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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

Why You Should Never Give Up On Yourself

Finder recreated using CSS - https://github.com/lukakerr/ion

Bubble Physics

Hard to get a good picture of my knobby knee, but it looks badass in person! By Tubi at Forevermore Tattoo in Glasgow, Scotland

Bees are first insects shown to understand the concept of zero

Darkhead Priest by Agatha Schnipps at Glorious Ink, Berlin

[Advice]Successful people aren't Demi-Gods with insane willpower and incredible productivity skills. They are normal people who understood the importance of the small seemingly insignificant daily disciplines. They understood how these disciplines leveraged with time could make them unstoppable.

TIL that a mild electric current to a person’s brain can improve their math’s skills for up to six months. This could help cure the nearly 20 percent of the population with moderate to severe dyscalculia math disability.

'Magic mushroom' enzyme solved, could lead to mass production of psilocybin

From the lifehacks community on Reddit

TIL that wild Parrots actually name their children, and that name sticks for life.

Sussurro, Dario Puggioni, oil on canvas, 2007

Thank you CEMU TEAM for making possible to complete BOTW on PC

TIL as 10 years is called a decade, 5 years is called a 'lustrum'. So 2015-2020 is the 4th lustrum of the 21st century.

Wrote this for my school newspaper's opening issue. An existentialist's guide to college

First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News

A friend developed a dictation tool for LaTeX that might interest /r/Math [X-post /r/Physics]

TIL that there are only six people left on the planet who can still ‘speak’ the whistled language known as sfyria

Theory creates facts: the effects of belief and ideology on how it shapes our reality

TIL mangrove trees live in saltwater, filter out 99% of salt through their roots, and are literally desalination plants.

Kraków. Watercolor. 30x40cm

The Case Against Kotlin – Pinterest Engineering

Work in progress of my full bird sleeve done by Nick Solomon at Art Machine Productions in Philadelphia, PA

Klotho, a life-extending protein hormone, when administered to young, aging or impaired mice, rapidly improves their cognitive and physical performance, finds UCSF scientists.

The quest to replace Li-ion batteries could be over as researchers find a way to efficiently recharge Zinc-air batteries. The batteries are much cheaper, can store 5x more energy, are safer and are more environmentally friendly than Li-ion batteries.

Groundbreaking documentary from the genius guys at 'Quantum Gravity Research' about the true nature of reality. (2017) [CC] (30:18)

How to Comfort Someone Who Is Hurting - 'Opportunities to comfort others are all around us, but it's important we know how to do it in the best way.

Tolerance is not a moral precept

Saw his chance and took it