David Brooks @ Ted, speaking about social neuroscience in politics, love, and ways of living. A funny speaker with a great topic. Going to the library to get his new book.
It comes as no surprise, in the world of always-on information, that fake facts are on the rise.
John Hodgman has set the fake trivia world ablaze with two books, an NPR exploration of the comparative benefits of flight and invisibility, even putting the President in his place with Dune trivia and more consequential, but completely false, true facts.
Look Around You points the lens of mid-century science education films at, well, absolute nonsense. Bless you, ants. Blants.
And, now, FakeScience tumbles these wonderful posters explaining the senses, animals, geologic features, and modern energy production. They even boldly take on the universe’s greatest question: Fucking magnets, how do they work? The answer may suprise you.
For When The Facts Are Too Confusing, Fake Science (via Coudal Partners)
Even further up my alley than x-ray strippers, this blog does MRI scans of fruits and vegetables. They’re posted as successive lateral slices, stitched together into animated gifs. A few have 3-d rotations for context. Super nerdy!
Inside Insides (@Potato Junkie as RTed by @doctorow)
The economist Andrew Oswald, who’s compared tens of thousands of Britons with children to those without, is at least inclined to view his data in a more positive light: “The broad message is not that children make you less happy; it’s just that children don’t make you more happy.” That is, he tells me, unless you have more than one. “Then the studies show a more negative impact.” As a rule, most studies show that mothers are less happy than fathers, that single parents are less happy still, that babies and toddlers are the hardest, and that each successive child produces diminishing returns. But some of the studies are grimmer than others. Robin Simon, a sociologist at Wake Forest University, says parents are more depressed than nonparents no matter what their circumstances—whether they’re single or married, whether they have one child or four.
Isn’t it satisfying when scientific research aligns with what you’ve been saying for years?
All Joy and No Fun: Why parents hate parenting
(via Boing Boing)
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A Tale of Two Nuclei (via Creaturecast)
When two lonely filaments find each other, the cells at the tip of the filaments fuse, and form new structures that have two nuclei per cell. This cell with two nuclei takes on a life of it’s own and divides many times to form a mushroom.
THANK YOU, INTERNET, FOR THAT FASCINATING FUNGUS FACT.
Source: creaturecast.org
