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TIL that Japanese researchers have discovered that administering an electrical shock that simulates a lightning strike can increase mushroom yields -- leading to more and bigger mushrooms.

Drew Carey did an AMA a few years ago and was asked for his very best life advice. This was his answer.

Ferrofluid inside of a rotating magnetic field creates amoeba-like structures

TIL About Dysthymia also known as high functioning depression. Where someone might feel constantly tired, hopeless, irritable, and use unhealthy coping habits while still being able to work or go to school

Physicists have discovered what makes neural networks so extraordinarily powerful

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untitled, acrylic, 33x40 cm

From the graphic_design community on Reddit

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African philosophy not only challenges the universal claims of Western philosophy, but also offers unique insights into personhood | Katrin Flikschuch

Social anxiety is related to a preoccupation with making mistakes, finds a new study that monitored children’s brain activity.

Rather than Buddhism's 'no-self', David Bowie's fluid personas are best understood through Hume's notion of the mind as a theatre

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Effect of Tai chi versus aerobic exercise for fibromyalgia: a randomized controlled trial found that Tai chi mind-body treatment results in similar or greater improvement in symptoms than aerobic exercise for a variety of outcomes for patients with fibromyalgia.

Alina, jungon Kim, Digital, 2018

Comparing the Sizes of Microorganisms Up to 1mm

/u/Zoffat uses multiple quotes from Adam Smith, 'Inventor of Capitalism', to show that Smith intended the free market to achieve 'enrichment of the laborer and the happiness of the poor'. His original view was that capitalism could only work if regulated 'in favor of the workmen'.

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How to learn Software Testing Properly (mainly for JS)?

TIL Moore's Law states the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles every 2ys, however, it's balanced out by Binn's Law, which states: As technology advances, rendering time remains constant. Because the more machines are capable of, the more we throw at them.

TIL Humans nearly went extinct, reducing to a population of only 8,800 which would qualify today as 'endangered' before bouncing back

“Eden” Massimo Richers, Oil on Board, 15x30 inches, 2018

How deep brain stimulation silenced cravings

As we get older, our endurance declines. An MIT-led research team has now found that it can reverse this age-related endurance loss in mice by treating them with a compound that promotes new blood vessel growth.

TIL there’s a type of honey called 'mad honey,' which causes hallucinations. Honey hunters in Nepal make dangerous vertical climbs to harvest it since it sells for $60-80 a pound

Karaya the fruitpicker, ink/digital, 5x10

New study provides evidence that art courses can improve mental wellbeing

waning moon, kelogsloops, watercolor, 2017

TIL in the 1930's there was a popular diet pill that sped up metabolism by 30-50% - by cooking consumers from the inside.