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Complex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness (in short-tailed opossums) https://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2026/07/02/ENEURO.0059-26.2026 Try visual-to-auditory sensory substitution to supplement tactile f…

Complex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness
The neocortex has a remarkable capacity to alter its functional organization and connectivity in response to sensory loss, particularly if this loss occurs early in life. A key question is whether this cross-modal reorganization is driven by sensory deprivation or by enhanced use of the spared senses. We investigated how different rearing environments shape neural responses in primary somatosensory cortex (S1) of short-tailed opossums ( Monodelphis domestica) , following elimination of visual i…

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[…] and I opened the case (politely examined by the guards of the Palace at four stages of my approach to the Red Hall) that held my ansible and some pictures. The pictures—films, photos, paintings, actives, and some cubes—were a little gallery of Man: people of Hain, Chiffewar, and the Cetians, of S and Terra and Alterra, of the Utter-mosts, Kapteyn, Ollul, Four-Taurus, Rokanan, Ensbo, Cime, Gde and Sheashel Haven … The king glanced at a couple without interest. “What’s this?”
“A person from Cime, a female.” I had to use the word that Gethenians would apply only to a person in the culminant phase of kemmer [a cyclical period of heightened sexual activity during which secondary gender characteristics emerge], the alternative being their word for a female animal.
“Permanently?”
“Yes.”
He dropped the cube and stood swinging from foot to foot, staring at me or a little past me, the firelight shifting on his face. “They’re all like that—like you?”
This was the hurdle I could not lower for them. They must, in the end, learn to take it in their stride.
“Yes. Gethenian sexual physiology, so far as we yet know, is unique among human beings.”
“So all of them, out on these other planets, are in permanent kemmer? A society of perverts? So Lord Tibe put it; I thought he was joking. Well, it may be the fact, but it’s a disgusting idea, Mr. Ai, and I don’t see why human beings here on earth should want or tolerate any dealings with creatures so monstrously different. […]”
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(Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness)

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Lemme guess. Greyhound (bus) tickets? 😏
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Apple opens iOS to alternative app marketplaces in Brazil and changes App Store commission structure following a settlement with competition watchdog CADE (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/18/apple-an…

Apple announces major App Store changes for Brazil - 9to5Mac
App developers can now distribute apps through alternative app marketplaces in Brazil, as part of a broader set of changes in the country.

EU Member States are deprioritising 'non-wires' solutions or non-fossil flexibility as alternatives for network expansion.
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/20…

Giants' Cam Skattebo won't alter approach after injury: I'm going to get back to 'running people over' https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-cam-skattebo-won-t-alter-approach-after-injury-i-m-going-to-get-bac…

"Wir können‘s uns nicht aussuchen.Trinken, Handtuch auf den Kopf, kühl halten. Und faulenzen!"
Marianne Dittombee, 94 Jahre
#Senioren #Hitze #Alter

Wassereis und Hitzepaten | Wie alte Menschen in NRW durch die Hitze kommen
Die anhaltende Hitze ist besonders für viele alte Menschen anstrengend. Ein Stresstest auch für Pflegeeinrichtungen.

Giants' Cam Skaettbo won't alter approach after injury: I'm going to get back to 'running people over' https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-cam-skaettbo-won-t-alter-approach-after-injury-i-m-going-to-get-bac…

Local and global microstructural and functional thalamomotor connectivity alterations in Parkinson’s disease following motor learning https://www.nature.com/articles/s41531-026-01450-4 "In the final phase, participants navigate blindfolded using only auditory feedback, employing…