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The transmission electron microscope was designed to break records. Using its beam of electrons, scientists have glimpsed many types of viruses for the first time. They’ve used it to study parts of biological cells like ribosomes and mitochondria. You can see individual atoms with it. WIRED

We seem to perceive time as passing in one direction. After all, we can't just just forward to the future or revisit our past if we felt like it. Every minute of every day appears to move us ahead, pulling us through our lives towards an inexorable demise. A controversial theory claims past, present, and future exist at the same t

The last time you had your blood pressure checked, it was probably at a doctor’s office with a bulky cuff wrapped around your arm. One day soon, perhaps, you will just need a simple stick-on patch on your neck that’s no bigger than a postage stamp. A stretchy stick-on patch can take blood pressure readings from deep inside

One of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics may have been solved, retired mathematician Michael Atiyah is set to claim on Monday. Famed mathematician claims proof of 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis | New S

More people are going gluten-free in recent years, according to a study out this week, especially young white women. But the prevalence of celiac disease—the main medical reason doctors and nutritionists recommend cutting out wheat products—hasn’t changed. The Gluten-Free Trend Is On the Rise, Even Though Celiac Disease Diagnoses

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The term helicopter money was first coined by American economist Milton Friedman in the 1960s. The basic principle is that central banks create new cash and give it directly to people to spend on whatever they want. Deutsche Bank research on helicopter money and European stocks - Business I

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Years ago a close friend was trying to quit smoking. He asked for advice. I offered a few yogic breathing exercises to help him maintain composure and focus, hoping that if he took the time to notice his relationship to breathing it would inspire him to stop. His reply: “No, I meant a pill.” If a pill could replace exercise's benefits, would it be worth it?

Ireland’s government has fully recovered more than €14bn (£12.4bn) in disputed taxes and interest from Apple, which it will hold in an escrow fund pending its appeal against a European Union tax ruling. Ireland collects more than €14bn in taxes and interest from Apple | World n

There's a particular type of person in Japan. They are about 32 years old, mainly male, and typically come from middle-class families. They avoid social situations. You might be able to empathize—some people get anxious around others. Japanese hikkomori lock themselves away for decades

In the everyday world, events occur in a definite order—your alarm clock rings before you wake up, or vice versa. Quantum chicken-or-egg experiment blurs the distinction between before and

As it turns out, prime numbers and crystals have a lot in common. A new analysis from researchers at Princeton University suggests that the patterned distribution of prime numbers in the number line is remarkably similar to patterns found in the atomic structure of certain crystal-like materials. Prime Numbers And Crystal-Like Materials Share A Hidden Organization | Scie

Ancient humans sketched the line pattern around 73,000 years ago by running a chunk of pigment across a smoothed section of stone in Blombos Cave, scientists say. Until now, the earliest drawings dated to roughly 40,000 years ago on cave walls in Europe and Indonesia. This South African cave stone may bear the world’s oldest drawing | Science

7 Things You Might Not Know About Calvin and Hobbes | Mental Floss

The premiere was packed. When Bambi’s mother was shot there were gasps and parents covered their children’s eyes It was more than 75 years ago, but I remember that call. It came through on the kitchen phone at our home in Westwood, California, and my mother answered. Experience: I was Bambi | Life and style | The Guardian

Attention exhausted parents: The next time your toddler starts making strange noises or babbling about Paw Patrol, try to strike up a conversation — it could make a big difference later, researchers say.   'Nothing short of remarkable': Study finds parents' chats with their toddle

While computing pioneer Alan Turing was breaking Nazi communication in England, eleven thousand women, unbeknownst to their contemporaries and to most of us who constitute their posterity, were breaking enemy code in America — unsung heroines who helped defeat the Nazis and win WWII. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: The Untold Story of Cryptography Pioneer Elize

Daniel Goleman: My co-author of the book Altered Traits is a neuroscientist, Richard Davidson. He has a lab at the University of Wisconsin. How meditation changes your brain waves | Big Think

How to cure an hangover, from around the world World’s Best Hangover Cure? — Information is Beautiful

An old joke says if you want to know if a politician is lying, see if their lips are moving. New research shows that people can predict something about a politician's honesty just by looking at them, but it's not the lips they're noticing. Corruption is Hard to Hide if You're a Politician Whose Face is Wide | Calt

Apple’s COO Jeff Williams exuberantly proclaimed Apple’s Watch was the first to get FDA clearance as an over-the-counter electrocardiogram (EKG) reader during the special event at Apple headquarters on Wednesday. While Apple loves to be first to things, that statement is false. Apple’s Watch isn’t the first with an EKG reader but it will matter to more

