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- 10 Letters We Dropped from the Alphabet: the video below shows 10 letters that used to be used, but didn’t quite stand the test of time.
- Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people - This text shows the importance of proper communication — no matter the media you’re using to communicate.
- How Do Japanese Dump Trash? Let Us Count the Myriad Ways - You’ll be surprised by how much effort that Japan citizens dedicate to proper trash sorting. This New York Times article gives us a glimpse on that.
- How To Be More Productive by Working Less - As Mark Manson’s text explains why working more hours doesn’t implies on creating more.
- How to Write a Git Commit Message - This text exposes seven simple rules to create great Git commit messages.
- Less Tweeting, More Doing - This text talks about how fruitless words can be if no action follows.
- Meet your long-lost distant cousin, Homo luzonensis - Ars Technica’s text about the newly discovered species that may be related to the “hobbit,” Homo floresiensis.
- The Case for Rooms - interesting CityLab article discussing on why closed floor plans may make more sense in the present world than open floor plans.
- These Hawaiian Stick Spiders Have a Profound Case of Evolutionary Déjà Vu - as this article reports, geographically separated groups of spiders evolved to the same three ecological types.
- What I learned by living without artificial light - Linda Geddes decided to live for weeks in only candlelight – no bulbs, no screens. This BBC article shows her findings about this.
- Why Are So Many Monsters Hybrids? - The Nautilus article explores the captivating horror of category violation.
- Why You Should Stop Reading News: We spend hours consuming news because we want to be well informed. But is that time well spent? This very interesting text Farnam Street text discusses about it.