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Farmers in Japan could be in for a windfall with a new practice of combining agriculture with solar power generation. The aim is to generate 4,000kw at two sites, with the land underneath the panels expected to yield an annual 40 tons of mushrooms, a crop that requires little sunlight.

From the minimalism community on Reddit

TIL that a recent study showed that Facebook is making people unhappy and causing people who suffer “Facebook envy” (the tendency to be jealous of your friends’ activities on social media) to be particularly depressed.

TIL that the the internet, human brain, and universe all share the same structure and growth patterns.

From the getdisciplined community on Reddit

The ultimate guide to analog control panels in sci-fi movies

Bird catches fish using bread

Sent my teenager on a 2 week Outward Bound backpacking excursion in Central Oregon - Best parenting decision ever.

Live code stream by Gary Bernhardt - compressor / decompressor

TIL instead of signing their name on official documents, Japanese people carry around a unique stamp called a hanko which serves as their signature.

Requiem for the American Dream (2015) 'Chomsky interviews expose how a half-century of policies have created a state of unprecedented economic inequality: concentrating wealth in the hands of a few at the expense of everyone else.

Switzerland border - from my road trip last week

Silicon Valley billionaire Stewart Butterfield voices support for universal basic income - The founder of Slack joins illustrious company which includes Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg

TIL there's a Mediterranean plant that appears to spontaneously combust (i.e., a burning bush)

Seeing a smiley face in the text of a work email made people think that the sender was less competent, compared to if the same message did not contain the emoticon, finds researchers in a new study published in journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Big Bad Wolf by Jakub Rozalski (Digital, 2015)

PT: If something is troubling you eg: something you said or did. Envision yourself in the 3rdperson zoom out and envision your street, then your country, then the world.It helps you dis-identify with the issue once you consider the broader perspective. It’s the stoic exercise ‘view from above’.

Royal jelly, a substance secreted by bees and fed to larvae, has traditionally been used to heal wounds. Now, scientists have discovered the molecule in royal jelly that is responsible for wound-healing.

From the singularity community on Reddit

How to Better Register the Agency of Things: Ontology, The Yale Tanner Lectures in Human Values with Bruno Latour

Austrian physicist, Erwin Schrödinger, was born on this day in 1887. In honour of his birthday, this post revisits Shrödinger's iconic 1944 masterwork publication 'What is Life?' and his attempts to put forth the physics of biology.

I caught the Milky Way above Mont Blanc last weekend. Exif is in the comments!

'The flexibility is incredible': When companies ditch the office, everyone's a remote worker

TIL Elvis Presley once flew from Graceland to Denver and back in one night just for a sandwich. 'The Fool's Gold Loaf' is a hollowed out loaf of bread filled with peanut butter, jelly, and a pound of bacon. It has an estimated 8,000 calories

Been waking up at 5 AM for the past 2 years and it has really changed my life. Here are 5 reasons to get up at 5 AM, and also some tips on how to get started. | Join the 5 AM club.

Leonard Cohen lending his wise, posthumous voice to Mr. Robot S3 trailer

Philosophy shouldn't merely be taught as a 'core subject', it should be at the centre of all subjects

Activated charcoal may be able to protect the microbiome from antibiotics

[Advice] I have been practicing Stoicism for 3 years now and the quality of my life and overall discipline has increased dramatically because of these 3 exercises. One from each of the greats: Epictetus, Seneca, And Marcus Aurelius

TIL There are classes in Japan that teach kids how to use the Soroban abacus to develop faster skills in arithmetic. After a few years they no longer even need to use a real abacus to perform fast mental calculations since they can already visualize an image of it