We all need to vent after a bad day, right? It’s the equivalent of releasing steam from a pressure cooker, it’s long been believed. Researchers at Ohio State University, however, found “not a shred of scientific evidence” to support catharsis theory, as it’s called. In fact, venting might increase anger. Science Alert has more, including effective methods of managing your rage. https://flip.it/2GK2Gq #Science#Health#Anger#AngerManagement#Behavior#Humans
Cataglyphis lutea (UAE and parts of India) is a desert dwelling ant, the photos of this ant on iNaturalist caught my eye, since, like Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus (the Spider Ant of Australia), this these little ants fold their gasters over their mesonoma.
Very little is known about Cataglyphis lutea, shockingly little. I can't even find a mention of gaster folding in any of the brief descriptions of this ant.
Looking forward to reading it in detail. Thanks for highlighting it – and to top it off, on my favourite ants, Cataglyphis, so beautifully introduced by Whener's book: "Desert Navigator".
The supplemental data has a captivating set of photographs of bees inside the hive, highlighting their head and antennae positions, and documenting trophalaxis (passing food onto each other).
#ReptiLearn: bias towards trad model systems can hinder comparative research & limit diversity. @EvoNeuralCode &co describe a versatile platform for studying natural #behavior in #reptiles across multiple time scales & with minimal constraint #PLOSBiologyhttps://plos.io/4bU4uS3
Using a unique method of topographic self-report, the authors showed maps of bodily sensations associated with different emotions. It sounds simple enough - participants were shown silhouettes of bodies along with different emotional words, stories, films or facial expressions and asked to colour 🎨 in the areas of their body that they thought were more or less active when they watched each stimulus:
Interesting new preprint:
"These patterns suggest similar structural principles in behavioral sequences across all study species. [...] The existence of highly consistent patterns in behavioral sequences across all three study species suggests that these phenomena could be widespread in nature, and points to the existence of fundamental properties of behavioral dynamics that could drive such convergent patterns."
GDExtension support is coming to LimboAI, and it will be going v1.0 in a few weeks. To celebrate that occasion, we decided to make a pre-release version. If you'd like to help with testing, grab a build from the GitHub: https://github.com/limbonaut/limboai/releases/tag/v1.0-dev1
LimboAI is an open-source C++ module for Godot 4 that offers a combination of behavior trees and state machines for crafting your game's AI 🤖💡
All was quiet on the Billy Neill Playing Fields… until it wasn’t!
A #sparrowhawk flushed from the trees by an irate #HoodedCrow and was chased across the pitches.
Needless to say, that was the end of #birdwatching for the morning 🤷♂️
We think that everything we do and say is a direct outcome of deliberate #thought and #behavior motivated by our own goals and aspirations. A rising amount of scientific evidence, however, casts doubt on this long-held assumption. Our wills do not originate from within ourselves. Background causes of thoughts and intents exist.....
Habt ihr euch je gefragt, ob es möglich ist, Menschen durch ihr unbewusstes Verhalten des Lügens zu überführen?
In meinem Talk "Social Engineering: Geschichte, Wirkung, Maßnahmen" werde ich unter anderem einen Einblick in den wissenschaftlichen Stand rund um dieses Thema geben. Lasst euch überraschen!
A year to be forgotten, or permanently remembered, this global social, ethical and moral debt I won't put on my account alone, far from here and far from me are many other failures throughout the year (to put it mildly). This is how it is, was and will be, because barbarism is growing, but the whole world lives its yawns and jokes between the beach and the allergy, the barbiturate and the bicoin, but blindness no longer accepts bargaining, it no longer goes by its original name.
2023
Um ano para ser esquecido, ou lembrado permanentemente, essa dívida social, ética, moral mundial eu não a colocarei sozinho na minha conta, longe daqui e de mim estão muitas outras falhas no ano todo (para dizer pouco). Assim é, foi e será, porque a barbárie cresce, mas o mundo todo vive seus bocejos e gracejos entre a praia e a alergia, o barbitúrico e o bitcoin, mas a cegueira já não aceita barganha, já não atende pelo seu nome original.
* #2023#society#behavior#psychology#BraveNewWorld#remember#forget
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Can someone explain to me in technical terms what exactly happens when you press CMD/Strg +/- in a browser or point me to a resource that does it? Something more elaborate than "the viewport's being scaled". Thanks!
Sorry to tag you again, @bramus, but I can imagine that you can help. :)