“Who would want to buy a product that paralyzes your lungs?”
“We’ll let marketing worry about that!”
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Director Juliette Eisner started working on the documentary during the pandemic when, like most people, she had a lot of extra time on her hands. She started looking at old psychological studies exploring human nature and became fascinated by the Stanford Prison Experiment, especially in light of the summer protests in 2020 concerning police brutality. She soon realized that the prevailing narrative was Zimbardo’s and that very few of the original subjects in the experiment had ever been interviewed about their experiences.
“I wanted to hear from those people,” Eisner told Ars. “They were very hard to find. Most of them were still only known by alias or by prisoner number.” Eisner persevered and tracked most of them down. “Every single time they picked up the phone, they were like, ‘Oh, I’m so glad you called. Nobody has called me in 50 years. And by the way, everything you think you know about this study is wrong,’ or ‘The story is not what it seems.’”
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Gut microbiota regulates stress responsivity via the circadian system - ScienceDirect
Here, we uncover the gut microbiota as a regulator of HPA-axis rhythmicity. Microbial depletion disturbs the brain transcriptome and metabolome in stress-responding pathways in the hippocampus and amygdala across the day. This is coupled with a dysregulation of the circadian pacemaker in the brain that results in perturbed glucocorticoid rhythmicity. The resulting hyper-activation of the HPA axis at the sleep/wake transition drives time-of-day-specific impairments of the stress response and stress-sensitive behaviors.
Eat your yogurt! Seriously, the more we learn about the microbiome, and we are only at the very early days of understanding it, the more critical it appears to be. And the more obvious it becomes that our modern diet and lifestyle are pretty much designed to muck it up.
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My weekday breakfast is berry and yogurt smoothies with peanut butter, cinnamon, and flax seed. So much good stuff packed in those things. They are probably the only reason why the kid doesn’t have some micronutrient deficiency. Tidy little package of probiotic and food for the probiotics
also keeps ya regular
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Old but good news
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Well duh
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Something, something, metric system
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As we reported previously, the publisher listed paper mills as a significant threat to its business in paperwork for its October initial public offering.
(Emphasis mine)
Well, this is certainly going to make the scientific publication racket better!
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Saber tooth tiger found with whiskers preserved. (Picture is kind of sad.)
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Yep the picture bothered me. But the finding is really interesting – that vibrissae could be preserved like that.
I’ll blur the link.
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I strongly suspect that cats can already do this.
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On my phone’s Google newsfeed, I get a lot of sciencey sites that have dubious stories. Every now and then, I check out the story, review their mainpage, and eliminate the site from my list. (These days, probably AI-generated clickbait. “Chinese scientists eliminate aging!”)
And I’m probably just training the AIs.
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Follow up on the fate of the guy who made so.e of the more recent superconductivity claims:
But one of the interesting details is that, based on the skeptical peer-reviews at the time, Nature really shouldn’t have published this guy’s papers in the first place, but their editorial team decided to go ahead anyway.
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I’d be more interested to hear about Batman Conductivity.
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More cat science!
Do cats know their own dimensions and use that knowledge to squeeze through tight openings?
Just another victory in the science of feline rheology.
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