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Michael Schaub at Kirkus<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"\"Laura Claridge, who explored the lives of notable figures of the 20th century in her biographies, died at 74. Her death was announced in an email from Goldman McCormick Public Relations.<\/p>\n

Claridge, a native of Clearwater, Florida, received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and went on to teach at Converse College, Wofford College, and the U.S. Naval Academy.<\/p>\n

She published her first book,\u00a0Out of Bounds: Male Writers and Gender(ed) Criticism<\/em>, in 1990, and followed that up two years later with\u00a0Romantic Potency: The Paradox of Desire<\/em>. Her first biography,\u00a0Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence<\/em>, was published in 1999.<\/p>\n

More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Michael Schaub at Kirkus: Laura Claridge, who explored the lives of notable figures of the 20th century in her biographies, died at 74. Her death was announced in an email from Goldman McCormick Public Relations. Claridge, a native of Clearwater, Florida, received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and went on to teach at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311137,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311135\/revisions\/311137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":311131,"date":"2026-09-09T13:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311131"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T11:01:21","slug":"a-connectomics-milestone-mapping-the-complete-male-fruit-fly-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/a-connectomics-milestone-mapping-the-complete-male-fruit-fly-brain.html","title":{"rendered":"A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Micha\u0142 Januszewski and Viren Jain at Google Research<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"\"The common fruit fly,\u00a0Drosophila melanogaster<\/i>, has been central to\u00a0scientific research<\/a>\u00a0leading to\u00a0multiple Nobel Prizes<\/a>. Fruit flies have been a fundamental\u00a0model organism in genetics<\/a>, thanks to their stereotypical behavior and short life cycle, and promise to do the same for neuroscience. While the thoughts of this fruit-loving insect might seem far removed from human cognition, the brains of vastly different species share many similarities. Because mapping the 86 billion neurons in a human brain is not yet possible, scientists are using AI to map the brains of smaller organisms, like fruit flies. This will help us decipher how animal nervous systems perceive the world, react to stimuli, and how damaged neural pathways might one day be repaired.<\/p>\n

Now, in a project led by\u00a0Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus<\/a>, our team and collaborators have released a\u00a0complete wiring diagram of the male fruit fly\u2019s brain and central nervous system<\/a>. Published in\u00a0Cell<\/i><\/a>, \u201cSexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system<\/a>\u201d, is the result of a decade-long partnership that advances the field of connectomics using computing and AI to build cellular-scale maps of entire brains. With over 166,000 neurons and 125 million synaptic connections, this is the largest brain map by number of neurons to date, providing a fundamental resource for scientists to use fruit flies as a model organism for studying how the brain works.<\/p>\n

More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Micha\u0142 Januszewski and Viren Jain at Google Research: The common fruit fly,\u00a0Drosophila melanogaster, has been central to\u00a0scientific research\u00a0leading to\u00a0multiple Nobel Prizes. Fruit flies have been a fundamental\u00a0model organism in genetics, thanks to their stereotypical behavior and short life cycle, and promise to do the same for neuroscience. While the thoughts of this fruit-loving insect might…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311134,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311131\/revisions\/311134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":311128,"date":"2026-09-09T12:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311128"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:57:09","slug":"sam-altman-on-astra-agi-and-the-future-of-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/sam-altman-on-astra-agi-and-the-future-of-openai.html","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman on Astra, AGI, and the future of OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"