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A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain

Gregory C. Nordmann, Spencer D. Balay, Thamari N. Kapuruge, Marco Numi, Christoph Leeb, Simon Nimpf, E. Pascal Malkemper, Lukas Landler, David A. Keays

Science·2025·1 citations

How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensing remain elusive. Adopting an unbiased approach we employ whole brain activity mapping, tissue clearing, and light sheet microscopy to identify neuronal populations activated by magnetic stimuli in the pigeon ( Columba livia ). We demonstrate robust, light-independent bilateral neuronal activation in the medial vestibular nuclei and the caudal mesopallium. Single-cell RNA sequencing of the semicircular cristae revealed specialized type II hair cells that express the molecular machinery necessary for the detection of magnetic stimuli by electromagnetic induction. Our data supports a model whereby electro-magnetic input from the semicircular canals activates a vestibular-mesopallial circuit within the pigeon brain.

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What Goes Into Store-Bought Chicken Stock | Eater

Noah Galuten

Eater·2023

Why brands are so secretive about what goes into their chicken broth and stock recipes.

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Translation: A Political Act

Román Álvarez, Ma Carmen África Vidal

academia.edu·1996

The paper explores the evolution of Translation Studies alongside societal changes, emphasizing the political dimensions inherent in translation processes. Citing various scholars, it argues that translation is more than a simple transfer of text; it reflects power dynamics, cultural politics, and the manipulation of knowledge between cultures. The essays analyze the impact of translation on societal perceptions of culture and literature, stressing the necessity for translators to acknowledge their role in shaping meaning and the implications of their choices.

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Rosie Grant’s New Cookbook Compiles Recipes From Gravestones Around the World | Eater

Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton

Eater·2025

Out this month, it’s a collection of 40 recipes found on tombstones around the country and beyond — from snickerdoodles to cheese dip

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Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media

Jessica Pressman

google books·2014

While most critical studies of born-digital literature celebrate it as a postmodern art form with roots in contemporary technologies and social interactions, Digital Modernism provides an alternative genealogy. Grounding her argument in literary history, media studies, and the practice of close-reading, Jessica Pressman pairs modernist works by Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Bob Brown, with major digital works like William Poundstone's Project for the Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota, and Judd Morrissey's The Jew's Daughter to demonstrate how the modernist movement of the 1920s and 1930s laid the groundwork for the innovations of electronic literature. Accordingly, Digital Modernism makes the case for considering these digital creations as "literature" and argues for the value of reading them carefully, closely, and within literary history.

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The Atomic Bomb and the Bir omic Bomb and the Birth of Manga: Collectiv th of Manga: Collective Memor e Memory in Post-WWII Japan

Bethany Harris

University of San Diego·2020·27 citations

In the ashes of post-World War II Japan and among the widespread poverty and devastation, cheap entertainment in the form of manga flourished on an unprecedented level. Manga was used not only to reenact and process war trauma, but also as a tool that helped usher in a new era of pro-American democracy and science. Manga in support of Japan’s new image quickly became popularized and embraced by the public, such as Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy, but this was only one lens that captured Japanese memory of WWII. Keiji Nakazawa published the first documentary form of manga in his I Saw It, a firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing. This became popularized because Japan was a victim of the bombings rather than the aggressor. In addition to examining both of these works, this paper will examine Fumiyo Kono's "Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms," and how the atomic bomb imagery has changed and integrated into modern-day Japan. The argument this paper makes is twofold: manga that was popularized and integrated into collective memory was in support of Japan’s new identity as a peaceful nation, and manga that depicted Japan in a negative light or wrote about wartime atrocities was largely forgotten and did not make it into Japan’s sanitized version of WWII. In modern times, the bomb is viewed as a shared tragedy by all of humanity, and the cities it targeted, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, now serve as beacons of peace.

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Quiet Feature Learning in Algorithmic Tasks

Prudhviraj Naidu, Zixian Wang, Leon Bergen, Ramamohan Paturi

arXiv·2025

We train Transformer-based language models on ten foundational algorithmic tasks and observe pronounced phase transitions in their loss curves that deviate from established power-law scaling trends. Over large ranges of compute, the validation loss barely improves, then abruptly decreases. Probing the models' internal representations reveals that quiet features are learned prior to any decrease in task loss. These quiet features represent intermediate algorithmic computations that do not by themselves improve the output loss. Ablation experiments demonstrate that individual quiet features are causally necessary for task performance. Our results demonstrate that substantial representational progress can remain hidden beneath an apparently flat loss curve, challenging the prevailing use of cross-entropy as a proxy for learning and motivating richer diagnostics for monitoring model training.

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