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Earth's Tectonic Activity May Be Crucial for Life -- and Rare in Our Galaxy

TIL About banner blindness, a phenomen where web users subconciously ignore information on webpages from ad-like banners.

DIOR HOMME - Spring 2017 Pre-Collection Lookbook

An evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston has published new calculations that indicate no more than 25% of the human genome is functional.

The new Assassin's Creed looks awesome!

Demon Hunter, Digital 18' x 24.

Egomania (2007) Fascinating documentary about people with NPD, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and features a really interesting twist. PS: I really hate how much I can relate to some of these traits [47:25]

Bacteria in a one-year-old's poop can predict how he or she will perform on cognitive tests by age two. This is the first study to link gut microbes to cognitive development in humans.

TIL of 'acquired savant syndrome,' which (for example) allowed a man who suffered a head injury to spontaneously become an expert pianist

“The Cup Of His Murders Is Flowing Over And In His Coat Shall Be Many Curses” by Teagan White, Gouache and watercolor on paper, 2017

TIL Honey can be purple, and many other colors.

2010 to 2016, watercolor

TIL that muscle memory is just our synapses getting more efficient. The repeated physical activity makes myelin sheaths better with each electrical signal.

Oxygen and hyperbaric oxygen therapy reverses brain damage in drowned toddler

From the Showerthoughts community on Reddit

Following from a surprising mention of Simone Weil by French president Emmanuel Macron, here's why her philosophy and ideas about the myth of progress are especially relevant today

Hearing voices is only as bad as what they tell you, a new study suggests. Researchers have shown that auditory hallucinations only have a negative impact if they clash with the person's values and objectives.

This is one of several posters I did for a ballet a few months ago. I really enjoyed doing these and like the way they turned out.

'Lost in Thought',Mixed Media,Marie-Esther,2014

Folding homes

Climate change campaigns that focus on correcting public beliefs about scientific consensus are likely to backfire and undermine policy efforts. A new paper suggests acceptance of scientific consensus is not needed for the public to support solutions to environmental problems.

TIL Bill Gates coyly defended his LSD use by saying 'I never missed a day of work

38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader

I made a kirdashi knife with some curves. It's my second knife.

[Tool] 'you're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago' -Alan Watts | Understand that in life you are free to choose your actions

Elon Musk: regulate AI to combat 'existential threat' before it's too late

From the getdisciplined community on Reddit

Iceman (2015) Documentary about Wim Hof who climbed Mount Everest in his shorts, resisted altitude sickness, completed a marathon in the Namibian Desert with no water and proven – under a laboratory setting – that he's able to influence his autonomic nervous system and immune system at will.

Seeing Yourself as Lazy is Hazardous to Your Health — researchers present suggestive evidence that such perceptions meaningfully affect health outcomes

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