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Is silence actually good for you? New study shows silence can significantly impact health
 One of the most surprising findings involves the hippocampus, which is the brain region responsible for memory. Scientists found that after three days of sustained silence, participants showed measurable growth of new brain cells in this area. This kind of neurogenesis was previously believed to require long-term interventions.
For individuals regularly exposed to noise, the effects were even more pronounced, suggesting that those most stressed by sound may benefit the most from silence-induced brain changes. Silence also alters brainwave activity, shifting from "fast, high-alert beta waves" to "slower alpha and theta waves" associated with calm, focus, and creativity. By the third day of silence, participants reached these states more quickly than before.
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WorkWorkMicrosoft CTO Kevin Scott on the birth of the agentic web Today, I’m talking with Kevin Scott, the chief technology officer of Microsoft and one of the company’s AI leaders. This is Kevin’s third time on Decoder, and he’s one of my favorite guests. He thinks a lot about the relationship between technology, art, and culture, and he’s unusually willing to dive into the weeds of it all, which obviously I can never resist. WorkThis Is Your Priest on Drugs - The New Yorker (No paywall) In October, 2015, Hunt Priest, then a minister at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Mercer Island, in Washington State, was flipping through The Christian Century, a progressive Protestant magazine, when an advertisement caught his eye: Seeking Clergy to Take Part in a Research Study of Psilocybin and Sacred Experience. Psilocybin is a hallucinogenic compound found in certain mushrooms; researchers at Johns Hopkins University and N.Y.U. wanted to administer it to religious leaders who had an interest in further exploring and developing their spiritual lives. Work
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WorkWorkWorkWho Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery? Fifty years after the birth of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, it’s easy to see its value. It’s used in billions of laptops, cellphones, power tools, and cars. Global sales top US $45 billion a year, on their way to more than $100 billion in the coming decade. Work 
WorkWorkRussia bans 'undesirable' Amnesty International The federal prosecutor’s office declared in a statement that Amnesty was the “center of preparation of global Russophobic projects” and was in league with Ukraine, which Russia has waged war on for more than a decade. WorkWorkBritain is now the biggest funder of solar-geoengineering research - The Economist (No paywall) Solar gEOENGINEERING is a heated topic. The core idea is to deliberately interfere with the environment in order to cool the climate, thus averting the worst consequences of the unintentional interference caused by rampant fossil-fuel combustion. Most of the potential methods involve reflecting sunlight back into space, thereby stopping that energy being trapped in the atmosphere as heat. Those in favour of researching them point to their potential to cheaply and substantially reduce global temperatures. Critics, meanwhile, highlight the risk of altering weather systems and disrupting atmospheric chemistry (with global and ungovernable consequences) while distracting countries from the hard but necessary work of cutting carbon emissions.
WorkWorkTrump Says Russia and Ukraine Will Begin Negotiations Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke for two hours on Monday in what the U.S. President described as an "excellent" conversation, announcing that Russia and Ukraine would immediately begin negotiations toward a ceasefire. WorkI got fooled by AI-for-science hype--here's what it taught me I’m excited to publish this guest post by Nick McGreivy, a physicist who last year earned a PhD from Princeton. Nick used to be optimistic that AI could accelerate physics research. But when he tried to apply AI techniques to real physics problems the results were disappointing. Work
WorkWorkNASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her. "People see me now, and they just assume, 'oh, she had it easy,'" she says, but Rose Ferreira has had it anything but easy. The trajectory of her life has been so turbulent, in fact, that NASA, her previous employer, published a feature article about her determination on its website. That story chronicles her journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in the Caribbean and years living unhoused, to pursuing her education and rising to become a NASA intern, which ultimately led to working at the space agency full-time. WorkWorkWe're so back, why everyone is suddenly so thirsty for designers Earlier this month, Sir Jony Ive took the stage at Stripe Sessions to reflect on design, responsibility, and the role of taste in a metrics-obsessed world. The hour-long conversation quenched a very specific thirst, one that’s been building for years among designers who came up in the golden age of Apple, rode the wave of creative tooling, and now find themselves shilling for engagement loops and AI wrappers. "
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WorkWorkWorkThe tech industry is hugeand Europes share of it is very small - WSJ (No paywall) Europe lacks any homegrown alternatives to the likes of Google, Amazon or Meta. Apples market value is bigger than the entire German stock market. The continents inability to create more big technology firms is seen as one of its biggest challenges and is a major reason why its economies are stagnating. The issue is even more urgent with the prospect of higher tariffs threatening to further curb economic growth. WorkRace for Polands presidency blows wide open Sundays first round of the election saw centrist Warsaw Mayor Rafa Trzaskowski squeeze out an unexpectedly narrow victory with 31.4 percent of the vote against Karol Nawrocki, supported by the populist right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, who secured 29.5 percent. 
