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What’s something about human behaviour that made a lot more sense once you learned the psychology behind it?
been down a psych rabbit hole from just scrolling random stuff lately and it’s messing with how i see people, myself included
biggest one: procrastination isn’t really laziness. i’ll leave a text or email unanswered for days, not bc it’s hard to reply, just something about it makes me avoid it and i can’t even explain why. “just do it” never worked bc it doesn’t touch that
also annoyingly — knowing about a bias doesn’t stop you from falling for it. i KNOW what social proof is and i still catch myself doing stuff just bc everyone around me is doing it, like i’ll notice mid-decision and go “wait why am i actually doing this.” knowing didn’t stop it from happening first
anyone else have a random psych fact just recontextualize a bunch of behaviour at once? doesn’t need to be some big study, even a small thing works
Inside NASA’s ‘Big Bang’: A Daring Plan to Keep the Distant Voyagers Alive | A reworking of the spacecraft’s power systems could extend the nearly 50-year-old Voyagers’ exploration of interstellar space into the early 2030s.
nytimes.comWhat makes a narwhal’s tusk so special? Scientists are close to unraveling the mystery | The unicorn of the sea’s spiral tooth has long been a scientific enigma
scientificamerican.comA sheet of paper is about a tenth of a millimetre thick, but doubling it only twenty-seven times builds a stack taller than Mount Everest — fifteen more folds carry it past the Moon
Couldn’t think of anyone I knew who would find this interesting. You guys are elected.
Rivers Are Flooding While Wetlands Vanish: Scientists Identify a Man-Made Water Paradox in the Ganga Plains | Huge rivers are carrying floodwater past wetlands that are drying beside them. Farms are becoming greener while the aquifers supporting them decline.
abovethenormnews.comBrains don't always rot: Scientists may finally know how human brains have evaded decay for thousands of years | Thousands of skeletal human remains have been discovered with their brain tissue unexpectedly intact. Now, a team of scientists may have finally figured out why.
livescience.comSomething Sparked a Technological Revolution in China 146,000 Years Ago—Archaeologists Have Now Linked It to a Mysterious Extinct Human Species | Archaeologists have evidence of sophisticated stone tools associated with Homo juluensis which may have interacted with ancestors of modern humans.
thedebrief.orgWebb found strong evidence of a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A — our nearest solar twin, just 4 light-years away — then the planet seemed to disappear, sending astronomers into millions of simulated orbits to work out how it could have slipped from view.
spacedaily.comGiant crocodylians dominated the food chain in Miocene South America, fossil evidence suggests | "Our new study shows that crocodylians in particular were the region's most important predators..." The study was published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
phys.orgBrazil's first Indigenous ethnobotanist documented 175 medicinal plants with elders of his Pataxó Hãhãhãi community, preserving traditional knowledge that was disappearing and finding that 79% of their recorded uses were supported by scientific literature.
news.mongabay.comNeanderthals passed on a gene that helps modern humans pack on more muscle — but only a few people have it | Neanderthals passed along a gene variant to modern humans that can make some people buff, a new study finds.
livescience.comAstronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star | An object observed by the James Webb Space Telescope lends credence to a strange explanation for the mysterious red spots in the early universe.
wired.comWhy Are Rivers So Mathematical? | A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further.
quantamagazine.orgScientists have shown how wool could offer an effective and sustainable alternative to materials currently used to repair damaged bone.
Researchers have turned wool into sustainable material for bone repair. The team from King’s College London tested the wool-based keratin in animal models and found the material was able to guide new bone growth across damaged areas.The team revealed that keratin – a natural structural protein derived from wool – was shown to support bone regeneration in a living animal.The material produced bone tissue that more closely resembled natural, healthy bone than the current gold standard: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-scientists-wool-bone-material.html