When the Princeton researchers turn an external magnetic field in different directions (indicated with arrows), they change the orientation of the linear electron flow above the kagome (six-fold) magnet, as seen in these electron wave interference patterns on the surface of a topological quantum ka Scientists discover a 'tuneable' novel quantum state of matter

The next big breakthroughs in artificial intelligence may depend on exploring our own minds. So says Josh Tenenbaum, who leads the Computational Cognitive Science lab at MIT and is the head of a major new AI project called the MIT Quest for Intelligence. A plan to advance AI by exploring the minds of children - MIT Technology Re

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. Control, even a perception of it, can be comforting. Give Your Team the Freedom to Do the Work They Think Matters Most

How much of the world’s oceans are affected by fishing? In February, a team of scientists led by David Kroodsma from the Global Fishing Watch published a paper that put the figure at 55 percent—an area four times larger than that covered by land-based agriculture. How Much Of The Ocean Is Fished? - The Atlantic

Men are doomed. Everybody knows this. We're obviously all doomed, the women too, everybody in general, just a waiting game until one or another of the stupid things our stupid species is up to finally gets us. But as it turns out, no surprise: men first. Why Sperm Counts Are Dropping For Men Today | GQ

Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10 billion-per-year paywall of academic publishers. Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read th

Energy generation by wind and solar farms could reduce carbon emissions and thus mitigate anthropogenic climate change. But is this its only benefit? Li et al. Climate model shows large-scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara increase

You think you know a little something about whales, and then Paul Sieswerda takes you to the Rockaways to go whale watching and you realize you know nothing. Whale-watching in New York City | The Outline

If you’ve ever dabbled in role-playing games – either online or in old-fashioned meatspace – you’ll know how easy it is to get attached to your avatar. It really hurts when your character gets mashed by a troll, felled by a dragon or slain by a warlock. What are our ethical obligations to future AI simulations? | Aeon Essays

No technology company is arguably more responsible for shaping the modern internet, and modern life, than Google. The company that started as a novel search engine now manages eight products with more than 1 billion users each. Google turns 20: how an internet search engine reshaped the world - The Ver

Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel stated this summer that “when the generation that survived the war is no longer here, we’ll find out whether we have learned from history”. I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on | St

Written by Have you ever pressed the pedestrian button at a crosswalk and wondered if it really worked? Or bashed the "close door" button in an elevator, while suspecting that it may, in fact, have no effect whatsoever? You're not alone, and you may be right. Why the world is full of buttons that don't work - CNN Style

Google Search is now using Service Worker to cache repeated searches, loading results twice as fast. The tidbit was shared this week by Dion Almaer, Google director of engineering, and Ben Galbraith, Google senior director of product, at Pluralsight Live in Salt Lake City, Utah. Google Search now uses Service Worker for repeated searches | VentureBeat

Can a melody provide us with pleasure? Plato certainly thought so, as do many today. But it’s incredibly difficult to discern just how this comes to pass. It’s hard to know why music gives pleasure: is that the point? | Aeon Essay

Arnold’s nerve ear-cough reflex is recognised to occur uncommonly in patients with chronic cough. In these patients, mechanical stimulation of the external auditory meatus can activate the auricular branch of the vagus nerve (Arnold’s nerve) and evoke reflex cough. Arnold’s nerve cough reflex: evidence for chronic cough as a sensory vagal

In the summer of 2017, the song suddenly took off in Indonesia when the hashtag #BabySharkChallenge got fans to making their own “Baby Shark" dance videos, complete with childishly simple hand gestures to act out the lyrics. The science of what makes a song go viral | Big Think

Timehop had three months of runway in the bank when it decided its current advertising solution wasn’t going to cut it. The app — a way to reminisce on photos and posts across social media — had raised $14.1 million since its launch in 2010. Memory app Timehop built an ad server to go from near-death to profitable -

Opioids are among the most effective treatments for severe pain. Their pain-relieving effects are mediated by activation of the mu opioid peptide (MOP) receptor. A bifunctional nociceptin and mu opioid receptor agonist is analgesic witho

In April, in the famous Faraday Theatre at the Royal Institution in London, Carlo Rovelli gave an hour-long lecture on the nature of time. A red thread spanned the stage, a metaphor for the Italian theoretical physicist’s subject. “Time is a long line,” he said. Forget Everything You Think You Know About Time

And it comes amid a possible U.S.-China trade war, likely monetary tightening by the Fed, more expensive growth in China’s consumer economy, and a long-standing sense that we’re in a tech bubble. Tech Inventories Are Near Pre-Crisis Levels as Growth Is Slowing - Bloomber

https://johnhw.github.io/umap_primes/... First million integers, laid out with UMAP - YouTube

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