Supported by How France’s ‘Yellow Vests’ Differ From Populist Movements Elsewhere Image The demands of the so-called Yellow Vests in France are similar to those of other populist movements, but the uprising is not tied to any political party, let alone to a right-wing one.CreditCreditAlain Jocard/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ...
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Relief may be on the horizon for anyone who has ever jumped around a room like a jack-in-the-box to get motion-sensing lights to turn back on, thanks to a new motion sensor based on metamaterials that is sensitive enough to monitor a person’s breathing. In a pair of new studies, ...
Read More »Artificial neural networks decode brain activity during performed and imagined movements
Filtering information for search engines, acting as an opponent during a board game or recognizing images: Artificial intelligence has far outpaced human intelligence in certain tasks. Several groups from the Freiburg excellence cluster BrainLinks-BrainTools led by neuroscientist private lecturer Dr. Tonio Ball are showing how ideas from computer science could ...
Read More »Musical mystery: Researchers examine science behind performer movements
Researchers at McMaster are one step closer to solving one of the mysteries of social interaction: how musicians communicate during a performance and anticipate one another’s moves without saying a word. The findings are important because a clearer appreciation of how musicians silently work together — across tempo changes, phrasing ...
Read More »The Interpreter: How a Sleepy German Suburb Explains Europe’s Rising Far-Right Movements
March 20, 2017 The Interpreter By AMANDA TAUB BUCH, Germany — Buch, a small community on the outskirts of Berlin, seems at first glance to be the kind of place Goldilocks would declare “just right.” It is not too rich or too poor, not too expensive or too scruffy, not ...
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