2019, June

  • The Definitive Study on How to Make Perfect Hard-Boiled Eggs - Great experiment on what’s the best method to make hard-boiled eggs.
  • Ditch the GPS. It’s ruining your brain. - Interesting text on how our day to day GPS using may be spoiling us.
  • Honey bees zero in on the empty set - Science’s article on how bees appear to understand the concept of zero.
  • How HTTPS Works - Great site that explains in a really simple and fun way how HTTPS works.
  • The Hiding Place: Inside the World’s First Long-Term Storage Facility for Highly Radioactive Nuclear Waste - This Pacific Standard artcile brings an excerpt from Robert Macfarlane’s new book Underland, showing what it’s being done about the nuclear waste that we produce.
  • Never Underestimate The Impact Of A Single Rotten Apple - A single lazy person in a team can have a big impact on it, as this text states. I think we all have experienced something similar during our work career.
  • The next big thing in fashion? Not washing your clothes - Not washing your clothes seems gross, but not if you are using one of these travel clothes.
  • Organic Farming, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Ant-Processed Coffee - By observing the nature do its thing, a coffee grower discovered an interesting new product. This text talks about it.
  • Too Many People Want to Travel - The Atlantic’s article on the perils of overtourism, which has led to environmental degradation, dangerous conditions, and the immiseration and pricing-out of locals in many places.
  • Watch a Moth Suck the Tears Out of a Bird’s Eye, Because Nature Is Metal - Nature can be weird sometimes, as shown on Live Science’s article.