How the mind and body make music

fas.yale.edu: Our brains are constantly at work. They continuously execute instructions for the body via millions of firing neurons and synapses that coordinate unconscious bodily functions, conscious thought, and movement. The complex connection between mind and body—which is still only partially understood—is something Samuel McDougle says we may be taking for granted.

Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

Ars Technica: Summarizing complex scientific findings for a non-expert audience is one of the most important things a science journalist does from day to day. Generating summaries of complex writing has also been frequently mentioned as one of the best use cases for large language models (despite some prominent counterexamples).

Scientists hid secret codes in light to combat video fakes

Ars Technica: It's easier than ever to manipulate video footage to deceive the viewer and increasingly difficult for fact checkers to detect such manipulations. Cornell University scientists developed a new weapon in this ongoing arms race: software that codes a "watermark" into light fluctuations, which in turn can reveal when the footage has been tampered with.

A Glorious Mixture of Art and Science

National Endowment for the Arts: "...adults having fun so that children will desire to grow older.” (Hobart Brown, founder of kinetic sculpture racing) If kinetic sculpture is where art and science play, then kinetic sculpture races are art in motion as people complete a racecourse on machines that they design and build.

Transistors 101: A Detailed Introduction on Transistors

Fusion 360 Blog: Transistors are one of the most commonly used elements in electronic circuits. Their ease of use and simple working principle is what makes them popular among electronic designers. They mainly perform two functions: switching and amplification. You just need a few calculations to introduce this three-legged device into your next project and enable it to function correctly.

Roto presents update on Mote Science Education Aquarium project

blooloop.com: Roto is proud to be working alongside architects tvsdesign on the creation of the new Mote Science Education Aquarium (Mote SEA). Remastered renderings of the attraction have now been released and the expected date for the official groundbreaking in September 2020 will be announced later this year.

Brain Waves Synchronize at Live Music Performances

Neuroscience News: When individuals attend a live concert and listen to music as a group, their brains waves synchronize – a bond that indicates each individual is having a better time as part of a collective. The new findings, reported last month at a Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, are a reminder that humans are social creatures, said neuroscientist Jessica Grahn, a Western Psychology professor in the Brain and Mind Institute who co-led the study.