Every day, the same, again
Are Those North Korean Long-Range Missiles For Real?
People Feel Less Busy Spending Time on Others.
Fleeing Facebook: Study examines why people quit — and come back — to the ‘global aquarium.’
Capital punishment in China: A populist instrument of social governance.
The traditional view is that words can’t survive for more than 8,000 to 9,000 years. Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words.’
Radiocarbon dating puts the age of the body between A.D. 1200 and A.D.1280, an era once considered part of Europe’s anti-scientific “Dark Ages.” In fact, said study researcher Philippe Charlier, a physician and forensic scientist, the new specimen suggests surprising anatomical expertise during this time period.
Imagine you’ve been taken, somehow, and dropped into a big city in another place, with comparable technological and economic development, somewhere you don’t speak the language. Here’s the twist: it’s also time travel. How long would it take you to notice that you’ve been shifted in time as well as space?
A paper published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest has evaluated ten techniques for improving learning, ranging from mnemonics to highlighting and came to some surprising conclusions.
Now you can enlarge and denoise your photos, all thanks to basic research.
What would happen if a large chunk (1/8th) of our Earth was suddenly removed?
Child Abuse Billboard Contains ‘Secret Message’ Not Visible to Adults.
Who Me smelled strongly of fecal matter, and was issued in pocket atomizers intended to be unobtrusively sprayed on a German officer. [Thanks Tim]
