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The Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of Microplastics, New Research Suggests
The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent ...
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A New Era of Art: Neotranshumanism Takes Center Stage with Ada Cyborg
Imagine a place where you can experience entire universes. A space that will make you rethink the limits of human capability.
Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says
Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the most.
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Meditation, art and nature: Neuroimaging reveals distinct patterns of brain activation
More information: Beatrix Krause-Sorio et al, Your brain on art, nature, and meditation: a pilot neuroimaging study, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2025). DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.1440177 ...
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Book Excerpt from Reductionism in Art and Brain Science
One reason may be that some abstract works, with their reduction of figuration, color, and light, are uncluttered. Yet even when an abstract work is cluttered, like an action painting by Jackson ...