Naguib Mechawar
@naguibmechawar.bsky.social
The bookish neuroscientist ™
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Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
OTTAWA, ON ― An alarming new study out of the University of Ottawa suggests that years of recommendations to learn a new language in order to stave off cognitive decline may in fact have the opposite ...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Study: Bilingual people forget twice as many words after hitting middle age
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#JosephConrad
"To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe."
- Joseph Conrad, 1902
"To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe."
- Joseph Conrad, 1902
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#JosephConrad
"To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe."
- Joseph Conrad, 1902
"To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe."
- Joseph Conrad, 1902
"Yellowed pages?! But I bought it recently!", he thought, before realizing that he had purchased the book 34 YEARS AGO.
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
"Yellowed pages?! But I bought it recently!", he thought, before realizing that he had purchased the book 34 YEARS AGO.
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Buy all 4 & assemble your very own Lispector portrait puzzle
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Buy all 4 & assemble your very own Lispector portrait puzzle
I'm tired of the constant disgracefulness.
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm tired of the constant disgracefulness.
"Unfortunately, the files were destroyed during the East Wing demolition" is a statement I wouldn't be surprised to hear in these mostly stupid times.
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"Unfortunately, the files were destroyed during the East Wing demolition" is a statement I wouldn't be surprised to hear in these mostly stupid times.
sad clowns vs evil clowns
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
sad clowns vs evil clowns
"... had we been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. It seems to me that a potential master of our fates should be asked (...) about his attitude toward Stendhal, Dickens, Dostoevsky."
- J. Brodsky
- J. Brodsky
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"... had we been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. It seems to me that a potential master of our fates should be asked (...) about his attitude toward Stendhal, Dickens, Dostoevsky."
- J. Brodsky
- J. Brodsky
The latest publication from my lab. Impressive work by PhD student Marina Wakid (now post-doc in London, U.K.) who found lasting childhood adversity-associated changes in the neurovasculature (prefrontal cortex) of women, but not men!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pervasive neurovascular dysfunction in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex of female depressed suicides with a history of childhood abuse - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Pervasive neurovascular dysfunction in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex of female depressed suicides with a history of childhood abuse
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The latest publication from my lab. Impressive work by PhD student Marina Wakid (now post-doc in London, U.K.) who found lasting childhood adversity-associated changes in the neurovasculature (prefrontal cortex) of women, but not men!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I've just changed all my passwords to "Louvre".
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I've just changed all my passwords to "Louvre".
Fight or flight? I prefer flight, especially if I'm in an airport.
November 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Fight or flight? I prefer flight, especially if I'm in an airport.
Don't forget to set back the clocks on your phones before going to bed tonight.
November 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Don't forget to set back the clocks on your phones before going to bed tonight.
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Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
A wonderful start to the weekend.
November 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
A wonderful start to the weekend.
"There's no crying in baseball", but there sure is a lot of spitting.
November 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"There's no crying in baseball", but there sure is a lot of spitting.
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Le visa d'entrée aux Etats-Unis de Wole Soyinka annulé. (on espérait rien, on est quand même déçu, épisode N) www.franceinfo.fr/culture/livr...
"Je n'ai pas de visa" : le Nigérian Wole Soyinka, prix Nobel de littérature, interdit d'entrée aux États-Unis
Le dramaturge a enseigné et reçu des distinctions de grandes universités américaines, notamment Harvard et Cornell.
www.franceinfo.fr
October 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Le visa d'entrée aux Etats-Unis de Wole Soyinka annulé. (on espérait rien, on est quand même déçu, épisode N) www.franceinfo.fr/culture/livr...
I just aced a cognitive test.
October 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I just aced a cognitive test.
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Rilke to Lou Andreas-Salomé
Chateau de Muzot s/Sierre (Valais) Last day of October, 1925
“My dear Lou…
If only I had called out long ago.”
theamericanreader.com/31-october-1...
Chateau de Muzot s/Sierre (Valais) Last day of October, 1925
“My dear Lou…
If only I had called out long ago.”
theamericanreader.com/31-october-1...
31 October (1925): Rainer Maria Rilke to Lou Andreas-Salomé | The American Reader
theamericanreader.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Rilke to Lou Andreas-Salomé
Chateau de Muzot s/Sierre (Valais) Last day of October, 1925
“My dear Lou…
If only I had called out long ago.”
theamericanreader.com/31-october-1...
Chateau de Muzot s/Sierre (Valais) Last day of October, 1925
“My dear Lou…
If only I had called out long ago.”
theamericanreader.com/31-october-1...
I will have spent 15-20% of my professional life managing my email inbox.
October 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I will have spent 15-20% of my professional life managing my email inbox.
In my lab, we're generating results like no one's ever seen before. These big beautiful findings... nobody would have ever thought it was possible just three years ago.
October 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
In my lab, we're generating results like no one's ever seen before. These big beautiful findings... nobody would have ever thought it was possible just three years ago.
My flight is delayed because they're unable to "reset the plane's system". Whatever that means.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My flight is delayed because they're unable to "reset the plane's system". Whatever that means.
Don't forget to like and subscribe for more exciting content.
Don't forget to like and subscribe for more exciting content.
"Would you like to leave a 35%, 30%, 25% or 20% tip?" is a question a machine asked me a minute ago. Now I feel cheap for having left an excellent (20%) tip. That's the point, of course.
October 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Would you like to leave a 35%, 30%, 25% or 20% tip?" is a question a machine asked me a minute ago. Now I feel cheap for having left an excellent (20%) tip. That's the point, of course.