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Wanted to show off my new mobile trading station to my fellow nomads

Programmer's introduction to linear equations

Til that dogs can eat raw chicken bones. The issue is with any cooked bone. Cooked bones become dry and brittle which can crack and splinter leading to choking, internal injuries, punctured organs, and, or death. All cooked bones should be disposed of properly and not be given as treats.

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Floral Sleeve by BJ at Pink Elephant - Ankeny, IA

Spiders can sense the Earth's electric field and they can exploit it to take to the skies: a closer look at electrostatic 'ballooning

A new friend for my wrist - done by Victoria Adaline at Pür Ink Tattoo in Alpharetta, GA

Pushbar.js - a tiny javascript plugin for creating sliding drawers in web apps. It is fully customizable and dependency free. You can use it as sidebar menus or option drawers

Designing an Emotional UI guarantees a better app engagement

My minimal motocamping setup near Nízke Tatry

DIY Standing Desk / Adjustable and Mobile

Researchers reveal that curcumin, a natural occurring chemical compound found in the spice turmeric, binds to the kinase enzyme DYRK2 at the atomic level. This unreported biochemical interaction of curcumin leads to inhibition of DYRK2 that impairs cell proliferation and reduces cancer burden

Hello from Colombia. These are some Illustrations and design I did for a flee market in my city.

I'm currently reading Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets. This description of mycelium is stunning:

$56 Meal Plan to use up garden produce

Performing meaningless rituals boosts our self-control through making us feel more self-disciplined, suggests a new study.

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TIL that a moment was a medieval unit of time that corresponds exactly to 90 seconds

Pirate of the Burning Sun, Bob Kehl, Digital, 2018

How to Destroy Performance Anxiety and Deliver an Award-Winning Show Every Time - 'Most people experience social anxiety when it comes to 'big moments' like public speaking, job interviews, or dates. Here are great tips for how to let your best self shine through.

Researchers develop the theory that the toxicity of hospitalization - lack of sleep, nutrition, activity; abundance of stress, disruption, noise, confusion - can have physiologic adverse effects that last long after discharge.

TIL that there is a medical condition called auto-brewery syndrome where the afflicted becomes drunk after the consumption of too many carbohydrates. It has been used as a drunk driving defense.

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Free eBooks on Data Visualization and Machine Learning

Why Your Brain Never Runs Out of Problems to Find

We must not treat data like a natural resource - This is a 20th-century approach to 21st-century topics. A better framing recognizes that data is not a natural resource but a new informational dimension to individual and community life.

TIL dreams are thought to strip memories of emotion. According to the theory, this function fails in sufferers of PTSD. Recurring nightmares might therefore be a repeated attempt at performing this function.

Wanderers - Short Film About Our Future In Space

Lean Testing or Why Unit Tests are Worse than You Think