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From Iron Man to Luke Skywalker, viewers love watching their favorite heroes triumph over evil time and time again. These successful movie franchises have won our hearts, and padded film studios’ wallets in the process. Infographic: How Different Generations Approach Work

For at least 3,000 years, humans have known that malaria runs like clockwork, with a devastating fever that peaks, fades and returns on a predictable schedule. The Body’s Clock Offers a Rhythmic Target to Viruses | Quanta Magazine

LOS ANGELES — Across every metropolitan area, there are numerous electrical substations that keep power pulsing through the city. A Factory that Processes Your Dandelion Wishes

alis_ was looking for a way to visualize the services running on their custom alis_ OS. To reveal if the OS was running well, which tasks were failing. But also to show the dependencies of services having created new services and so on. And to have a clear differentiation between their domains. alis_ OS | Visual Cinnamon

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An interactive visualization opens up new ways of exploring and sheds a new light onto the evolution of Leonardo Da Vinci’s thoughts Codex Atlanticus

Royal & aristocratic families are known for their fondness of marrying within their own clique. Royal Constellations

The conventional wisdom is that successful innovation depends on providing an environment where there’s a tolerance for failure and a willingness to experiment, it’s safe to speak up, and it’s highly collaborative and nonhierarchical. The reality is that these elements do not suffice. Innovation Isn’t All Fun and Games — Creativity Needs Discipline

Two years ago, a new, freely distributed AI software called “Deepfakes” enabled the public to melt reality by placing anyone’s head on someone else’s body in any video. Deepfakes is powerful, scary, and just labor intensive enough that our world hasn’t imploded yet. Oh no, Samsung can animate your face from a single photo

People who experience anxiety symptoms might be helped by taking steps to regulate the microorganisms in their gut using probiotic and non-probiotic food and supplements, suggests a review of studies published today in the journal General Psychiatry. Anxiety might be alleviated by regulating gut bacteria | BMJ

These days, planes, trains, and automobiles can deliver us to any destination we can name. But how often can we say we know the origins of those names? Mapped: The Literal Translation of Every Country's Name

It’s late March and my friend Erik and I are on the first leg of our 2,000-mile bicycle trip from Los Angeles to Denver. After sweating my way up a hill in Southern California, I bask in a glorious downhill. The best cycling hack is a pool noodle — Quartz

In the ‘50s through the ‘70s, psychedelic drugs were studied for their potential to help people stop problematic drinking. At the time, the research primarily focused on the effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), which seemed to help curb alcohol addiction, albeit not consistently. Alcoholism: Psychedelics Like LSD, Psilocybin Show Potential for Treatment

After the sun formed, the dust and gas left over from its natal cloud slowly swirled into the eight planets we have today. Small, rocky things clung close to the sun. Gigantic gas worlds floated in the system’s distant reaches. As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern | Quanta Magazi

It’s too bad we call it bingeing. “Bingeing” is panicked pleasure. It’s pleasured shame. It’s disordered snacking. It’s 12 scoops of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Core when one is rumored to suffice. I Ignored ‘Game of Thrones’ for 8 Years. Then Inhaled It in 5 Weeks. - The

Decorate your walls with a colorful detailed poster of every geometric illustration from Oliver Byrne’s colorful 1847 edition of Euclid’s . Each illustration was carefully reproduced with geometric accuracy, arranged, and labeled as they appear in Byrne’s original 1847 publication. Posters - Byrne’s Euclid

Tell me if this is familiar: You go to Target or Costco, just to buy a couple of things. Some shampoo. Bananas if they’re ripe. Then you go to check out and somehow you’ve spent $180. You stare at the receipt. A Netflix data designer just fixed receipts

Recently at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics in Brighton, New York, one of the world’s most powerful lasers blasted a droplet of water, creating a shock wave that raised the water’s pressure to millions of atmospheres and its temperature to thousands of degrees. A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All Over the Universe | WIRED

Web developers already have a variety of interesting options for using JavaScript to write native mobile apps with tools like React Native, Cordova/Ionic, NativeScript, just to name a few. Trusted Web Activity - PWA to Play Store Guide

More people than ever are living long, healthy lives. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the average life expectancy is 78.6 years for men and 81.1 for women. More relevant, however, is that as people grow older, their total life expectancy increases. Don Norman on how design fails older consumers

