Researchers discover efficient and sustainable way to filter salt and metal ions from water

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Front end interview handbook

Found a 470 page masterpiece from 1888 on Archive.org - 'Winter, from the journal of Henry David Thoreau

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Brilliant conversational lectures from D. Tong of University of Cambridge covering beginning to advanced physics.

[Method] Harvard Research Gives Clues On How to Be Successful And Have Fun Doing It

Didn't realize you could surf like this

People with depression use language differently

Newly Discovered Draft of Descartes’ Meditations Sheds New Light on the Philosopher’s Thoughts and Writing Process

A single night of sleep loss impairs working memory in women, but not men. In contrast to males who were unaffected, females not only had impaired working memory, but they were also unaware of it. Sleep-deprived young women are at particular risk for overestimating their working memory performance.

Depression substantially reduced with multivitamin and getting Vitamin-D above 40 ng/ml

New evidence of ‘muscle memory’ at a DNA level - A study has shown for the first time that human muscles possess a ‘memory’ of earlier growth - at the DNA level. Periods of skeletal muscle growth are ‘remembered’ by the genes in the muscle, helping them to grow larger later in life.

Breakfast by the Matterhorn

We've misunderstood the Backfire Effect - New research shows people accept fact-correction, but keep their opinions. This happens because facts are used to justify prior opinions, not as a basis for them; when one fact gets corrected, another, favorable to the prior opinon, takes its place.

Getting stuck: The midlife mess | podcast on the philosophy behind the midlife crisis

A study, based in Massachusetts, found that just three months of treatment with medical cannabis resulted in improved task performance and favorable brain activation that the researchers retrieved through MRI scans. Cannabis users also cut their opioid and benzodiazepine use after the treatment.

12 best practices for user account, authorization and password management

TIL sniper schools use brain games such as ‘Kim's Game’ where items on a tray are memorized for one minute, covered and recalled to train their situational awareness skills.

TIL that when teens are taught that people have the potential to change their socially relevant traits over time, they tend to cope better with social stress, and end up earning better grades in school.

The terrifying phenomenon that is pushing species towards extinction: Scientists are alarmed by a rise in mass mortality events – when species die in their thousands. Is it all down to climate change?

Women weave heart stents by hand.

Weekly ration for two people in the UK, 1943

How we forgot the collective good—and started thinking of ourselves primarily as consumers

[Method] If You're In A Rut, Use The First Principles Method To Get Out And Understand What's Important

Setting up a minimal Node environment with Webpack and Babel

The Deathbed Fallacy: Why People's Deathbed Regrets are not Solid Feedback

What photo styling software can do these days

Scientists have identified significant amounts of toxic metals, including lead, leaking from e-cigarette heating coils and present in the aerosols inhaled by users.

TIL about Perpetual Stew, common in the middle ages, it was a stew that was kept constantly stewing in a pot and rarely emptied, just constantly replenished with whatever items they could throw in it.