minnesota, and chair of the senate rules committee. senator klobuchar, getting right to why we wanted you with us tonight, what is the status of negotiations on this compromised voting rights bill, the freedom to vote act. you know we ve rallied, marched, been involved on the front lines of this for a whole summer and since all of this all of these states started putting these new restrictions. so, this new act, which you and other senate democrats unveiled last week, the tacit assumption being that it can pass a filibuster, because, of course, senator joe manchin is a major advocate for this bill. i was with senate majority leader chuck schumer last week in washington with martin luther king iii and his wife and i and i have also had several meetings with senator manchin on this issue. first, to press him to support the john lewis voting rights advancement act, and then to
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Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain
“Scientists are meant to know what’s going on, but in this particular case, we are deeply confused.”
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Carl Schoonover and Andrew Fink are confused. As neuroscientists, they know that the brain must be flexible but not
too flexible. It must rewire itself in the face of new experiences, but must also consistently represent the features of the external world. How? The relatively simple explanation found in neuroscience textbooks is that specific groups of neurons reliably fire when their owner smells a rose, sees a sunset, or hears a bell. These representations these patterns of neural firing presumably stay the same from one moment to the next. But as Schoonover, Fink, and others have found, they sometimes don’t. They change and to a confusing and unexpected extent.