Hey there,
Robert here.
Here’s your weekly dose of treats 💌
Some things I thought were worth sharing this week!
Follow the white rabbit 🐇
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🎶 Something to listen while reading
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Rapid-fire stuff I’ve been reading, skimming & enjoying
🌅 The latest World Bank infant mortality data - look at this if you need something to cheer yourself up.
🌎 Interactive Ancient Earth Globe: A California paleontologist has created an interactive map that allows people to see how far their hometowns have moved over 750 million years of continental drift.
🦠 The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize winners. The Ig Nobel Prize is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research, its stated aim being to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which it parodies, and the word ignoble.
Highlights 🔥
PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE [CANADA, USA]
Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule, for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows.
REFERENCE: “Eyebrows Cue Grandiose Narcissism,” Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas O. Rule, Journal of Personality, vol. 87, no. 2, 2019, pp. 373-385.
PHYSICS PRIZE [AUSTRALIA, UKRAINE, FRANCE, ITALY, GERMANY, UK, SOUTH AFRICA]
Ivan Maksymov and Andriy Pototsky, for determining, experimentally, what happens to the shape of a living earthworm when one vibrates the earthworm at high frequency.
REFERENCE: “Excitation of Faraday-like body waves in vibrated living earthworms,” Ivan S. Maksymov and Andriy Pototsky, bioRxiv 10.1101/868521, December 8, 2019.
📝 How to design a successful website? Clear structure might be the winner; People are lazy by nature and they will try to find the easiest way to fulfill their task on a website. Are they supposed to buy something? Then they will want to perform as few clicks as possible. A website layout that is too complicated is undesirable. Check Petr on Twitter.
Keep going
On May 4, a Nigerian man became the first known person in the world to be sentenced to death via a virtual court on Zoom.
Adding more detail to Wikipedia articles on small European cities has a measurable effect on tourism. Link (PDF)
How randomized response can help collect sensitive information responsibly; Giant datasets are revealing new patterns in cancer, income inequality and other important areas. However, the widespread availability of fast computers that can cross reference public data is making it harder to collect private information without inadvertently violating people's privacy. Modern randomization techniques can help preserve anonymity.
Work on what matters: First a discussion on a few common ways to get tripped up: snacking, preening, and chasing ghosts. Then we’ll get into the good stuff: how do you work on what really matters?
Consume less, produce more: If you have too many inputs then your brain gets overwhelmed. Every piece of information you consume takes up some brain cycles.
Mathematics for programmers (early draft)
⚗️ Tools & Resources
a11yresources is a growing list of 200+ accessibility tools and resources. Hand-curated and updated daily by Hannah Milan.
Todoist Boards - at long last, Todoist finally has a board view! If you like Trello-style boards for task management, you'll now find them in Todoist.
Mailbrew - Your favorite feeds, writers, and newsletters in a single email digest, and a beautiful web app.
Evernote's new CEO on fixing things and finally biting the bullet and rewriting everything from scratch.
I designed 30 Smartphone Inspirational Wallpapers inspired by @naval
Aiming to improve my design skills. I hope this can serve as a daily dose of inspiration.
>>> Download them for FREE <<<
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Have a great day ahead!
Robert