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We've misunderstood the Backfire Effect - New research shows people accept fact-correction, but keep their opinions. This happens because facts are used to justify prior opinions, not as a basis for them; when one fact gets corrected, another, favorable to the prior opinon, takes its place.

Getting stuck: The midlife mess | podcast on the philosophy behind the midlife crisis

A study, based in Massachusetts, found that just three months of treatment with medical cannabis resulted in improved task performance and favorable brain activation that the researchers retrieved through MRI scans. Cannabis users also cut their opioid and benzodiazepine use after the treatment.

12 best practices for user account, authorization and password management

TIL sniper schools use brain games such as ‘Kim's Game’ where items on a tray are memorized for one minute, covered and recalled to train their situational awareness skills.

TIL that when teens are taught that people have the potential to change their socially relevant traits over time, they tend to cope better with social stress, and end up earning better grades in school.

The terrifying phenomenon that is pushing species towards extinction: Scientists are alarmed by a rise in mass mortality events – when species die in their thousands. Is it all down to climate change?

Women weave heart stents by hand.

Weekly ration for two people in the UK, 1943

How we forgot the collective good—and started thinking of ourselves primarily as consumers

[Method] If You're In A Rut, Use The First Principles Method To Get Out And Understand What's Important

Setting up a minimal Node environment with Webpack and Babel

The Deathbed Fallacy: Why People's Deathbed Regrets are not Solid Feedback

What photo styling software can do these days

Scientists have identified significant amounts of toxic metals, including lead, leaking from e-cigarette heating coils and present in the aerosols inhaled by users.

TIL about Perpetual Stew, common in the middle ages, it was a stew that was kept constantly stewing in a pot and rarely emptied, just constantly replenished with whatever items they could throw in it.

Luke Skywalker: Through the Ages by Shima_Spoon

Standing nearly 4 stories tall, the massive Apennine Colossus in Florence, Italy was constructed over 420 years ago

TIL killer bees are not natural and were created by scientists trying to increase honey production.

Poor fitness linked to weaker brain fiber, higher dementia risk - A new study suggests that the lower the fitness level, the faster the deterioration of vital nerve fibers in the brain. This deterioration results in cognitive decline, including memory issues characteristic of dementia patients.

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A Gut-Wrenching Biohacking Experiment (2018) ─ A biohacker declares war on his own body's microbes. He checks himself into a hotel, sterilizes his body, and embarks on a DIY experiment. The goal: “To completely replace all of the bacteria that are contained within my body.”

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Volume 1 of The Legend of The Condor Heroes, 'the LOTR of Chinese literature', now available

I'm Andrew Sampson, the co-founder and CEO of Rainway. I want to tell you about our mission to make game streaming a reality and of course give you an opportunity to AMA!

TIL Codependency is characterized by sacrificing one’s personal needs in order to try to meet the needs of others and is associated with passivity and feelings of shame, low self-worth, or insecurity

Drawing better-looking Bézier curves

Study 'Caffeine Caused a Widespread Increase of Resting Brain Entropy' Well...what the heck is resting brain entropy? Is that good or bad? Google is not helping

Liciana, Yanjun Cheng, Digital, 2018