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Anyone know where in the French Alps this is?

Fecal transplant from lean donors helps obese with insulin sensitivity (eg diabetes)

I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets

Awesome cheatsheets

TIL about the Gnostic Gospels. Early Christian texts that claim the creator god from the old testament is actually the devil and salvation can only be reached through a personal relationship with an abstract higher power.

Cool website that trains you to use the pen tool - The Bézier Game

From the Showerthoughts community on Reddit

If you are ever interested in using a Hexagonal Grid in your game / app / interface, I came across an absolute goldmine of an article!

Brain Acceleration Technique Proven to Enhance Learning, Improve Memory

[lifestyle] This changed my thoughts on minimalism

From the minimalism community on Reddit

True vs. Truth

I did a talk on using nature-inspired algorithms to solve optimization problems (40 mins)

TIL that Dorothy Eady believed she was the reincarnated lover of Seti I. She was a successful and respected Egyptologist, who predicted the location of an ancient garden before it was excavated.

Podcast: Saint Thomas Aquinas on Natural Law and the Conscience

Miranda, Mixed Media With Watercolor Base, 12x16

Savory Salad Jerky

TIL that scientifically chicken noodle soup helps relieve symptoms of the common cold.

Boy do I love ketchup

TIL that there is a cryptic organization called Cicada 3301 that posts challenging puzzles and games online, possibly to recruit codebreakers and linguists.

TIL the guy who managed Guinness Breweries in the 1950s went to a shooting party, where he missed his shot at a golden plover. In his defence, he argued it was the fastest game bird in Europe, but couldn't find a reference book that proved it. That's why he created the Guinness Book of Records.

The Lonely Future of Buying Stuff - It’s 2036. We’ve automated ourselves out of shopping and shipping. Here’s how it happened.

JSON Serialization in Python using serpy

Saturn Devouring his young, 9x12, ink (2017)

TIL that an unsolved problem in mathematics is about moving the largest possible couch around a given corner.

Breaking the x86 Instruction Set

Researchers find an enzyme that allows algae to turn fat directly into hydrocarbons using nothing more than sunlight, which could be used as fuel with no further modification.

Why Does School Still Start So Early? Research shows that unreasonable start times lead to chronic sleep deprivation in teens. Why are schools so slow to make changes?

TIL Smile Mask Syndrome is a psychological disorder in which subjects develop depression and physical illness as a result of prolonged, unnatural smiling. First described in Japan in 1983, this is attributed to the great importance placed on smiling in the Japanese service industry.

TIL During the 1970 Aspen's sheriff's election, Hunter S. Thompson shaved his head bald so he could refer to the crew-cut, ex-army, Republican incumbent as 'My long-haired opponent.