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“…CANNIBALISTIC URGES” – Man on trial for brutal murder of four Idaho University students

A forensic psychiatrist has told Newsweek that the man charged in connection with the slayings of four University of Idaho students in November 2022 had battled with “cannibalistic urges“. Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old Ph.D. student and teaching assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University, was arrested at his parents’ home in Albrightsville,…

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Lab-Bred Mosquitos Could Slow the Spread of a Deadly Human Disease Scientists are infecting lab-bred mosquitos with a type of bacteria that stops the spread of the dengue virus to people — but it's a difficult mission. https://www.inverse.com/science/singapore-breeding-mosquitoes-dengue

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How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain (Marta Zaraska, Quanta Magazine, Feb 28 2023)

"Neuroscience suggests that loneliness doesn’t necessarily result from a lack of opportunity to meet others or a fear of social interactions.

Instead, circuits in our brain and changes in our behavior can trap us in a catch-22 situation: While we desire connection with others, we view them as unreliable, judgmental and unfriendly.

Consequently, we keep our distance, consciously or unconsciously spurning potential opportunities for connections. (…)

However, a study that the team published in 2022 revealed that although threatening social situations trigger more amygdala activity in people suffering from social anxiety, they do not have that effect on lonely people.

Similarly, people with social anxiety have diminished activity in the reward sections of their brain, and that does not appear to be true for lonely people.

“The core features of social anxiety were not evident in loneliness,” Lieberz said.

Those results suggest, she said, that treating loneliness simply by telling lonely people to go out and socialize more (the way you can treat a phobia of snakes with exposure) will often not work because it fails to address the root cause of the loneliness.

In fact, a recent meta-analysis confirmed that simply providing lonely people with easier access to potential friends has no effect on subjective loneliness.

The problem with loneliness seems to be that it biases our thinking.

In behavioral studies, lonely people picked up on negative social signals, such as images of rejection, within 120 milliseconds — twice as quickly as people with satisfying relationships and in less than half the time it takes to blink.

Lonely people also preferred to stand farther away from strangers, trusted others less and disliked physical touch.

This may be why the emotional well-being of lonely individuals often follows “a downward spiral,” said Danilo Bzdok, an interdisciplinary researcher at McGill University with a background in neuroscience and machine learning. (…)

Bzdok and his team showed that some regions of the default network are not only larger in chronically lonely people but also more strongly connected to other parts of the brain.

Moreover, the default network seems to be involved in many of the distinctive abilities that have evolved in humans — such as language, anticipating the future and causal reasoning.

More generally, the default network activates when we think about other people, including when we interpret their intentions.

The findings on default network connectivity provided neuroimaging evidence to support previous discoveries by psychologists that lonely people tend to daydream about social interactions, get easily nostalgic about past social events, and even anthropomorphize their pets, talking to their cats as if they were human, for example.

“It would require the default network to do that too,” Bzdok said.

While loneliness can lead to a rich imaginary social life, it can make real-life social encounters less rewarding.

A reason why may have been identified in a 2021 study by Bzdok and his colleagues that was also based on the voluminous UK Biobank data.

They looked separately at socially isolated people and at people with low social support, as measured by a lack of someone to confide in on a daily or almost daily basis.

The researchers found that in all such individuals, the orbitofrontal cortex — a part of the brain linked to processing rewards — was smaller.

Last year, a large brain-imaging study based on data from more than 1,300 Japanese volunteers revealed that greater loneliness is associated with stronger functional connections in the brain area that handles visual attention.

This finding supports previous reports from eye-tracking studies that lonely people tend to focus excessively on unpleasant social cues, such as being ignored by others. (…)

While interventions such as cognitive behavioral therapy, promoting trust and synchrony, or even ingesting magic mushrooms could help treat chronic loneliness, transient feelings of solitude will most likely always remain part of the human experience.

And there is nothing wrong with that, Tomova said.

She compares loneliness to stress: It’s unpleasant but not necessarily negative.

“It provides energy to the body, and then we can deal with challenges,” she said.

“It becomes problematic when it’s chronic because our bodies are not meant to be in this constant state. That’s when our adaptive mechanisms ultimately break down.”"

