Adam Mastroianni is the author of Experimental History. He studies how people perceive and misperceive their social worlds. His work has been featured in Science, Nature, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. He has a PhD in psychology from Harvard and a certificate of completion from 137…

Standing outside the pub, 36-year-old business owner Rachel took a final tug on her vape and steeled herself to meet the man she’d spent the last three weeks opening up to. They’d matched on the dating app Hinge and built a rapport that quickly became something deeper. “From the beginning he was…

I got a bit concerningly obsessed with birds for a few months. Follow Sarah and The Mouth! https://linktr.ee/inkydragon Older bat vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4eqkaHkTAI 💗 Support this channel and join an amazing community: http://www.patreon.com/bennjordan 👀 Stalk me on social media for…

People like to tell the story of how VHS beat Betamax because adult film studios backed VHS. It’s a clutch-your-pearls story that says nothing about why these multi-million-dollar businesses picked one format over the other. The real story is that while Betamax tapes had better resolution and…

30. August 2021, Bahnhof Morges «Calme-toi!» Nzoy hob die Hände, legte die Ellbogen in die Hüfte und streckte die Arme vom Körper. Für eine Sekunde liess er den Kopf hängen, täuschte an, in die eine Richtung zu gehen und ging dann in die andere. Wie beim Basketball. «Get outta here», sagte er. «Get…

Today we launch Issue 08 of Asimov Press. Read our full Editors’ Note and preview upcoming articles on our website. Thanks for reading! Sight has never merely meant the detection of light. In almost every culture, the eye serves as a sacred symbol: the all-seeing Eye of Horus in Egypt, the divine…

Es ist ein kalter Dienstagabend im Februar dieses Jahres und im Luzerner Treibhaus ist nicht viel los. Erst am Wochenende erwacht das Haus mit dem mintfarbenen Anstrich zum Leben – wird zum Club mit hohen Decken, einer grossen einladenden Bar und einer vollen Tanzfläche. An diesem Abend sind hier…

13 Oct, 2025 I read an article yesterday, stating that on average, people spend 4 hours and 37 minutes on their phones per day1, with South Africans coming in fourth highest in the world at a whopping 5 hours and 11 minutes2. This figure seems really high to me. If we assume people sleep roughly 8…

I was 34 years old when I first had the idea for the world wide web. I took every opportunity to talk about it: pitching it in meetings, sketching it out on a whiteboard for anyone who was interested, even drawing the web in the snow with a ski pole for my friend on what was meant to be a peaceful…

Der Antrieb, der von innen kommt Eigenmotivation ist der Schlüssel beim Lernen. Wie aber entsteht intrinsische Motivation? Und wie können Eltern und Lehrpersonen sie bei Kindern und Lernenden fördern? Text: Fabian Grolimund Illustration: Dass sich die extrinsische Motivation zum Beispiel durch Lob,…

Manche Kinder bringen von Anfang an mehr Leben ins Haus - sowohl im guten wie auch im herausfordernden Sinne. Im englischen Sprachraum werden sie als "spirited children" bezeichnet; auf Deutsch ist von gefühlsstarken oder temperamentvollen Kindern die Rede. Was hat es mit diesen Bezeichnungen auf…

dynomight · updated Oct 2022 · science effort 1. You’re in the mood for destruction. One day, you hear about this phenomenon of “radiation” where matter gives off energy. You think—perhaps you can harness this property of nature to make a big boom. Apparently matter is made of discrete objects…

Ein Polizeibericht und Videoaufnahmen werfen Fragen auf. Hat das Vorgehen der Polizei überhaupt erst dazu geführt, dass die Anti-Pnos-Demonstration vor zwei Jahren eskalierte? Eine Recherche in Kooperation mit der Republik, Teil 2. Wie Katz und Maus, nur dass es kein Spiel ist: Szenen während der…

There’s a tech industry habit of second-guessing “what would Steve Jobs have done" ever since he passed away, and most of the things people attribute to him seem like guesses about a guy who was very hard to predict and often inconsistent. But recently, we have one of those very rare cases where we…

September 22, 2025 • 2 min read I was lucky enough to make a few friends my first semester of college. We ended up hanging out quite a bit during those early months. We’d all get excited for the weekends because Friday nights meant going out to party. Everyone except for Anna, that is. Anna was…

Blueprints: Nicola Stäubli—Co-Founder of MONoPOLE You are in control of your own cookies We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience, analyse our traffic and advertising marketing. By clicking "Accept All", you consent to our use of cookies. Customize Consent Preferences We use cookies to…

