🧠 Memory illusions 🤖 A.I. love 🤥 Spotting a liar
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👵 Oldest person ever 🌵 Screaming plants 🥞 Pancake hack
Human life expectancy has been rising for decades in most countries, yet the record for the longest-lived person hasn't budged in 26 years. Jeanne Calment passed away at 122 in the south of France ...
🤖 English majors win? ☕ Caffeine = weight loss? 👽 Alien people
You know that kid who annoyingly crushed every test? Well, ChatGPT creator OpenAI just unveiled its most advanced AI model yet - GPT4 - and it puts that kid to shame. ...with one exception: English...
💰 Money DOES = happiness? 🤡 Clown study 🗣️ Convo hack
In 2010, psychologist Daniel Kahneman published what became a hugely famous study on the link between money and happiness. Beyond $75K/year, incremental earnings yielded zero meaningful happiness b...
🍭 Sweetener scandal 🕒 Time travel achieved 🍍 Pineapple hack
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💼 4-day work week 👴🏻 Wrinkles discovery 🏥 HIV cure
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🔊 Hearing loss fix 🦉 Zombie birds 🤝🏽 Hacking hangouts
I've thought a lot about ears in my life. For one, I had big, goofy ears as a child (I looked like Alfalfa from The Little Rascals). Then, as a teenager, I started experiencing tinnitus - ringing i...
😮💨 "Lung gel" 🚘 Missing commutes 😃 Feel-good hack
Scientists at North Carolina State have created a powder that, when inhaled, coats the airways with a protective gel that prevents respiratory infections in mice and monkeys. We are not mice. We al...
🌡️ Body temp trend 👵 Super agers 💊 Medicine hack
98.6°F (37°C) is generally accepted as a "normal" body temperature, but I've always run a bit cooler than than. Turns out, I'm super on-trend...
🍺 War on booze 😐 Fake faces win 🔥 Oven hack
Before you duck out early for dollar-oysters and a round of IPAs, consider this: Canada just released new health guidelines for alcohol that assert "no amount" is healthy. Canadian health officials...
🤖 Conscious robots 🚶🏽 Walk or die 🔥 Gas stove ban
Everyone who was freaking out about Bitcoin last year is now freaking out about artificial intelligence (and ChatGPT in particular). It's hard to deny how cool the functionality is...
💧 Hydrate or else! 🕵️♀️ Idaho killings solved 💰 Immortal billionaires
If your New Year's resolution is to live longer, listen up. If not, listen up anyway so you can sound smart at bingo this weekend. A new research study found that staying hydrated likely helps you ...
❄️ Winter sickness discovery 🏋️ Weight loss $$$ ✍️ Writing hack
Everyone knows you're more likely to get sick during the winter. Yet, why that's the case has largely been a mystery...until now!
🧠 Teen brain crisis 🤖 Killer robots ☕ Caffeine hack
Obvious statement: the pandemic was stressful for everyone. Less obvious: what did chronic stress over multiple years do to our brains? For teenagers, it looks like it substantially aged them.
🥩 "Lab meat" milestone 🤰 Baby brain discovery 👕 Laundry hack
Last Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deemed a meat product derived from animal cells - a.k.a. "lab-grown meat" - to be safe for consumption.
👶 Baby crisis ♿ Paralysis breakthrough ✂️ Nifty nail hack
In 2018, scientists started sounding the alarm on a troubling trend: sperm count (SC) in men was steadily declining. According to a recent study, the decline is now accelerating and the implication...
🕵️♀️ Boss spying 🧠 "Night owl" brains 👨🍳 Grill hack
This Monday, the general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (Uncle Sam's top worker lawyer) urged regulators to disallow companies' use of productivity software in ways that might stifl...
🏥 "Tridemic" troubles 🍵 Tea discovery 🚦 Elevator hack
Just when you thought things were back to normal, signs of a "tridemic" are emerging. The New York Times reported this week that children's hospitals around the country are completely overwhelmed w...
🎮 Game your brain 🚭 Smoking bombshell 🏖️ Eating sand
Remember when you were a kid and your mom told you your brain would melt if you played too much Nintendo? Was that just my mom?
🏥 Cancer vaccine 🤖 A.I. cheating 📱 Charging hack
The world could be just a few years away from a cancer vaccine, according to BioNTech's husband-and-wife founders. Reminder: These are the folks behind the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine that's now ...
😎 Metaverse = meta-worse 🍼 Plastic breast milk 🍹 Chill hack
This week, Meta (Facebook) unveiled its latest virtual reality headset called Meta Quest Pro. It has a beefy $1,500 price tag and a not-beefy battery life of 1-2 hours.
🐦 Elon v. Twitter 🥜 "Healthy" redefined 🎤 Crowd hack
Elon Musk changed his mind about Twitter again, declaring earlier this week he wants to buy the "bird app" for a cool $44 billion (his original offer price).
⚔️ Tech fight 🐜 Ant world 🍝 Microwave hack
It’s game-on between the US and China, and we aren't talking about the 2024 Olympic trampoline event (should we be?).
👶🏼 Crybaby cure 🍭 Sweetener scare ✈️ Flight hack
If you're pro crying babies, skip this story (and maybe do some soul searching). If you're ANTI crying babies, listen up - scientists just found the single most effective way to lull a bawling bab...