Every day, the same, again
How an American company made a fortune selling bodies donated to science
Los Angeles International Airport testing facial recognition technology
Mercedes-Benz apologizes to Chinese for quoting Dalai Lama
An Ancient Virus May Be Responsible for Human Consciousness
We found that sleep loss impaired objective working memory performance in women, but not in men.
One thing we often do believe without much evidence is that others will believe just about anything. The only domain where we are really gullible is our estimate of other people’s gullibility./a>
Sex differences in human brain structure are already apparent at one month of age
We find that approximately one-quarter of bitcoin users and one-half of bitcoin transactions are associated with illegal activity
Dozens of entrepreneurs, made newly wealthy by blockchain and cryptocurrencies, are heading en masse to Puerto Rico this winter. They want to build a crypto utopia, a new city where the money is virtual and the contracts are all public. [NY Times]
To begin the discussion of how the oceans formed, I must take you back to the birth of earth itself, along with the rest of our solar system. [PDF | excerpted from The Oceans, A Deep History, by Eelco J. Rohling ]
Bamboozle Structures and Honeycombs [PDF]
Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons
Has Artificial Intelligence Cracked the Voynich Manuscript’s Mysterious Code?
“Anyone who pays for more than half of their stuff in self checkout is a total moron.” Self-checkout theft has become so widespread that a whole lingo has sprung up to describe its tactics.