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Conformity bias: Individual ethical judgement is easily clouded by the decisions and actions of those around us

If you and another person have to compete for two options, one better than the other, you should say something like, “Oh, go ahead – you choose”, and the odds are that she or he will not only leave the better option for you, but also think that you’re generous, suggests new research.

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Mike Bithell shares a ton of advice on how to apply to game dev companies like his own

An Offline cheat sheet and a quick reference command line tool for HTML, CSS and JS .

Snapshot: Software that allows you to edit genes and see how they affect cellular functionality

A Different Perspective

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Lessons Learned from Centuries of Indigenous Forest Management

Neuroscience at Super-Resolution: Beautiful and breath-taking images produced by neuroscientists

A short blog I wrote about functional programming and asynchronous functions (async/await vs promises)

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Choice overload happens when the brain, faced with an overwhelming number of similar options, struggles to make a decision. A new Caltech study reveals the parts of the brain responsible for it, and how many options the brain actually prefers when it is making a choice - somewhere between 8 and 15.

The best podcasts for frontend developers

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Developers Need to Start Paying Attention to Licenses

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Genome of people with well-defined addictive behavior found to be 2-3 times more likely to possess 250,000 year old retrovirus infection affecting dopamine regulation of addiction in the brain.

TED: We are all cyborgs now | We now rely on 'external brains' (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives

I love the details that come alive in the second session. Done by me, Michael Tappan at Forbidden Body Art in Portland, OR.

The Complete Guide to Lazy Loading Images

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Making the business case for expanding design team

Three people can transmit thoughts using first “social network” of brains

What is the name of the process inwhich once one thread returns non-undefined, the function jump out of the run flow and return the result of the function process.

Science (of senolytics) Marches On. Will We Learn the Results?

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