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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.

From the selfimprovement community on Reddit

Humans (including Reddit users) suck at predicting AI evolution, which suggests it'll get here sooner than anyone expects

BBC mini-doc about 'pagpag' - Recycled meat from rubbish dumps eaten by Philippines poor (2018)

Webpack 4 course - part one. Entry, output and ES6 modules

From the math community on Reddit

When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing

Crow, Tim Lucas Art , ink on paper, 22'×32

From the PsychologicalTricks community on Reddit

We may find ourselves contemplating Camus' question as to whether one should kill oneself or have a cup of coffee. Stoics and existentialists agree that meaning in life does not come from the outside; the decision is entirely ours | Skye C. Cleary and Massimo Pigliucci

Went on a hike in Grindelwald, Switzerland

How To Get Yourself Back After A Shame Storm - 'The creepy feeling of unworthiness that attacks you when you screw up or do something wrong.

TIL the opposite of 'paranoia' is 'pronoia': a person's belief, without evidence, that the world around them is conspiring to do them good or otherwise help them.

Poker Hand Rankings

The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea