Day October 24, 2017

8 ‘famous last words’ that were probably made up

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 —…

Google launches PayPal-like online payment system

‘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…

Everybody Is Lying About How to Flatten Your Belly

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…

Why Governments Will Not Ban Bitcoin

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…

Scientists Want to Update These Four Fundamental Constants 

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…

Introducing Cryonics: Putting Death On Ice

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…