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TIL homosexual males and females have a smaller INAH 3 (interstitial nuclei of the anterior hypothalamus) than heterosexual males and the region has been observed to have a direct influence in sexual behavior in animals

I finally found the time to refresh the look of my Windows.

Two Experiments Show Fourth Spatial Dimension Effect

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Whale shark - by me, Harry Catsis, Bound By Design - Denver, CO.

Ingredients for life found in meteorites that crashed to Earth

The co-ordinates for my childhood home (pixelation for privacy), Mr Heggie, Dead Slow Co, Brighton

Up until recently I used to drink a lot of coffee. Now all of a sudden, an hour or two after drinking a strong cup I feel like I have low blood sugar, get very anxious, and start worrying about stuff... What is going on?

Study suggests ‘sugar coma’ is real — glucose ingestion leads to worse cognitive performance. A new double-blind, placebo-controlled study found that glucose-containing sweeteners were linked to reduced attention and response times.

How to make your tables less terrible

Feelings have names...

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

This Camera's Zoom

TIL Cyrano de Bergerac, Badass in the 1600s, wrote about using rocket power to get to the Moon and talking earrings (headphones) used to educate children.

Stressed out? Try smelling your partner’s shirt. The scent of a romantic partner can help lower stress levels. Women feel calmer after being exposed to their male partner’s scent. Conversely, being exposed to a stranger’s scent had the opposite effect and raised levels of stress hormone, cortisol.

Philosophy of Human Nature and an Approach to Self-Cultivation: the Work of Zhu Xi

Living on One Dollar (2013) - Four friends travel to Guatemala for 8 weeks and try to live on one dollar a day each. What starts as an experiment for them quickly becomes an illustration of levels of poverty some of us will luckily never experience. [2:07]

The Histomap of Evolution: 10 billion years* of life on Earth in one chart (published 1932) [x-post /r/DataArt]

Temperatures Plunged to -88.6°F in Parts of Russia

My first tattoo! What do you think :)

TIL that when individuals with a history of depression used a mnemonic strategy called the Method-of-Loci to access self-affirming memories, they benefited from an increased ability to use positive memories in order to offset downturns in mood in their day-to-day life.

TIL There's very little proof that vitamin C actually has any effect on preventing or treating the common cold, although after reviewing 60 years of clinical research it was found that when taken daily, vitamin C very slightly shortens cold duration, by 8% in adults and 14% in children.

I've ascended

ELI5: If light moves at a constant speed, does it never need to speed up? How can it be instantly at 300,000km/s?

The best philosophy books for beginners, according to five leading philosophers

TIL that Meatloaf's 1977 album 'Bat out of Hell' was based on a futuristic rock opera based on Peter Pan.

TIL although iodine was added to table salt in the U.S. beginning in 1924 as an antidote to goiters caused by iodine deficiency, it had the unanticipated side effect of raising the national IQ by an average of 3.5 points.

TIL one person in four is a 'supertaster', who experience the sensation of tasting more intensely. Supertasters have a high density of taste cells on their tongue, but are likely to have a distaste for beer.

'Those Were the Days,' Aliya Chen, Digital, 2016

Concept Art- early ideas for Ahch-To would have used Jedi and Sith iconography, revealing that users of the Force weren't always Light or Dark. This is what the Emperor's window on the Death Star II was based on.