#scans — Public Fediverse posts

Taxi Drivers Rarely Die Of Alzheimer’s – How Complex Mental Maps And Spatial Reasoning Protect Your Brain [why knowing your way around might help you stay sharp]
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https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-082194 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.070039597 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-018-0031-x <-- shared paper
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https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing/learn-the-knowledge-of-london <-- details of @Transport for London’s ‘The Knowledge’ details
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https://youtu.be/u7gp8KBP7ak?si=X1xXcysZF2LayFkx <-- shared video, ‘The People Who Have To Remember 25,000 Streets | The [London] Knowledge - The World's Toughest Taxi Test’
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H/T @ Jennifer Psillas, GISP | GIS Project Manager at City of Tucson Parks and Recreation
“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease. That was the surprising result of a 2024 study examining the death certificates of nearly 9 million people in the U.S…
Of the 9 million death certificates from January 2020 to December 2022 that researchers examined, taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest risk of dying from Alzheimer’s disease out of 443 occupations. After adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity and education, roughly 1 in 100 taxi and ambulance drivers died of Alzheimer’s, compared with 1 in 60 people overall.
This pattern did not extend to other driving jobs. The researchers concluded that the key to reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s was not driving itself but continuous real-time navigation: the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change. Drivers whose jobs relied on fixed or predetermined routes, like bus drivers and aircraft pilots, didn’t seem to experience a similar advantage.
Researchers believe the association between navigation-heavy work and lower Alzheimer’s risk centers on the hippocampus, a part of the brain that governs memory and spatial navigation. It’s one of the first brain regions that Alzheimer’s damages: Problems with spatial navigation and orientation are among the earliest signs of the disease, sometimes surfacing before obvious memory loss.
In one landmark 2000 study [link above], neuroscientists compared the brains of licensed London taxi drivers with those of people who did not drive cabs. Their findings provided the first evidence via structural imaging that regions of the adult brain can measurably change under sustained navigational demand. To earn a license, London cabbies must memorize more than 25,000 streets within a 6-mile radius of Charing Cross, a challenge known as “The Knowledge” that takes three to four years…”
#spatialnavigation #orientation #mental #acuity #taxi #ambulance #paramedic #TheKnowledge #London #UK #Alzheimer #mapping #mentalmaps #spatialmapping #navigation #spatialreasoning #brain #hippocampus #brainhealth #death #mortality #disease #publichealth #scans #occupation #job

Taxi Drivers Rarely Die Of Alzheimer’s – How Complex Mental Maps And Spatial Reasoning Protect Your Brain [why knowing your way around might help you stay sharp]
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https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-082194 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.070039597 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-018-0031-x <-- shared paper
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https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing/learn-the-knowledge-of-london <-- details of @Transport for London’s ‘The Knowledge’ details
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https://youtu.be/u7gp8KBP7ak?si=X1xXcysZF2LayFkx <-- shared video, ‘The People Who Have To Remember 25,000 Streets | The [London] Knowledge - The World's Toughest Taxi Test’
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H/T @ Jennifer Psillas, GISP | GIS Project Manager at City of Tucson Parks and Recreation
“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease. That was the surprising result of a 2024 study examining the death certificates of nearly 9 million people in the U.S…
Of the 9 million death certificates from January 2020 to December 2022 that researchers examined, taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest risk of dying from Alzheimer’s disease out of 443 occupations. After adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity and education, roughly 1 in 100 taxi and ambulance drivers died of Alzheimer’s, compared with 1 in 60 people overall.
This pattern did not extend to other driving jobs. The researchers concluded that the key to reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s was not driving itself but continuous real-time navigation: the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change. Drivers whose jobs relied on fixed or predetermined routes, like bus drivers and aircraft pilots, didn’t seem to experience a similar advantage.
Researchers believe the association between navigation-heavy work and lower Alzheimer’s risk centers on the hippocampus, a part of the brain that governs memory and spatial navigation. It’s one of the first brain regions that Alzheimer’s damages: Problems with spatial navigation and orientation are among the earliest signs of the disease, sometimes surfacing before obvious memory loss.
In one landmark 2000 study [link above], neuroscientists compared the brains of licensed London taxi drivers with those of people who did not drive cabs. Their findings provided the first evidence via structural imaging that regions of the adult brain can measurably change under sustained navigational demand. To earn a license, London cabbies must memorize more than 25,000 streets within a 6-mile radius of Charing Cross, a challenge known as “The Knowledge” that takes three to four years…”
#spatialnavigation #orientation #mental #acuity #taxi #ambulance #paramedic #TheKnowledge #London #UK #Alzheimer #mapping #mentalmaps #spatialmapping #navigation #spatialreasoning #brain #hippocampus #brainhealth #death #mortality #disease #publichealth #scans #occupation #job

