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Consciously Aware of the Moment You Fall Asleep?

Practice problems for improving JS skills for beginners

Went to China for the first time in November and visited the unrestored section of the Great Wall at Gubeikou. Had it all to ourselves

The Beginnings of Formal Logic | voted one of the 'Philosopher's Annual' ten best papers of 2015

The Catholic Church is a Force for Good in the World (2009) - A debate from Intelligence Squared Debates that brings some of the biggest issues of the Church to light featuring Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry

Insufficient sleep increases production of inflammatory white blood cells known to be major contributors to atherosclerosis, finds a new Nature study.

Design tool allows you to virtually measure volume and other spaces.

A remarkable recent increase in the diagnosis of vocal-cord cancer in young adults who are non-smokers appears to be the result of infection with strains of human papilloma virus (HPV) that also cause cervical cancer and other malignancies, suggests a new study.

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Talk: 'Networks Thinking Themselves' by Danielle Bassett - A look at the interconnected networks of knowledge in the brain and how to use network science to think about ourselves

From the sleep community on Reddit

Scientists trained 14 honeybees to do simple arithmetic with color-coded shapes, calling into question the relationship between brain size and intelligence.

Amanda Feilding: ‘LSD can get deep down and reset the brain – like shaking up a snow globe’. The campaign to legalise LSD in Britain is gathering pace. Psychedelics may have a role to play in treating everything from alcohol addiction to Alzheimer’s disease to post-traumatic stress disorder.

What the 'meat paradox' reveals about moral decision making: Many people eat factory-farmed meat while also abhorring animal cruelty. In this adaptation from her new book, the psychological scientist Dr Julia Shaw explains what the “meat paradox” can tell us about moral decision making.

Code smart, not hard: A bunch of ideas for developers working on large production apps

From the microgreens community on Reddit

Supporting macOS Mojave’s Dark Mode on the web

From the solotravel community on Reddit

Human using killer eagles to hunt massive prey

From the quantum community on Reddit

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Scientists make an environmentally friendly prototype water purifier constructed from a sheet of graphitic carbon nitride that could remove 99.9999% of microbes, and purified a 10L water sample in less than one hour using only sunlight.

The language of sexual negotiation must go far beyond ‘consent’ and ‘refusal’ if we are to foster ethical, autonomous sex

From the EatCheapAndHealthy community on Reddit

It’s Time to Try Fossil-Fuel Executives for Crimes Against Humanity - the fossil industry’s behavior constitutes a Crime Against Humanity in the classical sense: “a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack”.

Blues In The Net

Legal standards invoke the 'reasonable person', but explaining who that is may be more difficult than you think

AI spots unknown “ghost”ancestor in the human genome

Peter Andrews on Weeds

From the books community on Reddit