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november 2023 jams 💿

"To the Rainbow Realm! Technology and Magic Merge in 'Feltopia', the First Felted Stop-Motion Video Game" by Kate Mothes (multimedia approach in video game realm)

"Self portraiture is about more than the photos" by graincheck (photography genre akin to self-reflection)

"The Quest to Build a Better Birdhouse" by Marta Zaraska (on the use of 3d graphics and printing for animal conservation)

Sirotkin - Бейся сердце, время биться (music video that captures the spirit of my parents'/my youth)

"Adding Potion Making to Our Cozy Game" devlog by Studio Firlefanz (clever development of a crafting mechanic in a video game)

"Francis Bacon at the Royal Academy: visceral visions of man and beast" by Michael Prodger (body horror in bacon's works and its roots)

"Саакянц: художник и его страна" by Святослав Иванов (the path of a prominent armenian animator robert sahakyants; magical realism and science fiction)

"Ways of designing intimacy in games" by Michael Piantini (exploring consent and romanticism in games)

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In Search of Safer Refuge: The Challenges of Replicating Nature

September 11, 2023 by Marta Zaraska Republished with Permission: The Roosevelt Island Daily News In 2016, Ox Lennon was trying to peek in the crevices inside a pile of rocks. They considered everything from injecting builders’ foam into the tiny spaces to create a mold to dumping a heap of stones into a CT scanner. Still, they couldn’t get the data they were after: how to stack rocks so that a…

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With a few notable exceptions – most of them religious – meat has retained its primacy in cultures across the world. It originally became a status symbol because it was harder to obtain than plant matter – even a small animal could run away, and if caught, was capable of inflicting wounds that could prove fatal in a world before antibiotics. As society became hierarchical, there was no greater token of status than the ability to eat meat on a whim. In her 2016 book Meathooked, Marta Zaraska records the discovery of Egyptian tombs in which the pharaohs had been buried alongside “meat mummies”, baskets of beef and poultry that had been embalmed in preparation for the afterlife. Our fetishisation of meat has not lessened – on the contrary, forecasters predict rapid increase in meat consumption in developing countries over the next decade. As a ready source of protein, meat remains the great aspiration, the surest proof of prosperity. As Carol J Adams wrote, the words we use shield us from the moral consequences of carnivory: we eat beef, not cows, pork, not pigs, while a cabbage remains just a cabbage wherever it is in its life cycle. Our language ennobles meat at the expense of veg: strong, muscular types are “beefy”, lazy people are “couch potatoes”, unresponsive ones “vegetables”. Turning our back on meat-eating is not as simple as changing from pork to Quorn: it requires us to reject some entrenched values.

Why do people hate vegans? | Life and style | The Guardian

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I recently read "This book will make you kinder", but I think what I was looking for was this book, Growing Younger by Marta Zaraska. It wasn't about kindness alone but it talked about how kindness makes life better and potentially increases longevity but also possibly makes our existence better.

My interest in psychosocial health means I'm always reading articles and reports on the impact of our social environment and about people in general. Therefore, many of the studies mentioned in this book were not new to me but I loved how it all came together.

Have you made time for your social life recently? And I don't just mean partying with people, I simply mean spending time with or around people. Do you prioritize it?

I think this is a great book on wellness and resilience and overall wellbeing. I wouldn't necessarily categorize it as a self-care book but it's definitely a worthy read. I think this might be my favourite non-fiction read of the year so far.

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Why We Feel Good When We Serve

If you have ever tried to recruit volunteers to serve, there is a good chance you said something like “You will feel good when you do it.”  You said that because it’s true.  We do in fact feel good when we serve.  As a pastor, I often told my congregation there is a special joy that comes from serving, and pretty much everyone who heard that understood it.

But why?  Why do we feel good when we serve?  Is it simply a warm feeling somewhere down deep inside that is hard to describe but we know it when we feel it?  Is it the knowledge we are doing the right thing (I call it the Wilfred Brimley effect from his old commercials for Quaker Oats)?  Is it because we believe our standing with our peers is enhanced by our serving?

Hard Wired to Serve

It turns out we are hard wired to serve.  There are biological reasons for why we feel good when we serve. Medical science has long known that volunteering contributes to better health.  The most recent contribution to this knowledge is Marta Zaraska’s Growing Young:  How Friendship, Kindness, and Optimism Can Help You Live to 100.  

Zaraska has replaced the traditions of diet and exercise as keys to a healthier life with convincing arguments and ample evidence that social engagement, kindness, and/or serving do more for longevity.  That’s counterintuitive for most of us.  

And it was for Marta Zaraska, too . . . until she took a closer look at what actually works.  After years of research, she concluded that “diet and exercise [are] not the most important things . . . to encourage my family’s longevity.  Instead of shipping for organic goji berries, I should concentrate on our social lives and [emotional] makeup.  I should look for a purpose in life, not the best fitness tracker.”

