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2019-05-09 @ 15.51.45 ∈ In English

The ‘curvature blindness’ illusion
“This is a recently discovered illusion, and it’s really quite striking. The strange effect is called the ‘curvature blindness’ illusion https://t.co/O3FdChvac3”
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2019-04-18 @ 19.02.11 ∈ In English

Follow-up: I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles
This is a follow-up to a post from earlier this year discussing the likelihood of encountering two identical packs of Skittles, that is, two packs having exactly the same number of candies of each flavor. Under some reasonable assumptions, it was estimated that we should expect to have to inspect “only about 400-500 packs” on average until encountering a first duplicate.
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2019-04-18 @ 16.27.55 ∈ In English

Should Computers Run the World? - with Hannah Fry
Algorithms are increasingly used to make decisions in healthcare, transport, finance and security. How can they best be used and what happens when things go wrong?
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2019-04-11 @ 16.50.38 ∈ In English

Doctors discover four live bees feeding on tears inside woman’s eye
Small insects known as sweat bees were found after woman complained of a swollen eye
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2019-04-11 @ 16.47.02 ∈ In English

How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole
We have just seen the first image of a black hole, the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 with a mass 6.5 billion times that of our sun. But what is that image really showing us?
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2019-04-05 @ 14.47.53 ∈ In English

What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?
What happens if we make a huge pile from all 15,000 nuclear bombs and pull the trigger? And what happens if we make an even bigger pile?
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2019-04-01 @ 17.33.18 ∈ In English

Bottlegate: Meeting a Governing Body member at the liquor store - YouTube
What happens when a group of religious leaders regularly bombards their followers with HD propaganda videos of themselves? Inevitably, one of them will eventually get caught by a member of the public in a compromising situation. Enjoy the spectacle of Tony Morris, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, as you've never seen him before!
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2019-03-29 @ 17.12.14 ∈ In English

New U of T research finds that just seeing reminders of coffee can stimulate the brain
Just looking at something that reminds us of coffee can cause our minds to become more alert and attentive, according to a new University of Toronto study.
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2019-03-27 @ 17.41.51 ∈ In English

Michael Jackson: The Product of a Doomsday Cult - YouTube
With Michael Jackson back in the news, it's a good opportunity to look at the less noted factors in his upbringing that shaped what he became.