Oldest Medical Amputation On Record Was Performed On A Stone Age Child In Borneo 31,000 Years Ago

Interesting Papers for Week 22, 2022

Learning about others: Modeling social inference through ambiguity resolution. Achimova, A., Scontras, G., Stegemann-Philipps, C., Lohmann, J., & Butz, M. V. (2022). Cognition, 218, 104862.

Predictive eye movements are adjusted in a Bayes-optimal fashion in response to unexpectedly changing environmental probabilities. Arthur, T., & Harris, D. J. (2021). Cortex, 145, 212–225.

The orbitofrontal cortex maps future navigational goals. Basu, R., Gebauer, R., Herfurth, T., Kolb, S., Golipour, Z., Tchumatchenko, T., & Ito, H. T. (2021). Nature, 599(7885), 449–452.

Optimism where there is none: Asymmetric belief updating observed with valence-neutral life events. Burton, J. W., Harris, A. J. L., Shah, P., & Hahn, U. (2022). Cognition, 218, 104939.

Observation of others’ actions during limb immobilization prevents the subsequent decay of motor performance. De Marco, D., Scalona, E., Bazzini, M. C., Nuara, A., Taglione, E., Lopomo, N. F., … Avanzini, P. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(47), e2025979118.

Neural responses to natural visual motion are spatially selective across the visual field, with selectivity differing across brain areas and task. Ki, J. J., Dmochowski, J. P., Touryan, J., & Parra, L. C. (2021). European Journal of Neuroscience, 54(10), 7609–7625.

The contribution of low contrast–preferring neurons to information representation in the primary visual cortex after learning. Kimura, R., & Yoshimura, Y. (2021). Science Advances, 7(48).

Striatal indirect pathway mediates exploration via collicular competition. Lee, J., & Sabatini, B. L. (2021). Nature, 599(7886), 645–649.

Children are more exploratory and learn more than adults in an approach-avoid task. Liquin, E. G., & Gopnik, A. (2022). Cognition, 218, 104940.

A cerebellar internal model calibrates a feedback controller involved in sensorimotor control. Markov, D. A., Petrucco, L., Kist, A. M., & Portugues, R. (2021). Nature Communications, 12, 6694.

Linking hippocampal multiplexed tuning, Hebbian plasticity and navigation. Moore, J. J., Cushman, J. D., Acharya, L., Popeney, B., & Mehta, M. R. (2021). Nature, 599(7885), 442–448.

Violations of expectation trigger infants to search for explanations. Perez, J., & Feigenson, L. (2022). Cognition, 218, 104942.

A model for learning based on the joint estimation of stochasticity and volatility. Piray, P., & Daw, N. D. (2021). Nature Communications, 12, 6587.

Entropy-based metrics for predicting choice behavior based on local response to reward. Trepka, E., Spitmaan, M., Bari, B. A., Costa, V. D., Cohen, J. Y., & Soltani, A. (2021). Nature Communications, 12, 6567.

Perceptual processing links autism and synesthesia: A co-twin control study. van Leeuwen, T. M., Wilsson, L., Norrman, H. N., Dingemanse, M., Bölte, S., & Neufeld, J. (2021). Cortex, 145, 236–249.

Awareness-Dependent Normalization Framework of Visual Bottom-up Attention. Wang, S., Huang, L., Chen, Q., Wang, J., Xu, S., & Zhang, X. (2021). Journal of Neuroscience, 41(46), 9593–9607.

Human navigation in curved spaces. Widdowson, C., & Wang, R. F. (2022). Cognition, 218, 104923.

Dendritic synapse geometry optimizes binaural computation in a sound localization circuit. Yamada, R., & Kuba, H. (2021). Science Advances, 7(48).

Revealing nonlinear neural decoding by analyzing choices. Yang, Q., Walker, E., Cotton, R. J., Tolias, A. S., & Pitkow, X. (2021). Nature Communications, 12, 6557.

Alpha Oscillations Shape Sensory Representation and Perceptual Sensitivity. Zhou, Y. J., Iemi, L., Schoffelen, J.-M., de Lange, F. P., & Haegens, S. (2021). Journal of Neuroscience, 41(46), 9581–9592.

