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Inside the mind of a bee is a hive of sensory activity | Aeon Essays

René Descartes’s dog, Monsieur Grat (‘Mister Scratch’), used to accompany the 17th-century French philosopher on his ruminative walks, and was the object of his fond attention. Yet, for the most part, Descartes did not think very highly of the inner life of nonhuman animals. Inside the mind of a bee is a hive of sensory activity | Aeon Essays

China Pours Money Into Research, Luring U.S. Scientists And Students : Shot

In 2003, Jay Siegel was up for a new challenge. Siegel was a tenured professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, but he took a job at the University of Zurich. "When I first moved, people said, 'Oh, you're crazy to leave San Diego; it's a paradise. China Pours Money Into Research, Luring U.S. Scientists And Students : Shot

Can your CTO still code? - Recode

Many chief technology officers study technology, consider different architectures and challenge their team to deliver products and services. The problem with this approach is that many CTOs today no longer maintain application development proficiencies. Can your CTO still code? - Recode

Harvesting in a trade war: U.S. crops rot as storage costs soar | Reuters

(Reuters) - U.S. farmers finishing their harvests are facing a big problem - where to put the mountain of grain they cannot sell to Chinese buyers. For Louisiana farmer Richard Fontenot and his neighbors, the solution was a costly one: Let the crops rot. Harvesting in a trade war: U.S. crops rot as storage costs soar | Reuters

Overload control for scaling WeChat microservices | the morning paper

There are two reasons to love this paper. First off, we get some insights into the backend that powers WeChat; and secondly the authors share the design of the battle hardened overload control system DAGOR that has been in production at WeChat for five years. Overload control for scaling WeChat microservices | the morning paper

A new study says alcohol changes how the brain creates memories

Fruit flies are commonly used in experiments as they provide many advantages over more complex animals. In this case, they have small brains, only 100,000 cells, which can be more easily monitored than a larger animal and a genome that is well known and can be manipulated with few hidden variables. A new study says alcohol changes how the brain creates memories

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These Termite Mounds Are 4,000 Years Old — And Still In Use - D-brief

This image shows mound fields. The mounds are found in dense, low, dry forest caatinga vegetation and can be seen when the land is cleared for pasture. (Credit: Roy Funch) Two hundred million mounds of dirt dot an area about the size of Great Britain in a tropical forest in northeastern Brazil. These Termite Mounds Are 4,000 Years Old — And Still In Use - D-brief

A New Treatment for Alzheimer's? It Starts With Lifestyle | DiscoverMagazin

Armed with big data, researchers turn to customized lifestyle changes to fight the disease. Sally Weinrich knew something was terribly wrong. On two separate occasions, she forgot to pick up her grandkids from school, and she kept mixing up their names. A New Treatment for Alzheimer's? It Starts With Lifestyle | DiscoverMagazin

Google to pay JavaScript frameworks to implement performance-first code | Z

Google will be launching a fund of $200,000 to sponsor the development and implementation of performance-related features in third-party JavaScript frameworks. The fund's launch was announced earlier this week at the Chrome Dev Summit 2018, Google's annual web dev conference. Google to pay JavaScript frameworks to implement performance-first code | Z

New kilogram standard: how the SI unit of mass is being redefined - Vox

Forty feet underground in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in a bright white laboratory that requires three separate keys to enter, the United States stores a precious collection of small, shiny metal cylinders that literally define the mass of everything in this country. New kilogram standard: how the SI unit of mass is being redefined - Vox

HTTP/3 | daniel.haxx.se

The protocol that's been called HTTP-over-QUIC for quite some time has now changed name and will officially become HTTP/3. This was triggered by this original suggestion by Mark Nottingham. The QUIC Working Group in the IETF works on creating the QUIC transport protocol. HTTP/3 | daniel.haxx.se

Glossier wants to be the happiest place on Earth | The Outline

The Glossier sales associate, who’d introduced herself as an “editor,” was addressing a rapt audience. “Basically, our whole message is just democratizing beauty in an age where everybody is heavily covering up their faces and using so much heavy makeup,” she said. Glossier wants to be the happiest place on Earth | The Outline

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It ended in 1767, yet this experiment is still linked to higher incomes and

Investments in roads and cities can shape an economy for hundreds of years. Now economists are showing how one-time investments in education can endure every bit as long. Jesuits arrived late to the Guarani people’s homeland where Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina meet. It ended in 1767, yet this experiment is still linked to higher incomes and

Courtney Dauwalter Takes On Big's Backyard Ultra

Gary Cantrell clanged a bell at 6:40 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, signaling 70 runners to jog off into the woods on his farm in Tennessee. They had an hour to complete a 4.1667-mile loop trail. Easy. Most of the group finished with 15 minutes to spare. The bell clanged again at 7:40 a.m. Courtney Dauwalter Takes On Big's Backyard Ultra

How Dad's Stresses Get Passed Along to Offspring - Scientific American

A stressed-out and traumatized father can leave scars in his children. New research suggests this happens because sperm “learn” paternal experiences via a mysterious mode of intercellular communication in which small blebs break off one cell and fuse with another. How Dad's Stresses Get Passed Along to Offspring - Scientific American

Immigrants arrive with flourishing gut microbes. Then America’s diet trashe

An empire of germs dwells inside you, trillions strong. About a half-pound of bacteria plus their genes make up our microbiome. Though each microbe is small, a healthy and diverse microbiome is mighty. Its influence, studies suggest, spans the human condition — from mood swings to weight gain. Immigrants arrive with flourishing gut microbes. Then America’s diet trashe

The Math Behind The 5-Hour Rule: Why You Need To Learn 1 Hour Per Day Just

Three years ago, I coined the term The 5-Hour Rule after researching the most successful, busy people in the world and finding that they shared a pattern: They devoted at least 5 hours a week to deliberate learning. Since then, I’ve preached The 5-Hour Rule to more than 10 million readers. The Math Behind The 5-Hour Rule: Why You Need To Learn 1 Hour Per Day Just

Human Terrain

This project wields data from the Global Human Settlement Layer, which uses “satellite imagery, census data, and volunteered geographic information” to create population density maps. In parts of the world where census data is unreliable (e.g. Human Terrain

AnswerThePublic: that free visual keyword research & content ideas tool

The auto suggest results provided by Google & Bing are a goldmine of insight for today’s marketeers. As you type you are presented with an aggregated view of the questions & therefore a hint of the motivations & emotions of the people behind each search query. AnswerThePublic: that free visual keyword research & content ideas tool

Grappling with Mortality in the White Mountains | Outside Online

Last year, medical tests revealed that a rare genetic cardiomyopathy is slowly but surely mutating, expanding, and gradually weakening my heart. Though there are no outward symptoms yet, my heart pumps only four-fifths of what it should, and my future health feels less certain. Grappling with Mortality in the White Mountains | Outside Online

5 recycling myths busted

Last Earth Day, I published a column in the Washington Post on common recycling myths. I received so many comments and emails in response, often asking additional questions, that I wanted to follow up with a new list here at National Geographic. 5 recycling myths busted

TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat & YouTube in downloads last

Beijing-based ByteDance’s 2017 acquisition of tween and teen-focused social app Musical.ly is paying off. The company this year merged Musical.ly with its own short video app TikTok as a means of entering the U.S. market. Today, the result of that merger is sitting at the top of the U.S. TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat & YouTube in downloads last