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Why test site speed? When automobile manufacturers develop a new model of a car, it may accelerate quickly and drive smoothly on paper, but the manufacturer can't know how well the car actually runs until a test driver takes it out on the track. How to Test the Speed of a Website | Cloudflare

HAIKU, Hawaii — On an October night in 1979, a Navy man named John Collins rode his Triumph motorcycle over to the offices of a Honolulu health club. He brought nothing but a box of paperwork. The Enduring Fight Over the First Ironman Triathlon - The New York Times

Although our brain accounts for just 2 percent of our body weight, the organ consumes half of our daily carbohydrate requirements—and glucose is its most important fuel. Under acute stress the brain requires some 12 percent more energy, leading many to reach for sugary snacks. Why Do We Crave Sweets When We're Stressed? - Scientific American

Colin Morris recently explored the difficulties of spelling by identifying Reddit comments with (sp?) next to words. Its no surprise that Jake Gyllenhaal, along with other celebrities, were atop the list. Lets take this idea one step further. The Gyllenhaal Experiment

In 2011, I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest — before I vested any of my stock — to work on what I thought would be my life’s work. I failed, but I’ve learned to be okay with that. Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

Google made almost all its money from ads. It was a booming business — until it wasn’t. Here’s how things looked right before the most spectacular crash the technology industry had ever seen. This is how Google will collapse – Hacker Noon

Children who grow up with greener surroundings have up to 55% less risk of developing various mental disorders later in life. This is shown by a new study from Aarhus University, emphasizing the need for designing green and healthy cities for the future. Being surrounded by green space in childhood may improve mental health of a

The Big List of Naughty Strings is an evolving list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data. This is intended for use in helping both automated and manual QA testing; useful for whenever your QA engineer walks into a bar. GitHub - minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings: The Big List of Naughty Str

Hidden Village - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - noclip

By arugatse on Flickr When Rob Lowe appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" with a golden McDonald's card last year, one big question remained: How could the Average Joe get his own card that granted him access to unlimited McDonald's? Not easily, a little sleuthing has revealed. The story behind McDonald’s Gold Card - Business Insider

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has successfully landed on the asteroid Ryugu and collected the first sample from its surface. The sample collection was originally planned to take place in October, but had to be delayed because Ryugu’s surface proved to be more uneven than expected. Japan’s Hayabusa 2 bags its first sample from the asteroid Ryugu | New Scie

We humans like to put labels and boundaries on things. For example, the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space is the Kármán line, the point at 100 kilometres (62 miles) altitude where aeronautics end, and astronautics take over. Earth's Atmosphere Is Bigger Than We Thought - It Actually Goes Past The Mo

Scientists think they've identified a previously unknown form of neural communication that self-propagates across brain tissue, and can leap wirelessly from neurons in one section of brain tissue to another – even if they've been surgically severed. Neuroscientists Say They've Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communicat

NREL maintains a chart of the highest confirmed conversion efficiencies for research cells for a range of photovoltaic technologies, plotted from 1976 to the present. Best Research-Cell Efficiency Chart | Photovoltaic Research | NREL

A game where your attention to details earns you a lot of coins. WARNING: Once you see the difference between the images, you won't be able to unsee it Can't Unsee

We decided not to tell the kids. Marla knew that once our three daughters understood that their mother had been given 1,000 days to live, they’d start counting. They would not be able to enjoy school, friends, their teams, or birthday parties. My Wife and I Didn't Tell Our Children About Her Cancer - The Atlantic

The creators of a revolutionary AI system that can write news stories and works of fiction – dubbed “deepfakes for text” – have taken the unusual step of not releasing their research publicly, for fear of potential misuse. New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators |

This paper describes a nickel-based cellular material, which has the strength of titanium and the density of water. High strength metallic wood from nanostructured nickel inverse opal materia

Reporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting my money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN. Here’s what happened. Goodbye Big Five

Al Castillo, 33, drives full-time for Uber, Lyft and Juno in New York City. He typically works six days a week, Monday through Saturday, for nine to 11 hours a day. And, as I saw when I spent a day shadowing him, he rarely takes breaks. How much money NYC Uber, Lyft and Juno drivers can earn in a day

Diagnosing an illness requires taking in a lot of information and connecting the dots. Artificial intelligence may be well-suited to such a task and in recent tests one system could diagnose children’s illnesses better than some doctors. AI paediatrician makes diagnoses from records better than some doctors | Ne

The negative impact of strong sympathetic arousal on dexterous performance during formal surgical training is well-known. This study investigates how this relationship might change if surgical training takes place as a hobby in an informal environment. Absence of Stressful Conditions Accelerates Dexterous Skill Acquisition in

You might think that the impact of aging on the brain is something you can’t do much about. After all, isn’t it an inevitability? 3 tips to slowing down cognitive decline

After intense scrutiny on parts costs, the U.S. Air Force is 3D printing toilet seat covers for its cargo airlift planes instead of spending $10,000 to replace them. The news comes after Sen. Air Force No Longer Spending $10,000 on Toilet Seats, Officials Say | Milit

If you’ve ever seen The Big Lebowski, you’ll recognise this photograph of President Richard Nixon bowling, which infamously loomed over the Dudes tiki bar in the cult Coen brothers film. Bowling with Mr. President beneath the White House

Demand for measles vaccines leapt 500 percent last month in Clark County, Washington—a hotbed for anti-vaccine sentiment that has now become the epicenter of a ferocious measles outbreak. Vaccinations jump 500% in antivax hotspot amid measles outbreak | Ars Techn

LEGO Used to Fix Buildings Around the World | Apartment Therapy

Ike jime is a Japanese fish preparation method that paralyses fish and drains them of blood. When done correctly, it not just preserves the fish’s flavour and texture but also allows the flesh to develop an umami dimension when aged. Technique Thursdays: Ike Jime, The Japanese Slaughter Method For Tastier Fi

Last fall, e-commerce behemoth Amazon elicited bemused reactions when it started selling shipping container homes online. Sears Kit Homes: How bungalows in a box changed housing - Curbed

I’m flying back to the USA today, and as an infrastructure aficionado, it’s nice to be going home, but I’m dreading the disappointment. The infrastructural humiliation of America | TechCrunch

The United States does not grant titles of nobility. There are no lords, barons or dukes here. At least, not officially. Unofficially, however, Congress is made up of people who have credentials and experiences vastly different from those of most citizens. Opinion | Paths to Power: How Every Member Got to Congress - The New York T