Discussions

Buying Biology: Beneficial Organisms for Disease & Pest Control with Dr. Richard McDonald

From the learnmath community on Reddit

LSAT effect on cognitive abilities

What nobody tells you about documentation

A ‘third way’ of looking at religion: How Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard could provide the key to a more mature debate on faith

The Brain's White Matter

How I became a minimalist- thank you Fumio Sasaki

Why we can only get the best out of technology if we spend time away from it (a story about Iron Man, Apple, 1984, and the ideology of tech)

User Interviews: Guide To An Insightful UX Interview

Building a React-esque component using vanilla javascript

I built a front-end monitoring tool

7 habits of the best self-directed learners

From the gamedev community on Reddit

Trailer for Sam Esmail's 'Homecoming

Yuval Noah Harari: the myth of freedom — Governments and corporations will soon know you better than you know yourself. Belief in the idea of ‘free will’ has become dangerous

From the onebag community on Reddit

Water forest in Yangzhou China

Astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of Earth orbiting the nearby star 40 Eridani — precisely where Star Trek character Spock’s home planet Vulcan supposedly lies.

A new study has shown that people with autism are 3x as likely as the general population to have depression, and that the higher-functioning a person with autism is, the more likely they are to be depressed.

Final moments

woof_irl

Adventure Time and The Myth of Sisyphus- the series finale aired recently, and this was an interesting read

Formative moments in solo travel

Clearing out my Past

And yet more Deepart, this is TIAHBMISITIAHLKIAS/Sempiternal. This is probably the nicest one yet, though my algorith messed up a touch on the right side of the robe.

Oli Sykes Screaming Rawr for 1 Hour

From the digitalnomad community on Reddit

Octopuses Rolling on MDMA Reveal Unexpected Link to Humans: Serotonin — believed to help regulate mood, social behavior, sleep, and sexual desire — is an ancient neurotransmitter that’s shared across vertebrate and invertebrate species.

The Enlightenment's value was in teaching us that the world was intelligible. Here, Amie Thomasson & Julian Baggini consider whether relativism and postmodernism have made the Enlightenment dream irrelevant

An American urbanite discovers Canada's complicated simple life