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Possibilities of Life in globular clusters

TIL that the irrational feeling of wanting to jump off a high building or to swerve your car into a tree has a name - L'appel du vide (call of the void)

TIL that there's a new state of matter called 'Time Crystals' that is different from solids, liquids, gasses, and plasma.

Toddlers play more creatively when they have fewer toys at their disposal

Spatial Processing & Creativity in Students

Linguistics company uses AI-powered language learning that can fast-track fluency

Surgical Patients May Be Feeling Pain—and (Mostly) Forgetting It. Amnesic anesthetics are convenient and help patients make a faster recovery, but they don't necessarily prevent suffering during surgery.

Heart-Wrenching Video Shows Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land

TIL Steve Jobs once told a reporter that taking LSD was 'one of the two or three most important things' he did in his life

A Keto diet with no exercise out-performs the standard American diet with exercise in reducing body weight, BMI, body fat and HgA1c in patients with Metabolic Syndrome.

TIL that during the Iran-Contra hearings, Senator Daniel Inouye remarked that '[There exists] a shadowy Government with...the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

Today was a big day for me! 2 years, -26K NW to +26K reversal!

Coke Bottles - 1899, 1900, 1915, 1916, 1957 and 1986.

AI’s Cool New Thing: Capsule Networks (explained)

TIL that Science says booger-eating and nose-picking is healthy. It turns out that snot is actually full of bacteria that helps your teeth, immune system, and overall health.

Researchers have found that a brief test that can be performed in the office can help determine whether an antidepressant or a form of talk therapy, called cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT, would be better at relieving symptoms of anxiety in individual patients.

i STILL wear the same thing every day

Why CSS Grid is better than Bootstrap for creating layouts

Custom Project-Based ESLint Rules

Grinders trailer - exploring world's perception of skateboarding using satire

Environmental lawyers are claiming in court that land, rivers and other natural features have intrinsic rights and should own themselves, rather than being considered property — similar to how the law treats corporations as 'persons.

Exploiting Tiered Internet Video Streaming to Assure Net Neutrality

TIL - 'Kung fu' is a Chinese term referring to any study, learning, or practice that requires patience, energy, and time to complete. In its original meaning, kung fu can refer to any discipline or skill achieved through hard work and practice, not necessarily martial arts.

ddgr: search DuckDuckGo from your terminal!

TIL of the Order of the Occult Hand, a secret society of journalists who have been able to slip the phrase 'It was as if an occult hand had…' into print.

Neural Network in JavaScript with WebGL and deeplearn.js

TIL Neanderthals may have created art, a sign of high abstract expression thought to be exclusive to Homo sapiens

TIL that in medieval years, an hour was divided into 4 puncta (quarter-hours), 10 minuta, or 40 momenta. So if you asked someone to 'wait a moment', turns out that you really asked them to wait for about 90 seconds.

Have Scientists Found a Secret Chord for Happy Songs? We can explain the meaning of lyrics by looking at their component words and grammatical structure. But how do we explain the meaning of music?

A waterfall VS highwinds