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Professional mermaids say ‘merverts’ are making their lives a hassle
Restaurant owner murders man, serves his remains to vegetarian diners
Woman who had sex with 20 ghosts is now engaged to a spirit
Canada installs Chinese underwater monitoring devices next to US nuclear submarine base
scientists developed a tool that seems remarkably accurate at judging written falsehoods
In a landmark study, 20 top US corporate lawyers with decades of experience in corporate law and contract review were pitted against an AI. Their task was to spot issues in five Non-Disclosure Agreements.
Emotions are frequently thought of as reactions to events in the world. However, many of our emotional experiences are of our own making, coming from thoughts and memories. These different origins mean that these endogenous emotions are more controllable than exogenous emotions.
Loneliness increases a person’s risk of dementia by 40 percent
Curiosity is associated with well-being
Study: Tetris is a great distraction for easing an anxious mind
Human saliva as a cleaning agent for dirty surfaces
Exploring the effect of microdosing psychedelics on creativity
Psychedelic psilocybin therapy for depression granted Breakthrough Therapy status by FDA
Tolaas also invented 1,500 “smell memory kits” — abstract odors that have never been smelled before. When you want to remember an event, you open the amulet and inhale, sealing the moment in your emotional core.
Swiss experiment with sound to make cheese tastier
The shopping mall would have been inconceivable without air conditioning, as would the deep-plan and glass-walled office block, as would computer servers. An inversion of nature: how air conditioning created the modern city
Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others? (Blood type, metabolism, exercise, shirt color, drinking beer…)
a special fifth state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)
20 “Rules for History of Philosophy”
NYC Municipal Archives Collections
What happened to the Sphinx’s nose?
Map of Roman Air Bases in 2nd Century AD and US governors by eye color and if you’re asked to “put your hands up” and have trouble identifying the situation
