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Scientific American

What's So Funny? The Science of Why We Laugh

9 min read · From 2019 · Psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers are trying to understand humor
Reader View · Shared by 32, including Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦, Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, John Hagel, Nir Eyal, Simon Fossom
proofofconcept.pub

Mastery for generalists

4 min read · Jul 23rd · Issue 097: Becoming good when you're interested in everything
Reader View · Shared by 881, including Michelle Boisson, Simon Fossom, 👨‍✈️ AA-Admiral ⚓🚀🌌
career
better living
generalists
happiness
generalist
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Mastering the generalist path means everyone will be better than you at something, but you're better than everyone at every little thing.
Men's Health Mag

How Much Time Should You Spend Outside, According to Michael Easter

5 min read · 2021-06-06 · Americans spend 92 percent of their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering. This three-number formula for how much time to spend in nature fixes that.
Reader View · Shared by 166, including Simon Fossom, Daniel Pink, Gabriele
outdoors
health
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction
Popular Mechanics

Radioactive Diamond Battery Will Run For 28,000 Years: NDB Facts

3 min read · 2021-06-06 · It's powered by nuclear waste, but still safe for humans.
Reader View · Shared by 4, including Simon Fossom
VICE

Scientists Directly Manipulated Antimatter With a Laser In Mind-Blowing First

4 min read · 2021-03-31 · The direct manipulation of antimatter will open up "unthinkable" possibilities in examining the fundamental makeup of our reality, scientists say.
Reader View · Shared by 20, including Howard Getson, LARRY ELKAN, Simon Fossom, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
Nautilus Magazine

The Link Between Bioelectricity and Consciousness

5 min read · 2021-03-12 · “It’s really hard to define what’s special about neurons,” says Tufts molecular biologist Michael Levin. “Almost all cells…
Reader View · Shared by 127, including Anita Leirfall, Sai Kan, John Hagel, Simon Fossom
brain
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“Evolution,” Levin has said, “really did discover how good the biophysics of electricity is for computing and processing information in non-neural tissues,”
The Guardian

How to have better arguments online

~16 min read · 2021-02-16 · The long read: The troubled times we live in, and the rise of social media, have created an age of endless conflict. Rather than fearing or avoiding disagreement, we need to learn to do it well
Reader View · Shared by 234, including Jane, Gabriele, Birgit Schefer, Mark Kaigwa, Neil Hart 💙, Nir Eyal, Simon Fossom, zoeamar, Richard Deitsch, Dambisa Moyo, Kyle Bunch, Anita Leirfall, Esther Schindler, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Andy Budd, Jonathan Haidt, Michael Clemens
digital life
negotiations
social media
arguments
BBC Future

The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make

~14 min read · 2021-03-17 · Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. How did this happen? And can we bring it back?
Reader View · Shared by 224, including David Owen, Bryan William Jones, Simon Fossom, Tom Raftery 🇮🇪🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦💉💉💉, Arin Basu, William Gibson, Esther Schindler, Jane, sonia, Enrique Dans, Eleanor Konik
history
Live Science

Humans could move to this floating asteroid belt colony in the next 15 years, astrophysicist says

6 min read · 2021-01-19 · Should we build a 'megasatellite' of human habitats around the dwarf planet Ceres? It's more plausible than it sounds.
Reader View · Shared by 17, including Carolyn Porco, Simon Fossom
Harvard Business Review

How Amazon Thinks About Competition

4 min read · 2020-12-21 · To do well in business, a company needs to be both robust and nimble.
Reader View · Shared by 155, including Massimiliano Aroffo, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Kate Nasser, Annette Franz, CCXP, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Simon Fossom, davidabrock
amazon
business
customer experience
WIRED

Babies May Be Drinking Millions of Microplastic Particles a Day

3 min read · 2020-10-19 · Scientists discover that baby bottles shed up to 16 million bits of plastic per liter of fluid. What that means for infants’ health, no one can yet say.
Shared by 49, including Simon Fossom, Nicolas Babin, Marinel Bijmolt🤓
environment
BBC News (World)

Has world started to take climate change fight seriously?

8 min read · 2020-09-29 · A surprise announcement at the UN General Assembly has transformed the politics of cutting carbon.
Reader View · Shared by 137, including Alexandria Villaseñor, William Gibson, Ray Monk, Naomi Klein, Simon Fossom, Katja Evertz, Cristina “Mitty” Mittermeier
climate crisis
politics
Dan Rockwell

How Humble Leadership Really Works

1 min read · 2020-10-08 · Humility isn’t: Slow and stupid.Afraid to acknowledge strengths and talents.Passive and weak.Easily manipulated.Satisfied with mediocrity.Disinclined to bring up tough issues.Reluctant to act…
Reader View · Shared by 102, including Elinor Stutz, Matt Heinz, Niklaus Gerber, Simon Fossom, Stephanie A Kowalski, Phillip Murphy, Bill George, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Scott Monty, Sergio Caredda, Katja Evertz
leadership
Gizmodo

40 Percent of the Amazon Is on the Brink of Transitioning to Savanna

3 min read · 2020-10-05 · Huge swaths of the Amazon have gotten so dry that they may be on the brink of transitioning into an entirely different kind of ecosystem, new research published in Nature Communications warns.
Reader View · Shared by 49, including Simon Fossom, Mary Annaïse Heglar, Dr. Prakash Kashwan, Katja Evertz
environment
The New York Times

When the Otters Vanished, Everything Else Started to Crumble

5 min read · 2020-09-10 · Against the backdrop of climate change, the delicate underwater ecology of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands is hurting from declines in otters.
Reader View · Shared by 47, including Simon Fossom, Dr. Jacquelyn Gill
environment
hyperallergic

This 1902 Footage of a Flying Train Is the Film of the Summer

3 min read · 2020-08-27 · The Museum of Modern Art has released a short film of a German elevated train from its archives, and it absolutely rules.
Reader View · Shared by 89, including Anne Thompson, Bernhard Huessy, rudolph regter, Simon Fossom, Josep M. Ganyet, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
history
technology
urban planning
bicycle
innovation
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