An offline friend, who also reads this blog, asked me where I find all these various articles and studies. The answer is I have facebook “friends” (and Twitter “friends”, and “friends” on other social medias) from about every side of the political spectrum, from all sorts of walks of life, and located around the world. It makes for an interesting perspective on things, seeing how different people view the same things. But it also means that as those people find things that they find interesting they post it. And I read it, and think “hey, thats kinda cool, I wonder if anyone else would appreciate that”. Sometimes it leads to me wandering down a rabbit hole, and so here we are.
This app warns you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby
Someone just created open-sourced software that sees you through walls using only WIFI signals
Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being. However the mobile internet is so addictive that 75% of people can’t go 2 weeks without smartphone internet. Even when they volunteered for it.
X thread: book published in 2006 updated to include TikTok reference
GuardDog Telehealth Admits to Providing Patient Records to Law Firms
Adobe to pay $75m to settle US lawsuit over hard-to-cancel subscriptions
Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud
A federal judge said Workday’s AI hiring tools can be challenged for filtering out applicants over 40. “The algorithm did it” is NOT a defense.
Researchers say an unprotected database tied to IDMerit, a company that claims to help businesses verify identities, exposed roughly 1 billion sensitive records across 26 countries
Cyberattack on Iowa breathalyzer company impacts devices in 45 states
Maine lobsterman challenges unconstitutional 24/7 GPS tracking
When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life
Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January
Avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor for all-cause mortality
Oat bran fiber protects against radiation-induced disruption of gut barrier dynamics and mucosal damage
The role of Zinc L-Carnosine in the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal mucosal disease in humans: a review.
Effect of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners on the Gut Microbiota. I have detested the taste of the fake sugar sweeteners since I was a child, now I have a better reason to avoid them.
A population-level decline in serum testosterone levels in American men
School-assigned “trusted adult” sexuall assaulted child for years.
Aerospace engineer Monica Jacinto Reza, co-inventor of a key U.S. rocket alloy, vanished while hiking in 2025, and months later Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, who oversaw the program that funded it, has also vanished without a trace. An additional 9 scientists have been killed in the same time span. Conspiracy theories here we go….
Thurston County, WA, becomes first in the nation to pass an ordinance FORCING people to obtain a certain “home energy score” before they’re allowed to sell their house.
In 2013, Emory University scanned 19 students every morning for 19 straight days while they read one novel chapter each night
Scientists put kids through 100 hours of reading, then scanned their brains. New wiring had physically grown inside the language regions.
Review published in Psychological Bulletin last September pulled together 71 studies covering 98,299 people.
Bookworms live longer
A University of Sussex study found that just 6 minutes of reading cut stress levels by 68%
Reading literary fiction improves theory of mind
Students’ reading comprehension, text processing, and attitudes when reading on paper and screen
The “IKEA Effect”: When Labor Leads to Love
Autism was substantially improved with just a few 5 minute red light sessions, reducing behavioral symptoms by over 50% in a fascinating study.
Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack