TIL 'Cluster Headaches' are devastating headaches that can drive people to suicide and a common treatment for many are ingesting psychedelic mushrooms.
TIL Mark Twain traveled extensively and once said 'Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth...
Computer vision algorithms were able to find predictors of urban improvement, using millions of Google Street View images to measure how urban areas are changing, consistent with current theories, suggesting that such algorithms can be used to explore the dynamics of urban change with other methods.
A study has found that British adolescents raised in major cities in England and Wales were over 40 per cent more likely to report psychotic experiences (e.g. hearing voices and feeling extremely paranoid) than their rural counterparts.
Climate change in drones' sights with ambitious plan to remotely plant nearly 100,000 trees a day - 'a drone system that can scan the land, identify ideal places to grow trees, and then fire germinated seeds into the soil.
If you struggle to make rational decisions in emotional situations, try thinking about yourself in the second person. For example, instead of “what should I do” go with “what should YOU do”. Studies show that this improves decision making.