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Psychologists Just Figured Out How The Brain “Hears” the Sound of Silence

Aural illusions help researchers at Johns Hopkins University demonstrate that the brain processes silence in the same way it processes sound.

Inverse

Studying the link between the gut and mental health is personal for this scientist

Calliope Holingue researches how the microbiome and mind affect each other. She's part of a growing field, exploring how that connection could ultimately improve treatments for mental conditions.

WEKU

The Case for Abolishing Legacy Preferences in College Admissions

They probably aren't illegal under current law. But they are nonetheless wrong for many of the same reasons as racial preferences.

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Ukraine's Zelenskyy surprises Johns Hopkins grads as their commencement speaker

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's virtual appearance at the commencement ceremony was a surprise for those in attendance. He was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

WEKU

Michael Hiltzik: These 'experts' sold the U.S. on a disastrous COVID plan, and never paid a professional price

They've held credentials from some of the world's most elite universities — Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Oxford. They've been welcomed into the highest government policy councils. They became fixtures on television news shows and were quoted incessantly by some of the nation's leading newspapers.

Los Angeles Times

Trial starts for Maryland doctors accused of leaking medical records to Russia

BALTIMORE — An email from a Johns Hopkins physician reached the Russian Embassy on March 1, 2022, five days after Russia invaded Ukraine, sparking a deadly war that has now spanned more than a year.

Tribune News Service

Two Ways Bob Hearts Abishola Can Resolve The Season 4 Finale Cliffhanger After The Big Casting News

Big casting news broke about Bob Hearts Abishola before the Season 4 finale, and here's what it could mean for that cliffhanger.

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How America’s fatal gun attraction turned schools into war zones

Texas alone has suffered 17 mass shootings this year and now lawmakers propose ‘battlefield trauma care’ facilities in schools

The Guardian - US

Three years, 1.1 million deaths: COVID emergency ending in US

As US public health emergency declaration comes to an end, Al Jazeera looks at the pandemic’s heavy toll on the country.

Al Jazeera

African Bird’s Intricate Feather Patterns Inspires New Water Bottle Design

The fascinating bird has long been the subject of scientific interest due to its incredible water carrying talent.

Zenger

Baltimore Safe Streets sites ‘clearly’ reduce homicides, shootings, Johns Hopkins evaluation finds

BALTIMORE — Baltimore’s flagship community violence intervention program, Safe Streets, has led to reductions in nonfatal shootings and homicides, according to a Johns Hopkins analysis of nearly 15 years of data.

Tribune News Service

Gastro doctors share foods they never eat – as they can wreak havoc on the gut

Several leading experts on gut health have shared the foods they always try to swerve so as to avoid annoying side effects like bloating and gas – but they are regular staples of many diets

Daily Mirror

A Black couple’s home was undervalued by $300,000. Now the US is investigating

Two Johns Hopkins professors say loanDepot lowballed them on their Baltimore home due to their race

The Guardian - US

Pandemic 3 years later: Has the COVID-19 virus won?

It’s been three years since the World Health Organization's first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020

The Independent UK

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Computers powered by human brain cells to be made using 'organoid intelligence'

A recent study suggests futuristic 'biocomputers' powered by human brain cells could soon become a reality. This new study is said to have the potential to transform computing

Zenger

Human Brain Cells Could Be On Horizon That Powers Biocomputers Leading A Whole New Evolution

The brain is still unmatched by modern computers where biocomputers powered by human brain cells could be on horizon.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Why does Swarthmore’s basketball team practice foul shots from 14 1/2 feet? Science.

PHILADELPHIA — Allen Schneider, longtime Swarthmore College psychology and neuroscience professor, is a basketball fan, but he wasn’t actively looking for ways to help out Swarthmore’s men’s basketball team. He’d just watched Garnet coach Landry Kosmalski enough to think the coach might be receptive to this theory in Schneider’s own…

WEKU

As the pandemic ebbs, an influential COVID tracker shuts down

After three years, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center is ceasing operations. Its data dashboards and maps became go-to sources for information from the early days of the pandemic.

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Social isolation linked to an increased risk of dementia, new study finds

Socially isolated older adults have a 27% higher chance of developing dementia, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins. The findings suggest that simple interventions could be meaningful.

Fortune

COVID isn't just infecting you—it could be reactivating viruses that have been dormant in your body for years

“Long COVID” in some may not be an entirely new entity, researchers say.

Dynamite News

Health: Cancer Researchers Discover A Population Of 'Cheating' Cells

Researchers from UConn Health, Yale, and Johns Hopkins discovered that some cancer cells can "cheat" by evading the limits imposed by a lack of oxygen, allowing the cancer cells to grow. Read on for details:

Reason

Diseases That Studies Linked to E-Cigarettes Generally Were Diagnosed Before Subjects Began Vaping

The failure to consider the timing of diagnoses makes it impossible to draw causal inferences.

Reason

China Eases 'Zero-COVID' Policies After Nearly 3 Years of Harsh Lockdowns

The long-term economic and social impacts of zero-COVID can't be reversed as easily.

Tribune News Service

Johns Hopkins University releases designs for new building named after Henrietta Lacks

BALTIMORE — Design plans were released this week for a 34,000-square-foot building near the medical campus of Johns Hopkins University that will be named after Henrietta Lacks.

The Independent UK

Former US Army major and wife charged in alleged plot to leak military patients health data to Russia

The couple allegedly said they were motivated by patriotism toward Russia and would provide ‘any assistance’, ‘even if it meant being fired or going to jail‘

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