In English – Sivu 27

2024-09-16 @ 19.27.59 ∈ In English

(2015 vintage)

Guy annoys girlfriend with puns at Ikea

We moved in together recently so had to make the unavoidable trip to IKEA; I figured out how to get through there as quickly as possible.

2024-09-15 @ 15.54.07 ∈ In English

‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

In general, the claims about how long people are living mostly don’t stack up. I’ve tracked down 80% of the people aged over 110 in the [world]. Of those, almost none have a birth certificate. […] [A] Japanese government review in [2010 found] that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead.

2024-09-14 @ 13.22.30 ∈ In English

(From 2023; Medium.com, eww)

AI and the American Smile

Why do you smile the way you do? A silly question, of course, since it’s only “natural” to smile the way you do, isn’t it? It’s common sense. How else would someone smile? As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple.

2024-09-12 @ 14.01.42 ∈ In English

Command Line Magic (@climagic@mastodon.social)

We’re coming up on Day 20,000 of Unix epoch time, which will be midnight GMT on Friday October 4th. Every 5000 days represents about 13 years, so these don’t happen often. date -d @$(( 86400 * 20000 ))

2024-09-12 @ 12.54.17 ∈ In English

(From 2021)

Bill Bailey - The Doctor Who theme reimagined as Belgian jazz

Comedian Bill Bailey reimagines the Doctor Who theme as Jacques Brel-esque Belgian jazz. Taken from his DVD 'Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra'.

2024-09-11 @ 10.26.35 ∈ In English

Assassin Bug Interrupts a Moth Date - Observation of the Week, 9/10/24 · iNaturalist

Our Observation of the Week is this remarkable scene captured in India by @santosh-vithura: an Assassin Bug (potentially Euagoras plagiatus) feeding on a mating Footman Moth (Nepita conferta)!

2024-09-09 @ 18.33.42 ∈ In English

Video evidence: Japanese eels escape from their predator’s stomach

After being swallowed, all but four [of 32 captured eels] tried to escape [back] through the digestive tract toward the esophagus and [gills]. [Nine] successfully escaped through the gills. On average, it took the escaping eels about 56 seconds to free themselves from the predator's gills.

2024-09-05 @ 12.04.56 ∈ In English

Part of brain network much bigger in people with depression, scientists find

[In] people with depression, a larger part of the brain is involved in the network that controls attention to rewards and threats than in those without depression. [The] frontostriatal salience network was expanded by 73% on average in participants with depression compared with healthy controls.

2024-09-05 @ 11.57.22 ∈ In English

Many of us can save a child’s life, if we rely on the best data

There are many ways to improve the world, but their cost-effectiveness varies immensely. You can achieve a lot more if you rely on the best data on where to donate.

2024-08-27 @ 14.35.15 ∈ In English

Volunteers record bee biodiversity and discover new species in Pennsylvania

The researchers recruited 26 participants, mostly Master Gardeners, from across Pennsylvania to sample bees after receiving extensive training from Penn State experts. [The] trained participants documented over twice as much biodiversity and novel baseline natural history data as [2233] iNaturalist users.