Links for February–May 2025


Finding the Best Sleep Tracker

Environmental allergies are curable? (Sublingual immunotherapy)

Is Australian Sunscreen ACTUALLY stronger than Asian Sunscreen? I put them to the test!

Join the Big Taping Truth Trial / Let’s Find Out If Mouth Taping Actually Works

“PSA: I’ve been feeling like shit for the past week, headaches and lethargy and brain fog. I mentioned it to my friend had he suggested it could be allergies. I took anti-histamine to test the theory and holy shit yes that was it.”

Dynomight: My 16-month theanine self-experiment

Oh my dear f*cking gawd it worked. The damn coke and French fries worked – Annals of Reddit Migraine Cures (more study needed)

“8 months later and we now have HUMAN GRADE horseade bucket”

Typo Minimizing Keyboard

China Might Have Moved Too Fast on Lithium Production

The Church FAQ — “A few years ago, we bought a church building. Since then, every time I mention it online and/or on social media, someone always responds, “wait, you bought a church, what” and then asks some standard questions. At this point it makes good sense to offer up a Church FAQ to answer some of those most common questions. Let’s begin!”

Flipping the switch on far-UVC (h/t Matt) 

Serious Music — “A new paper in Science Robotics reports a device that Schumann would have jumped at the chance to try: a robotic exoskeleton for the hand.”

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week: If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well

The hardest working font in Manhattan

The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing

“Our intellectual difficulty classes were based on how difficult they feel to do and how rare the ability to do them is within a population of humans. So gossip is easy, math is hard.”

Brighter: The World’s Brightest Floor Lamp 

Life’s Ancient Bottleneck

In Which I Declare War On Beloved Entertainer Bo Burnham

“boiled eggs suck because yolk and white are best cooked at diff. temperatures”:

> Nature paper figures out how to cook eggs evenly by duty-cycling the temperature of water between 30°C and 100°C every 2 mins, derived from a model of heat transfer between yolk and white

> @sdamico implements the paper using his stoves that can hold water steady at 30°C and 100°C

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