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!

The full writeup is worth scrolling through: www.scanofthemonth.com/scans/coffee

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.

Sad to see it come to an end. Thanks for all of the coverage over the years. It was a fun ride.