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Re:Why a Grape Turns into a Fireball in the Microwave
on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:53AM (#19198910)
I’m gonna go put some grapes in the microwave, THEN read this article
Re:Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:55PM (#19087676)
Oh yeah I’d second that, this book is spectacular
Re:Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:54PM (#19087663)
Thinking fast and slow had the biggest impact in changing how I think about a lot of things, epic study of how you’re predisposed to think and make decisions in a particular way. Coincidentally I read it at about the same time as freakonomics!
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @08:30PM (#17193063)
More surprising is that yahoo is #7! I might be out of touch but I can’t think of a single person that uses yahoo, maybe it might be the default homepage on my grandmas computer...
Re:Governments have overestimated the economic returns of higher educa...
on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:27PM (#16506988)
I liked it much more when elite meant you could hack Gibsons
Re:Running as a Thinking Person’s Sport
on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:58PM (#13182275)
Also, i don't understand it because I'm not a neuroscientist but are the brain networks they're talking about in the abstract of the research related to conscious thinking? I find these kind of articles so frustrating, the articles themselves imply these big dubious claims, then you try to read the research and you don't know what the fk they're talking about.
Re:Running as a Thinking Person’s Sport
on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:29PM (#13182153)
Is 11 people a really small sample size for a study like this?