2019-10-31 All Things Considered, Jon Hamilton
The brain waves generated during deep sleep appear to trigger a cleaning system in the brain that protects it against Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
2019-10-31 All Things Considered, Jon Hamilton
The brain waves generated during deep sleep appear to trigger a cleaning system in the brain that protects it against Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
2018-07-07 Alexander Lee
The world’s most popular fast food has ancient roots, but it was a royal seal of approval that set it on the path to global domination.
2019 Autumn, Heather Mac Donald
Failure to enforce basic standards of public behavior has made one of America’s great cities increasingly unlivable.
-0 Chris Lee
Right light pulse duration and joint orientation enable ceramics to be welded.
2019-09-10 University of Hawaii at Manoa
In 1998, two independent teams of astronomers discovered that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, consistent with the presence of a uniform contribution of Dark Energy. It was not recognized, however, that GEODEs [Generic Objects of Dark Energy] could contribute in this way. With the corrected formalism, Croker and Weiner showed that if a fraction of the oldest stars collapsed into GEODEs, instead of black holes, their averaged contribution today would naturally produce the required uniform Dark Energy.
2019-08-22 Fernando Chague, Rodrigo De-Losso, Bruno Giovannetti
“We show that it is virtually impossible for an individual to day trade for a living, contrary to what course providers claim. We observe all individuals who began to day trade between 2013 and 2015 in the Brazilian equity futures market, the third in terms of volume in the world, and persisted for at least 300 days: 97% of them lost money, only 0.4% earned more than a bank teller (US$54 per day), and the top individual earned only US$310 per day with great risk (a standard deviation of US$2,560). Additionally, we find no evidence of learning by day trading.”
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3423101
This looks like a power law distribution or the 80/20 rule: a few people make most of the profit. It’s like writing an ebook or running a YouTube channel.
2019-08-30 Jimmy Maher
How the Egyptians may have built the Pyramid of Khufu.
https://analog-antiquarian.net/2019/08/30/chapter-16-how-to-build-a-pyramid/
Scott K. Johnson
In dry places, photovoltaic shade can even reduce water use.
2018-08-22 Andy Greenberg
Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.
https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/