Opinion (Canada) Here’s why everything you thought you knew about gravity is wrongnationalpost.com - Washington Post We don't know what gravity is. Read More
Acne I Used A Pore Vacuum To Suction Out My Blackheads—and It Actually WorkedHealth.com - Jenna Wirth It was SO satisfying, too. I’ve struggled with acne since I was 12—excess oil, stubborn blackheads, large pustules, you name it. (I know, 12 sounds …
Science Secret of the ‘immortal’ hydra’s regenerating ability uncoveredsciencefocus.com - Sara Rigby Who wants to live forever? A tiny freshwater creature called the hydra can, and scientists at the University of California have revealed the source …
Greenland Historic Greenland Melt Is a “Glimpse of the Future”scientificamerican.com - Chelsea Harvey, E&E News Greenland is in the midst of one of its strongest melting events on record, as a major heat wave—the same one that scorched much of Europe last …
Mobile Technology How an electrical tickle to the ear could help apply the brakes to agingnewatlas.com - Nick Lavars Running from the abdomen up to the brain, it is perhaps not a surprise that the vagus nerve finds itself at the center of all kinds of medical …
The Brain New Study Finds Frightening Connection Between Weight Gain and Brain HealthFatherly - Lauren Vinopal A new study pinpoints a frightening connection between obesity and a thinner cerebral cortex. It is pretty easy t0 gain weight as you grow older. …
Play buttonMobile Technology FCC bans spoofed text messages and international robocallsEngadget - Christine FisherIt can punish the 'bad actors' behind the scams too. This week the FCC voted to approve rules that ban spoofing text messages and international robocalls. The new rules close long-standing loopholes in
Books 16 Books You Need to Read to Call Yourself a Book Loverrd.com - Tina Donvito It’s not just about the classics (although some must-reads made the lists). Being a book lover requires embracing a variety of fiction genres and …
Qubits Quantum supremacy is coming. It won't change the worldThe Guardian - Sabine HossenfelderThe unveiling of the marvel had the media gushing. It was Valentine’s Day 1946, and the New York Times broke the story. The front page spoke of “an amazing machine” and “one of the war’s top secrets”.
Science Psychedelic psilocybin microdoses in morning coffee proposed by Denver-based companynewatlas.com - Rich Haridy Denver-based company Sträva Craft Coffee has revealed it has begun developing tea and coffee products infused with microdoses of psilocybin, the …
Politics Steelmaker That Praised Trump Tariffs Now Suing U.S. for ReliefBloomberg - Joe Deaux Less than a year after JSW Steel (USA) Inc. lauded U.S. metal tariffs for aiding the steel industry, the company is suing because it’s not exempted …
Chocolate Dark chocolate lowers risk of depression, study suggestsThe Telegraph - By Sarah KnaptonIt is food news guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Scientists have found that eating dark chocolate appears to lower the risk of depression by four fold. While 7.6 per cent of the 13,000 people surveyed
Drinking The Most Underrated Whiskeys On The Market, According To BartendersUPROXX - Christopher OsburnLet’s face it, there are far too many whisk(e)y brands. Even the most ardent of whiskey aficionados will never imbibe a fraction of the varieties available in their lifetimes (unless they’re fully willing
Bill Belichick Why Bill Belichick and some players are not depicted in 'Madden NFL' or other video gamesCBS Sports - by Shanna McCarriston Any fan of the 'Madden NFL' video game series will know that in some editions certain players and coaches are replaced by stand-ins or may be absent, …
Science “Awakenings” in Advanced Dementia Patients Hint at Untapped Brain Reservesscientificamerican.com - Lydia Denworth An elderly woman suffering from late-stage Alzheimer’s disease had neither talked to nor reacted to any of her family members for years. Then, one …
News The secret to slowing down aging? Tickling, a new study suggestsUSA TODAY - Morgan HinesA new study from the University of Leeds suggests that tickling could be the secret to slowing down aging. This tickling is not the kind of tickling that results in spastic body movements and laughter.
Science We might run out of these elementsPopular Science - Sara ChodoshYou know to conserve water and trees, but what about calcium and bismuth? We can easily imagine running out of resources like water, wood, and oil, but it's harder to fathom draining our stocks of chemical
Loneliness 22 percent of millennials say they have “no friends”Vox - Brian ResnickToday, members of the millennial generation are ages 23 to 38. These ought to be prime years of careers taking off and starting families, before joints really begin to ache. Yet as a recent poll and some
Play buttonArtificial Intelligence One chip to rule them all: It natively runs all types of AI softwareArs Technica - John Timmer Machine learning and artificial neurons right at home on new chip. We tend to think of AI as a monolithic entity, but it has actually developed along …
Terminator 'The Terminator': What Happened to Star Michael Biehn?hollywoodreporter.com - Aaron Couch The actor looks back at working with Linda Hamilton ("I fell in love with her"), being around an aloof Val Kilmer ("I never met him") and his …
Portland State University Deante Strickland, former PSU basketball star, dead, 2 hurt in NE Portland shooting; sister in custodyoregonlive.com - Jayati Ramakrishnan A standout local athlete died Friday when police say a woman shot three people at a Northeast Portland home, killing one. The victim, Deante …
Science Scientists pluck an anti-cancer compound from a common flowernewatlas.com - Michael Irving Feverfew is a common flower easily recognizable either from a home garden or the shelf of the local health store. For hundreds of years it's been …
Culture The internet has changed the way we talk. In Because Internet, a linguist shows us how.Vox - Constance GradyThe internet has fundamentally changed the way we communicate with each other. It has given us GIFs, memes, emoji, and more initialisms than anyone can count — and in the process, it’s created a whole
Artificial Intelligence Machine vision can spot unknown links between classic artworksMIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv A new algorithm reveals a web of artistic connections by looking for humans posed similarly in different paintings. One of the important questions …
Technology Completely New Form of Gold Created | Live ScienceLive Science Under extreme conditions, gold rearranges its atoms and forms a previously unknown structure. And when the pressures were pushed to the equivalent of …
Long-form Journalism The Birth of the SemicolonThe Paris Review - Cecelia WatsonThe semicolon was born in Venice in 1494. It was meant to signify a pause of a length somewhere between that of the comma and that of the colon, and this heritage was reflected in its form, which combines
Better Call Saul Former Better Call Saul Actor Is 'Waiting For The Phone Call' To Returncinemablend.com - Nick Venable As Better Call Saul gets set to take Bob Odenkirk's Jimmy McGill over the edge into becoming Saul Goodman, the AMC drama will hopefully continue …
Daniel Craig Daniel Craig’s James Bond 007 Workout Plan and Dietmanofmany.com - Jacob Osborn He might be history’s most reluctant action star, but if you had to pull off the Daniel Craig workout plan and diet for each Bond instalment, you …
Gillette P&G's Gillette writes off $8 billion as men stop shavingQuartz - Adam RasmiProcter & Gamble, the world’s largest consumer goods company, beat earnings expectations this week, causing its stock to soar to a record high. But P&G also announced a $5.24 billion loss due to the struggles
