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Jul 20 Behavioral scientists found that people without children develop a relationship to mortality that is psychologically… Brendan Brown
Jul 20 Psychology says people who stack their plates and tidy up before leaving a restaurant aren't trying to impress anyone Brendan Brown
Jul 20 I grew up lower-middle class and I've noticed that every time I'm asked to describe my childhood I instinctively say… Brendan Brown
Jul 19 Psychology says the loneliest people in a room are often the most socially skilled because they learned early to… Brendan Brown
Jul 17 I'm 38 and I watched my parents retire with everything they worked for Lachlan Brown
Jul 17 Psychology says the most dangerous form of loneliness isn't being alone Brendan Brown
Jun 27 If you double-check if the door is locked Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 27 Psychology says people who push their chair back in when they leave a table usually display these 9 unique behaviors Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 15 When Sony shipped the first Walkman in 1979, chairman Akio Morita insisted on a second headphone jack and a "hotline"… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 12 Russia still custom-builds the Soyuz return seats for ISS crew members using plaster casts taken weeks before launch… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 11 Mycorrhizal fungi colonised plant roots roughly 450 million years ago and biologists now suspect plants could never… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 11 The "CrackBerry" nickname stuck for a reason Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 10 Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 10 A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 10 Octopuses possess roughly 500 million neurons distributed across their body, with two-thirds located in their arms… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 10 The Roman aqueduct at Segovia, built around the first century AD without mortar, still carried water into the 1970s… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 10 In 1843, Ada Lovelace described a brass-and-punched-card engine that could act on symbols as well as numbers, even… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 9 ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 9 In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 9 The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team