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
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proofofconcept.pub
Mastery for generalists
4 min read · Jul 23rd · Issue 097: Becoming good when you're interested in everything
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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🤓
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
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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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