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Jack Abramoff and Moral Equilibrium: The natural tendency to give ourselves permission to lower our usual moral standards

The Fixers Using Recycled Laptop Batteries to Power Their Homes (2017) - The rechargeable batteries in your laptop, your cell phone, your headphones: all of these can be used to power your life and take you off the grid. DIY Powerwalls – rechargeable lithium-ion battery installations [11:00]

We may crave stability in life, but the brain benefits from volatility, according to a Yale University study on cognition (involving monkeys) that shows how uncertainty boosts learning. Activity in areas of the frontal cortex were dramatically reduced when outcome probabilities were fixed.

Grass cells smiling under the microscope. Say cheese!

Cooking oil coating prevents bacteria from growing on food processing equipment, resulting in a 1,000x reduction in bacterial levels inside the industrial machines tested, finds new study. Coating a stainless steel surface with an everyday cooking oil appears effective in repelling bacteria.

Crème brûlée, digital, 760x977px

In Terry Pratchetts books 'The Colour of Magic' and 'The Light Fantastic' he equates magic with high energy physics. The number 8 is given great mystical significance and the colour emanated by magic is called Octeroon. I think this article explains where he got these ideas from. interesting stuf

“Because of global climate change, huge amounts of permafrost are rapidly warming. To microbes, they’re like freezers full of juicy chicken dinners that are thawing out,” -- researcher Virginia Rich. Researchers found 1,500 new microbial genomes, doubled known types of viruses in the world.

I interviewed John Backus shortly before his death. He told me his work in functional programming languages failed, and would likely always fail, because it was easy to do hard things but incredibly difficult to do simple things.

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.