4. Regions with higher energy demand are involved in complex cognition, like inhibitory and memory processing, or reading.

The Pixel Pump handheld pick-and-place tool by Robin Reiter sets the gold standard for crowdsourced, open-source hardware projects I've seen lately. Everything from the hardware to the packaging to the CrowdSupply supporter updates have been first-rate. www.crowdsupply.com/robins-tools...

Fun feature in AutoDesk Fusion 360: 3D textures for materials like wood: Wood rings and grain stay consistent and realistic across 3D shapes. Nice effect for woodworking projects.

Intel's new Xeon MAX 9480 has 64GB of high-speed RAM packaged next to the cores. Four large squares in the center are CPU cores (14-cores each) Four rectangles on the outside are HMB2e RAM (16GB each) Interestingly, it can boot and run a full OS without any extra DIMMs installed!

ScanOfTheMonth produces excellent analysis of CT scans of interesting objects. This month: coffee making equipment. Fascinating to see the quality different between an old Moka pot (left) and a new model with low-quality porous casting (right)

It's wild that we can literally look at molecules using atomic force microscopy. It's especially satisfying when the resulting images look like their structural formulas.

I put chicken wire over the garden beds to keep the rescue bunny out. Rescue bunny outsmarted me once again.