WorkWorkWorkThe Geography of Loneliness Soichiro “Soichi” Koriyama is my walking partner in Japan. He is a seasoned and worldly documentary photographer, a man in energetic middle age, a storyteller with a raucous laugh and a quick step. He is on an unlikely mission: To record every human being we encounter along our 1,400-kilometer walking route through rural Japan. Whenever Koriyama spots a villager—an old farmer bent over an onion patch, a couple walking their dog, a woman hanging bed sheets—he raises his camera. He snaps the shutter without breaking stride. He shoulders his camera and marches on with the determined step of the soldier he once was. Work
WorkAlmost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds The research reveals that nearly 70% of 16- to 21-year-olds feel worse about themselves after spending time on social media. Half (50%) would support a “digital curfew” that would restrict their access to certain apps and sites past 10pm, while 46% said they would rather be young in a world without the internet altogether. WorkThe Taiwan Tightrope - Foreign Affairs (No paywall) Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs. The magazine has featured contributions from many leading international affairs experts. WorkWork
WorkWorkAt least 50 migrants sent to El Salvador prison entered US legally, report finds The report comes amid a sprawling crackdown on immigrants in the US. On Monday, the supreme court ruled that the Trump administration could proceed with efforts to revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for Venezuelans. Ending TPS, which protects foreign citizens who cannot return home because of war, natural disaster or other extraordinary circumstances, could open up approximately 350,000 people for potential deportation. WorkWorkIs the U.S. in a "high-level equilibrium trap"? Ten years ago, when I was still writing freelance articles in my spare time, I wrote a post for The Week in which I mused about America becoming like China’s Ming Dynasty — powerful but insular, rich but stagnant, arrogantly disdainful of science and technology, and ignorant of progress being made in the world outside: 
WorkWorkSAG-AFTRA Calls Out 'Fortnite' Over Darth Vader AI Voice Imagine having the ability to make Darth Vader, Star Wars‘ most eloquent villain, say whatever you want him to say. Fortnite players have been having a blast doing just that since the feature was introduced. But now there’s controversy attached to this new iteration of the iconic character—and it has nothing to do with him uttering too many f-bombs. Instead, it has to do with SAG-AFTRA’s prescribed procedure on the use of AI voices. WorkRecord-Breaking Fusion Lab More Than Doubles Its 2022 Energy Breakthrough The world’s only fusion experiment that actually gives back more energy than it takes in is now breaking its own records. According to TechCrunch, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently pushed its fusion yield—first to 5.2 megajoules, and then to 8.6 megajoules—more than doubling the energy released in its historic shot in 2022. WorkGetting materials out of the lab I’m writing these words using plastic keys, on a composite wood desk, looking at a Gorilla Glass screen. The screen is linked to a machined-aluminum computer, inside of which doped silicon switches on and off a billion times per second.
WorkWorkWorkWorkWhat to Do If Your Child Is the Bully - Scientific American (No paywall) I spend a lot of time speaking to parent groups and students about bullying, and its common for parents to approach me after a talk with questions about their personal situation. A mother once asked for my thoughts about a situation in which her eight-year-old son had been accused of bullying another boy.
WorkWorkMicrosoft Introduces GitHub AI Agent, Now With More Vibe Coding In brief Microsoft announced that GitHub Copilot is evolving into a full AI coding agent. The update reflects a broader trend of "vibe coding" using artificial intelligence. Copilot's new capabilities aim to streamline development while maintaining existing security protocols. |
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