The superior japanese sunscreen that the FDA doesn’t allow for no reason (per Aaron Bergman)
explore the entire US with 1-meter 3D LiDAR data
H.G. Wells makes predictions from 1903 about the “house of the future”:
Within, plumbing, new means of lighting, new means of communication between one part of a building and another, lifts and the like have revolutionized all the conditions of convenient arrangement ; while without, a building which had formerly to be beautiful only when lit from above in sunlight and moonlight, is now in nine cases out of ten urban, and must be viewed from much nearer at hand than were the old buildings, and most often by strong artificial light from below.
You Are Now A Normal Rat – JazDog (Composer’s View)
Animated Maps — cova says, “i dug up 200 map animations dating back to 1927, free to weave into your work”
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked. And reporting:
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.*
A sensitive period for texting
“I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow”
[T]he so-called “Big Five” personality traits—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism—seem, to many smart people, to be useful and explanatory. I have never found them to be useful or explanatory. But they are psychology’s standard answer to the question of what a person is like, and since there are more psych majors than English majors, social scientists have gotten to decide how to talk about personality for the last 90 years.
Potatoes indicated for IBS??? Someone should do a study! Not us though (h/t nEquals001)
Kala Paint — “If you are looking a way out of Adobe hellscape, my friend ollylawson has been making his own painting program Kala, it’s insanely optimized, blazing fast, has most of the features you need from other big software + new and inventive stuff, no-subscriptions, it’s great.”
