Najihah Najlaa @Earghh

Today I learned that squirrels can be black, and they roll their babies into tiny fluffy balls to make carrying them easier

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cool internet things pt. 9 enterportal.xyz - digital MoMA gallery aileenis.online - personal "digital home" ryanstephen.co - interface experiments feather.computer - a self organizing inbox neal.fun/size-of-life - the scale of all living things neal.fun/constellation-… - draw constellations knicksmosaic.com - a mosaic of thousands of NY Knicks photos the cool people behind these - @itsjessyin (fan fav), @userisgrotesque, @nealagarwal, @Ryan__Stephen, @szgbo, @cadenbuild, @mohul_shukla

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Jonas @jonaasw1

4 weeks ago

cool internet things pt. 8 poolsuite.net — retro FM radio typo.love — library of love letters cafe.endofday.studio — online lofi café zzz.zoomquilt.org — infinite zoom painting tinyurl.com/5n8e678y — finger paint on screen

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i'm obsessed with AI DIY projects my favorite one right now is this guy who built an AI system that listens for birds outside his apartment, figures out what species they are, and paints them on his wall. here's how the whole thing works: 1. a cheap usb mic on his balcony listens for birdsong 24/7 2. BirdNET, Cornell's AI model trained on 6,000+ species, names each bird species from the sound alone (no camera needed) 3. every time it hears one, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image paints that exact bird in the style of an Edo-period japanese woodblock print 4. the new painting drops into a live collage of everything that's been singing outside in the last 24 hours 5. and it all shows up on a framed e-ink display on his wall that reads "heard today" like a little museum placard for his neighborhood knowing which birds visit you used to take a field guide, a trained ear, plus years of patient practice. teddy just glances at the frame on his wall and sees the cardinal came back this morning honestly i'm highly tempted to build one myself haha

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Trust me you don’t hate israel enough.

Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman

4 weeks ago

BREAKING: ISRAEL IS DROPPING CLUSTER MUNITIONS IN LEBANON DISGUISED AS CHILDREN'S TOYS & FOOTBALLS

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Isn't it sad the life we're meant to live is now a luxury we can't afford

MAYOR 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Mayor_RK

4 weeks ago

sometimes i wish jobs didn’t exist and that humans were free to just enjoy their existence on this planet.

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Jordan Peterson’s method for remembering everything you read: Stop highlighting. Stop taking notes while reading. Read a section → close the book → write down what you remember in your own words. Reformulate it. Connect it. Criticize it. That’s how information actually becomes part of you. What’s your take, do you learn and retain more by actively recalling and rewriting, or by highlighting and passive note-taking?

Read a page, close the book, write down what you remember. A week later, students who learned that way recalled 61% of a science text. The ones who reread the same pages four times recalled 40%. Same material, same hours of study. The only thing that changed was pulling the ideas back out of your own head instead of letting your eyes pass over them again. That experiment ran at Washington University in 2006, and it is one of the most repeated results in memory research. Scientists call it the testing effect, even though no test is involved. You are just forcing yourself to pull the ideas back from memory. Putting it in your own words adds a second boost. In a 1978 University of Toronto study, people who saw "lamp, l___" and filled in "light" themselves remembered it far better than people who just read "lamp, light." Making the answer yourself beats being handed it, even though the readers saw the full word. Rewriting a paragraph in your own words is the same move, just bigger. Highlighting does almost none of this work. A 2013 review led by a Kent State psychologist ranked ten common study habits from best to worst. Quizzing yourself and spreading study out over days took the top spots. Highlighting, underlining, and plain rereading fell to the bottom, rated low value. All three feel productive. That feeling is the whole trap. Robert Bjork at UCLA gave it a name: the fluency illusion. A highlighted page reads smoothly the second time through, and your brain reads that ease as a sign you already know it. The ease is just familiarity. Spotting a line when it is in front of you is a different skill from recalling it once the page is gone, and only that second skill shows up in an exam or a conversation. The effort is the point. The reason closing the book feels harder is the same reason it works.

Camus @newstart_2024

4 weeks ago

Jordan Peterson’s method for remembering everything you read: Stop highlighting. Stop taking notes while reading. Read a section → close the book → write down what you remember in your own words. Reformulate it. Connect it. Criticize it. That’s how information actually

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Jeff Bezos claiming humans are consuming too much water and not leaving enough for AI data centers is INSANE.

🇳🇴 norway has officially banned deforestation, making it the first country in the world to commit to a zero-deforestation supply chain.

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i rarely see design this clean

DaVinci @BiancoDavinci

4 weeks ago

This Japanese restaurant logo is simultaneously a Japanese crane and a hand holding chopsticks.

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A one hour walk in nature increases a core region in the brain for inhibiting stress. Nature is neuroplasticity.

Norway has announced strict new limits on the use of generative AI in schools. Starting in late August 2026, primary school students aged 6 to 13 (grades 1–7) will generally be prohibited from using generative AI tools in the classroom. Students aged 14 to 16 may use them only under direct teacher supervision. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre emphasized that schools should prioritize teaching children to read, write, and master mathematics through traditional methods, rather than relying on AI shortcuts. Officials argue that early exposure to powerful AI tools risks undermining critical cognitive development by allowing students to bypass foundational learning steps. This policy builds on Norway’s successful 2024 restrictions on smartphones in schools, which studies link to improved grades, reduced bullying, and better student mental health. The government is also promoting greater use of physical books and offline learning materials. By drawing a clear line between technological tools and early childhood development, Norway has become one of the first Western countries to set firm legal boundaries on AI in education, potentially influencing global approaches.

Norway bans AI access in schools for kids ages 6-13, while also restricting AI for kids 14-16 to prevent academic decline

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هذا الرجل عمل مصلى في بيته في غاية الجمال 🥰

“And everything you were deprived of, you were spared from its harm.”

A ceramic bowl that proves tradition can still outsmart modern “smart” design.

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated. His name is Qing Li. He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea. The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason. Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005. He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest. Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty. The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected. The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly. Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty. Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month. Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet. The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation. The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall. When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab. Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system. This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress. A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower. The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down. Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks. They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone. The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk. After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature. What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care. But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free. The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish. Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens. Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

“If you are tested with delay in that which you desire most, then be patient, so that Allah may give you more than what you wanted.”