Author: robert.adlington

The first dogs began evolving 40,000 to 14,000 years ago, when humans lived as foragers. (Some evidence suggests that this first version of domestication may have occurred multiple times around the world.) Our ancestors left garbage and waste outside of camp, and the wolves that took advantage of this predictable, energy-rich food source gained a…

As Jeffing cuts the chances of injury, people are able to exercise consistently, with all the mental and physical benefits this brings. Galloway describes these benefits as “circuits”. “The ‘good attitude’ circuit sees your stresses disappear,” he says. “You then have the ‘vitality’ circuit. You might lack energy at the start [of your workout] but…

“I like to think of it as: imagine yourself and a three-year-old. We’ll be the three-year-olds,” he said. — Read on www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/27/godfather-of-ai-raises-odds-of-the-technology-wiping-out-humanity-over-next-30-years

Every day, we walk Odie along the same paths. He eats the same food at the same time. We use the same words to the same effect. For a life so circumscribed, how is it that our bounties feel so limitless? In a life of ups and downs, perhaps it is the uncomplicated nature of…

Even more fundamentally, it is time to consider what types of attention we aspire to and why. What psychologists sometimes call unifocal attention (what we would think of focused rather than diffused attention) is only one way to attend, and it’s not always the most useful – as Chris Chabris and Dan Simons showed in…

Cornélien est le choix du sapin. Entre les amoureux de la tradition et les opposants au « tout-consommable, tout-jetable », la hache de guerre est déterrée. Au milieu, les producteurs de sapins s’efforcent de verdir leur image, tandis que les bricoleurs du dimanche inventent de nouvelles façons d’accueillir le Père Noël. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/article/2024/12/21/l-epineuse-question-du-sapin-de-noel-pour-mes-enfants-si-je-le-retire-autant-tout-annuler_6460051_4497916.html

“I’m not sure why people interpreted it as a romance rather than a novella on loneliness,” she says, “it’s quite scary that the two have been conflated really.” She thinks young people’s fatigue with app-based dating might be a part of why the book has been hitting home for them. “I wonder if people think…

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life — Read on bsky.app/profile/thisone0verhere.bsky.social/post/3ld4fibye4s2s

Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. It…

In recent years, an abundance of academic research from institutions including Harvard medical school, the University of Oxford and King’s College London found evidence that the internet is shrinking our grey matter, shortening attention spans, weakening memory and distorting our cognitive processes. The areas of the brain found to be affected included “attentional capacities, as…