What is frisson?
A fancy word for chills.
A fancy word for chills.
TIL: Pakistan is home to more than 7,000 known glaciers, and therefore has more glacial ice than any other country (excluding the polar regions).
Johannes Max Brückner was a German geometer, best known for his amazing collection of polyhedral models which you can read in his book, Vielecke und Vielflache, Theorie und Geschichte (via Present & Correct, Colossal, and Sidebar)
Casimir Funk (born Kazimierz Funk) was a Polish biochemist best known for formulating the idea of vitamins and Google has honoured his 140th birthday with a Google Doodle today.
A great way to save some animals.
From Space.com: Humanity is slowly losing access to the night sky, and astronomers have invented a new term to describe the pain associated with this loss: ‘noctalgia,’ meaning ‘night grief.’
‘Often it is claimed that Common Crawl contains the entire web, but that’s absolutely not true. Based on what I know about how many URLs exist, it’s very, very small.’
Quanta Magazine on ‘What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything’: When your mind is wandering, your brain’s “default mode” network is active. Its discovery 20 years ago inspired a raft of research into networks of brain regions and how they interact with each other.
So much venture capital interest in eco-friendly causes is a red flag for me.
Happy birthday to Beth A. Brown who was born on this day in 1969. She was the first Black woman to earn a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Michigan in 1998, with her research focusing on X-ray emissions of faint elliptical galaxies, and black holes. She sadly passed away on 8th October 2008.
I found this on Bluesky today: exa – a modern replacement for ls. You list files hundreds of times a day. Why spend your time squinting at black and white text?
Mic check, 1-2!