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3 years of CS in 8 minutes

TIL that in 1982, Indian composer-musician Charanjit Singh combined electronic disco and classical ragas. In the process, he created an anachronistically modern sound -- anticipating the Acid House genre almost a decade before its existence.

Love in the age of Tinder: What love means in the modern era against the view's of Zizek and Aristotle

The Summit, Pen and ink, A3

Experts recommending the five best books in their subject

Hey r/biology! I started a YouTube-channel popularizing microbiology, biotechnology etc. and I'd love some honest feedback. Three videos done so far!

TIL that severed neurons can regrow along a filament of spider silk, back to the area where they were severed.

Not a farmer's wife -- As agriculture grows up, brute strength is no longer the prized trait. Instead, technical skill, ambition and a level head are in demand and it’s women who are proving very good for business.

If you take the XOR of a pixels coordinates represented in binary, then color the pixel if the result is prime, you get a crazy pattern.

'IT'S NOT A PHASE' Cavan@NoEgrets/ClarskvilleTN

The Pragmatic Thinker: Keeping Our Beliefs Grounded in What Matters - 'It's easy to get lost in abstract thinking and over-philosophizing. The pragmatic thinker knows that their beliefs only matter to the extent that they have a real world effect on our lives.

Guide to bodyweight training

Awesome Fight Secret Animation Found After 280 Hours Of Gameplay In Final Fantasy XV

The Dancer, ink, 12 x 9”

My work - Flow and Vitiligo, Digital, 2000x2912

TIL that the Babylonians created the 7 day week because there are 7 celestial bodies visible to the naked eye (The Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn).

TIL the photosynthesizing Green Sea Slug is considered part animal and part plant.

Javascript ES6 — You don’t really need to learn Generators(but you should read this anyway...)

Running on Fumes - Digital - 1920x1080

A Unique Trick to Make Ordinary Experiences More Fun and Enjoyable - 'A new study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin may have cracked the code when it comes to how we can make ordinary experiences more fun and enjoyable.

Some think the mind is an immaterial soul. Others think it is just the brain. But there are many, many more views than that. Here's a flowchart to keep track.

Bertrand Russell the need for public intellectuals to be political activists

'The general zapped an angel' by Karel Thole, 1970, Digital

An illustrated collection of mistakes people often make when visualizing data

STUDY WITH ME | Math for Quantum Physics

'Sleepless On the Silk Road,' acrylic and colored pencil on watercolor paper, 10.5x15

Black Beans have become a staple in my diet

All the financial advice you’ll ever need fits on a 3x5 index card. - PBS News Hour (8 min clip)

MapSCII - The World Map In Your Terminal

TIL Suicide from overwork (Karojisatsu) and death from overwork (Karaoshi) are so prevalent in Japan that they have words for them.