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Teenage brains can’t tell what’s important and what isn’t. This may be because their brains aren’t developed enough to properly assess how high the stakes are, and adapt their behaviour accordingly. The findings explain why some adolescents are so nonchalant when it comes to risky behaviours.

Tencent says there are only 300,000 AI engineers worldwide, but millions are needed

Playing Super Mario 64 increases hippocampal grey matter in older adults

TIL that the effects of mixing caffeine and alcohol are similar to those of cocaine

TIL A professor at Indiana University launched a system of gaining experience points through classwork instead of giving out traditional grades.

We decorate space with art. We decorate time with music.

Double blind, clinical trial shows that the use of vitamin D supplement improves sleep quality, reduces sleep latency, raises sleep duration and improves subjective sleep quality in people of 20-50 year-old with sleep disorder.

From the learnmath community on Reddit

TIL that 19-yo Tom Lyle Williams created the mascara 'Maybelline' in 1915 when his sister Maybel used a mixture of VaseLINE and coaldust to darken her eyelashes after a mishap.

New AI tool from Google makes sense of your genome

TIL people who don't experience sexual attraction unless they form an emotional connection with someone are called Demisexuals

Florey Medal winner sets sights on macular degeneration after curing blindness in dogs

From the Showerthoughts community on Reddit

A diet rich with canola oil results in significant deficits of working memory and synaptic pathology, in a transgenic Alzheimer’s mouse model. The use of olive oil in the Mediterranean diet may be why previous research has found it is associated with reduced conversion to Alzheimer’s disease.

TIL that the Mouse Utopia Experiments In the 1960s had a huge influence on the animated film The Secret of Nimh. NIMH stands for the National Institute of Mental Health, by the way.

You (and Your Therapist) Can Change Your Personality

Evolution row ends as scientists declare sponges to be sister of all other animals. Sponges were first to branch off the evolutionary tree from the common ancestor of all animals, finds new study in Current Biology.

Nightmares May Be a Sign It's Time to Change Something In Your Life - 'In a new study, it was discovered that individuals who had re-occurring nightmares were more likely to report that they were also feeling more powerless, anxious, or frustrated with their lives.

The Tent is a collection of Margaret Atwood's short stories, which are very different in nature than her books. This is a review of The Tent.

Harmful effects of being overweight underestimated - the widely reported suggestion that being overweight may be healthy is shown to be incorrect, according to a new study that analysed body mass index (BMI), health and mortality data in around 60,000 parents and their children.

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Muuri - a magical JavaScript layout engine that allows you to build all kinds of layouts and make them responsive, sortable, filterable, draggable and/or animated

TIL That the metabolite of acetaminophen (parcetamol) that increases endocannabinoid levels (chemicals in your brain that cannabis acts like) is responsible for all or part of its anti-pain and anti-seizure properties.

The Greatness of William Blake

Intelligence is associated with the modular structure of intrinsic brain networks

Your Brain Is So Easily Fooled

The Old Forgotten Survival Skills From Our Grandfathers Were The Last Generation To Practice The Basic Things That We Call Survival Skills Now

Roger White on why the fact that our universe is fine-tuned for life does not support the Multiple Universe theory [PDF]

TIL of the concept of Deja Reve. Deja Reve is the same as Deja Vu but instead of feeling that you've experienced an event once before, you instead feel you've dreamt of this event once before.

How programmers get disqualified from doing everything else