By scanning the brains of adults who played Pokémon as kids, researchers learned that this group of people have a brain region that responds more to the cartoon characters than to other pictures. Brain scans reveal a ‘pokémon region’ in adults who played as kids - The Ve

Human beings evolved to move. Our bodies, including our brains, were fine-tuned for endurance activities over millennia of stalking and chasing down prey. This Is Your Brain on Exercise - Outside - Pocket

Most entrepreneurs are hungry to bring their company to the next level. Whether they operate a family-run business or a rapidly evolving tech startup, there is always another milestone in sight. Infographic: The 150 Apps that Power the Gig Economy

In a wire, electrons rebound off each other in such a complicated fashion that there’s no way to follow exactly what’s happening. But over the last 50 years, mathematicians and physicists have begun to grasp that this blizzard of movement settles into elegant statistical patterns. Universal Pattern Explains Why Materials Conduct | Quanta Magazine

Across the centuries, each generation has interpreted Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), finding him to be remarkably modern. At the 500th anniversary of his death (May 2, 2019) we can consider Leonardo’s meaning in our era. The Mind of Leonardo Da Vinci - Scientific American Blog Network

We start with the case of a woman who experienced unbearable tragedy. In 1899, this Parisian bride, Madame M., had her first child. Shockingly, the child was abducted and substituted with a different infant, who soon died. She then had twin girls. To Understand Facebook, Study Capgras Syndrome - Nautilus - Pocket

Fourier transforms are a tool used in a whole bunch of different things. This is a explanation of what a Fourier transform does, and some different ways it can useful. And how you can make pretty things with it, like this thing: An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms

Fabric, an expansion of functionality into mobile app analytics, beta distribution, and user identity and authentication. Reason of discontinuation is Google is integrating Fabric into Firebase. Google Fusion Tables (or simply Fusion Tables) is a web service provided by Google for data management. The Google Cemetery - Google Graveyard: Dead Google products

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The keyboard will become obsolete as voice technology takes over, with consumers increasingly turning to Alexa, Siri and Cortana to interact with their devices and appliances. Voice technology will make keyboards obsolete… but will it leave us vulnera

Gary Bloch became a doctor because he wanted to help people who were less privileged than him. For years, he tried his best to treat patients coping with poverty and homelessness. Meet the Canadian doctor who prescribes money to low-income patients - Vox

THINGS WERE different 28 years ago, when Zhou Xueyu and her husband moved from the coastal province of Shandong to Beijing and began selling fresh pork. The Xinfadi agricultural market where they opened their stall was then a small outpost of the capital. Global meat-eating is on the rise, bringing surprising benefits - The way o

I once ended up at a Boy Scout ceremony in the northeast United States, where I inhaled the American spirit unfiltered. The boys’ uniforms had Stars-and-Stripes patches sewn on next to their badges. Cheerfulness cannot be compulsory, whatever the T-shirts say | Aeon Essays

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is channeling some of his copious energy into a morning run, dodging startled pedestrians as he zips along, gradually disappearing into the distance. How Twisted Graphene Became the Big Thing in Physics | Quanta Magazine

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This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. Wizard of Oz experiment - Wikipedia

A new report has found that 26 states now either restrict or outright prohibit towns and cities from building their own broadband networks. Report: 26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband - Motherboard

Een goed halfuur is het gesprek bezig als Door Frankema van de Stichting Vaccinvrij opeens volschiet. ‘Wij willen als ouders gewoon weten dat het veilig is’, breekt haar stem. Een paar seconden maar. Dan herpakt ze zich. Bliksemende ogen: ‘De ouders hebben er hun buik van vol. Vijf horrorverhalen over vaccins tegen het licht - en ontkracht | De Volksk

Two days before Colin O’Brady flew to Antarctica to attempt the first solo, unassisted crossing of the earth’s most inhospitable continent, I asked him about the definition of a perfectly planned expedition. How to Fuel for a Solo, Unassisted Antarctic Crossing - Outside - Pocket

For more than 30 years, pieces of Garfield telephones kept washing ashore on the beaches of northwestern France, and no one quite knew why. Where was the lasagna-loving cartoon cat coming from? The mystery would puzzle the locals for years. For decades, Garfield telephones kept washing ashore in France. Now the mys

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