🇩🇪 Ein paar Erfahrungen von unseren App Reviews, die ich mit Euch teilen möchte. Über Malware Scans für Android Apps. Einige von Euch haben es sicher bereits in meinem Gastbeitrag bei Mike gesehen – aber jetzt auch auf meiner Website, zusätzlich mit einer Englischen Übersetzung:

https://android.izzysoft.de/articles/named/malware-scans-android-apps

#Android #security #malware #scans

🇩🇪 Ein paar Erfahrungen von unseren App Reviews, die ich mit Euch teilen möchte. Über Malware Scans für Android Apps. Einige von Euch haben es sicher bereits in meinem Gastbeitrag bei Mike gesehen – aber jetzt auch auf meiner Website, zusätzlich mit einer Englischen Übersetzung:

https://android.izzysoft.de/articles/named/malware-scans-android-apps

#Android #security #malware #scans

🇺🇸 Let me share some experience we've made during our reviews. On malware scans for Android APKs, and how.. Err, I don't want to spoil you too much 🤪

https://android.izzysoft.de/articles/named/malware-scans-android-apps

#Android #security #malware #scans

🇺🇸 Let me share some experience we've made during our reviews. On malware scans for Android APKs, and how.. Err, I don't want to spoil you too much 🤪

https://android.izzysoft.de/articles/named/malware-scans-android-apps

#Android #security #malware #scans

This time around we’re enjoying a Farleigh successful slice of things radioactive, impactful and nitwitted.

=== If that sounds like the sort of punchy stuff that might make you marvel, then please click play:

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Radio scans find no evidence of alien tech from interstellar comet 3I/Atlas
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=radio-scans-find-no-evidence-of-alien-tech-from-interstellar-comet-3iatlas
<p>The SETI Institute said Wednesday that extensive radio scans by its telescope in Northern California
#interstellar #evidence #radio #scans

Radio scans find no evidence of alien tech from interstellar comet 3I/Atlas
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=radio-scans-find-no-evidence-of-alien-tech-from-interstellar-comet-3iatlas
<p>The SETI Institute said Wednesday that extensive radio scans by its telescope in Northern California
#interstellar #evidence #radio #scans

2 more issues up! Slowly but surely we're archiving the primary sources of the Japanese arcade industry.
scans: Monthly Coin Journal 1998-07 1998-10
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2026/05/scans-monthly-coin-journal-1998-07-1998.html
#retroarcade #coinjournal #scans #japan

2 more issues up! Slowly but surely we're archiving the primary sources of the Japanese arcade industry.
scans: Monthly Coin Journal 1998-07 1998-10
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2026/05/scans-monthly-coin-journal-1998-07-1998.html
#retroarcade #coinjournal #scans #japan

scans: some very obscure arcade flyers
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2026/05/scans-some-very-obscure-arcade-flyers.html
#arcade #coinop #scans #electromechanical

scans: some very obscure arcade flyers
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2026/05/scans-some-very-obscure-arcade-flyers.html
#arcade #coinop #scans #electromechanical

scans: Canadian Coin Box 1994 issues
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2026/05/scans-canadian-coin-box-1994-issues.html
#retroarcade #canada #canadiancoinbox #scans #pinball #videogames #gamingalexandria

scans: Canadian Coin Box 1994 issues
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2026/05/scans-canadian-coin-box-1994-issues.html
#retroarcade #canada #canadiancoinbox #scans #pinball #videogames #gamingalexandria

I put the scanner through a lot.

If would like to use the textures in your projects, they are currently on sale.
https://itch.io/s/183205/scanned-textures-spring-sale-2026

#textures #textureassets #photocopy #scans #graphicdesign #gameassets #artassets #rpgassets #gamedev #fediart

I put the scanner through a lot.

If would like to use the textures in your projects, they are currently on sale.
https://itch.io/s/183205/scanned-textures-spring-sale-2026

#textures #textureassets #photocopy #scans #graphicdesign #gameassets #artassets #rpgassets #gamedev #fediart

scans: Sega pinball flyers (part 2)
extremely rare Sega pinball flyers, most available in high res for the first time ever.
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2026/04/scans-sega-pinball-flyers-part-2.html
#pinball #japan #eremeka #scans #showa #arcade

scans: Sega pinball flyers (part 2)
extremely rare Sega pinball flyers, most available in high res for the first time ever.
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2026/04/scans-sega-pinball-flyers-part-2.html
#pinball #japan #eremeka #scans #showa #arcade

scans: Sega pinball flyers (part 1)
initial deluge of EXTREMELY RARE Sega pinball flyers, most available in high res for the first time ever.
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2026/04/scans-sega-pinball-flyers-part-1.html
#pinball #japan #eremeka #bingopinball #scans #showa

scans: Sega pinball flyers (part 1)
initial deluge of EXTREMELY RARE Sega pinball flyers, most available in high res for the first time ever.
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2026/04/scans-sega-pinball-flyers-part-1.html
#pinball #japan #eremeka #bingopinball #scans #showa

Chatkontrolle: Tech-Riesen wollen trotz ausgelaufener EU-Regeln weiter scannen

https://friendica.ambag.es/display/e0590d38-9269-d397-8faa-84f603727874

Chatkontrolle: Tech-Riesen wollen trotz ausgelaufener EU-Regeln weiter scannen

https://friendica.ambag.es/display/e0590d38-9269-d397-8faa-84f603727874

We have just had another Internet casualty. Replacementdocs.com was a website that hosted scans of video game manuals for anyone to download. It was most active in the 2000s. I just checked to see the state of the website after months of broken downloads, and—yep—it's gone forever.

