Owls in towels. We’ve been reading Panchatantra (an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables) at bed time and the owls come up a lot. Did you know that they are blind during the day and eat other birds at […]
Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s. “The Brilliant Kûter cargo bike design offered a swappable front end to carry everything from mail bags to milk cans.” You may remember that I’m into cargo bikes these days. ~ […]
Elephants have names for each other. “When the researchers played a clip to an elephant of their friend or family member calling out their name, the animal reacted positively and “energetically” and moved towards the speaker, the researchers said. But […]
5,000 year old frozen mummies have sweet tattoos. “Here, the authors use high-resolution, near-infrared data in conjunction with experimental evidence to re-examine the tools and techniques employed in Early Iron Age tattooing.” ~ learn more
Why is fertility down, and how much should you worry about it? An optimistic point of view that I’ll subscribe to! “These are just a few examples in which tech has been the ultimate cause of the fertility drop. Can […]
Self-sabotage. This is interesting research. “We found that some people just don’t learn from experience,” said the study’s corresponding author, Dr Philip Jean-Richard Dit Bressel, a behavioral neuroscientist and experimental psychologist at UNSW’s School of Psychology. “Even when they’re motivated […]
New study shows glucose monitors don’t lead to lower blood glucose. Reading the study, the results aren’t surprising to me. You may recall that I’m fond of this technology, so what’s up? Well, I’ve always maintained that this tech by […]
What is a fridge cigarette? This hits me hard. “The ‘fridge cigarette’ is Gen Z’s answer to the smoke break—an ice-cold Diet Coke straight from the refrigerator.” ~ learn more
Don’t die of heart disease. “You should be scared of heart disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death globally, and it’s not just an old people problem. 25% of heart attacks occur in people under the age of […]
Purposeful tinkering and grit tend to forge the strongest software engineers. “Formal education is valuable, but it is optimized for scale. It distills messy practice into neat sequences that fit a semester. Those recipes create useful proficiency, yet they rarely […]