Ditch the GPS. It’s ruining your brain. - Interesting text
on how our day to day GPS using may be spoiling us.
Self-Improvement
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.
World
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.
Impossible Foods’ rising empire of almost-meat -
Engadged’s article on the creator of the
Impossible’s burger, a meat paddy that is entirely vegetarian and
that its enthusiasts says it tastes just like meat.
Nature
Plants Complain to Their Friends When the Neighborhood Gets Too Crowded -
Interesting article talking about how plants can
communicate by sending chemical signals through the soil.
A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All Over the Universe -
This Wired article talks about the findings
that confirmed the existence of superionic ice.
Ice - Phases - Related to the Wired article,
this Wikipedia article talks about all the existing
ice phases.
Technology
Here’s Why Automakers Don’t Advertise How Long It Takes To Fully Charge An Electric Car -
there’s a very interesting reason for that.
Jalopnik explains about this.
World
Table for one: how eating alone is radically changing our diets -
there are many consequences that inadvertently happen due to frequently
dining solo. This The Guardian text discusses about this.
What is neurogastronomy? - Interesting text
that talks about how we eat not only with our mouth, but also with our
eyes, nose, hands and brain.
Moondust Could Cloud Our Lunar Ambitions - Wired text
on how the recent discoveries about moon dust could cause trouble to future
moon exploration.
World
Florida beer used butterflies in the brewing process - First Magnitude
Brewing brewed a beer with yeast extracted from a butterfly. More about
that on Tampa Bay Times‘s article.
The unlikely origins of USB, the port that changed everything -
Interesting interview with the key players of the USB creation.
World
On the Hunt for the World’s Rarest Pasta -
This article talks about the journey that it takes to
get the chance to taste su filindeu, the rarest pasta in the world.
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.
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.
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.
Why Are So Many Monsters Hybrids? -
The Nautilus article explores the captivating
horror of category violation.
World
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.
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.
History
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.
Science
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.
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.
Self-Improvement
How To Be More Productive by Working Less - As
Mark Manson’s text explains why working more hours
doesn’t implies on creating more.
