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The onward march of semaglutide and friends
Diabetes drugs (also seem to) prevent overdoses - alcohol and opioids
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Brainy ideas
Matthew Cobb, The Idea of the Brain
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William Fakespeare: LLMs are not creative
All is dark inside an LLM. There is no there, there.
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Interesting reads, October 2024 edition
The new GLP1 weight loss drugs; Fraud and Alzheimer’s disease; Rotten Data; Irony; Patti Smith; Worst song of all time; Megalopolis; Thunderstruck
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Minimally conscious states
Book review of 'Into The Grey Zone' by Adrian Owen
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A Neglected Partner in Episodic Memory
An experiment with Google's NotebookLM
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September 2024

My Substack Summer
What I read in Summer 2024 + most popular BrainPizza posts
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The GLP1 weight loss drugs offering new hope for Parkinson’s treatment
Beyond diabetes: Exploring lixisenatide’s neuroprotective effects; some thoughts on why evolution has not finely tuned our GLP 1 system
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The Trump-Harris Debate: Contrasting System 1 and System 2 thinking
Yet another framework for thinking about 'that debate'
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11:14
Some ways authoritarian leaders establish a shared reality
Bonus: Who is JD Vance? An in-depth podcast special
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August 2024

Measuring authoritarianism; 1950's Ireland was what Project 2025 wants the USA to be
bonus: growing up in a semi-authoritarian, very conformist society
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How Great Storytelling Lingers in the Mind
Shirley Jackson's ominous foreboding; thought stickiness; living rent-free in your head; Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom; introspection…
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