All posts tagged: Unique

How unique family values helped Trent Mosley shine at USC

How unique family values helped Trent Mosley shine at USC

Published by Sam Flores

Since he was a boy, Trent Mosley was taught to live by the Five Ps: Proper preparation prevents poor performance. The Five Ps weren’t so much a lesson in the Mosley household as “a lifestyle,” father Emmett Mosley explains. He can’t recall when or from whom he first heard the phrase, but ever since, the Five Ps have stuck with him. To the point that he and his wife, Cindy, made it a core tenet of their family. All four Mosley kids — their daughter, Jalyn, and three boys, Emmett Jr., Trent and Grant — were brought up on the principle that preparation was paramount. So then, no one in the Mosley family was surprised to see Trent sprinting wide open in the second quarter last Friday night at the Coliseum, well on his way to another impressive performance in his second college game. Just like no one at USC is batting an eye at the freshman’s staggering start, which has him leading the nation with three touchdown catches and the Big Ten with 222 …

What’s Unique About AI? Every Bubble is Different

What’s Unique About AI? Every Bubble is Different

Published by Jenni Sidey

Recognizing that AI is a bubble requires one to apply the right test to the right companies and that requires one to understand the fundamental nature of the bubble in question. Generally speaking, bubbles exist when share prices and valuations are much higher than expected earnings (i.e., profits) would suggest. If  there are no profits then there must be a large amount of revenues and a recognizable path to profitability and testing that is often difficult. Robert Shiller wrote the most famous book on bubbles, Irrational Exuberance, which won him the Nobel Prize in Economics. He emphasizes not only excessive share prices, but also the narratives to support those share prices. I agree, but again, which companies and which narratives should we be concerned with? 1929, Dotcom, and 2008 Bubbles The Wall Street Crash of 1929 is generally attributed to excessive optimism about demand for a wide variety of products along with concerns about the banking sector. The top companies in early 1929 tell us a lot about those products: telecom (AT&T), steel (U.S. Steel), electrical …

Horror Written in Unique Formats

Horror Written in Unique Formats

Published by Jenni Sidey

We’re well past the midpoint of summer, so I am perfectly comfortable declaring that spooky season has begun. It is a perfect time to get a jump-start on your fall horror reading, though I will argue that it is always a perfect time to get to know some new-to-you horror writers. One way to get to know even more authors is to seek out the kinds of horror written in unique formats. These nine horror novels written in unique formats will not only creep you out but will also make you think. They show how horror can creep in on the edges of the mundane — a catalog, a screenplay, a chilling message on the radio. Horror isn’t just a haunted house or a literal monster. Sometimes horror is much closer. Many of these books take time and patience to reveal their secrets. Some of them question the nature not only of reality, but of what a book actually is. Can you tell a story that’s actually formatted as a screenplay for a movie that …

How individual consciousness works – and makes us unique

How individual consciousness works – and makes us unique

Published by Miika Tikkanen

As we go through life, our brains run different processing modes. Some – the attention and sensory systems – result in very similar experiences of the world: what colour the sky is, how warm the day feels. But there is another, deeper side to the brain which weaves together your memories, goals, beliefs and emotions into a continuous sense of self. This allows you to experience the world not as it is, but as it matters to you personally. This unique inner world is supported by the brain’s default mode network (DMN). This links together several areas including in the prefrontal cortex (at the very front of the brain) and the parietal lobe (at the back). These areas of the DMN are, in evolutionary terms, relatively recent. As human brains expanded dramatically between around 800,000 and 200,000 years ago, those regions grew in size and complexity compared with our closest primate relatives. They are more likely to express genes that are uniquely human, related to brain development and function. Our latest research explores to what …

This trainer’s unique glute exercise has gone viral—here’s why you should try sumo fairies and how to do it

This trainer’s unique glute exercise has gone viral—here’s why you should try sumo fairies and how to do it

Published by Jenni Sidey

If you’re serious about training your glutes—the muscles in your butt—you will have tried Bulgarian split squats. It’s a staple of any good glute routine, along with hip thrusts, but Cassidy Morgan, who specializes in glute training for women, says there’s another essential glute move and it’s been taking social media by storm. She calls it the sumo fairy, a sumo squat with one foot elevated on a platform. “Sumo fairies are my go-to exercise for lifting saggy glutes and building a round, sculpted shape, especially by targeting the lower glute max, an area many traditional workouts miss,” Morgan tells Fit&Well. Article continues below You may like “It works by isolating each glute individually, creating a deeper stretch for more effective activation, improving hip mobility and control, and correcting glute imbalances through unilateral training. “Sumo fairies primarily bias the glute of the elevated leg, but both sides are working,” Morgan continues, adding that the standing leg is stabilising the body. Morgan has a program called the Core-to-Glute Method, which focuses on precise positioning to get …

Your breathing pattern is as unique as a fingerprint

Your breathing pattern is as unique as a fingerprint

Published by José Betancourt

Every person possesses a distinct pattern of breathing through their nose that remains stable over long periods of time and functions like a biological signature. By tracking how individuals inhale and exhale over twenty-four hours, a new study demonstrates that these unique respiratory patterns can identify people with near perfect accuracy while also predicting individual levels of anxiety, depression, and body mass. The research was published in the journal Current Biology. Breathing frequently seems like an automatic and straightforward physical process. Many people only notice their respiration when they are out of breath or engaged in strenuous exercise. Yet the act of pulling air into the body and pushing it out is governed by an extensive and intricate neural network. This neural network operates primarily from the brainstem. It functions as a biological pacemaker that continuously adjusts human breathing to meet physiological needs. The system takes in vast amounts of sensory information from throughout the body to regulate the speed and depth of each inhalation and exhalation. Because human brains display individual uniqueness in their …

New crustacean named after its unique butt

New crustacean named after its unique butt

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Only 80 to 90 percent of Earth’s vast oceans have been explored, leaving countless species just waiting to be discovered. That’s where the Sustainable Seabed Knowledge Initiative: One Thousand Reasons campaign comes in. The project is designed to describe 1,000 previously unknown deep-sea species by 2030 in order to assess ocean biodiversity to protect species as the prospect of deep-sea mining expands. Twenty-four new species of deep-sea crustaceans are now on the project’s growing list. The new species are detailed in a special edition of the journal Zookeys and were discovered in the remote Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). This vast area of 1.7 million square-miles of deep ocean between the west coast of Mexico and Hawaii is home to numerous unknown species as well as minerals needed for many high-tech uses. Meet the amphipods These new species are amphipods—a diverse group of crustaceans made up of over 10,000 known species. Some amphipods are only millimeters in size, while the largest …