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TIL that a snail known as the geography cone is the most venomous animal on earth. Its venom is a mix of hundreds of toxins delivered through a harpoon-like tooth — and there's no anti-venom.

TIL Hands-On Gene Editing is now a middle school class

A new study provides insight into the neurobiology of dying. Investigators performed continuous patient monitoring following Do Not Resuscitate - Comfort Care orders in patients with devastating brain injury to investigate the mechanisms and timing of events in the brain during the dying process.

People are dying because we misunderstand how those with addiction think | a philosopher explains why addiction isn’t a moral failure

Gif I made showing how circular motion, simple harmonic motion, and transverse wave motion are all related.

Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? Because of soil depletion, crops grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today.

Winona Ryder 1989

Google's brilliant Art & Culture initiative now allows you to search their library with a color palette. Endless inspiration.

From the minimalism community on Reddit

How can phytoestrogen consumption reduce menopausal symptoms in women but not alter blood androgen levels in men?

I made a chrome extension to apply dark/night mode in real time to all the websites I browse. It uses a completely new algorithm and doesn't use the problematic color-inversion technique used by other similar extensions. Took me about two months to develop it.

The Global Brain (1983) [Restored]

Study: Sleeping in rooms with even a little light can increase risk of depression

TIL Brad Pitt believes he has Prosopagnosia or 'face blindness', a condition in which he has trouble recognizing and remembering faces, including his own

Mоnsаntо’s Toxic Legacy: An Investigative Reporter Talks Glyphоsаte

The PS3 Emulator Just Got A Whole Lot Better

Scientists in UCLA examine that 'time and time again' people suffered their first experience with anxiety or depression right after stomach illnesses. They did brain scans after patients ate probiotics, and found that stomach bacteria actually directly affected connectivity of the brain.

My FMA: Brotherhood 'truth' tattoo done by Byrce Pierceon at Classic craft tattoo studio in Orlando,FL

I took DeepMind's famous paper on teaching AI to become a Go champion, and explained it in beginner-friendly language!

In CSU lab, laser-heated nanowires produce micro-scale nuclear fusion with record efficiency. The work is detailed in a paper published in Nature Communications.

TIL flashes of light in the sky (earthquake lights) often appear before a major earthquake, and can serve as a warning of impending disaster.

Joan of Arc, wood stain markers and acrylic on skateboard, 8' × 32

Oxford’s Free Introduction to Philosophy: Stream 41 Lectures

TIL Making eye contact with an infant makes adults’ and babies’ brainwaves ‘get in sync’ with each other – which is likely to support communication and learning – according to researchers at the University of Cambridge.

TIL In Hindu philosophy, there is no purpose in the creation of the Universe. All existence is the result of a 'Divine or Creative Play' by Brahman.

TIL the saying “March comes in like a lion, goes out like a Lamb” has more to do with astrology than weather

It’s kind of ironic that Steve Jobs died of PC.

In 2011, Hawking declared that 'philosophy is dead'. Here, two philosophers offer a defence to argue that physics and philosophy need one another

Per Vognsen: Announcing Bitwise [an educational project in systems programming and hardware design]

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