects Cognitive Performance [W[R]C]

How Sleep Deprivation Affects Cognitive Performance [W[R]C]

https://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-deprivation-cognition-22463/

Summary: Sleep deprivation doesn’t just alter brain activity, it also changes the connection between neurons. Both changes have a signif…
00:10:27  |   Wed 08 Feb 2023
Sensors Read Minds and Restore Movement [W[R]C]

Sensors Read Minds and Restore Movement [W[R]C]

https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/tb/pub/features/nasa-spinoff/47558

Resulting in applications once thought impossible, technology for understanding mind-body interface builds on NA…
00:12:58  |   Wed 08 Feb 2023
How the Construction Site of Long Term Memory Gets Built in the Brain [W[R]C]

How the Construction Site of Long Term Memory Gets Built in the Brain [W[R]C]

https://neurosciencenews.com/protein-memory-construction-22450/

Summary: Study identifies a set of proteins that undergo experience-dependent changes while forming both short-term and long-term memori…
00:12:31  |   Wed 08 Feb 2023
Differences in Dopamine Signals in Patients With History of Alcohol Use Disorder [W[R]C]

Differences in Dopamine Signals in Patients With History of Alcohol Use Disorder [W[R]C]

https://neurosciencenews.com/dopamine-aud-22457/

Summary: The connection between dopamine and counterfactual information, or notions of relief and regret, is altered in those with alcohol use disorder…
00:12:31  |   Wed 08 Feb 2023
Researchers inspect a nearby pulsar wind nebula [W[R]C]

Researchers inspect a nearby pulsar wind nebula [W[R]C]

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-nearby-pulsar-nebula.html

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers from Hong Kong and Australia have performed radio observations of a nearby pulsa…
00:09:31  |   Wed 08 Feb 2023
Wild bumblebee queens lured and killed in commercial hives, study reveals [W[R]C]

Wild bumblebee queens lured and killed in commercial hives, study reveals [W[R]C]

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-wild-bumblebee-queens-lured-commercial.html

In the course of experiments to test how well commercial bumblebees pollinate early spring crops, researchers made a surprisin…
00:08:31  |   Mon 06 Feb 2023
Scientists detect molten rock layer hidden under Earth's tectonic plates [W[R]C]

Scientists detect molten rock layer hidden under Earth's tectonic plates [W[R]C]

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-scientists-molten-layer-hidden-earth.html

Scientists have discovered a new layer of partly molten rock under the Earth's crust that might help settle a long-standing deba…
00:08:16  |   Mon 06 Feb 2023
Using muon detectors to remotely create a 3D image of the inside of a nuclear reactor [W[R]C]

Using muon detectors to remotely create a 3D image of the inside of a nuclear reactor [W[R]C]

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-muon-detectors-remotely-3d-image.html

A team of physicists affiliated with several institutions in France has developed a way to use muon detectors to create 3D images of…
00:06:01  |   Mon 06 Feb 2023
An extension of FermiNet to discover quantum phase transitions

An extension of FermiNet to discover quantum phase transitions

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-extension-ferminet-quantum-phase-transitions.html

Architectures based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) have proved to be very helpful in research settings, as they ca…
00:13:01  |   Mon 06 Feb 2023
New insights into centromere structure [W[R]C]

New insights into centromere structure [W[R]C]

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-insights-centromere.html

Researchers led by Osaka University used cryogenic electron microscopy to analyze the atomic structure of the centromeric region of the chromosom…
00:10:01  |   Mon 06 Feb 2023
More Variability Found to Help Learning [W[R]C]

More Variability Found to Help Learning [W[R]C]

https://neurosciencenews.com/variability-learning-22446/

Summary: Variable stimuli may lead to better learning performance and outcomes under novel circumstances, a new study reports.

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00:15:01  |   Mon 06 Feb 2023
Brain Cell Changes in Alzheimer’s Disease Mapped [W[R]C]

Brain Cell Changes in Alzheimer’s Disease Mapped [W[R]C]

https://neurosciencenews.com/alzheimers-brain-mapping-22429/

Summary: A new method dubbed STARmap PLUS was utilized to track and map changes in tau and amyloid beta in the brain as Alzheimer’s disease…
00:14:31  |   Mon 06 Feb 2023
UK mega-lab generates weather to test homes of future [W[R]C]

UK mega-lab generates weather to test homes of future [W[R]C]

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-uk-mega-lab-generates-weather-homes.html

The thermometer sinks below zero as a blizzard of fine snow descends on two houses freshly built inside a massive laborator…
00:08:31  |   Sun 05 Feb 2023
AI is helping us search for intelligent alien life—and we've found 8 strange new signals [W[R]C]

AI is helping us search for intelligent alien life—and we've found 8 strange new signals [W[R]C]

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-ai-intelligent-alien-lifeand-weve.html

Some 540 million years ago, diverse life forms suddenly began to emerge from the muddy ocean floors of planet Earth. This period is…
00:10:31  |   Sun 05 Feb 2023
Astronomers observe light bending around an isolated white dwarf [W[R]C]

Astronomers observe light bending around an isolated white dwarf [W[R]C]

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-astronomers-isolated-white-dwarf.html

Astronomers have directly measured the mass of a dead star using an effect known as gravitational microlensing, first predicted by A…
00:10:31  |   Sun 05 Feb 2023
Ideal Blood Pressure May Remodel Brain Clearance Pathways Linked to Brain Health and Dementia [W[R]C]

Ideal Blood Pressure May Remodel Brain Clearance Pathways Linked to Brain Health and Dementia [W[R]C]

https://neurosciencenews.com/blood-pressure-dementia-22427/

Summary: Receiving more intensive treatment for high blood pressure results in positive alterations in brain structures associated with clea…
00:13:31  |   Sun 05 Feb 2023
Sugar Is Processed Differently in the Brains of Obesity-Prone vs. Obesity-Resistant Rats [W[R]C]

Sugar Is Processed Differently in the Brains of Obesity-Prone vs. Obesity-Resistant Rats [W[R]C]

https://neurosciencenews.com/sugar-processing-obesity-22431/

Summary: Glucose takes longer to get into the nucleus accumbens of obesity-prone rat models. Researchers also discovered excess levels of g…
00:16:01  |   Sun 05 Feb 2023
Women Are More Likely to Identify as Bisexual, Can Research Into Sexual Arousal Tell Us Why? [W[R]C]

Women Are More Likely to Identify as Bisexual, Can Research Into Sexual Arousal Tell Us Why? [W[R]C]

https://neurosciencenews.com/female-bisexuality-22442/

Summary: Women are three times more likely to identify as bisexual than men. Research has discovered women are more likely to display bisexual pa…
00:11:01  |   Sat 04 Feb 2023
'Time is not what it used to be': Children and adults shown to experience time differently [W[R]C]

'Time is not what it used to be': Children and adults shown to experience time differently [W[R]C]

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-children-adults-shown-differently.html

Researchers at Eötvös Loránd University have investigated whether the perception of time changes with age, and if so, how,…
00:12:01  |   Sat 04 Feb 2023
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