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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

TIL: Vitamin D does not come from the sun; it comes from our skin. Sunlight is the factor that converts cholesterol in our skin to Vitamin D3.

TIL that there is a bigger volcanic process than super volcanoes called Large Igneous Provinces that appear to have occurred simultaneously with extinction events.

How to Brainwash a Nation - 82 min (1984) - Former KGB agent explains how Russia destroys nations - [01:21:11]

World Poetry Day: 28 of poetry's most powerful lines ever written

Elementary particle explorer. Explore the lie group of the Standard Model and additional proposed theories such as the E8 model, Pati-Salam and SO(10).

From the javascript community on Reddit

The Philosopher's Zone podcast on the idea of a common humanity

Gluten-sensitive? It may actually be a carb making you ill. Evidence suggests it may be the fructan molecules in wheat that cause stomach problems in 12% of people with “gluten sensitivity”, finds randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study.

Brain device boosts learning in monkeys by 40%

Oh,man.

New study shows that those with prosocial (nice) patterns of brain activity are more likely to be depressed. Is there hope for the nice guys?

How I Accidentally Became a Designer and Starting Working with Celebrities

How to Stay Calm and Present Regardless of What Life Throws At You | Improving Slowly

TIL that there is an affliction called Word Salad, wherein a person speaking spontaneously breaks into unintelligible gibberish without realizing it is occurring

Excellent article on scientific writing and the use of literary devices

The Carmack Plan

I made another cinemagraph of S03E06

A mosquito's foot at 800X magnification

From the explainlikeimfive community on Reddit

From the minimalism community on Reddit

TIL that when humans domesticated wolves, we basically bred Williams syndrome into dogs, which is characterized by 'cognitive difficulties and a tendency to love everyone

How to tie your shoelaces to deter common problems

Until she didn't move at all, digital, GIF, 600 X 600 px

Healthy obesity doesn’t exist; obesity is not a benign condition - new study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, show.