In 1963, Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours (11 days) as part of a sleep-deprivation experiment.
u/FookyPanda — 2 days ago
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A Man Convinced an AI Chatbot to Sell Him a $76,000 SUV for $1
scienceclock.comu/ThanksFor404 — 4 days ago
Due to the high temperatures in France, the satellite images show a change in the color of the landscape, as the grass turns unusually yellow
u/FookyPanda — 6 days ago
Megladon tooth compared to a modern great white shark's tooth
u/FookyPanda — 6 days ago
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In Colombia, a dog noticed people exchanging money for food and figured out how to do the same. He started bringing leaves to a shop as payment, and the staff played along. Now he "buys" cookies with leaves every day.
u/FookyPanda — 10 days ago
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TIL there's an island in Greece where Alzheimer's rates are nearly zero, and researchers who went to find the error in the data found none.
Ikaria is a small island in the Aegean Sea. Around 8,000 people. Alzheimer's rates are nearly zero compared to roughly 1 in 3 Americans over 85.
When researchers first saw the numbers they assumed the data was wrong. They kept looking for the mistake.
The mistake wasn't there.
What they found was a combination nobody had studied together — diet, daily naps, a cultural relationship with time, and a fasting calendar that accidentally triggers autophagy — a cellular brain-cleanup process.
(Did a deep dive on this recently if anyone wants the full breakdown)
u/Akshat0816 — 11 days ago
"It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man." — On this day in 1946, Albert Einstein gave us reality check.
https://www.thefactsite.com/day/june-23/
June 23rd, 1946: Albert Einstein famously reflects on the dawning of the nuclear age, capturing a dark truth about humanity: while science can manipulate the most complex elements of the universe, it cannot easily alter or control the destructive impulses inherent in human nature.
Quotes from Oppenheimer (2023) Movie:
J. Robert Oppenheimer: When I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world.
Albert Einstein: I remember it well. What of it?
J. Robert Oppenheimer: I believe we did.
u/Thinkoutloudlife — 13 days ago