It’s not me; my brain’s just in a ~transition~ phase

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Scientists at Northwestern University have identified components of neurons that match up to materials undergoing a phase shift — a transition from one state of matter, like a liquid, to another, like a gas. ‘The structure of the brain at the cellular level appears to be near a phase transition,’ said Northwestern's Helen Ansell, the first author of a paper about the finding. ‘An everyday example of this is when ice melts into water. It's still water molecules, but they are undergoing a transition from solid to liquid. We certainly are not saying that the brain is near-melting. In fact, we don't have a way of knowing what two phases the brain could be transitioning between.’” [// New Atlas »]( [/money] [Motley Fool - Stock FOMO is real. But not anymore | [Partner]( [Stock FOMO is real. But not anymore]( Ready to kick yourself? If you snagged Tesla when The Motley Fool first recommended this company back in 2012, you’d be sitting pretty with an 8,085% return. Missed that? 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Four judges, including two who are AI-generated, weighed in on the contestants’ beauty, poise, and answers to typical pageant questions. But they also factored in the technological skills and social clout of the contestants’ creators into an overall score.” [// Scripps News »]( [/discover] [Visiting the kraken at home | Hakai Magazine]( [Visiting the kraken at home]( “Just after 10:00 a.m. on January 6, 2023, in the Southern Ocean some 1,100 kilometers south of Argentina, Matthew Mulrennan’s underwater camera captured a one-of-a-kind sighting: there, 176 meters beneath his vessel, a lone squid was propelling itself through the frigid water. With its outstretched vermillion tentacles, see-through body, and faint blue bioluminescent glow, this 12-centimeter-long squid is, potentially, the first colossal squid ever filmed in its natural environment.” [// Hakai Magazine »]( [/hustle] [Jurny - A HUGE hospitality AI opportunity closes in 5 days… | [Partner]]( [A HUGE hospitality AI opportunity closes in 5 days…]( This AI company is set to disrupt the $4.1 trillion hospitality industry and is offering you a limited-time opportunity to invest before its round closes on June 18. Jurny and its AI platform are purpose-built to automate up to 90% of hotel and short-term rental backend operations, which is a smarter way of saying that they’re making hospitality management waaay more streamlined. And we mean solving up to $1 trillion in inefficiencies kind of streamlined. 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