How I built a 1500W ebike for ~ $600 (album with description and links)

Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Cioran show that pessimism can be the best response to an indifferent life

80's kids started programming at an earlier age than today's millennials

PT: A guide to let go of painful and traumatic memories. With this method the emotional charge and pain from past trauma that still affects you will lose its grip on your mind. The more pain from the past you clear, the lighter and happier you will feel.

TIL that cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale and Brussels sprouts are all the same species

We are born creative geniuses and the education system dumbs us down, according to NASA scientists

[twitter] Tip: JavaScript's Array.from() accepts a second argument that's a `map` function. Useful for calling on each element of an array you created.

Reality has a surprising amount of detail - why it's easy to end up intellectually stuck

Alpha Motif Goon

A practitioner’s guide to reading programming languages papers

TIL when you are eating a pineapple, it is technically eating you as well. Pineapple is the only known source of Bromelain, a protein-digesting enzyme found in all parts of the fruit.

The air young women breathes may be causing irregular menstrual cycles. Well documented negative health effects from air pollution exposure include infertility, metabolic syndrome and polycystic ovary syndrome

Head and Heart, digital, 2160x2621

Bumblebee, Hy Amenero, finger paint, 2017

Psychedelic mushrooms reduce authoritarianism and boost nature relatedness, experimental study suggests

AI To Be Taught To Schoolkids Thanks To Deep Learning Kit | Silicon UK

This is an intact human nervous system that was dissected by 2 medical students in 1925. It took them over 1500 hours. There are only 4 of these in the world.

Sometimes giving a person a choice is an act of terrible cruelty

A simple epidemiological model of infectious disease shows how riots can spread. Rioting, infectious disease, and even fake news all have two things in common: An 'infectious agent' (an idea or a virus) and a receptive audience. Thus, infection models can be used to describe group behavior.

A very unusual bird named the Potoo, photographed in Venezuela.

I got a lot of love for the first picture I posted, so thought I would share the finished article.

The paths a bicycle takes when pushed

TIL that John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and subject of the film A Beautiful Mind, earned a PhD thesis in 1950 with a 26-page dissertation. It had 2 citations, one being an article that Nash had written.

In an antique shop, girlfriend hates large groups of ticking clocks, turn around and see this sign...

The HyperDrive is a USB-C stand that adds wireless smartphone charging and 8 extra ports to your laptop

Margaret Atwood: I am not a prophet. Science fiction is really about now.

Stumbled across Lion's Mane

What Really Happened with Vista: An Insider’s Retrospective

Neural Network line by line for beginners: Forward Propagation

TIL that spruce beer, a beverage flavored with the buds, needles, or essence of spruce trees, is natural source of vitamin C. The drink originated with the Indigenous peoples of North America who used it as a cure for scurvy during the winter months when fresh fruits were not available.