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Austrian physicist, Erwin Schrödinger, was born on this day in 1887. In honour of his birthday, this post revisits Shrödinger's iconic 1944 masterwork publication 'What is Life?' and his attempts to put forth the physics of biology.

I caught the Milky Way above Mont Blanc last weekend. Exif is in the comments!

'The flexibility is incredible': When companies ditch the office, everyone's a remote worker

TIL Elvis Presley once flew from Graceland to Denver and back in one night just for a sandwich. 'The Fool's Gold Loaf' is a hollowed out loaf of bread filled with peanut butter, jelly, and a pound of bacon. It has an estimated 8,000 calories

Been waking up at 5 AM for the past 2 years and it has really changed my life. Here are 5 reasons to get up at 5 AM, and also some tips on how to get started. | Join the 5 AM club.

Leonard Cohen lending his wise, posthumous voice to Mr. Robot S3 trailer

Philosophy shouldn't merely be taught as a 'core subject', it should be at the centre of all subjects

Activated charcoal may be able to protect the microbiome from antibiotics

[Advice] I have been practicing Stoicism for 3 years now and the quality of my life and overall discipline has increased dramatically because of these 3 exercises. One from each of the greats: Epictetus, Seneca, And Marcus Aurelius

TIL There are classes in Japan that teach kids how to use the Soroban abacus to develop faster skills in arithmetic. After a few years they no longer even need to use a real abacus to perform fast mental calculations since they can already visualize an image of it

Why You Should Never Give Up On Yourself

Finder recreated using CSS - https://github.com/lukakerr/ion

Bubble Physics

Hard to get a good picture of my knobby knee, but it looks badass in person! By Tubi at Forevermore Tattoo in Glasgow, Scotland

Bees are first insects shown to understand the concept of zero

Darkhead Priest by Agatha Schnipps at Glorious Ink, Berlin

[Advice]Successful people aren't Demi-Gods with insane willpower and incredible productivity skills. They are normal people who understood the importance of the small seemingly insignificant daily disciplines. They understood how these disciplines leveraged with time could make them unstoppable.

TIL that a mild electric current to a person’s brain can improve their math’s skills for up to six months. This could help cure the nearly 20 percent of the population with moderate to severe dyscalculia math disability.

'Magic mushroom' enzyme solved, could lead to mass production of psilocybin

From the lifehacks community on Reddit

TIL that wild Parrots actually name their children, and that name sticks for life.

Sussurro, Dario Puggioni, oil on canvas, 2007

Thank you CEMU TEAM for making possible to complete BOTW on PC

TIL as 10 years is called a decade, 5 years is called a 'lustrum'. So 2015-2020 is the 4th lustrum of the 21st century.

Wrote this for my school newspaper's opening issue. An existentialist's guide to college

First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News

A friend developed a dictation tool for LaTeX that might interest /r/Math [X-post /r/Physics]

TIL that there are only six people left on the planet who can still ‘speak’ the whistled language known as sfyria

Theory creates facts: the effects of belief and ideology on how it shapes our reality

TIL mangrove trees live in saltwater, filter out 99% of salt through their roots, and are literally desalination plants.