How Aristotle’s Example Can Help Public Philosophy Today
Transplanting the bone marrow of young laboratory mice into old mice prevented cognitive decline in the old mice, preserving their memory and learning abilities, finds a new study, findings that could lead to therapies to slow progression of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's.
Having only 6.5 hours to sleep in 24 hours degrades performance and mood, finds a new study in teens. However, students in the split sleep group (night sleep of 5 hours plus a 1.5-hour afternoon nap) exhibited better alertness, working memory and mood than those who slept 6.5 hours continuously.
Brain News 012: Facebook Impairs Decision-Making, 19 Strategies of Willpower, Stress Trick, and more [studies links in comment]
For those interested, I have a YouTube channel covering high-level mathematics in fairly rigorous (i.e. non pop-sciency) detail!
React Component Composition: What, Why and How
Untitled, mixed media but mostly water color, 10x13ish
Comparing the Sizes of Microorganisms Up to 1mm
Here's my final animated project for School of Motion's Advanced Motion Methods class. Time for a nap...
Histamine boosts memory recall, Bottled water doubles Green Tea benefits, And More Nootropics News [all studies in comment]
Improve performance in React functional components using React.memo()
Visual representation of how the Solar System travels through the Milky Way
Brilliant leader, kind horseman and friend of Socrates: Xenophon’s writings inspire a humane, practical approach to life
Tutorial: How to share global data in Next.js with custom App and useContext Hook
From the books community on Reddit
Astronomers discover a star in Andromeda that's exploded every year for millions of years. During these 'nova' eruptions, the star brightens by a millionfold as it ejects material at about 3% the speed of light. Over time, this has left behind one of the largest remnants of debris ever observed.
National Geographic: A Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Could Lead to a Sustainable Future
Noam Chomsky on Propaganda - The Big Idea (1996) - 'Chomsky on how propaganda in western media works, still relevant today.' [30m]
The best way to train surgeons may be to remove the stress of residency programs and make surgery a “hobby”. Under relaxed conditions outside a formal educational setting, 15 first-year medical students mastered microsurgical suturing and cutting skills in as little as five hour-long sessions.
There is no morality special to sex: no act is wrong simply because of its sexual nature | Alan Goldman
Automate click through testing with Puppeteer
Dark matter: what we know and how we know it.
Diet Sodas Linked To Stroke, Heart-Attack Risk, Study Says
I accidentally started a beach-cleanup oriented nonprofit that partnered with 70+ small businesses in my community! AMA!
Researchers showed that we can acquire the vocabulary of a new language during distinct phases of slow-wave sleep and that the sleep-learned vocabulary could be retrieved unconsciously following waking.
I've my perfect one bag for business travel
Microdosing psychedelics reduces depression and mind wandering but increases neuroticism, suggests new first-of-its-kind study (n=98 and 263) to systematically measure the psychological changes produced by microdosing, or taking very small amounts of psychedelic substances on a regular basis.
The Living Paintings of Roy Andersson (2019) – 'How the Swedish Director creates such unique and startling images
People who are 'night owls' and those who are 'morning larks' have a fundamental difference in brain function. This difference is why we should rethink the 9-to-5 workday, say researchers.
CSS selectors level 4