The Daily Populous

In a wild new experiment conducted on monkeys, scientists discovered that a tiny, but powerful area of the brain may enable consciousness: the central lateral thalamus.

This brain circuit works as a sort-of “engine for consciousness,” the researchers say, enabling conscious thought and feeling in primates.

More studies — in humans, not primates — are needed to explore how the central lateral thalamus operates in the brain. »

This week Hawk Ripjaw takes a look at Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet.

Santa Clarita Diet is the most wholesome show about serial murder that you’re ever going to watch, and it was taken from us far too soon.

There’s really nothing like Santa Clarita Diet, and unless it gets miraculously resurrected like Sheila herself, there probably won’t ever be. »

However, the IRS did not respond when CNN asked for a statement clarifying the tax treatment of video game currencies.

"[The] definition of virtual currency in IRS guidance would still encompass these," Jerry Brito, executive director at the Coin Center, a virtual currency think tank, wrote on Twitter after the changes on Wednesday.

According to the instructions for Schedule 1 , taxpayers will need to answer yes if they have engaged in a transaction involving virtual currency; if they have received any amount of virtual currency for free; have exchanged virtual currency for goods or services; have sold virtual currency; or have exchanged virtual currency for other property, including other virtual currency. »

CNN's Manu Raju pressed Collins on whether she still felt had Trump learned his lesson Wednesday, given his recent actions.

Collins argued that she did not vote to acquit Trump, because she believed he had learned from his impeachment.

Trump learned a lesson this week: He learned that he is our mad king and nothing and no one can stop him. »