Everyone has expensive taste. When a bottle of wine costs more, our brains will actually trick us into liking it more, according to a new study from the University of Bonn. Your brain is why expensive wine tastes so good
This site, currently under construction, will soon begin publishing English translations of the seminar lectures of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) that were given at the University of Paris between 1979 and 1988. Seminar Translations are forthcoming. https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. The Internet Archive will suspend its waiting lists for digital copies of book as part of its National Emergency Library, the organization said Tuesday. Internet Archive's 'national emergency library' has over a million books to
Gisele Huff is convinced universal basic income is finally having its moment. The 84-year-old French native and San Francisco resident is the president of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity, a nonprofit that promotes universal basic income as a solution to economic inequality. Meet universal basic income’s unlikely Bay Area evangelist – East Bay Times
Part of Cloudflare's service is a CDN that makes millions of Internet properties faster and more reliable by caching web assets closer to browsers and end users. We make improvements to our infrastructure to make end-user experiences faster, more secure, and more reliable all the time. Why We Started Putting Unpopular Assets in Memory
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As an archaeologist, I know that events we can’t control shape the future in ways we can’t imagine, for better and for worse, such as volcanoes erupting, like Vesuvius at Pompeii, or the Little Ice Age that led to the collapse of the Viking settlement in Greenland in the 15th century. The coronavirus epidemic, like those before it, will alter the course of hi
O jongens ik had er zo’n zin in – thuiswerken. De aanleiding was natuurlijk afschuwelijk, en ik ben de laatste die lichtzinnig zou doen over de coronacrisis, maar stiekem voelde ik dat ik het land weleens wat zou laten zien als we massaal gedwongen werden om thuis te werken. Thuis werken met je familie – dat is de hel - NRC
NASA needs 215 more petabytes of storage by the year 2025, and expects Amazon Web Services to provide the bulk of that capacity. However, the space agency didn’t realize this would cost it plenty in cloud egress charges. As in, it will have to pay as scientists download its data. NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS – but forgot about eye-wateri
What would a world without humans look like? As countries go under lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID–19, photos on social media suggest it might be a lot cleaner, for a start. As Italy quarantines over coronavirus, swans appear in Venice canals, dolph
Good grief. Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse than hoarding 5,000 rolls of toilet paper, a bleach-based story emerges. Poison Control begs people to stop drinking bleach to fight coronavirus
The world’s ultra-rich looking to escape coronavirus hot spots are being turned away from private jet companies despite offering vasts sums of money to secure a seat. Coronavirus travel ban prevents ultra-wealthy from leaving on private jets
Steam smashed its all-time record for concurrent users over the weekend with a 24-hour peak set at 20,313,451, according to data from the PC gaming platform’s website. It’s the first time Steam has ever had more than 20 million users online at once; nearly 6. Steam hit its all-time concurrent user peak over the weekend - The Verge
Some patients who recovered from Covid-19 have suffered reduced lung function and now experience problems such as gasping for air when walking quickly, Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has revealed. Coronavirus: some recovered patients may have reduced lung function and are
When, in January 2016, I wrote that despite being a lifelong Republican who worked in the previous three GOP administrations, I would never vote for Donald Trump, even though his administration would align much more with my policy views than a Hillary Clinton presidency would, a lot of my Republican Peter Wehner: The Trump Presidency Is Over - The Atlantic
The Game of Life is a 2d, grid-shaped petri dish. Each grid square in the dish is a cell that can be either alive or dead. Every cell in the above animation lives and dies according to these rules. Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life
The mirror test was developed by psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr.1 in 1970 as a method for determining whether a non-human animal has the ability of self-recognition. It’s also known as the “mark test” or “mirror self-recognition test” (MSR). List of Animals That Have Passed the Mirror Test | Animal Cognition
If you’re using Docker, the next natural step seems to be Kubernetes, aka K8s: that’s how you run things in production, right? Well, maybe. Solutions designed for 500 software engineers working on the same application are quite different than solutions for 50 software engineers. “Let’s use Kubernetes!” Now you have 8 problems
When the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton first published their research on “deaths of despair” five years ago, they focused on middle-aged whites. Opinion | How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts - The New
Sugar substitutes make people feel they can indulge in a sweet treat or a soft drink without the calories. But research suggests that consuming low-calorie sweeteners at the same time as carbohydrates prevents the body from using blood sugar effectively, increasing the risk of health problems. The bitter effects of mixing low-calorie sweeteners with carbs : Research H
A single dose of the serotonin 2A receptor (5-HT2AR) agonist psilocybin can have long-lasting beneficial effects on mood, personality, and potentially on mindfulness, but underlying mechanisms are unknown. A single psilocybin dose is associated with long-term increased mindfulness
The U.S. is a puritanical country and has a puritanical work ethic, which means rising early with the sun, working until dark and then going to bed before you burn through too many sinful candles or “Devil Sticks. This Doctor Is Trying To Destigmatize Sleeping Until Noon For Millennials
End-to-End tests have become quite common in today’s software engineering industry. They are performed by teams of various sizes with the aim of ensuring that all components, internal and external, of the software product, been developed functions as stipulated in the requirements specification. All You Need to Know About End to End Testing - ITNEXT
The coronavirus outbreak is first and foremost a human tragedy, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. It is also having a growing impact on the global economy. This article is intended to provide business leaders with a perspective on the evolving situation and implications for their companies. Coronavirus' business impact: Evolving perspective | McKinsey
There are different formulations of hand sanitizer, but all of them include chemicals that make drinking it dangerous. It is possible to get intoxicated by drinking hand sanitizer made using ethyl alcohol or ethanol. Can You Drink Hand Sanitizer or Get Drunk on It?
The rise in deep learning forms of AI, and the abundance of real-world data behind it, is pressing the need for a new kind of computer to replace the typical Von Neumann machines expressed in processors from Intel and AMD, and graphics chips from Nvidia. ‘It’s not just AI, this is a change in the entire computing industry,’ says
Automation is firmly established in the workplace, and many businesses have benefited greatly from this rapidly evolving technology. Council Post: 14 Jobs That Could Be Automated Within The Next Decade
So. Serializing IPv4 packets. Easy? Well, not exactly. IPv4 was annoying to parse, because we had 3-bit integers, and 13-bit integers, and who knows what else. Serializing it is... amos
My honeymoon with the Go language is extremely over. This article is going to have a different tone from what I've been posting the past year - it's a proper rant. And I always feel bad writing those, because, inevitably, it discusses things a lot of people have been working very hard on. amos - I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride
Okay, but what is Dispatch? Put simply, Dispatch is: All of the ad-hoc things you’re doing to manage incidents today, done for you, and a bunch of other things you should’ve been doing, but have not had the time! Introducing Dispatch - Netflix Technology Blog - Medium