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I'm currently reading Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets. This description of mycelium is stunning:

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Performing meaningless rituals boosts our self-control through making us feel more self-disciplined, suggests a new study.

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TIL that a moment was a medieval unit of time that corresponds exactly to 90 seconds

Pirate of the Burning Sun, Bob Kehl, Digital, 2018

How to Destroy Performance Anxiety and Deliver an Award-Winning Show Every Time - 'Most people experience social anxiety when it comes to 'big moments' like public speaking, job interviews, or dates. Here are great tips for how to let your best self shine through.

Researchers develop the theory that the toxicity of hospitalization - lack of sleep, nutrition, activity; abundance of stress, disruption, noise, confusion - can have physiologic adverse effects that last long after discharge.

TIL that there is a medical condition called auto-brewery syndrome where the afflicted becomes drunk after the consumption of too many carbohydrates. It has been used as a drunk driving defense.

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Free eBooks on Data Visualization and Machine Learning

Why Your Brain Never Runs Out of Problems to Find

We must not treat data like a natural resource - This is a 20th-century approach to 21st-century topics. A better framing recognizes that data is not a natural resource but a new informational dimension to individual and community life.

TIL dreams are thought to strip memories of emotion. According to the theory, this function fails in sufferers of PTSD. Recurring nightmares might therefore be a repeated attempt at performing this function.

Wanderers - Short Film About Our Future In Space

Lean Testing or Why Unit Tests are Worse than You Think

An incredibly comprehensive book (2000+ pages) on Differential Geometry. The author develops everything in great detail from the start, including logic, ZFC set theory, algebra, analysis, and topology.

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Neuroscience may not have proved determinism after all.

The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work - Using what one expert calls a ‘Wizard of Oz technique’, some companies keep their reliance on humans a secret from investors

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We can tell from a person’s roar whether they are bigger and stronger than us, just like some animals can. Male listeners correctly rated vocalisers who were substantially stronger than they were as being stronger 88% of the time (and never ranked such vocalisers as being weaker).

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How hot dogs are prepared around the world

What it takes to stand up to authority

The basic architecture concepts I wish I knew when I was getting started as a web developer • Web Architecture 101

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Consuming a broth rich in umami, or savory taste, can cause subtle changes in the brain that promote healthy eating behaviors and food choices, with more engagement of a brain area that is linked to successful self-regulation during food choice, finds a new brain imaging study with young women.

TIL Matthew Lillard originally Screamed till his voice went Hoarse and scratchy to Achieve his voice for Shaggy in Scooby Doo, Even doing it in his car before his Audition at Warner Bros in LA