Pavel Sokolovsky

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to your health · Apr 2025

Developmental toxins.

From Bryan Johnson: “100 million US children exposed to industrial developmental toxins demonstrated a 5-point drop in IQ.” ~ learn more

better doing · Apr 2025

Minimum effective dose.

“I went to the gym today for the first time in weeks I tried to do only the bare minimum required – also known as the minimum effective dose. It may come as a surprise how little time we truly need at the gym to gain strength and muscle.” ~ learn more

better doing · Apr 2025

What is a morning/evening routine actually FOR?

“There's two different main purposes for routines, and advice-givers mix them up. They lump these two quite different things under "morning routine" and it causes trouble when you try to design your own.” ~ learn more

tech, startups, internet · Apr 2025

Inside view of a Youtube exploit.

“Some time ago, I was looking for a research target in Google and was digging through the Internal People API (Staging) discovery document until I noticed something interesting…” ~ learn more

tech, startups, internet · Apr 2025

Boomless Cruise.

Supersonic aircraft startup Boom demo’d a quiet supersonic flight. “When an aircraft breaks the sound barrier at a sufficiently high altitude, the boom refracts in the atmosphere and curls upward without reaching the ground. It makes a U-turn before anyone can hear it.” ~ learn more

fun facts · Apr 2025

Super Mario World code injection to play Flappy Bird.

This is absolutely insane. “Using various Super Mario World glitches, I injected the code for Flappy Bird (code written by p4plus2). This is the first time a human has ever completed this kind of exploit.” ~ learn more

fun facts · Apr 2025

Butterflies taste through their feet.

“Although some of a butterfly’s taste receptors are located on its tube-shaped mouthparts and antennae, most are found on its tarsus, or the bottom segment of its legs. The location of these receptors may seem odd, but they’re vital to a butterfly’s survival.” ~ learn more

fun facts · Apr 2025

Why Hong Kong uses bamboo scaffolding.

A super cool visual explainer. “It’s flexible, strong and cheaper than steel and aluminium — metal alternatives that are now more commonly used in mainland China and elsewhere in Asia. In Hong Kong, skilled armies of scaffolders can erect enough bamboo to engulf a building in a day — even hours — using techniques that are thousands of years old, and have been passed down through generations.” ~ learn more