1 hour lecture by the world's leading Professor on Procrastination(2012): He claims if you know how it works, you won't do it ever. So I decide to post it on the one site meant for procrastination
When Your Spinal Cord Takes Charge - 'We think of our brain as masterminding all of our actions, but a surprising amount of information related to movement gets processed by our spinal cord.
TIL of Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a rare genetic disease that gradually turns your entire body into bone. Surgical removal of the bone only causes more bone to grow in its place.
SoundJS - a Javascript library for working with Audio. It provides a consistent API for loading and playing audio on different browsers and devices. Currently supports WebAudio, HTML5 Audio, Cordova / PhoneGap, and a Flash fallback
The idea of relative truth is self-defeating because the very concept of true vs. false requires the recognition of epistemic authority. Our objective understanding is not subordinate to so-called conceptual schemes. Rather, it transcends subjective expressions of individual belief or cultural norms
3200 years ago empires and societies throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean completely collapsed, all complex politico-economic structures were abolished, and cities & towns were abandoned. A newly published hieroglyphic decipher tells of an invasion of a great mysterious army- The Sea Peoples.
TIL that some scientists theorize that the origin of life is just the inevitable outcome of thermodynamics as a middle-step to increase overall entropy in the universe.
Repeated bacterial infections can add up over time, eventually leading to severe inflammatory disease. Infections that go unnoticed and clear the body without treatment—such as occurs in mild food poisoning—can start a chain of events that leads to chronic inflammation and life-threatening colitis.
TIL about the concept of 'invented tradition', in which something believed or touted to be ancient is actually modern, such as ancestral Scottish clan-tartans, which are actually a 19th-century creation.
TIL that singer Lorde has sound-to-color synesthesia, a unique condition where sound blends with sight to create certain colors. This greatly contributed to the creative process on 'Melodrama', where she wrote music to the 'violets and blues' that appear on the album's cover