1,500 years ago Boethius wrote a book that linked music, math, and cosmic harmony. De Musica isn't just a book. It might be one of the most important writings ever. Here's why: 🧵

MIT’s origami robot starts as a flat sheet, folds itself when heated, and becomes a tiny robot that can crawl, climb, and swim.

For the first time in human history, scientists witnessed the precise instant human development initiates. What they observed wasn't biological randomness, it was orchestrated precision. At fertilization's exact moment, a coordinated biochemical wave erupts across the egg's

Interesting: Here is the reason that as you get older, entire years feel like a week: 🙇‍♂️

Scientists just cracked the multiple sclerosis code after decades of searching. Two specific gut bacteria are triggering the disease, and they've proven it using identical twins and mice. This changes everything we know about MS:

wow Researchers gave aged rhesus monkeys daily one hour sessions of 40-Hz auditory stimulation (a low-frequency sound) for a week. In the monkeys, levels of Alzheimer’s related β-amyloid proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid more than doubled, and this increase persisted for

we’re less than 10 years from decoding all animal communication and BCIs that let us talk back an entire kingdom of minds we’ve been ignoring for 300,000 years going to be really fun

Wow. This looks like an amazing project. Scholars at UMichigan have recently collected a massive dataset of over 1.1M podcast transcripts that is largely comprehensive of all English language podcasts. Using this data, they conduct an investigation into the content,

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso

You are part of nature, everything is connected.

Scientists have reinvented the gear for the first time in 5,000 years. How? By swapping out solid mechanical teeth for dynamic fluid flows. For thousands of years, machines have depended on the exact meshing of physical gear teeth to transmit motion—a principle originating in

The amazing Michael Levin on intelligence.

levin's cognitive light cone concept makes it impossible to hold the perspective that "a human could understand the goal of any posthuman AGI" people who think humans can access the total state space of objectives literally just haven't thought about how wide that range is

Infinity Ring. A ring built from the Julia Sets that lie along the main cardioid of the Mandelbrot Set. By Matt Henderson, Matt Henderson, used with permission.

This is why psychedelics are awesome. Understandings are transferred directly at a rate that puts language to shame. You can feel uncompressed learnings being mainlined into what feels like every nerve in your brain/body like a kind of perpetual aha moment

Superhuman power is near Scientists just found have a gut bacterium that can boost muscle strength 👀 Researchers have identified a gut bacterium called Roseburia inulinivorans that is associated with greater muscle strength and physical performance. The study, published in

Ever wonder what a nervous system would look like if it self-assembled inside a novel being that hadn't faced a history of selection for its organism-level form and function? Or, perhaps you wondered how #Xenobots would look and act, or what their transcriptome would be like, if

It's nearly impossible to reconcile yourself to death at the end of your life, if you haven't faced it til then. You have to acknowledge it long before, pre-grieve it and make your life choices with its inevitability in awareness. A graceful death can take decades.

This is the way

The hidden architecture of a bird’s voice. 🙌🏻 Did you know a bird's song can be mapped into a mathematical fingerprint? 🧬 This isn't sci-fi; it's the real-time mapping this is a multi-dimensional bioacoustic visualization of a Carolina Wren's song. By tracking the