Plenty of weaknesses in the study design but if you like the conclusion just go ahead and believe it! “A high intake of both fruit and vegetables was associated with lower depressive symptoms over time compared to a low intake. A moderate intake of veggies, but not fruit, was also associated with lower depressive symptoms versus low intakes.” ~ learn more
Sorry for ruining your tea experience. I guess now I have to get up to speed on the material of my tea bags. “The tea bags used for the research were made from the polymers nylon-6, polypropylene and cellulose. The study shows that, when brewing tea, polypropylene releases approximately 1.2 billion particles per milliliter, with an average size of 136.7 nanometers; cellulose releases about 135 million particles per milliliter, with…
“Using data on over 100 million physician office visits, we compared ADHD diagnosis rates, by day, among children seen by physicians in the 10 weekdays surrounding seven Halloween holidays. The rate of new ADHD diagnosis was 62.7 per 10,000 child-visits on Halloween, compared with 55.1 during surrounding weekdays, a 14% increase.” ~ learn more
Researchers created a new carbon material with a vast molecular surface area. “After the material was created, the researchers tested it to see how much carbon dioxide it could sequester from the atmosphere. The result was that in just two minutes it was able to capture 99% of its total capacity, a yield that nearly doubles current activated carbon products.” ~ learn more
Pretty much this: “if you take the most prominent description of how the rat's neurons spikes when exploring a maze, that very description is structured like the maze itself” ~ learn more
You know how every research agency and big company likes to public an annual trends report? Imagine taking 233 of those and feeding them into an LLM to extract the key points by industry. Someone did that, then summarized it in a notion doc and a NotebookLM podcast. This is a pretty neat project by Narain Jashanmal. I think some reports ended up being overweighted and dominating the summary, so…
“Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” ~ learn more
Someone made a roomba-looking vacuum that has an arm to move dirty socks. Follow the link for that video and nine others. ~ learn more
Simon Willison has been keeping good notes! “Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past twelve months, plus my attempt at identifying key themes and pivotal moments.” ~ learn more
Subscribed to this once-a-year blog after reading the 2023 post. The things that Kent Hendricks learns are very interesting to me, so I think they’ll be interestig to you! ~ learn more