Each of us has what Zaraska calls a caregiving system—biological processes or parts of our brain that encourages us to care for others. She confirms that this system is in place to help us care for our young (human babies are the most vulnerable of all animals) and it contributes to better, stronger communities which in itself aids survival.  Actually, there are 2 aspects of this system:  one is reward-inducing and the other  stress-reducing.

The book is a fascinating read and I commend it, but I have only the space here to focus on the benefits of serving.  Zaraska discusses the medical and emotional benefits. I will add a third—spiritual benefits.

Serving makes us Healthier

It’s a fact:  serving reduces mortality by 22 to 44 percent.  People who volunteer have 29% lower risk of high blood pressure, 17% lower risk of inflammation levels, and spend 38% fewer nights in the hospital.  

How many times have you heard how bad stress is for your health? But how do we reduce our stress? Serving others does that.  Our brains have a part called the amygdala which is the fight-and-flight center.  When we are stressed, the amygdala is triggered so that either we feel threatened and angry or we try to escape what we perceive as a threat. Serving actually calms the amygdala. As Zaraska puts it, “ . . . helping others calms us down.”  

The vagus (the long snake of a nerve bundle that connects the brain, heart, and gut) helps us relax after stress.  Zaraska refers to the vagus as the nerve of compassion and caring. “When people engage in activities that make them experience compassion, the activity of their vagus goes up,” says Zaraska.  At one high school in Canada, students were divided into 2 groups.  The first group was to volunteer at a nearby elementary school helping kids in after-school programs.  The second group was wait-listed.  When blood samples from all the teens were compared, a clear image emerged: those who volunteered had significantly lower levels of an inflammatory marker called interleukin 6.  Increased levels of interleukin 6 can double the risk of dying within the next 5 years.There is much more to the medical benefits of serving but perhaps this is enough to show we are hard wired to serve.

Serving makes us Happier

Zaraska conducted her own personal (unscientific) experiment to see if serving others does in fact enhance our mood.  Over 7 days she alternated between going about her normal activities on some days and focusing on showing others kindness on others.  For example, on one of her “kindness days,” she left a smiley face sticky note on a neighbor’s car.  She bought and delivered chocolates for a lady at the library.  In the evening she left five-star ratings for her favorite restaurants.  The results: “I don’t know whether my telomeres got longer and whether my cortisol response was more healthy, but I certainly felt better, happier.  Broccoli has never given me this feeling, that’s for sure.”

She included in her experiment the measurement of certain markers indicating stress levels. What she found was that on her days of kindness to others her body had lower levels of stress.  The testing even showed that her stress levels came down as she was engaged in helping others.  She adds: “A pleasant mood is not the only benefit we may derive from [serving] others.  The gains can be as varied as better sleep, better hearing, stronger muscles, and lower blood pressure.”

Serving makes God Happier

If you are a church leader, what I have said above may be interesting, even intriguing, but something doesn’t feel right.  Are we supposed to ask believers to serve because it will make them live longer, happier lives?  Are we to appeal to their drive to survive?  Even if all this about the medical and emotional benefits of serving are true, what about God’s commands to care for the poor and oppressed? Is it not self-serving to help others because of the benefits that we derive from it?

If we are indeed hard wired to serve, is that not so because God made us that way?  Perhaps medical science is only now discovering the physical and emotional benefits of serving, but they have been there all along.  Now we can say it with more conviction than ever:  God made us to serve.

In my book The Samaritan Way: Lifestyle Compassion Ministry, I argue that “receiving a blessing” as a result of our service is an unworthy motive for serving.  Rather, being moved by God’s Spirit to share with others in need is better.  Living as Jesus lived in serving people in need is more noble and more obedient.  

Serving not only calms us from stress and enhances our mood, but it also demonstrates God’s love and I submit that is a much better reason to do it. Serving may help us be healthier and live longer, but it also helps people see that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the Father of Jesus loves them.  And that can do more for them than food in their bellies or clothes on their back.

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Do telomere length tests really reveal your biological age?

Do telomere length tests really reveal your biological age?

Curiosity about how well our bodies are ageing has fuelled an industry around telomere length tests, but the much touted “biological clock” in our DNA isn’t what we thought Life 17 February 2021 By Marta Zaraska Martin Leon Barreto   WHEN David Nurse turned 30, he wanted to find out how his biological age compared with his chronological one. A life coach with the US National Baseball…

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Episode 318: Growing Young with Marta Zaraska

My guest for this episode is Marta Zaraska. Marta is a Polish-Canadian science journalist published in the Washington Post, Scientific American, New Scientist, the Atlantic, Discover, and more. She’s the author of the book Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100.

