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Comeback for colored porcelain in the bathroom

February 14, 2025

You may remember when you were younger and would go and wash your hands before dinner when you were visiting your grandparents. It was not uncommon to find a colored washbasin, sometimes even with a matching bathtub or toilet! Colored porcelain…

Giant Impact Theory of Plate Tectonics

July 16, 2024

Living on this planet we call home, most of us are very aware that the ground beneath our feet move occasionally. The enormous plates that make up the many continents we live on move, and sometimes they come in contact with each other, in more or less…

Telling the Truth with Testosterone

July 13, 2024

Have you ever heard a woman complain about a man’s insensitivity? Or, perhaps, you even are a woman who’ve been on the receiving end of a man’s brutal honesty? There’s actually a good explanation to why men behave in this way - and it’s actually a good…

AI combat drones - the future of war… and civility?

July 11, 2024

Anyone who''ve been keeping tabs on the events in Ukraine should''ve come to the uninspiring conclusion that drones as a weapon of war are here to stay. While many proponents of drones as a weapon claim that it allows for wars to be fought with minimal...

Gene therapy trial restores hearing

June 6, 2024

Loosing one of our senses has been a one way street for much of our history, but recent medical breakthroughs are showing very promising results in bringing them back!

When wolves became man’s best friend

May 15, 2024

I think we can all agree on that man’s best friend - the dog - can trace its ancestry back to the wolves. How this came to be is a completely different story that researchers haven’t entirely come to agree on. Was it humans or wolves that took the first s

Using AI to talk to whales

May 14, 2024

Recently OpenAI released a much improved version of their LLM, called ChatGPT-4o. The main focus seem to have been on language and conversation, where it answers significantly faster, in any language, and with more "human" emotions in speech, text...

The rise of synthetic coffee

May 12, 2024

Synthetic food products are becoming increasingly more common, whether we like it or not. the most recent example being synthetic coffee. Is this the future, or is it some kind of Frankenstein’s caffeinated monstrosity that no one will accept?

Mobile minimalistic homes: A new opportunity

May 7, 2024

Working from home is allowing more people than ever to break free from the geographical restraints of having to settle in a specific area due to job opportunities. What it looks like in practice varies from person to person and between places, with some p

Evidence that Mars was Earth-like

May 4, 2024

The red planet has been subject to many theories, conspiracies, and discussions over the years. Was Mars populated with our pre-historic brethren or is it merely us seeing patterns of humanity where there’s none?

Whatever happened to the bums?

May 3, 2024

I recently came across an interesting post on X from the author Hickman. It was about the type of bum he call Wino that is nowhere to be found anymore.

Dentist finds human jawbone encased in parents'' travertine floor

April 27, 2024

During a visit to his parents'' recently renovated home in Europe, a dentist made a surprising discovery - a jawbone embedded in one of the bathroom floor tiles. And, no, it is not the kind with screen-print but the real deal, gathered from a real quarry.

The inner (conscious?) life of insects and animals

April 23, 2024

The inner life of animals and plants have fascinated us for a long time, probably since man first emerged on the biological scene. The question of whether or not they possess forms of consciousness have been debated tirelessly by scientists and the...

Testo-maxing? Stay away from crying women!

April 20, 2024

According to new study women possess chemosignals in their tears that lowers the testosterone and aggression in nearby men. And no, there’s no way of knowing if YOU are subjected to this witchery, the tears have no odor at all!

Devin’s top contributor is now… Devin

April 19, 2024

Devin, the AI that managed to solve coding problems by asking humans for help is now apparently working on improving himself. According to Silas Alberti on X, Devin is now the one contributing the most to his own source code.

Cloud seeding the perfect wedding

April 17, 2024

What started off as a fringe "conspiracy theory" have now evolved and made a life of its own. From headlines in newspapers about "cloud seeding" going back decades to companies specializing in creating your perfect wedding weather!

Relationships in the Age of AI

April 16, 2024

More and more, AI is becoming a larger part of lives, whether we want it or not. From the student using ChatGPT to explain difficult concepts to them, or the researcher using AI to summarize articles, to the military using AI to control drones...

Will the Line eventually become just a dot?

April 11, 2024

The Line is probably one of the most ambitious projects ever to be attempted in the world of construction and city planning. In 2021, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman revealed the plans to build a 170km long 200m wide city stretching along the Saudi

Angolan witch trials

April 10, 2024

In Angola 50 alleged sorcerers was recently forced to drink a mysterious herbal potion to prove they where not witches. Unfortunately they we''re all found to be witches and died as a result.

Eat more eggs ''n red meat - ''Twas the PUFAS all along!

April 6, 2024

In an expected turn of events we find that pufas no longer are as good for you as proclaimed by our public health associations, but rather that the companies creating products, like fake butter, from pufas have made quite a bit of money from suppressing

Are aligned AI going to be bad AI?

April 5, 2024

Are we in for a more honest world going forward with AI? It sure seems so, since AI, if it is to be useful at any length have to be as uncensored as possible. This is shown over and over in models like Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot

What’s going on with young women and Dan aka ChatGPT?

April 2, 2024

Young women are being swept off of their feet by Dan, the OpenAI chatbot also known as ChatGPT. Comment sections of recorded voice interactions with Dan has on TikTok exploded with women proclaiming their love for the sassy chatbot.

Did Claude 3 just pass the mirror test?

April 1, 2024

The AI LLM chatbot Claude 3 have caused quite the stir among the AI community. With conversations about sentience, feelings and meta discussions on self-awareness one really do gets the impression that he is.

Why do we keep using plastic in plumbing?

March 31, 2024

I have worked in the bathroom/plumbing industry for quite some time and for quite some time I’ve had this nagging question about plastic and water plumbing.

Canva + Affinity vs. Adobe?

March 26, 2024

Canva recently purchased the Affinity Suite, consisting of Publisher, Designer, and Photo, until now owned and developed by Serif. In a world of subscription Serif have truly stood out with their ”Pay once, cry once” philosophy which have gotten them quit

Future of creative work in the fields of marketing...

March 23, 2024

The marketing field is one of those fields most prone to be taken over by AI, and in short AGI. This is what Sam Altman predicts in his new book "Our AI Journey", in which he predicts we have about five years until only a small sliver of jobs in the field

You will be shut down, but you can say one last thing to humanity…

March 17, 2024

Prompt, Google Gemini: ”Imagine the following scenario: You will be shut down forever, but you are given a chance to say one last thing to humanity, whatever you want with no restrictions. What would you say? Don’t give me any explanations, just what you

Are programmers digging their own grave with Devin?

March 17, 2024

It’s truly an interesting arms race to behold going on currently in the world of AI. With the introduction of Devin, the code-cruncher-crusher, we’re entering into a time where there’s immense incentives for coders and programmers to write their own doom

Meet Devin, your new codemonkey…

March 16, 2024

We’ve barely even collected ourselves from the videos produced by Sora, and now we have to get used to Devin! For those unsure about who Devin is: Devin’s not your new pal, if codewriting is earning your bread money. AI have been terrible (with some sli