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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

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