Sign of the Times: Why Young Chinese Are Removing Their Tattoos

Chinese millennials are getting tattoos in record numbers. But when it’s time to get married or start a career, many are forced to rush back to the studio to get them erased.

Eliud Kipchoge: Inside the camp, and the mind, of the greatest marathon runner of all time

He’s the greatest marathoner in history, a national hero in Kenya, and an icon for runners around the world. But despite his fame and wealth, Eliud Kipchoge chooses to live the most basic lifestyle. Cathal Dennehy travels to the highlands of Kenya for an inside look at his…

There’s Still Profit Potential in Your Low-Profit Customers

Profit desert customers — small, low-profit customers often numbering in the tens of thousands — are an important business segment in most companies. They often amount to about 50–80% of customers and consume about 40–60% of the company’s costs. In some companies, they’re…

The Complete CSS Tags Reference - CSS Cheatsheet

If you are using CSS for frontend web development, you may be interested in this article. The gist of...

How to Memorize the Un-Memorizable

Although I’ve successfully learned the language of mathematics, it has always frustrated me that I couldn’t master those more unpredictable languages like French or Russian that I’d tried to learn …

What Chefs Make When All They Have Is a Bag of Rice

How they go against the grain.

Follow These 5 Steps to the Best Banh Mi

A foolproof formula for building this uniquely Vietnamese sandwich.

How to Harness the Power of Belonging

Wharton’s Katy Milkman interviews New York University professor Jay Van Bavel about his new book, ‘The Power of Us,’ which explores how group affiliations shape our identity and can influence performance and cooperation.…Read More

How Pinterest utterly ruined photo search on the internet

The social media site is the bane of non-users’ lives, hijacking image search results with a pushy sign-up screen. It needs to stop.

A Hot Bowl Of Homemade Shoyu Ramen Is Worth Every Second

Introducing: The most rewarding weekend project.

Brain Damage Saved His Music - Issue 20: Creativity - Nautilus

After a chunk of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back.

The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

"A Great Day In Harlem": Remembering the iconic 1958 photo of legendary musicians

58 musicians showed up for a picture that captured the giants of jazz

Organ transplant patients (maybe) don’t get dementia. Here’s why. – Trevor

A Complete Machine Learning Project From Scratch: Setting Up

In this first post in a series on how to build a complete machine learning product from scratch, I describe how to setup your project and tooling.

A Comparison of SRE Workflow Tools

When considering tools to help optimize parts or all of your cloud incident remediation workflows and...

The “ghost stores” of Instagram

That cute dress you bought off Instagram could be found on Shein, AliExpress, or Amazon for much cheaper.

Minification of CSS and JavaScript

Minification is the process of deleting unneeded or redundant data from a resource without altering...

How to Revive a Dead Language - JSTOR Daily

Although it was the language of sacred texts and ritual, modern Hebrew wasn't spoken in conversation till the late nineteenth century.

The Hit Book That Came From Mars

The Martian started as a self-published blog, and became a major motion picture.

The Awe-Inspiring But Tragic Story of Africa’s Festival In The Desert (2001

Nenad Georgievski writes at All About Jazz, though the world knew little about Malian music until American musicians began partnering with players from West Africa. In the 1980s, Stevie Wonder began touring with Amadou and Mariam, helping to popularize their form of Malian blues.

Curves and Surfaces – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Interactive article explaining how curves and surfaces are modeled.

How Bionic Gloves Gave a Maestro Pianist His Hands Back

A lifetime of brutal injuries and misfortune robbed the world-renowned pianist João Carlos Martins of the ability to play his instrument. And then along came an eccentric designer and his bionic gloves.

How 12th-century Genoese merchants invented the idea of risk | Psyche Ideas

From the docks of 12th-century Genoa to the gambling tables of today, risk is a story that we tell ourselves about the future

Kant’s Categorical Imperative: Act the Way You Want Others to Act

How to Read “Gilgamesh” | The New Yorker

The heart of the world’s oldest long poem is found in its gaps and mysteries.

Inside Ekiben’s six-hour trip to make a special dish for customer dying of cancer

It flurried all day Sunday in Vermont. Ekiben co-founder Steve Chu watched the flakes with dread. Snow in the fryer would be trouble. This is the story of how the owners of Baltimore’s most p…

A refresher on Linux File system structure

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Are We on the Verge of Chatting with Whales? | Hakai Magazine

An ambitious project is attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks with artificial intelligence, then talk back to them.

MedMNIST v2 Dataset | Papers With Code

MedMNIST v2 is a large-scale MNIST-like collection of standardized biomedical images, including 12 datasets for 2D and 6 datasets for 3D. All images are pre-processed into 28 x 28 (2D) or 28 x 28 x 28 (3D) with the corresponding classification labels, so that no background…

The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s Mathilde Collin

Front's CEO and co-founder Mathilde Collin shares why a founder’s discipline matters more than vision, unveiling her own best practices and templates for communication, time management, fundraising and team building.

Applications and Techniques for Fast Machine Learning in Science

In this community review report, we discuss applications and techniques for fast machine learning (ML) in science -- the concept of integrating power ML methods into the real-time experimental...

Sticky Definition Lists

I ran across this 30 seconds of code website the other day, and they have a CSS section which is really good! The first example snippet I looked at was this

The last great mystery of the mind: meet the people who have unusual – or non-existent – inner voices

Does your internal monologue play out on a television, in an attic, as a bickering Italian couple – or is it entirely, blissfully silent?

Failure Is An Option: How To Unwind An Unsuccessful Startup The Right Way –

Unwind An Unsuccessful Startup The Right Way - Many startups fail, but few founders prepare for unwinding. Find out how to do this & deal with investors.

For Forest Blazes Grown Wilder, an Alternative: The 'Good Fire'

Despite the evidence supporting prescribed fires in the American West, policymakers are slow to put it into practice.

10 Essential Psql Commands For Data Engineers

Learn how to interact with PostgreSQL databases through the command line using PSQL.

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Interoception: The Hidden Sense That Shapes Wellbeing

There’s growing evidence that signals sent from our internal organs to the brain play a major role in regulating emotions and fending off anxiety and depression.

The vinyl straw: Why the vinyl industry is at breaking point - Features - M

The industry is at its strongest since the advent of the CD, so why has it become near-impossible to get music pressed onto wax?

Hatch green chiles are feeling the heat

Growers of New Mexico’s iconic crop wrestle with drought, water rights and labor shortages.

An NYC Chef’s Flavor-Building Pantry Staples, None of Which Are Olive Oil

Plus recipes that star the ingredients.

How to get useful answers to your questions

A Free And Powerful Labelling Tool Every Data Scientist Should Know

One of the best labelling tools I have ever used.

Researchers analyzed 700-plus songs known to give people chills. Here’s the

Researchers studying chills-inducing music inadvertently created an epic, multi-genre list of songs that ought to give you goosebumps. We made a Spotify playlist from it.

Oil System Collapsing so Fast it May Derail Renewables, Warn French Governm

Forget ‘peak oil’. Nafeez Ahmed reveals how the oil and gas industries are cannibalising themselves as the costs of fossil fuel extraction mount

Probability Distributions with Python’s SciPy

How to Model random Processes with Distributions and Fit them to Observational Data

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A Quickstart Guide to Positioning - April Dunford

Want to improve your product's positioning but not sure where to start? This article is going to give you everything you need to get started including what positioning is, why it matters, and how to improve it.

One Business That’s Loving the Supply Chain Crisis

Ikea and Crate and Barrel are plagued by shortages. These people are filling the void.