TIL that muscle memory is just our synapses getting more efficient. The repeated physical activity makes myelin sheaths better with each electrical signal.
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.
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.
[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
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
TIL that mathematician Leonhard Euler's work touched upon so many fields that he is often the earliest written reference on a given matter so in an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have discovered them after Euler
PT: H D Thoreau said, ' As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives
The blue wings of the morpho dragonfly may be surprisingly alive. Scientists found a respiratory system in its wings, the first time this has been seen in any insect.
Protip: Windows automatically compresses wallpaper images to 85% their original quality when applied to your desktop. A quick registry edit will make your desktop wallpaper look much, much better (Fix in text). [x-post from /PCGaming]
[Advice] Sugar addiction was one of the biggest reasons I was unable to achieve the goals I had and get disciplined. Luckily, I kicked my sugar addiction, resulting in losing over 15 pounds of fat and putting on significant muscle. I want to share what worked for me in kicking sugar addiction.