“The study, commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, involved surveys of 64 waste water treatment plants across the country.” They found an estimated 95 lbs of gold – worth almost $2 million – is flushed through the […]
I shared a link on LSD microdosing earlier this year, and a few readers have been talking about it ever since. While I have not tried this myself, I do think it’s an interesting concept. This author experimented with psilocybin […]
The peer-reviewed journal Genes, Brain and Behavior published an article on May 12th, 2017 with credits to 10 authors. Then, in their September issue they had to retract it because the authors couldn’t agree to the order of their names. | learn more
Secureworks, a cybersecurity firm, went to the darkweb to find out. Spoiler: not as much as you’d have hoped… | learn more
Aziz Ansari teamed up with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg on a research project to understand the implication of text messages on dating. How long should you wait to text back for optimal results? | learn more
Someone made a fun map showing where 70 Roman Emperors (from 14 – 395 AD) died. Naturally, it’s color coded by the cause of death. | learn more
During a conversation with a friend this week, we wondered how early a child can possibly learn to speak. “Kearney spoke his first words at four months. At the age of six months, he said to his pediatrician, ‘I have […]
After being schooled recently by Dennis Z for misusing the “et al.” abbreviation, I decided some research was in order. Do you need a refresher? | learn more
I remember chuckling at a restaurant in Europe when the waiter said the burger was made of cow. It sounded foreign to my ear. I hadn’t considered how it came to be that we refer to animal meats by unique […]