Mum changes her son’s name after tattoo artist spelled it wrong
A cancer researcher said she collected blood from 98 people. It was all her own.
In the 1950s, China established a regulation requiring that at least one room in each apartment receive a minimum of one hour of sunshine on the day of the winter solstice, December 21.
Researchers studied a range of fitness apps and found only one was effective, while others failed to spark improvements or made the problem worse
The more intelligent a person, the fewer connections there are between the neurons in his cerebral cortex. These findings sound paradoxical at first glance, but they do reconcile previously conflicting results.
Images of baby animals temporarily reduce women’s appetite for meat. In contrast, the evidence for men was less strong.
people display more red and black clothing when meeting a possible mate for the first time
Demographics doom more and more males to involuntary celibacy
Male Sexlessness is Rising, But Not for the Reasons Incels Claim
The Difference Between Reversible and Irreversible Decisions
As robots get good at mimicking human behavior, people can be deceived into thinking they have human intelligence
The social pressure to have an opinion and a lack of accountability are what lead to the mix of truth, half-truth and outright falsehood known as bullshit, study
the rise of the pointless job
distinctive eyebrows (e.g., thick, dense) reveal narcissists’ personality to others
Susceptibility to contagious diseases among improvisational artists
How much life does a sausage cost you?
Extra glass of wine a day ‘will shorten your life by 30 minutes’
researchers have shown that a synthetic “double Trojan horse” drug can fool bacteria into willingly accepting a toxic antibiotic
the eye movement record suggested that initial processing of the text was facilitated when periods were followed by two spaces
How could we build an invisibility cloak to hide Earth from an alien civilization?
What Is Dark Matter?
Dead zones are areas devoid of oxygen. In the ocean, these are also known as ‘oxygen minimum zones’ and they are naturally occurring between 200 and 800 meters deep in some parts of the world.
Why New York City Stopped Building Subways
“Law does not govern,” writes Dorothy Thompson, then a correspondent for several major U.S. publications, about conditions in 1934 Germany. “Force and the arbitrary and unchallengeable decisions of a small oligarchy, made from day to day, govern. Their decrees are the law.”
Things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition
A first experiment in AI-enhanced AR
Communication and propaganda through the Wi-FI wireless standard
Two rubber band technique for finger ring removal
Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (with solutions) [PDF]
Lying or spreading “false news” was treated as a crime in colonial Massachusetts
The longest straight-line route possible without hitting land
Once upon a time…
every day the same again | May 17th, 2018
