madpen

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A jumping spider on the ISS learned to hunt in microgravity (2012)(colorado.edu)
3 points by madpen 5mo ago|1 comments
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by madpen 5mo ago
Made me think of Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. There’s something wonderfully fitting about spiders being highly adept at zero gravity.
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Toilet Embedded Urine Lab: Withings Releases U-Scan(withings.com)
1 points by madpen 11mo ago|1 comments
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The Neuroscience of Vipassana: How 10 Days of Meditation Changed My Brain(blog.charlied.org)
1 points by madpen 11mo ago|0 comments
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Debugging My Mind: 10 Days Struggling Through a Vipassana Course(blog.charlied.org)
2 points by madpen 11mo ago|0 comments
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Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants(7shifts.com)
90 points by madpen 1y ago|145 comments
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by madpen 1y ago
Within the context of iNaturalist. Anyhow, cheers to the iNaturalist team, the work they do and their Seek app. It’s one of the only apps I recommend friends to give to their children to explore, appreciate, and learn about the natural worl
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by madpen 2y ago
Yes, it’s definitely an ongoing process for me!
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by madpen 2y ago
Neat! I've been reading How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell and enjoying it. It's a bit political for my liking but overall a good reminder to pause and set aside time to just "be" and shelve the programmed drive to constan
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Copenhagen rewards tourists for climate friendly actions(visitcopenhagen.com)
34 points by madpen 2y ago|9 comments
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by madpen 2y ago
Makes a lot of sense. I’m glad I grew up with dogs - they surely exposed me to all sorts of things as a child that helped build my immune system. Single data point, but I’m allergy free, no asthma etc.
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Catholic Group Quickly Defrocks AI Priest Father Justin(futurism.com)
27 points by madpen 2y ago|11 comments
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What happens when we pay public high school teachers based on performance(pubs.aeaweb.org)
49 points by madpen 2y ago|123 comments
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Why might conservative lawmakers have beef with lab-grown meat?(bloomberg.com)
3 points by madpen 2y ago|4 comments
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Studies suggest religion struggles in places with high levels of automation(chicagobooth.edu)
3 points by madpen 2y ago|1 comments
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Interview with Michael Elowitz on synthetic biology(press.asimov.com)
3 points by madpen 2y ago|0 comments
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Protecting whales by giving them 'personhood'(nytimes.com)
3 points by madpen 2y ago|0 comments
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Bird species uses symbolic gestures(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by madpen 2y ago|0 comments
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Guiding Principles for the Mormon Church's Use of AI(newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org)
56 points by madpen 2y ago|76 comments
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How to feed all the power-hungry AI data centers(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
37 points by madpen 3y ago|61 comments
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A deep dive into Reddit's history and the power of its 60K+ unpaid moderators(wired.com)
4 points by madpen 3y ago|1 comments
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by madpen 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240314122819/https://www.wired...
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The adult consequences of being bullied in childhood(sciencedirect.com)
126 points by madpen 3y ago|133 comments
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Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal(cell.com)
314 points by madpen 4y ago|158 comments
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UCLA Study Finds Laughter in 65 Species, from Rats to Cows(openculture.com)
470 points by madpen 5y ago|194 comments