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Today you\u2019ll learn about how foreign accent syndrome works, how an AI algorithm can create a physical copy of a mental picture, and how invasive marsh grass is taking over China\u2019s coastline.

Foreign Accent Syndrome\xa0

• \u201cScientists reveal why American man with prostate cancer developed \u2018uncontrolled\u2019 Irish accent\u201d by Vishwam Shankaran
  • https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/american-man-irish-brogue-prostate-cancer-b2292537.html?utm_source=reddit.com
• \u201cForeign accent syndrome as a heralding manifestation of transformation to small cell neuroendocrine prostate cancer\u201d by Amanda Broderick et al.
  • https://casereports.bmj.com/content/16/1/e251655
• \u201cAfter Surgery: Discomforts and Complications\u201d by Johns Hopkins Medicine
  • https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/after-surgery-discomforts-and-complications
• \u201cA Man\u2019s Prostate Cancer Gave Him An 'Uncontrollable' Irish Accent\u201d by Ed Cara
  • https://gizmodo.com/prostate-cancer-caused-irish-accent-medical-case-1850088239
• \u201cA man in the US got prostate cancer. It made him start speaking with an Irish accent.\u201d by Catherine Schuster-Bruce
  • https://www.insider.com/man-us-prostate-cancer-irish-accent-2023-2

AI Reads Minds\xa0\xa0

• \u201cAI re-creates what people see by reading their brain scans\u201d by Kamal Nahas
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-re-creates-what-people-see-reading-their-brain-scans
• \u201cHigh-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity\u201d by Yu Takagi and Shinji Nishimoto
  • https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517004v2

Alien Marsh

• \u201cChina battles alien marsh grass at unprecedented scale\u201d by Erik Stokstad
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/china-battles-alien-marsh-grass-unprecedented-scale
• \u201cSpartina invasive management - a review of the evidence\u201d by Sam Reynolds et al.
  • https://osf.io/vpswn
• \u201cChina aims to contain proliferation of invasive plant by 2025\u201d by Xinhua
  • https://english.news.cn/20230216/322678d5264347dda95d17f928263b5a/c.html

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