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Coffee can help people have a more favorable view of their colleagues - Drinking coffee before a discussion can help people stay focused and feel better about the people in the conversation, suggests a new study with 134 college student in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Amazing way to see the nodes of a sonic waveform using sand on a speaker!

A new study may have revealed the reason that our memory has limitations. The researchers found that trying to retain too much information in our working memory leads to a communication breakdown between parts of the brain responsible for maintaining it.

A simple proof why close to the speed of light geometry becomes Non-Euclidian

TIL that the 'Five stages of grief' model has no factual or scientific basis and its creator Elizabeth Kubler-Ross said that the stages are not a linear and predictable progression and that she regretted writing them in a way that was misunderstood

Study identifies brain areas altered during hypnotic trances

TIL Picasso once famously said: 'It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.' Researchers hypothesized that this is because early childhood is a period characterized by 'exuberant neural connectivity' that facilitates 'arbitrary sensory experiences in infants.

Increased my Pullups from 15 to 21 in 1 Month With Pavel's Routine (Edited)

It's possible to make an extra $1,000 a month working online. A basic beginners guide.

From the getdisciplined community on Reddit

DARPA-funded prosthetic memory system successful in humans, study finds - Coded electrical signal reinforces memories in patients, supporting pioneering research

30 things I learned from Javascript 30 – Employbl – Medium

From the Ultralight community on Reddit

Self-love and self-esteem are the basis for success and, more importantly, fullfilment in any area of life. Here is how to improve them.

7 Animated Pythagorean Theorem Proofs In A Minute

Elon warned us about the Singularity... This course will prepare you for the robot uprising.

Scientists nix Alzheimer’s-causing brain plaques in mice. Could humans be next? In experiments with mice, researchers demonstrated that it is possible to remove the plaques which begin forming in the brains of future Alzheimer’s patients, sometimes years before the disease manifests.

Python Script to Analyze 10+ Years of My Facebook Data

TIL the best way to reset your body’s natural clock is to go camping

NPR: How the 'Scarcity Mindset' can make problems worse

TIL: 90% of wealthy families lose their fortunes in three generations

FELLOW HUMANS, I CANNOT GET THIS TUNE OUT OF MY HEAD.

TIl John Milton was totally blind during the composition of his ten-thousand-line epic poem Paradise Lost. Every morning he would have verses already prepared in his head for his aide to take dicatation. If the aide was late, Milton would complain, saying 'I want to be milked'

How Morality Changes in a Foreign Language - fascinating ethical shifts come with thinking in a different language

People who follow a strict gluten-free diet are still consuming about 150 to 400 mg of gluten every day.

Aiming to fill skill gaps in AI, Microsoft makes training courses available to the public

TIL of the Brocken Spectre, an atmospheric condition in which the sun casts a person’s shadow onto fog or clouds, making the shadow appear enormous, otherworldly, and ringed with a rainbow halo.

TIL that that attributing depression to spontaneously low serotonin is “deeply misleading and unscientific” and 65-80% of people on antidepressants are depressed again within a year.

The vexing nature of responsibility and its relation to belief

Fetal neurons making connections