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Quantum Double-Slit Simulation

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TIL Bananas produce antimatter. They release one positron—the antimatter equivalent of an electron—about every 75 minutes.

Syn-F4 is the first ever artificial enzyme capable of sustaining life in living organisms.

Google publishes a JavaScript style guide. Here are some key lessons.

An international team of researchers has discovered that bacteria have a 'memory' that passes sensory knowledge from one generation of cells to the next, all without a central nervous system or any neurons.

How to make a rosemary cauliflower mash and keto gravy and how to stay keto during holidays

Berkeley offers its fastest-growing course – data science – online, for free

Do You Trust This Computer? (2018) - Chris Paine on the dangers of an unregulated AI [01:18:06]

Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now

TIL about the “Magic 8”. Before 1491, corn, beans, squash, chili, tomato, potato, vanilla, and cacao weren’t found anywhere in the world outside of the Americas.

[PDF] Beej's Guide to Network Programming Using Internet Sockets

TIL that buldak (Korean spicy fried chicken) was invented in 2001 to cope with the economic downturn and recession in South Korean and relieve stress. It also help start the trend for extremely spicy foods.

I used command hooks to hang my pan lids onto the inside of a cabinet door.

A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home

Martin Fowler announces 2nd edition of “Refactoring” (with code in JS)

Our best and our worst tendencies arise precisely from seeing others as human

My Takato Yamamoto inspired tattoo by Jose Bican at Cuervo Tattoo, Los Angeles, CA.

Roadmap to becoming a Backend Developer in 2018

If you’re thinking about going to college, CLEPs are a great cheap alternative to actual classes.

Asking 100 people for a random number from 1 to 10 [OC]

Bee colonies make decisions the same way the human brain does - implications not only for neurology and entomology, but robotics and A.I. as well.

Do you want rogue swarms? Because this is how you get rogue swarms.

TIL New Caledonian crows create their own hooks to pull out insects from hard to reach crevices. They are the only non-primate that manufacture their own tools.

Yale Study: Sad, Lonely Introverts Are Natural Born Social Psychologists: Introverts prone to melancholy are exceptionally good at accurately assessing truths about human social behavior, without formal training or tools.

Plant Fats Are Healthier Than Animal Fats, Study Says

Poor grades tied to class times that don’t match our biological clocks, study finds

From the Ultralight community on Reddit

From the math community on Reddit