Pathway to Spatial Recognition

Cembrowski's primary research target is the subiculum, a sub-region of the mammalian brain located in the hippocampus, which plays an important role in memory and navigation.

The research is in Cell. (full access paywall)

spring at the pond

THE LATEST alert from the United States and Britain about Russian intrusion into computer networks contains alarming conclusions. Earlier warnings were issued about Russian meddling in social media, election systems, and energy, water and aviation controls. The new alert calls attention to Russian efforts to compromise network devices, such as routers, the heartbeat of the Internet. The alert says that existing network vulnerability, coupled with a “worldwide” Russian campaign, “threatens the safety, security, and economic well-being of the United States.”

How is the United States going to respond?

The alert says the FBI “has high confidence that Russian state-sponsored cyber actors are using compromised routers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to support espionage, extract intellectual property, maintain persistent access to victim networks, and potentially lay a foundation for future offensive operations.” In essence, the Russians have infiltrated the digital byways at giant data intersections
#TyrantPutin #Russia #Kremlin #Putin #US #UK

South Australian Sunset

The Adelaide metropolitan coastline happens to sit on the east side of the St Vincent gulf. Which means we are lucky enough to get sunsets over the ocean all year round. I live a couple of minutes from the beach, so when I’m in the mood for some photography, I’m always keeping an eye on the clouds in the sky. Hallett Cove beach is a local for me, and happens to have an interesting coastline with many photogenic rock and cliff formations.

New website now up and running!
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Former NFL lineman Evan Mathis' 1952 Mickey Mantle card goes for $2.88M: The two-time Pro Bowl selection sold his prized baseball card to help buy a new house. http://dlvr.it/QQC5K2

Office Insider for Android
https://www.testingcatalog.com/project/amp/92

Hello Office Insiders,

Present Wirelessly from Mobile!

We have recently launched a new feature in PPT which enables you to present wirelessly from your mobile to nearby Miracast enabled projectors/ large screens, Smart TVs, and dongles.

Once connected you will see a full screen slideshow on the large screen and presenter view with speaker notes on the mobile device. You should also try using laser pointer, ink annotations etc. to bring focus to content in your slide

You can try out the feature by upgrading to the latest Android build on your phone and then clicking on the new cast icon in the slideshow toolbar.

You can turn your Windows 10 PC into a wireless display and try out this feature.

Note: This feature is only enabled for Samsung devices with Android N and above.

Kindly try out the feature and let us know how can we improve it further by filling this short survey :
https://aka.ms/PresentFromMobile

Regards
Team Microsoft

#microsoft #office #officeinsider #business #microsoftoffice

Neurons Derived From Super-Obese People Respond Differently to Appetite Hormone

These neurons secreted neuropeptides that regulate feeding behavior in response to the hunger hormone ghrelin and the satiety hormone leptin.

The research is in Cell Stem Cell. (full open access)

We all use smartphones differently, but productivity is a major part of the equation. Which are you more productive on? https://yte.fyi/2K1qKfN

By +Alex Garcia
#Android #iOS #GooglePixel #iPhone

Is anyone else feeling a serious sense of deja vu here?

Think about it:

Facebook has auto-enrolled users into a facial recognition test in Europe

NBA Trade Rumors: Kawhi Leonard Wants To Join Lakers

Files GO app is back to Beta. It was not available for OPT-INs for some time

https://www.testingcatalog.com/project/amp/663

#betatesting #androidapp #files

Why Mongolia hopes to host a Trump-Kim Jong Un meeting

Will You Upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS? [Poll] #ubuntu #linux

We're now a week away from the stable Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release — which means it's nearly upgrade decision time! Let us know if you plan to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 by voting in our poll.

There has been controversy over whether adult humans grow new neurons, and some research has previously suggested that the adult brain was hard-wired and that adults did not grow new neurons. This study, to appear in the journal Cell Stem Cell on April 5, counters that notion.
Lead author Maura Boldrini, associate professor of neurobiology at Columbia University, says the findings may suggest that many senior citizens remain more cognitively and emotionally intact than commonly believed..
We found that older people have similar ability to make thousands of hippocampal new neurons from progenitor cells as younger people do Boldrini says. We also found equivalent volumes of the hippocampus (a brain structure used for emotion and cognition) across ages. Nevertheless, older individuals had less vascularization and maybe less ability of new neurons to make connections.

The researchers autopsied hippocampi from 28 previously healthy individuals aged 14-79 who had died suddenly. This is the first time researchers looked at newly formed neurons and the state of blood vessels within the entire human hippocampus soon after death.
(The researchers had determined that study subjects were not cognitively impaired and had not suffered from depression or taken antidepressants, which Boldrini and colleagues had previously found could impact the production of new brain cells.)
In rodents and primates, the ability to generate new hippocampal cells declines with age. Waning production of neurons and an overall shrinking of the dentate gyrus, part of the hippocampus thought to help form new episodic memories, was believed to occur in aging humans as well.
The researchers from Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute found that even the oldest brains they studied produced new brain cells.
We found similar numbers of intermediate neural progenitors and thousands of immature neurons they wrote.

Nevertheless, older individuals form fewer new blood vessels within brain structures and possess a smaller pool of progenitor cells, descendants of stem cells that are more constrained in their capacity to differentiate and self-renew.
Boldrini surmised that reduced cognitive-emotional resilience in old age may be caused by this smaller pool of neural stem cells, the decline in vascularization, and reduced cell-to-cell connectivity within the hippocampus.
It is possible that ongoing hippocampal neurogenesis sustains human-specific cognitive function throughout life and that declines may be linked to compromised cognitive-emotional resilience she says.
Boldrini says that future research on the aging brain will continue to explore how neural cell proliferation, maturation, and survival are regulated by hormones, transcription factors, and other inter-cellular pathways.

Staring at these numbers, I got to thinking: I bet if you take white Evangelicals out of the picture, Trump’s standing with the rest of the population is really low. So I emailed the PRRI, and got the non-white-Evangelical numbers from the very same poll.

They’re pretty compelling. Among Americans who are not self-identified white Evangelicals, Trump’s favorability ratio is 36-60, with 41 percent expressing veryunfavorable views of the president. Among women who are not white Evangelicals, the ratio is 29-69, with about half — 49 percent — harboring a very unfavorable view of Trump. How about college-educated Americans who aren’t white Evangelicals? Trump’s at 32-65, with 47 percent holding a very unfavorable opinion of him. And outside the ranks of the white Evangelicals, even non-college-educated Americans have a dim view of the MAGA man, disliking him by a 39-58 margin (this obviously includes minority folks), though a mere 38 percent dislike him strongly.

From:
Nobody Likes Trump Except White Evangelicals
http://amp.nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/trumps-really-unpopular-outside-the-white-evangelical-pews.html

The search giant has released Google Clips to help in the process of making sure every single person in your friend lists sees your little creatures. #Reviews #Google #GoogleClips

NFL free agency rumors: Ravens' offer to WR Willie Snead ends Dez Bryant talk: Snead's productivity fell in 2017 after he had 141 catches for 1,879 yards and seven touchdowns in 2015-16. http://dlvr.it/QQCxxM