S Sometime in the late 20th century a naked man bent over, spread his ass and took a picture. Eventually that picture, known as Goatse, became one of the most venerable memes in internet history. Who is this man, and how did his ass take over the internet? The story of Goatse begins with a…

Publication Date: SEPTEMBER 18, 2025 Sandia news media contact Kim Vallez Quintana kdquint@sandia.gov505-537-3294 Media Downloads Download image Caption Courtney Sovinec examines the packaged multi-patterned target used to create a new type of X-ray image at Sandia National Laboratories. Credits…

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years…

Cindy Bi is not supposed to be telling me this story. First, there’s the confidentiality clause. When Bi, a venture capitalist who claims to have invested in a dozen unicorns, hired a surrogate to carry her only male embryo in 2023, both parties agreed to keep the details private and away from the…

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The pleasure is in foreseeing it, not in bringing it to term. — Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions This post is about managing ADHD. It is divided into two sections: “Strategies” describes the high-level control system, “Tactics” is a list of micro-level improvements (really it should be…

Startseite|Bern|Bern: Wichtige Polizeiarbeit, fragwürdige Politisierung MeinungMedienfreiheit unter Druck – Wichtige Polizeiarbeit, fragwürdige Politisierung Der Fall ist schweizweit wohl einzigartig: Nach einem umstrittenen Polizeieinsatz vor vier Jahren hat sich die bernische Politik in die Medien…

Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code SCIENCE at this link and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/science This electrowetting device is called OpenDrop. You can use it to move water around for microfluidics applications. Or you can make games with it like Snake, Frogger,…

As Richard Feynman points out, every 'why' question in science needs to be treated with caution. This is because there are always several different levels at which a why problem can be answered, depending on what kind of response you're looking for. Taking Feynman's illustrative example, if pizza…

Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe How do we know? In-app Browsers. August 25, 2025 This is part of the series "Browser Choice Must Matter" Photo by Claudia Raya Apple vs. Facebook is, and always was, kayfabe. In reality, Apple is Facebook's chauffeur; holding Zuck's coat while Facebook wantonly surveils…

We were walking to watch the sunset when a dog started barking at us from a porch. From inside, a voice called out: "Don't worry, he won't leave the porch. The electric fence hasn't worked in years, but he still won't go past it." I stopped mid-step. A dog, imprisoned by a fence that only exists in…

"Diese Männer sind nicht zu Ende geboren" – Seite 1 Sein Buch "Männerphantasien" war ein Ereignis: Der Kulturwissenschaftler Klaus Theweleit hat 1977 als einer der Ersten den Zusammenhang zwischen Männlichkeit und Gewalt auch psychoanalytisch untersucht und damit den Diskurs bis heute geprägt. Seit…

Here's that link for Ridge! https://www.ridge.com/smarter Do you think all the frequencies are happening on this one mechanical device, or do you think there are multiple animals making the call at different frequencies? I'm leaning towards the wobbles being the higher pitch sounds, and the…

DCT is the secret to JPEG's compression. Image Analyst Mike Pound explains how the compression works. Colourspaces: https://youtu.be/LFXN9PiOGtY JPEG 'files' & Colour: https://youtu.be/n_uNPbdenRs Computer That Changed Everything (Altair 8800): https://youtu.be/6LYRgrqJgDc Problems with JPEG: COMING…

One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications technology was the development of microwave radio. Essentially an evolution of radar, the middle of the Second World War saw the first practical microwave telephone system. By the time Japan surrendered, AT&T had largely abandoned…

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Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580–1644) was an astute thinker for his day. It was he, for instance, who coined the term “gas,” which he derived from the Greek word for chaos (χᾰ́ος). But he is better known for an experiment he ran in the early 1600s investigating the growth of plants and trees. He took…

What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems 4 days ago Zoe KleinmanTechnology editor•@zsk BBC The other day, while I was doing some household chores, I handed my youngest child his dad's iPad to keep him entertained. But after a while I suddenly felt uneasy: I wasn't…

By Sam Clamons Editor’s Note: This article contains numerical estimates compiled from various research articles. It was reviewed by three climate experts: Casey Handmer, Paul Reginato, and Jonathan Burbaum. Their notes are recorded in the footnotes. Our full dataset and calculations are available…

Language is meaningless without context. The sentence “I’m going to war” is ominous when said by the president of the United States but reassuring when coming from a bedbug exterminator. The problem with AI chatbots is that they often strip away historical and cultural context, leading users to be…