What to do if you suddenly find yourself homeless

FOOD

Find your nearest food bank or mission, for food

grocery stores with free samples, bakeries + stores with day-old bread

different fast food outlets have cheaper food and will generally let you hang out for a while.

some dollar stores carry food like cans of beans or fruit

SHELTER

Sleeping at beaches during the day is a good way to avoid suspicion and harassment

sleep with your bag strapped to you, so someone can’t steal it

Some churches offer short term residence

Find your nearest homeless shelter

Look for places that are open to the public

A large dumpster near a wall can often be moved so that flipping up the lids creates an angled shelter to stay dry

HYGIENE

A membership to the YMCA is usually only 10$, which has a shower, and sometimes laundry machines and lockers.

Public libraries have bathrooms you can use

Dollar stores carry low-end soaps and deodorant etc.

Wet wipes are all purpose and a life saver

Local beaches, go for a quick swim

Some truck stops have showers you can pay for

Staying clean is the best way to prevent disease, and potentially get a job to get back on your feet

Pack 7 pairs of socks/undies, 2 outfits, and one hooded rain jacket

OTHER

first aid kit

 sunscreen

 a travel alarm clock or watch

 mylar emergency blanket

 a backpack is a must

 downgrade your cellphone to a pay as you go with top-up cards

 sleeping bag

 travel kit of toothbrush, hair brush/comb, mirror

 swiss army knife

 can opener

Just a bunch of Useful websites - Updated for 2023

Removed/checked all links to make sure everything is working (03/03/23). Hope they help!

Sejda - Free online PDF editor.

Supercook - Have ingredients but no idea what to make? Put them in here and it'll give you recipe ideas.

Still Tasty - Trying the above but unsure about whether that sauce in the fridge is still edible? Check here first.

Archive.ph - Paywall bypass. Like 12ft below but appears to work far better and across more sites in my testing. I'd recommend trying this one first as I had more success with it.

12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.

Where Is This - Want to know where a picture was taken, this site can help.

TOS/DR - Terms of service, didn't read. Gives you a summary of terms of service plus gives each site a privacy rating.

OneLook - Reverse dictionary for when you know the description of the word but can't for the life of you remember the actual word.

My Abandonware - Brilliant site for free, legal games. Has games from 1978 up to present day across pc and console. You'll be surprised by some of the games on there, some absolute gems.

Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.

Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.

PatchMyPC - Alternative to ninite with over 300 app options to keep upto date. Free for home users.

Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.

Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.

LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.

Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.

Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.

CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.

Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.

I Have No TV - A collection of documentaries for you to while away the time. Completely free.

Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.

Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.

Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.

My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.

Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.

Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.

Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.

Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.

Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.

Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.

Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.

This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.

Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.

BitWarden – Free open source password manager.

Just Beam It - Peer to peer file transfer. Drop the file in on one end, click create link and send to whoever. Leave your pc on that page while they download. Because of how it works there are no file limits. It's genuinely amazing. Best file transfer system I have ever used.

Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.

ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.

Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.

Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.

Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.

myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.

DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.

Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.

For even more useful sites, there is an expanded list that can be found here.

Bedtime Story.

Short story by Jeffery Whitmore! Wanted to make this into a comic for a while :] just in a girl boss sorta mood hehe

thumbs + bonus :^))

time smells bad.

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

how to make your effects extra special

Using tumblr is like living in a low class apartment building. You just get used to the landlord not fixing things, and then someone new moves in and you're helpfully like "oh yeah don't drink the tap water, it's got stuff in it that makes you sick" and then your neighbor you've had forever goes "oh they took the stuff out actually" and you're like "what? when was this?"

"like two years ago"

"you mean i could've been drinking the tap water all this time?"

"yeah. they gave us individual mailboxes too finally, you don't have to dig through the communal bin anymore"

"are you for real right now?? i just redirected my mail, i didnt know"

and the new tennant is like "why did you guys even live here if it was so bad"

"we like it."

"I kinda miss the communal mail bin tho"