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假如美國人不吃牛排 地球會變涼快嗎？

瑪爾塔·扎拉斯卡（Marta Zaraska）在她2016年出版的書籍《吃肉成癮：痴迷於肉的250萬年的歷史與科學》中認為，食物的力量是一種象徵：“近期的科學研究證實，人類中那些信仰權威的人，那些認為社會階級重要的人，那些尋求財富和權勢的人，那些支持人類主宰自然的人，比那些反對不平等的人吃肉更多。”

但是如果奧羅克真的想用豆腐代替肉（雖然從他多次訪問該州的快餐連鎖店“Whataburger”來看似乎口是心非），他站在了支持科學的一邊。一項2017年發表在《氣候變化》雜誌上的研究發現，如果美國的每個人都用豆類代替牛肉，那麼美國將能夠達到前總統奧巴馬設定的2020年溫室氣體減排量目標的74% 。雖然長久以來，素食主義和純素主義長期以來被視為消費者的個人選擇，並不能對人類所處的災難性局面產生真正的影響。但是在2018年10月7日聯合國發布的2018年氣候​​變化報告中，這些糟糕的數據預示著人類飲食在將來可能會經歷許多變化，而這些看似微不足道的改變在文化上將具有顛覆性的作用。

的確，氣候變化唯一真正的解決方案是通過對政治���濟體系進行大量長期的變革才能找到的。真正有能力防止氣候變暖帶來的災難性後果的人，往往正是那些能夠從災難中獲益的億萬富翁。 2018年10月，GQ的文章這樣寫道，“一位頂級的摩根資產投資策略師告訴客戶，海平面上漲是不可避免的，所以投資海堤建設有很多機會”。政府監管和行動只要能夠覆蓋100個佔據了世界71%的溫室氣體排放的企業，就能在這方面發揮好作用。

當科學、社會經濟和政治現實都在為唾手可得的經濟利益讓路時，人們為什麼非要改變日常的飲食生活呢？當店裡甚至還有草飼牛排賣時，忍受吃豆製品的煎熬是否真的值得？

答案是肯定的。卡羅爾·J·亞當斯（Carol J. Adams）和弗吉尼婭·梅西納（Virginia Messina）的新書《抗議的廚房》中表達了這樣一種觀點：你每一頓飯不僅僅與你個人相關，而是與資本主義、父權制度種族主義和環境破壞對抗的一種重要形式。作為連接父權制和肉類消費的開創性的素食主義文本《肉的性別政治學》（The Sexual Politics of Meat）一書的作者，亞當斯和其合著人梅西納將“用素食作抵制”的潛在影響與18至19世紀的廢奴主義者拒絕從蓄奴國家購買白糖的行為聯繫起來。人的飲食習慣能夠成為強大的集體行動的一部分，而且可以為工人團結和抗議活動提供機會。即使是喜歡吃肉和其他動物製品的人想必也可以理解：依賴於集中化、工廠養殖生產的肉和奶製品中的食品不安全性值得商榷；另外，環境種族主義等角度來看，主要雇傭移民勞工、設備落後衛生條件差的屠宰場也是相當可怕的人類工作場所。

人的飲食習慣能夠成為強大的集體行動的一部分，而且可以為工人團結和抗議活動提供機會 | 圖片來源：pexels

這個論點的潛台詞是：一個真正的改革派不應該支持以剝削工人、環境和動物為基礎的工業。自聯合國2018氣候變化影響報告發布以來，情況變得更加清晰。該報告指出，“受影響最嚴重的人生活在中低收入國家，其中一些國家已經經歷了食品安全水平的下降”。我們的飲食已經不再僅僅是消費者的個人選擇，而是一個關乎全球人與環境健康的問題。這個問題潛在的政治傾向，在歷史中已早有先例。在資本主義的範圍內，錢即話語權。既然我們必須花錢買食物（我們仍然需要吃才能生存），那我們為什麼不去花錢買出我們的心聲呢？

