Souped-up Garden

tending an intensive urban potager & cooking with garden-fresh ingredients in southwest France

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Recipe

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Roquefort goes well with fruitcake!

French Cheese: Roquefort

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Early summer in our southwest France garden.

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Researchers grow active mini-brain-networks

A cerebral organoid allows researchers to detect dynamic changes in calcium ion activity and visualize comprehensive cell activities.

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Could prosthetic limbs one day be controlled by human thought?

Having identified a new, simpler way to study neural activity, researchers believe they are on track to creating a compact, low power and potentially wireless brain sensor that could make thought-controlled prosthetic limbs ubiquitous.

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People’s motivations bias how they gather information

People stop gathering information earlier when it supports the conclusion they wish is true than when it supports an undesirable conclusion.

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One Pot Pasta with Tomato & Mascarpone Sauce

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Pink noise boosts deep sleep in mild cognitive impairment patients

Short pulses of pink noise played during slow-wave sleep can help improve memory consolidation for those with mild cognitive impairment.

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Quickly Taro Ice

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Housewarming Party by Hye Jin Chung

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An illustration of “Cuvier’s Toucan” (a subspecies of the white-throated toucan) from John Gould’s A monograph of the Ramphastidae, or family of toucans (1833).

Full text, with many other colorful illustrations, available here.

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Teens who can describe negative emotions can stave off depression

Teens who can differentiate their negative emotions, rather than generalize how they feel, are less prone to depression.

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Brain cells for 3D vision discovered

Researchers have identified neurons in the brains of praying mantises that are able to compute 3D direction and distance. The findings may help to develop better technology for machine and robotic vision.

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Study connects low social engagement to amyloid levels and cognitive decline

An association has been discovered between cognitive decline and social engagement in older adults. Older people who are less socially active have a greater accumulation of amyloid beta and increased cognitive decline over a three-year span, compared to more socially active peers.

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Egg Drop Soup

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Pride month commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Riots, the event that sparked the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Today marks the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Stormé DeLarverie were three key figures in the early LGBTQ movement and at the Stonewall Inn the night it all started in 1969. They dedicated their lives to working for the safety, inclusion, and rights of LGBTQ people. 

Artist: Ameya Marie (https://www.ameyamarie.com/)

via Planned Parenthood of New York City Action Fund

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Cinnamon Bread