Every day, the same, again
Japan on Track to Introduce Flying Taxi Services in 2023
Amazon wants to use delivery drones to surveil your house and put ads on your body
Facebook will pay users $120 to log off before 2020 election (to assess the impact of social media on voting)
No Evidence for a Relationship between Intelligence and Ejaculate Quality [PDF]
Attachment theory is an enduring and generative framework for understanding infant and romantic relationships. Here, I advance a two-system approach to attachment, proposing that infant attachments and romantic attachments constitute etiologically distinct systems that evolved in response to different selection pressures, serve different evolutionary functions, and are fundamentally different in nature with regard to operation and necessity toward their respective evolutionary goals.
recent research has shed light on how memory of recent eating modulates future food consumption. […] In humans, overweight and obesity is associated with impaired memory performance […] Enhancing memory of eating has been shown to reduce future eating
facial detection applied to grains of sand
The Effects of Laughter during US Supreme Court’s Oral Arguments we find that the side causing more instances of laughter is more likely to win the votes of individual justices
Energy ‘scavenger’ could turn waste heat from fridges and other devices into electricity
How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
On the correlation between solar activity and large earthquakes worldwide
Nearly two-thirds of New York restaurants may have to close by January
Berlin’s banging Berghain club reborn as a gallery
The Economic Impact of the Black Death Previously: When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half of the population, its cause was unknown. Many contemporaries blamed the Jews.
how humankind should handle the first, inevitable murder in outer space
The nine alternative visions of chess that AlphaZero tested included no-castling chess, which Kramnik and others had already been thinking about. Five of the variants altered the movement of pawns, including torpedo chess, in which pawns can move up to two squares at a time throughout the game, instead of only on their first move. Draws were less common under no-castling chess than under conventional rules. And learning different rules shifted the value AlphaZero placed on different pieces: Under conventional rules it valued a queen at 9.5 pawns; under torpedo rules the queen was only worth 7.1 pawns. A more extreme change, self-capture chess, in which a player can take their own pieces, proved even more alluring. [Wired]
How to blur your house on Google Street View
Insects of Los Angeles (photographs taken using a special digital microscope)
Balenciaga Summer 20 Campaign [Thanks Tim]
