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Writing Lighter, Faster JavaScript Functions

TIL When it rains, people publish more negative posts on Facebook. Each negative post negatively affects one to two other people. The negative post spreads like contagion, negatively affecting people's moods in cities without rainfall. Social networks magnify the synchronisation of global moods.

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Déithe na hÉireann: a (liberally) reconstructed Irish pantheon

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A Beginner's Guide to JavaScript's Prototype

By slightly changing the composition of the air we breathe using a small inhaler, certain migraine patients can either cut down on medication or do without it completely, as shown by a new double-blinded randomized controlled pilot study.

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Lots and lots of CSS text effects

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Fundamentals of storing data in the browser with IndexedDB

The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job

Forests with a diverse mix of trees can absorb more than twice as much carbon as areas with just a single species, research has found – a discovery that could help in the fight against climate change.

How to stop using console.log() and start using your browser’s debugger

Scientists Have Connected The Brains of 3 People, Enabling Them to Share Thoughts

I made a library to detect intersections. Here is a quick demo

Sexual Selection shaping Human Behavior (Introductory Video)

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Nobel Chemistry prize award for “harnessing the power of evolution

And they say teenagers shouldn’t be allowed to trick-or-treat.

Stanford Seminar by Tristan Harris, former Google Design Ethicist and founder of the Time Well Spent movement

PEACH SPIN! ('Invented' by me)

For Kierkegaard, busyness is the sign of an unhappy person, and an attempt to distract oneself from life's important questions

Swedish nursery to teach rare Viking-era language (Elfdalian)

Opinion about my dotfiles?

Coding A Weather App In Pure HTML CSS and JavaScipt

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Daytime naps help us acquire information not consciously perceived, study finds. The findings further reveal thebenefits of a short bout of sleep on cognitive brain function and found that even during short bouts of sleep we process information that we are not consciously aware of.