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Clean, efficient electric heating is one of the best options for government to translate the Clean Power mission into energy bill savings for households. But poor policy decisions stand in the way of consumers feeling the benefits.

 

There are ways to make the Fourth of July safer for pets, wildlife and farm animals.

 

Istanbul's Caferağa neighborhood has a longstanding reputation for its cultural richness and historic charm. Quaint cafes, restaurants and bars line the sidewalks. A thriving arts scene draws an eclectic crowd. More than 2.3 million visitors daily flock to the district in which Caferağa resides — but it's overwhelming the neighborhood's small community of 22,000 residents.

"The streets of Caferağa are struggling to bear the weight they carry," said Hanife Dağıstanlı, the neighborhood chief. "The sidewalks are too narrow and often blocked, and people are forced to step into the road just to keep moving." This overcrowding has made it hard for locals to navigate daily life, especially those who are older, have disabilities or are traveling with children or strollers. At the same time, heavy traffic contributes to Istanbul's worsening air pollution and discourages people from using cleaner travel options, like biking.

 

Something curious happens in two people’s brains during supportive interactions. It could help explain their emotional power

When did you last feel a connection with someone? It was probably not too long ago. Laughing over a joke with a co-worker, sharing an emotional moment with a friend, or simply exchanging smiles with a child – instances of bonding like these occur daily. People are built to connect, from the tender moments in infancy when we seek comfort from caregivers to the various relationships that shape our personal and professional lives.

One of the most important factors in developing these connections is empathy: the ability to understand and resonate with another person’s experience. Empathy creates a bridge between people that helps them feel seen, heard and deeply connected. It also helps people manage their emotions in moments of distress. The mechanisms in the brain that allow this to happen, and the extent to which they can be observed and measured, have long captivated social neuroscientists, who seek to understand how brains support interaction.

Traditionally, research on the empathic brain has relied on methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which examines brain activity in isolated individuals, one at a time, using large, stationary scanners. But since actual empathic interactions involve at least two people, social neuroscientists have sought ways to capture and analyse these dynamic exchanges. In our own neuroscience lab, we have been studying empathy as it unfolds in authentic, face-to-face encounters. To do this, we adopted a technique called hyperscanning, which allows us to record brain activity from multiple people simultaneously, making it possible to observe how their brains respond to one another in real time.

The hyperscanning studies conducted in our lab and in others have shown, remarkably, that during moments of social connection, when study participants are asked to cooperate, communicate and coordinate in some way, their neural activity begins to synchronise. It’s almost as if portions of their brains are operating as one: we observe patterns where fluctuations in neural activity in one person begin to align with those in the other. This phenomenon, known as interbrain synchronisation, can occur in corresponding brain regions (such as in both individuals’ frontal lobes), or a certain brain region in one person can synchronise with a different region in the other.

The phenomenon of two brains synchronising might help explain that felt sense of connection, the ‘click’ that two people experience in moments of deep presence with each other. Research shows that interbrain synchrony is strongly associated with behaviours that are prerequisites for successful social support, such as enhanced attention and coordination, successful prediction of another’s intentions, cooperation and effective communication. Examining a tactile form of social support, a hyperscanning study from 2018 showed that when one person held another person’s hand during a painful experience, the pair’s interbrain synchrony increased, creating a shared neural rhythm. Most strikingly, the stronger the interbrain synchrony was, the greater the pain relief for the person in distress, suggesting a neural basis for the power of social touch.

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Problem

Currently, anyone can attempt to brute-force user passwords almost effortlessly, even without advanced technical knowledge.

Proposed Feature

Introduce a setting that activates after a configurable number of failed login attempts. Users could choose to:

  • Block all further login attempts and automatically send a password reset email
  • Temporarily block login for a set duration (for example, 10 minutes)

Implementation

Once the failed-attempt threshold is reached, the system applies the user’s chosen block option. The counter resets upon successful login or after completing a password reset.

Benefits

This approach makes large-scale brute-force attacks impractical and takes a proactive step toward stronger account security.

~Rewritten with the help of AI for better formatting and clarity.~

 

They rejected kings and were sincerely concerned about the possibility of a dictatorship. But we need to move past founder-worship and focus on justice.

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