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The Old Forgotten Survival Skills From Our Grandfathers Were The Last Generation To Practice The Basic Things That We Call Survival Skills Now

Roger White on why the fact that our universe is fine-tuned for life does not support the Multiple Universe theory [PDF]

TIL of the concept of Deja Reve. Deja Reve is the same as Deja Vu but instead of feeling that you've experienced an event once before, you instead feel you've dreamt of this event once before.

How programmers get disqualified from doing everything else

TIL that there are 10 more states of matter than just the liquid, solid, gas and plasma most of us know about.

[Linear Algebra, Calculus] I HIGHLY recommend 3Blue1Brown's Youtube channel for help learning.

Women process Oxygen when exercising roughly 30% faster than men, a clear advantage when it comes to physical efficiency. Researchers found female athletes were better at transporting oxygen to tissues throughout their bodies, and their tissues were better at using the extra oxygen.

Mandatory reading: How consumer culture demoralized humankind

I created a simple poster on George Pólya's 4 step method for solving problems

We could fund a universal basic income with the data we give away to Facebook and Google

The Open Problem Garden, a collection of unsolved problems in mathematics

Possibilities of Life in globular clusters

TIL that the irrational feeling of wanting to jump off a high building or to swerve your car into a tree has a name - L'appel du vide (call of the void)

TIL that there's a new state of matter called 'Time Crystals' that is different from solids, liquids, gasses, and plasma.

Toddlers play more creatively when they have fewer toys at their disposal

Spatial Processing & Creativity in Students

Linguistics company uses AI-powered language learning that can fast-track fluency

Surgical Patients May Be Feeling Pain—and (Mostly) Forgetting It. Amnesic anesthetics are convenient and help patients make a faster recovery, but they don't necessarily prevent suffering during surgery.

Heart-Wrenching Video Shows Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land

TIL Steve Jobs once told a reporter that taking LSD was 'one of the two or three most important things' he did in his life

A Keto diet with no exercise out-performs the standard American diet with exercise in reducing body weight, BMI, body fat and HgA1c in patients with Metabolic Syndrome.

TIL that during the Iran-Contra hearings, Senator Daniel Inouye remarked that '[There exists] a shadowy Government with...the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

Today was a big day for me! 2 years, -26K NW to +26K reversal!

Coke Bottles - 1899, 1900, 1915, 1916, 1957 and 1986.

AI’s Cool New Thing: Capsule Networks (explained)

TIL that Science says booger-eating and nose-picking is healthy. It turns out that snot is actually full of bacteria that helps your teeth, immune system, and overall health.

Researchers have found that a brief test that can be performed in the office can help determine whether an antidepressant or a form of talk therapy, called cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT, would be better at relieving symptoms of anxiety in individual patients.

i STILL wear the same thing every day

Why CSS Grid is better than Bootstrap for creating layouts

Custom Project-Based ESLint Rules