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08/03/2026

Join PROF. FERNANDO GARIBAY at the Artificial Intelligence Mexico Summit 2026 in Chihuahua on December 2nd and 3rd, where he will share what is beyond labor and what is becoming increasingly irreplaceable. See you there!

06/29/2026

Super-Brain, Super-Time: Why Musicians Still Matter After AI

Ref:
-Neuroplasticity from training (structural change, longitudinal)
Hyde, K. L., Lerch, J., Norton, A., Forgeard, M., Winner, E., Evans, A. C., & Schlaug, G. (2009). Musical training shapes structural brain development. The Journal of Neuroscience, 29(10), 3019–3025.
-Corpus callosum differences in musicians (interhemispheric “high-speed highway”)
Schlaug, G., Jäncke, L., Huang, Y., Staiger, J. F., & Steinmetz, H. (1995). Increased corpus callosum size in musicians. Neuropsychologia, 33(8), 1047–1055.
-Enhanced auditory brainstem responses (fast subcortical encoding of sound)
Musacchia, G., Sams, M., Skoe, E., & Kraus, N. (2007). Musicians have enhanced subcortical auditory and audiovisual processing of speech and music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(40), 15894–15898.
-Rhythm prediction + auditory–motor coupling (your “pre-loading” idea)
Chen, J. L., Penhune, V. B., & Zatorre, R. J. (2008). Listening to musical rhythms recruits motor regions of the brain. Cerebral Cortex, 18(12), 2844–2854.
-Selective attention in noise (your 2025 MIT/Manting point)
Manting, C. L., Pantazis, D., Gabrieli, J., & Lundqvist, D. (2025). How musicality enhances top-down and bottom-up selective attention: Insights from precise separation of simultaneous neural responses. Science Advances, 11(38), eadz0510.

06/15/2026

The Psi-Inhibitory Filter

References:
-Freedman, M., Binns, M. A., Meltzer, J. A., Hashimi, R., & Chen, R. (2024). Enhanced mind-matter interactions following rTMS induced frontal lobe inhibition. Cortex, 172, 222–233.
-Rossi, S., Antal, A., Bestmann, S., Bikson, M., Brewer, C., Brockmöller, J., et al. (2021). Safety and recommendations for TMS use in healthy subjects and patient populations, with updates on training, ethical and regulatory issues: Expert guidelines. Clinical Neurophysiology, 132(1), 269–306.
-Miller, E. K., & Cohen, J. D. (2001). An integrative theory of prefrontal cortex function. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 24, 167–202.
Bösch, H., Steinkamp, F., & Boller, E. (2006). Examining psychokinesis: The interaction of human intention with random number generators. Psychological Bulletin, 132(4), 497–523.
-Irwin, H. J., & Watt, C. (2007). An Introduction to Parapsychology (2nd ed.). McFarland.

06/01/2026

Why Musicians Stay Young Longer

Ref:
-Zhang et al. (2025). PLOS Biology - musical training and slower age-related neural change.
-Eierud et al. (2023). Psychoradiology - lifelong musicians’ resting-state brain connectivity.
-Ma et al. (2025). Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences - compensatory prefrontal/reward mechanisms in older musicians.
-Salimpoor et al. (2011). Nature Neuroscience - dopamine release during musical pleasure.
-Epel et al. (2004). PNAS - chronic stress and cellular aging.

05/25/2026

Remote Touch: The “7th Sense”

Ref:
-Chen, Z., Crucianelli, L., Versace, E., & Jamone, L. (2025). Human and robotic object localization in granular media (remote touch).
-Queen Mary University of London (2025). Research first to show humans have “remote touch” like sandpipers.
-IFLScience (2025). Humans have a “seventh sense” that lets you touch things from a distance (news summary of the study).
-de Fouw, J., et al. (2016). Seagrass can obstruct shorebirds’ “remote touch” foraging. Animal Behaviour.
-du Toit, C. J., et al. (2020). Origins/function of vibrotactile “bill-tip” sensing in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
-Johansson, R. S., & Vallbo, Å. B. (1979). Mechanoreceptors in human glabrous skin (hand). The Journal of Physiology.
-Craig, A. D. (2002). Interoception (“sense of the physiological condition of the body”). Nature Reviews Neuroscience.

05/22/2026

MI6 Chief Warns: Algorithms May Soon Be More Powerful Than States

References:
-Full speech transcript: GOV.UK (15 December 2025)
-Coverage: The Guardian, Reuters, BBC, Politico (15-16 December 2025)

05/04/2026

AI Just Formalized Scientific Taste

References:
[1] Tong, J., et al. (2026). arXiv:2603.14473
[2] Gong, Z., et al. (2026). arXiv:2603.16659
[3] Fudan University & SAIS. (2025). Nature Research Intelligence.

04/17/2026

The Voice in Your DNA

Ref:
1. Cole, S.W. (2014). Human Social Genomics.
2. Blackburn, E. (2012). Stress & Telomeres.
3. Fredrickson, B. (2015). Well-being & Gene Expression.

03/27/2026

The Interconnected Brain

Ref:
-The Foundation: Jahn & Dunne (2005) The 28-year PEAR legacy.
-The Global Scale: Nelson & Bancel (2011) Evidence of world events affecting the field.
-The Scientific Skepticism: Bösch et al. (2006) A necessary balance regarding effect sizes.
-The Modern Frontier: Plonka et al. (2026) Recent findings on group coherence and global RNG synchronization.

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