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A picture says more than a thousand words, and that goes for this world map as well. This map conveys not just the size but also the distribution of world religions, at both a global and national level. Strictly speaking it's an infographic rather than a map, but you get the idea. These are all the world's major religions in one map | World Economic Forum

Andrew Yang may not yet be a household name, but he’s a bona fide superstar online. An Interview With Meme Friendly 2020 Candidate Andrew Yang

Chile's Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built by early inhabitants some 800 years ago. The islanders likely chose the statues' locations based on the availability of fresh water sources, according to a recent paper in PLOS One. Scientists think they’ve solved one mystery of Easter Island’s statues | Ar

While many in their 80s and 90s may be starting to take it easy, is at the other end of the spectrum. Setting multiple world athletics records in her age category, she is one of a growing band of "master athletes" who represent the extreme end of what is physically possible later in life. Can exercise reverse the ageing process? - BBC News

By default, Microsoft BitLocker protected OS drives can be accessed by sniffing the LPC bus, retrieving the volume master key when it’s returned by the TPM, and using the retrieved VMK to decrypt the protected drive. Extracting BitLocker keys from a TPM

HTTP is the application protocol that powers the Web. It began life as the so-called HTTP/0.9 protocol in 1991, and by 1999 had evolved to HTTP/1.1, which was standardised within the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). HTTP/1. HTTP/3: From root to tip

Over the last several years, doctors noticed a mystifying trend: Fewer and fewer new pain drugs were getting through double-blind placebo control trials, the gold standard for testing a drug’s effectiveness. The weird power of the placebo effect, explained - Vox

First introduced in West Germany as a short-hop commuter jet in the early Cold War, the Boeing 737-100 had folding metal stairs attached to the fuselage that passengers climbed to board before airports had jetways. How a 50-year-old design came back to haunt Boeing with its troubled 737 Ma

It’s well known that teenagers’ moods go through drastic changes. In particular, depressive symptoms – like feelings of low mood or self-loathing – tend to increase as they grow older. Now researchers have plotted out the exact trajectory of these depressive symptoms. There Are Sex Differences In The Trajectory Of Depression Symptoms Through

Back in the 1960s, a Harvard graduate student made a landmark discovery about the nature of human anger. At age 34, Jean Briggs traveled above the Arctic Circle and lived out on the tundra for 17 months. There were no roads, no heating systems, no grocery stores. How Inuit Parents Raise Kids Without Yelling — And Teach Them To Control An

By exposing mice to a unique combination of light and sound, MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can improve cognitive and memory impairments similar to those seen in Alzheimer’s patients. Brain wave stimulation may improve Alzheimer’s symptoms | MIT News

Rediscovering Ancient Greek music 16 minutes Music was ubiquitous in Ancient Greece. Now we can hear how it actually sou

Under the mayor’s new $10 billion plan, the waterfront of the Financial District will be built up to 500 feet into the East River to protect against flooding. Six years ago, Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City. The storm put 51 square miles of it under water. Bill de Blasio: My New Plan to Climate-Proof Lower Manhattan

Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of the earliest large-scale celebrations in Britain – with people and animals travelling hundreds of miles for prehistoric feasting rituals. Prehistoric Britons rack up food miles for feasts near Stonehenge - News -

The titles suggested pseudoscientific methods such as ingesting and bathing in a potentially toxic form of bleach and taking medication meant to treat arsenic and lead poisoning. Amazon removes books promoting autism cures and vaccine misinformation

In October 2017, a SWAT team descended on Jameson Lopp’s house in North Carolina. Someone — it still isn’t clear who — had called the police and falsely claimed that a shooter at the home had killed someone and taken a hostage. After the police left, Mr. How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - T

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The roseate spoonbill is roughly the size of a great blue heron, with the pink plumage of a flamingo and a giant spoon-shaped bill — “gorgeous at a distance and bizarre up close,” according to the Audubon Guide to North American birds. She Invented a Board Game With Scientific Integrity. It’s Taking Off. - The

TikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you’re avoiding it. Hello, person who is, statistically speaking, a human adult aged approximately “millennial” to “boomer. How TikTok Is Rewriting the World - The New York Times

In 2012, Oliver Scott Curry was an anthropology lecturer at the University of Oxford. One day, he organized a debate among his students about whether morality was innate or acquired. One side argued passionately that morality was the same everywhere; the other, that morals were different everywhere. The seven moral rules that supposedly unite humanity — Quartz

The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition. I was a wayward kid who grew up on the literary side of life, treating math and science as if they were pustules from the plague. How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math - Nautilus - Pocket

For almost two decades, footage of a Lala the penguin wandering around Japan has been making the digital rounds. Where Lala now? How Lala, a Pet Penguin with a Backpack, Came to Live (and Die) in Japan -

Mainstream media, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence supporting the safety of vaccines, realizes that there aren’t two sides to this story. Also, nothing educates like outbreaks. Facebook, Twitter are blocking dangerous antivaccine posts. It’s about time

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Quietly and meticulously 23-year-old Nigerian artist Ken Nwadiogbu smudges charcoal and draws with pencil. Inside Nigeria's hyperrealist art scene - CNN

President Donald Trump has had a fiasco of a week. His former lawyer called him “a racist,” “a conman,” and “a cheat” in explosive testimony before Congress. Trump walked away empty-handed from a bizarre summit with Kim Jong-Un. And then it got weirder. He went to CPAC. President Trump Repeatedly Veered 'Off Script' at CPAC - The Atlantic

Updated at 1:45 p.m. ET on March 2, 2019. Alan Jamieson remembers seeing it for the first time: a small, black fiber floating in a tube of liquid. It resembled a hair, but when Jamieson examined it under a microscope, he realized that the fiber was clearly synthetic—a piece of plastic. In the Deepest Ocean Trenches, Animals Eat Plastic - The Atlantic

Yesterday's successful launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket also sent an unusual payload into space: a cherry-red Tesla Roadster "manned" by a dummy named Starman and equipped with cameras that provided gorgeous views of Earth against the backdrop of space. But flat-Earthers aren't buying it. Yup, Flat-Earthers Think the Falcon Heavy Launch Was a Conspiracy

Doctors are typically conservative about new technologies, and often skeptical when engineers promise that their gear will revolutionize health care. Wireless Skin Sensors for Newborns Will Let Parents Cuddle Fragile Babies -

The team say the boy and girl, now four years old, are the second case of semi-identical twins ever recorded, and the first to be spotted while the mother was pregnant. The situation was a surprise to the researchers. Scientists stunned by discovery of 'semi-identical' twins | Science | The G

The DNA of life on Earth naturally stores its information in just four key chemicals — guanine, cytosine, adenine and thymine, commonly referred to as G, C, A and T, respectively. Four new DNA letters double life’s alphabet

Business Business Amazon’s Escape From New York Amazon Was Holding Talks Wednesday to Make NYC Deal Happen Amazon Acted Like a 'Petulant Child' in HQ2 Decision, NY State Senator Gianaris Says New York Could Have Avoided HQ2 Heartbreak Technology Steve Ballmer Bleeds Microsoft, But Goes With Amazon Technology - Bloomberg