Don't fret, you can find every video game manual that was on the website at the point of closure here: https://archive.org/details/p31-replacementdocs.

#dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #PDF #scans

We have just had another Internet casualty. Replacementdocs.com was a website that hosted scans of video game manuals for anyone to download. It was most active in the 2000s. I just checked to see the state of the website after months of broken downloads, and—yep—it's gone forever.

Don't fret, you can find every video game manual that was on the website at the point of closure here: https://archive.org/details/p31-replacementdocs.

#dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #PDF #scans

109-year-old tortoise undergoes advanced scans for health scare

https://misryoum.com/us/us/109-year-old-tortoise-undergoes-advanced-scans-for/

A 109-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise had advanced medical scans after keepers at an Australian zoo noticed neck swelling and breathing changes. The 298-pound reptile, Esmerelda, was transported from Taronga Zoo Sydney to a specialist animal hospital in North Ryde...

#109yearold #tortoise #undergoes #advanced #scans #for #health #scare #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

Auto-Upload of Document #Scans to #NextCloud from a #brother Scanner?

I got this running for years now.

Brother Scanners can "scan" to a SFTP drive. All that is needed, is some container/docker/pod/nspawn that runs openssh with only sftp allowed.

That container's folder can then be shared with a Nextcloud container and imported as an external local share.

Or, you can use nextcloudcmd to upload the files and trigger it with a systemd.path unit.

#systemd #productivity #office

and another! Coin Journal 1983-01
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/11/scan-coin-journal-1983-01.html
#retroarcade #japan #scans #coinjournal

pinball, slot machine, and shooting gallery pictures from the Berkeley Library digital collections
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/11/pictures-from-berkeley-library-digital.html
#retroarcade #pinball #slotmachine #scans #prewar #shootinggallery

Coin Journal 1982-12 is now up!
this is the first release of a huge stack of Coin Journal magazines that we group-purchased.
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/11/scan-coin-journal-1982-12.html
#retroarcade #scans #japan #coinjournal

#Scans shed light on changes in #brain when we #zoneout while #tired

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/29/brain-changes-lapses-of-attention-tired-sleep-deprived

7 more scans of The Billboard are now up! This concludes the large box of incredibly rare (though crumbling) Billboard magazines I was given at Ontario Pinfest.
1935-1946 represented, huge range
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/11/scans-billboard-1935-04-13-1936-10-31.html
#pinball #retroarcade #scans #slotmachines #skeeball

bunch of scanned flyers and magazines from Japan
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/11/scans-flyers-and-magazines-from-japan.html
#retroarcade #japan #scans #slotmachines #eremeka #arcade #jukebox

a treasure trove for prewar pinball fans:
Automatic World 1933-02, 1933-11&12, 1934-10
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/10/scans-automatic-world-1933-02-1933-11.html
#retroarcade #pinball #automaticworld #scans #prewar #arcade

scans: 5 more flyers from Japan
including the extremely obscure PIG RACING by SEGA
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/10/scans-5-more-flyers-from-japan.html
#retroarcade #japan #eremeka #arcade #scans #flyers #sega

scans: The Billboard 1936-04-11 & 1936-11-28
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/10/scans-billboard-1936-04-11-1936-11-28.html
#retroarcade #scans #billboard #prewar #pinball #slotmachine

Maybe I'll go apply to #TikTok, and secure the american app and fix it. TikTok's current #algorithm is #insidious, I think designed to create #division and #radicalize people. Soon TikTok will tell me its #secrets, but I have to work on some #vulns system for a few weeks. Designing some brains for other important non-hobby smtask lol

My initial #scans for #TikTok are #worrying and I was concerned after my initial scans. My #AI systems were flagging everything. The #content never scored high like other #socialmedia platforms. The content is worrying not just from #radical left or right. There is something non-biased about how it tries to #radicalize. Like it is learning based off #heuristics, like time spent hovering over a #videotile. This triggers an #alert, where you didn't interact but it detected the most likely #video. Then provided more #content. It also gives a heavy weight to #interactions. Which then changes the #algorithm and how it provides #content. None of this is really bad, it is trying to be helpfulful. What I find concerning is the videos it provides. Like a stream of #bothsides #content. Trying to figure you out and provide more content. There isn't even #educational poop on TikTok. So most of the content is #madness Lol