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Many pithy, memorable famous last words are posthumous fiction. Conflicting historical accounts and sparse witnesses make them hard to verify. The reality of famous figures’ deaths tends to be more sobering. Don’t trust everything you read on the internet —…
So many people read Stephen Hawking’s thesis that it crashed Cambridge University’s site Image: Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation By Gianluca Mezzofiore2017-10-24 11:05:45 UTC News that the University of Cambridge made Stephen Hawking’s seminal doctoral thesis (on how universes…
‘Pay with Google’ wants to take the forms out of online shopping Image: Cultura/REX/Shutterstock By Monica Chin2017-10-23 19:47:14 UTC Google is about to make it way easier for you to shop online. The search giant’s new Pay with Google payment…
Photo via VisualHunt Core exercises will build up your abs, but they do nothing for the layer of fat on top of them. Likewise, no leg exercise can give you slimmer thighs. And yet headlines and tweets about shrinking specific…
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Those who see governments banning ownership of bitcoin are ignoring the political power and influence of those who are snapping up most of the bitcoin. To really understand an asset, we have…
Image: Stoughton/NIST Some numbers don’t change. These values are deeply connected to the very fabric of the Universe and our human existence. Until they aren’t, of course. Then we change them—for good reason. Scientists around the world just recommended changes…
Gluten-free diets are probably doing more harm than good to your body. Peter Green, the director of Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, explains the myth surrounding gluten-free diets. Following is a transcript of the video. Peter Green: I’m Peter Green. I’m…
There is a potent thread winding its way through generations of human culture. From Ancient Egyptian rituals to Kurzweil’s Singularity, many paths have sprung up leading to the same elusive destination: immortality. Today, as Visual Capitalist’s Nick Routely notes, the concept…