ReHacked vol. 317: Exercise before bed is linked with disrupted sleep, 53 Shakespearean Insults That Still Burn Today and more
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53 Shakespearean Insults That Still Burn Today #literature
Shakespeare may have a lot to say about love, but he also had no lack of words when it comes to a serious clapback. The man loved snappy banter and wicked wisecracks so much that his plays are a master class in veiled and blatant insults. Not only are there a lot of words Shakespeare invented, but Shakespearean insults string them together to deliver the biggest blows.
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Chongqing, the world’s largest city – in pictures | World news | The Guardian #world #urbanism
The largest city in the world is as big as Austria, but few people have ever heard of it. The megacity of 34 million people in central of China is the emblem of the fastest urban revolution on the planet. The Communist party decided 30 years ago to unify and populate vast rural areas, an experiment that has become a symbol of the Chinese ability to reshape the world
Internet in a Box - Mandela's Library of Alexandria #community #knowledge #sharing #accessibility
Internet-in-a-Box “learning hotspots” are used in dozens of countries, to give everyone a chance, e.g. in remote mountain villages in India.
It works without internet — like a community fountain, but for the mind — wirelessly serving anyone nearby with a smartphone, tablet or laptop.
Berkeley Humanoid Lite: An Open-source, Accessible, and Customizable 3D-printed Humanoid Robot #engineering
Despite significant interest and advancements in humanoid robotics, most existing commercially available hardware remains high-cost, closed-source, and non-transparent within the robotics community. This lack of accessibility and customization hinders the growth of the field and the broader development of humanoid technologies. To address these challenges and promote democratization in humanoid robotics, we demonstrate Berkeley Humanoid Lite, an open-source humanoid robot designed to be accessible, customizable, and beneficial for the entire community.
The core of this design is a modular 3D-printed gearbox for the actuators and robot body. All components can be sourced from widely available e-commerce platforms and fabricated using standard desktop 3D printers, keeping the total hardware cost under $5,000 (based on U.S. market prices).
Exercise before bed is linked with disrupted sleep #health
Exercise too close to bedtime may affect sleep duration, timing and quality, new research led by Monash University has found. More strenuous workouts closer to bedtime coincided with greater disruptions to sleep and nighttime cardiac activity.
'It was a magical chemical balance': How Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend #culture #history
The Fountain of Youth ... That Wasn’t #society #datascience
In 2023, the streamer released a popular series about “Blue Zones” … the places in the world that have the highest rates of people living to be 100.
The series profiled locations in Japan, Italy, Greece, Costa Rica, and California … and argued that specifics about their diets and culture led to extraordinarily long lifespans.i
One problem: These places don’t have extraordinarily long lifespans.
What they do have in common, however, is … a lot of bad record-keeping.
The complex origin story of domestic cats: Research points to Tunisia #nature #history
Two new large-scale investigations, one led by the University of Rome Tor Vergata in collaboration with 42 institutions and another led by the University of Exeter with contributors from 37 institutions, reveal a more complex history than previously imagined. Both point to Tunisia as the likely origin of the domestic cat.
Both studies, which merge extensive genetic data with archaeological evidence, challenge the timeline of European domestic cats, and hint at cultural and religious factors that may have been pivotal in driving feline domestication and translocation.
Microsoft is shutting down Skype. Readers say it changed their lives - Rest of World #software #history
Handwriting activates broader brain networks than typing, study shows #psychology
“The brain research on handwriting is really a spin-off of our infant brain research in the NuLab, our developmental neuroscience laboratory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where we show that babies are born with a brain that is ready to learn from day one,” said study author Audrey van der Meer, a professor of neuropsychology.
For their new study, the researchers recruited 40 university students in their early twenties. To ensure consistency, only right-handed participants were included in the analysis, as determined by a standardized handedness assessment. After excluding participants whose data contained artifacts, the final sample consisted of 36 individuals.
Each participant completed two tasks: handwriting and typing. For the handwriting condition, participants used a digital pen to write visually presented words in cursive directly on a touchscreen. For the typing condition, participants typed the same words on a keyboard using only their right index finger. Participants wrote or typed each word repeatedly within a 25-second window while brain activity was recorded. To avoid visual distractions, the words did not appear on the screen during typing.
The rescued Vietnamese infants of Operation Babylift have grown up | The Verge #history #longread
In 1975, to hear the Americans tell it, the mass adoption of Vietnamese children was a story of rescue and redemption. These children were war babies, bụi đời, children of dust. A decade of death coupled with a thriving sex trade near US military bases had put nearly 20,000 children in more than a hundred orphanages throughout South Vietnam. By April, as the Viet Cong swept down the coast, mixed race children were said to be in danger. The Northern army would find foreign offspring and carve their livers from their bodies to eat, or so the rumors went. Out of fear and desperation, mothers relinquished their babies — many underweight, sick, or maimed by war — to the Americans. And the Americans took them away.
Cut Data Center Energy by 30% with This Simple Hack - IEEE Spectrum #software
Putting theory into practice, Karsten partnered with Joe Damato, a distinguished engineer at cloud computing services provider Fastly and frequent Linux kernel contributor, to develop the changes. It turns out they didn’t have to write any new code.
“It’s really just reorganizing the way in which the data flow and the data processing is happening,” says Damato. “We piggyback on existing code in the Linux kernel, and we change the order in which things operate.”
That change led to around 30 lines of reworked code. They tested the functionality and performance of their modifications on different scenarios and workloads, and found that the kernel improvements can decrease power consumption by up to 30 percent.
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