也許個人的行為對整體的作用微乎其微，但集中的集體訴求的影響卻不容小覷。在聯合國氣候報告之前，本年度的美國環境新聞聚焦於塑料吸管上。據報導，美國每天要消耗大約5億根塑料吸管，它們會堵塞水道，傷害水體生物。因此，停止使用這麼多塑料吸管贏得了廣泛共識。從西雅圖開始，陸續城市開始禁止使用塑料吸管，並且部分公司承諾他們的門店將在幾年內逐漸取消使用塑料吸管。最重要的是，這是一個人人都可以親身參與的運動；一個引發了政府、企業和個人三重關注，最終推動變革並造福環境的罕見案例。

集中的集體訴求的影響卻不容小覷 | 圖片來源：pexels

當塑料吸管仍然是“今日頭條”時，許多人忽略了（或者只是不知道）一個事實，就是不吃魚也能夠讓全球的水域健康獲益匪淺。捕魚設備佔據了海洋塑料廢棄物的46%，而且很多海洋生物被過度捕撈了。阻止世界氣溫上升所需的工作首先要緩和道德素食主義者、那些對於畜牧困境漠不關心的人和中間派三者之間的緊張關係。沒有這樣的合作，人類就無法阻止氣候變化相關的破壞，事實上，這些已經影響到了路易斯安那、德克薩斯、弗羅里達、北卡羅來納、加勒比海、法國、香港等等地區的弱勢群體。哪怕不考慮奶牛、魚、雞或豬的利益，只是單純提高對人類自身生存的關注，人類這種飢餓的雜食動物也是時候開始嘗試用豆類替代肉類了。

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from 假如美國人不吃牛排 地球會變涼快嗎？ via KKNEWS

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Czy jedzenie mięsa to nałóg? Marta Zaraska, autorka książki "Mięsoholicy 2,5 miliona lat mięsożerczej obsesji człowieka"

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هل تستطيع النباتات أن ترى؟ تنمو نباتات Boquila trifoliolata في غابات تشيلي والأرجنتين وما يميز هذه النباتات عن بقية النباتات هي قدرة أوراقها على تغيير أشكالها بناء على البيئة المحيطة بها. نحن نعلم أن بعض النباتات تتسلق على الأشجار وتلتف حول أغصانها بهدف الحصول على أشعة الشمس ودعم تمددها على الأغصان. هذا أمر عادي لكن نبتة Boquila trifoliolata تعمل على تمويه أوراقها بما يتماشى مع أشكال أوراق النباتات المحيطة بها. عادةً التمويه لدى الأحياء يستوجب اللمس لكي يستطيع الكائن تحليل ونسخ الكيان الذي يريد التمويه إليه إلا أن هذه النباتات قادرة على الرصد ونسخ الشكل التي تريد أن تموه له دون تماس فيزيائي معه مما يفتح احتمال أن هذه النباتات تستطيع أن ترى (أي رصد كهرومغناطيسي لانعكاس الفوتونات حولها). يتم حالياً اجراء المزيد من البحوث للتحقق من فرضية قدرة هذه النباتات على الرؤية لكن حتى اليوم نحن لا نعرف كيف تستطيع هذه النباتات معرفة الأشكال التي حولها. الفائدة التطورية من التمويه هي حماية أوراق هذه النبتة من الحشرات التي تأكل الأوراق وهي ليست آليه جديدة في الطبيعة و نسميها Batesian mimicry حيث تدافع كائنات ضعيفة عن نفسها من خلال التشبه بكائنات تعتبر سامه وضارة لمفترسيها المباشرون. لكن قدرة هذه النباتات على الرؤية تعتبر ظاهرة جديدة لم يتم فهمها بشكل جيد بعد. _____ Scientific American, December 2016, Veggies with vision by Marta Zaraska

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Do telomere length tests really reveal your biological age?

Do telomere length tests really reveal your biological age?

Curiosity about how well our bodies are ageing has fuelled an industry around telomere length tests, but the much touted “biological clock” in our DNA isn’t what we thought Life 17 February 2021 By Marta Zaraska Martin Leon Barreto   WHEN David Nurse turned 30, he wanted to find out how his biological age compared with his chronological one. A life coach with the US National Baseball…

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Why is Mankind Obsessed with Meat? | Marta Zaraska | TEDxBocconiU

Why is Mankind Obsessed with Meat? | Marta Zaraska | TEDxBocconiU

If humanity truly wanted to solve its climate change woes, we should stop eating meat overnight. Of all greenhouse gases, 14.5% comes from livestock – about the same as emissions from all of transportation combined. And yet we don’t want to give up meat. Why? In my talk I’ll present several reasons for why most people don’t want to stop eating meat. Among them are protein hunger, meat’s unique…