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Too many comments about AI and not enough fun facts about isopods! Can anyone tell me more about them? How do their eyes work? They look like blackberries in a lot of the species.

Personally I love a lot about software engineering (iterative problem solving, sorting through complexities, the predictability you mention or at least how things are logical and o…

I really really love both Outer Wilds and the DLC and think the reddit community, when asked, does a great job of providing advice or tips for specific situations without revealing…

> It is unfortunate though, that this strategy is only seemingly applied to white people. It is much more than unfortunate.

And the relevant article in PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/09/14/2004532117

Such a great book! I thought the whole section on why we age was compelling. The idea that nature can select for mutations which may be beneficial earlier on but have harmful effec…

https://xkcd.com/2357/

Yeah, the effects seem to be decently delayed for me as well.

I strongly recommend both of these books. The Soul of an Octopus is more anecdotal and Other Minds is more academic; in sum they offer not just a fascinating picture of octopuses, …

Here is the link to the interactive project spoken about in this interview: https://lifeundertheice.org

The article mentions that illustration is a lot better than photography but doesn't mention any specifics. Does anyone have insight as to why this is?

Here is the referenced article if anyone is interested: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kj3ny5wk93bxj44/Sepulveda%20et%20a...

I feel like a significant portion of human traffic jams are caused by bottlenecks but as far as I can tell this was not addressed in the study. Would be interested to see how much …

Depending on where the epicenter is, it may take 1-2 minutes for the S waves (which are the slower, damaging ones) to travel to the major population center. Up to 30s of warning fo…

https://www.indigoag.com

I wrote a script that monitors twitter for earthquake related tweets and notifies me when a certain threshold is hit. It pretty reliably notifies me 20-30s post-quake. Main problem…

I've actually done this and get notifications usually 30 seconds post quake just like xkcd suggested.

I think it's that, as the lava sinks to the ocean floor, it warms the colder, nutrient rich water at depth and causes it to rise.