“In 1976, there were 9,000 products in the average grocery store, and now it’s ballooned to 40,000 products. And yet most of us can get almost all our shopping done in just 150 items, so you’re having to ignore tens of thousands of times every time you go shopping.”
What Too Much Information is Doing to Us
The Power of a Dinner Table
800-Year-Old Icelandic Hymn Sung in a Train Station
Eleven Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was 20
Updated: 1,000 True Fans
http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
Mary in Islam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_in_Islam
Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines
Consider the lily. And the crow. Why Neuroscientists Need to Study the Crow
http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/why-neuroscientists-need-to-study-the-crow
Dutch May Allow Assisted Suicide for Those Who Feel They Have ‘Completed Life’
Run to the Mountain: Just 2 weeks in the mountains can change your blood for months
http://www.sciencealert.com/just-2-weeks-in-the-mountains-can-change-your-blood-for-months
Robot journalists to start writing news and sports stories for Britain and Ireland’s national news agency
Scientists Discover Physical Source of Depression