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A recent study out of Japan has found that when exposed to pictures of stores and store products, people with kleptomania exhibit similar brain activity to that of people with substance addictions exposed to images of drugs.From the outset, it is important to note that kleptomania differs from shoplifting. Whereas a shoplifter is usually motivated by the usefulness or value of the item they steal, a kleptomaniac acts impulsively, stealing items regardless of use or value.Kleptomania is a rare but serious mental health…

E. coli is arguably the most well-studied organism on Earth, but scientists have now discovered a new behavior that’s almost never seen in bacteria. The normally single-celled organisms have shown signs of previously unknown multicellular phases.E. coli is a regular resident of our intestines, where it’s mostly helpful, but once it gets out it can cause many types of infections, including UTIs, pneumonia, or food poisoning. Given its prevalence and potential hazards, E. coli has been studied in close detail over the…

At a small gallery tucked behind the cavernous atrium at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan on a recent day, visitors lingered before a sprawling work, a series of dots, lines and diagrams in a seemingly abstract design against a stark, black background. The piece, laced with text in tiny print, is nothing like the museum’s more familiar art, including paintings by Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol prints. Instead, the swath of black wallpaper displays a…

Growing up in Crenshaw in the 1990s, Justen LeRoy was surrounded by the sounds of Destiny’s Child at the beginning of each “Proud Family” episode on Disney Channel, and of R&B artists who performed back-to-back on MTV. LeRoy bought his first CD, Brandy’s “Never Say Never,” when he was around 3 years old. Later, the now-shuttered Tower Records in Torrance became his go-to spot for browsing albums. LeRoy, now an artist and a musician, describes Crenshaw itself as “the backbone” of his childhood — he grew up on Crenshaw…

Credit: Shutterstock In a study that examined bias in the workplace, a UF researcher found that those in management positions demonstrate explicit and implicit bias toward others from marginalized groups and often express more implicit bias than people who are not in management. The study, published this month in Frontiers in…

Article content The bond between queer and trans people and their rescue dogs is an intense one, says Lucas Silveira, a trans man and former leader of Toronto alt-rock band The Cliks. Article content Silveira, a solo music artist since 2016, and his Chihuahua-mix, Marcy, are among those photographed in a new exhibit, Don’t You Want Me, which highlights that bond. Article content “A lot of trans folks and queer folks, they don’t have a lot of access to family, or they have a lot of people that reject them and a lot…

A graphic representation of Refik Anadol: Unsupervised seen in the museum’s Gund Lobby.Graphic: MoMAAs it often happens with AI-generated art, there’s confusion surrounding whether attribution should be handed to the person who generated the AI’s prompt, the AI itself, the AI’s creators, or the artwork the machine learning model “borrowed” from. In the case of the Museum of Modern Art’s latest exhibition on display this Saturday, you could give it to the first three. The last part is a little murky.MoMA is set to unveil…

Scientists in Australia have demonstrated that clusters of brain cells in a lab dish can be taught to play Pong in an approximation of sentience. This is the first time that these cells have shown the ability to perform goal-directed tasks, and it opens the door for new understandings of the brain.The system, which the team calls “DishBrain,” is more or less exactly what it sounds like – 800,000 human and mouse neurons grown in culture and mounted on arrays of microelectrodes that can read their activity and stimulate…

(a) PM2.5 concentration averaged in 2013–20. The rectangular box indicates the NCP region. (b) Annual mean PM2.5 concentration and the contribution from ND over the NCP. The original data have been detrended. (c) Atmospheric extinction coefficient (1980–2013) derived from visibility and PM2.5 concentration data (2013–20) in September to December over the NCP on the subseasonal scale. The unit for extinction coefficient is km−1, and for PM2.5…

Article content Leonard Cohen is taking a bow at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Article content The AGO will open a new Cohen exhibit, Everybody Knows, on Dec. 7 that will feature “rarely seen materials from the Leonard Cohen Family Trust.” Article content Cohen, who died at the age of 82 in November 2016, was a poet, novelist, singer, songwriter, painter and photographer. He remains the only Canadian to have received both a Governor General’s Award for Poetry and an induction into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. The…