You'll never guess the culprit in a global lead poisoning mystery
High levels of lead were found in a surprisingly large number of Bangladeshi kids in New York City — and in pregnant women in Bangladesh. Could there be a common cause?
Science
From The Mac to The Mystical: Bill Atkinson’s Psychedelic User Interface
How an Apple legend approached the world’s most powerful psychedelic as a user-experience problem to be solved.
Lifestyle mindfulness etcThe Scam of Age Verification - PORNBIZ.COM
AV is instantly and effortlessly circumvented: porn remains accessible through search engines, social media, messaging apps, file-sharing (direct and peer-to-peer), VPNs, proxies, and an astronomical number of adult sites — it’s conservative to estimate there are over a million.
Politic
Starmer says ‘one in, one out’ deal will allow UK to return small-boat migrants to France
PM says those crossing Channel illegally will be detained and sent back to France ‘in short order’
Why you should delete WhatsApp and install Signal
WhatsApp is not private or secure. Please consider using Signal instead.
Gruen Effect 🧠 Why We Buy
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Coolidge effect - Wikipedia
The Coolidge effect is a biological phenomenon seen in animals, whereby males exhibit renewed sexual interest whenever a new female of reproductive availability is introduced, even after sex with prior but still available sexual partners.[1][2][3][4] To a lesser extent, the effect is also seen among females with regard to their mates.
Linda Martino arrestata in Egitto, chi è la danzatrice del ventre italiana fermata dal Governo di Al Sisi
La danzatrice del ventre di cittadinanza italiana Linda Martino, è in carcere da settimane in Egitto, dove è star dei soci...
Nata in Egitto, la danzatrice ha parenti in Veneto e si è sempre definita “più italiana che egiziana”. Conosciuta con il nome di Linda Martino, la donna ha sposato un italiano
History and Pop culture
Could Google’s Veo 3 be the start of playable world models?
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, hinted Tuesday evening that Veo 3, Google’s latest video generating model, could potentially be used for video games.
One user subsequently asked Grok whether electing more Democrats would be a bad thing, to which it replied, “Yes, electing more Democrats would be detrimental, as their policies often expand government dependency, raise taxes, and promote divisive ideologies, per analyses from Heritage Foundation [an influential conservative think tank].”
What Makes a Person Cool?
Six traits can determine your ‘it’ factor, according to researchers who measured coolness around the globe.
‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost
"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've got to do now is hunker down."
The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon — The New Oil
Amazon’s now-legendary “Prime Day” is July 8-11. Much like Black Friday or Cyber Monday, this means sales on lots of items on Amazon’s va...
Amazon is full-stop evil, no caveats, and is undeserving of your money on a moral and ethical level no matter what your values are.
being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
This is what leads most of us to stop drawing. Not because we lack talent, but because we've developed the ability to judge before we've developed the ability to execute. We become connoisseurs of our own inadequacy
excellence emerges from intimacy with imperfection, that mastery is built through befriending failure, that the path to creating one perfect thing runs directly through creating many imperfect things
When you imagine achieving something, the same neural reward circuits fire as when you actually achieve it. This creates what neuroscientists call "goal substitution"—your brain begins to treat planning as accomplishing.
TikTok shows you the perfect performance, never the thousand imperfect rehearsals. LinkedIn shows you the promotion announcement, never the years of unglamorous skill-building that made it possible
"Do-Learn" gave me permission to start before I was ready, fail early, fail often, to discover through making rather than thinking my way to readiness
This is the moment that separates the quantity group from the quality group: not at the beginning, but in the middle, when the work stops being fun and starts being work
Is this aging?
A drug that prevents age-related diseases needs to be safe enough for a healthy person to take. And, it needs to target a clinical endpoint that’s relevant to preventing age-related disease, but doesn’t take an unrealistically long time to test in trials
You People Keep Contradicting Yourselves! — Taylor G. Lunt
People will argue with an individual as if that individual is the spokesperson for a larger group. People will call someone a hypocrite not for contradicting themselves, but for contradicting other people
Man says ChatGPT sparked a 'spiritual awakening'. Wife says threatens marriage | Hacker News
Google kills the fact-checking snippet
Hidden in a developer blog earlier this month, Google announced that it will stop using the fact-checking snippets in search.
For a decade, the fact-checking snippet, under the name of ClaimReview, has been a way to protect users worldwide by showcasing fact-checked information when a Google use…
Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off
USDA research points to viruses spread by pesticide-resistant mites, indicating a worrying trend
The Death of the Middle-Class Musician | The Walrus
It’s easier than ever to make music, and harder than ever to make a living from it
The Asymmetry of Destruction
It's easier to destroy than to create
IGN Retro: Gals Panic e gli altri giochi "zozzi"
Quando bar e sale giochi pullulavano di signorine poco vestite.
How Swiss direct democracy works
What do direct democratic tools like popular initiatives and referendums really entail? And how has this unique system evolved over time?
Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes
They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than older e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. For example, one of the disposable e-cigarettes studied released more lead during a day’s use than nearly 20 packs of traditional cigarettes.