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The science of being ‘nice’: how politeness is different from compassion. New research shows distinct situations in which compassionate and/or polite people will show generosity. This provides important insight into how we understand 'nice' people. [x-post from our sister sub /r/everythingscience]

TIL The word for 'the day after tomorrow' is 'overmorrow

Ways of testing for evenness.

Onward, 7'x10' ink and watercolor

How to get rid of the hiccups (100% effective)

Teaching A.I. Systems to Behave Themselves - 'developing algorithms that can not only learn tasks through hours of trial and error, but also receive regular guidance from human teachers along the way.

Prague. Watercolor. 40x30cm.

10 Books to Read After Discovering Stoicism

TIL Democritus supposed the existence of atoms and the empty space between them in 400BC

For anyone interested in the Hard Problem of consciousness, here's John Heil on why Chalmers, Dennett et al. are making the problem more difficult than it ought to be

TIL that there are four stages to learning a new skill: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence.

Build a Bug-Out Bag -- You deserve to feel safe when emergency happens

United Nations Human Rights discusses Universal Basic Income

Command line torrent search tool - Search torrents from terminal/console [Linux/Windows]

Being 'fat but fit' is a myth, a new study on the links between weight and heart disease has revealed

Tarantulas have Pets

Calligraphy practise

The Democracy of Objects - The Paradox of Substance

James Clerk Maxwell - The Man Who Changed The World (2015) - The story about electro-magnetism [58:59]

The spice saffron may have an intrinsic ability to fight cancer. New research has shown that a compound in saffron blocks an enzyme that cancer uses to grow.

A journalist uses statistics to uncover authors' 'cinnamon words

Rocket Launch, 7'X7', Archival ink on Paper

TIL that if you are still Single at the age of 25 in Denmark your closest friends hit you with cinnamon.

TIL: That 70% of Iran's science and engineering students are women and that its scientific progress is reported to be the fastest in the world.

The next time you tuck into a protein rich dinner, it may be a good idea to hold off on the sugary drinks. A new study published in BMC Nutrition found that a combination of sugar sweetened drinks and a protein rich meal decreases metabolic efficiency, which can lead to more fat being stored.

If you need a temporary boost to your alertness and reaction time, chew some gum.

12 books that shaped the way Jeff Bezos, now the world's richest man, thinks about success

TIL that the scent of a woman crying triggers a dramatic decrease in levels of testosterone and sexual arousal in the majority of men. And that men are subconsciously able to differentiate between genuine tears, and those that are forced.

One of the greatest science fiction magazines is now available for free online

Bianca & Mick Jagger's Wedding - 1971