New evidence shows that the window for formative brain development continues into the onset of puberty, between ages 9 and 13, and likely through the teenage years, according to Ronald Dahl, professor of community health and human development at the… Read More ›
Misc
Interrogating Zuckerberg
Soooooo funny!
More than half your body is not human
Human cells make up only 43% of the body’s total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists. Understanding this hidden half of ourselves – our microbiome – is rapidly transforming understanding of diseases from allergy to Parkinson’s. The field is… Read More ›
Another major app leaves the Apple Watch
Instagram joins a growing list to abandon the Apple Watch platform. To date, Amazon, Google, Slack, and Twitter have also pulled their Apple Watch versions. After people noticed Google abandoned its Maps app last May, a Google representative said that… Read More ›
Nice Things to Do For Your Wife
It sounds a bit cliché, but it’s the little things that make a marriage. Grand gestures have their time and place, sure, but it’s the small, sweet ones that mean the most: those just-because gestures that you do to show… Read More ›
Micro-Miniature Sculptures
Based in Ukraine, Sergey Teterin is an artist on a microscopic scale. Using a fine-tipped burin, he sculpts minuscule bits of solid gold into sculptures measuring a fraction of a millimetre in size. Requiring two to three weeks apiece to… Read More ›
A New View of the Moon
We took a telescope around the streets of Los Angeles to give passersby an up-close look at a familiar object: a new view of the moon. Great to see.
Tech news in 2018
Apple is changing up that single logo for a trio of new ones. The new design ditches the tiny iPod, iPhone, and iPad illustrations in favor of the Apple logo, and introduces three specific logos: one for the iPhone, one… Read More ›
Superstar
Somehow I had never seen Darci Lynne before. A superstar in the making.
Synthetic diamonds are chemically identical to the real thing
The spread of synthetic diamonds in China, originally designed for industrial purposes such as oil drilling, is posing such a threat to the global diamond market that it has forced dominant player De Beers to invest tens of millions of… Read More ›
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