#Novelty

Evan LaPointe

evanlapointe

As a system, the brain is super complex. But there is linearity to how the brain works, and that makes things WAY simpler.Here's what happens with sensory data in the

Timothy Burke

bubbaprog

Something the Spotify generation will never know is how certain songs would get extremely popular on filesharing services but with completely made-up info. c.1999, a cover of "Gin & Juice"

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ureggbaby

Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, a day of mourning and reflection on those who have experienced loss because of their occupation in the sex trade.

Will Luton

will_luton

Why do some games keep players playing for months or years? And others only days?This question is important not just in F2P but subscription, DLC, and ‘paymium’ games. We want

Huguenard Lab

HuguenardLab

Science twitter thread/rant: Is discovery science dying? Is novelty being replaced by high quality/high volume megascience that values quantity and quality over novelty? I’ll make some enemies with this thread.

Julian Shapiro

Julian

How to rewrite bad writing After rewriting 400,000 words on my site...Advice for blog posts, tweets, emails: Great authors’ first drafts are bad—no better than yours. However, they aggressively *rewrite*

ARIΣS

ariesincarnate

Everything in Life is Related to Energy & Nothing Else Really MattersYour metabolic health determines your intelligence, physical attractiveness, wealth, decisions, emotions, personality, intuition, relationships, and overall quality of

Amber Sparks

ambernoelle

Did you know that if you stopped buying Starbucks for a year you would save enough to still be poor Did you know if you stopped buying Starbucks for a

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

Ye Olde Inn. Ye Olde Sweet Shoppe. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese… The word ‘ye’ pops up all over the place – shop names to gravestones. But what if I told

Atharva Kharbade

athrvakhrbde

The Complete Guide to Crush it on Twitter: Part-IHow to become great at Twitter, from writing to consuming to networkingBy @david_perell and @mkobach 1/Writing tweets has 4 things in common:1.

Swan 🦢

AndySwan

In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: Why, as

angelina 👻

whyangelinawhy

Lord of the Rings characters as novelty bongs thread (1/?)Gandalf the Grey Frodo Baggins Aragorn, Son of Arathorn Sauron!!!! Samwise Gamgee Peregrin Took Meriadoc Brandybuck Boromir, Son of Denethor Eowyn

Simon Hardwick

simonhardwick

For reasons I still don’t actually know the answer to, I still own a pager. Perhaps this confirms I’m a hoarder? Anyway, Here’s a geeky thread about it! The pager

Lacquerware

lacquerleaks

Had an absolute blast with @dubindoh and @1eonard_1ai playing Lost Planet 2 tonight. It has come to my attention that nobody remembers LP2 was the best game of 2010, so

Sean Robinson

seanrobinson1e4

Just a thought or two on convention speeches sans live audiences, and the idea of theater. Veteran political journos naturally view this new setup through the lens of the old

Liminal Warmth ❤️

liminal_warmth

One of the ways in which I’m weird is that I’m pretty ambivalent to nature and not sure why exactlyMountains, oceans, treesI LIKE these things, I think they’re prettyBut I’m

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