Silicon Canals
10 dog breeds known for close bonds with their owners, with an important caveat about…
Every dog forms a bond with its person.
Silicon Canals
10 things highly successful people always keep private
A Silicon Canals Mind piece on privacy as judgment: what successful people often keep offstage to protect attention, trust, boundaries, and unfinished work.
Silicon Canals
Deep thinkers often do not realize it, but the way they make decisions can be different…
A Silicon Canals Mind piece on how reflective people can approach decisions differently, from questioning first answers to weighing reversibility and search costs.
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Why character is easier to judge when there is nothing to gain
A Silicon Canals Mind piece on why stable respect toward people with no immediate utility may say more about character than polish, status, or etiquette.
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7 hard lessons ahead for people in their 60s thinking of relocating to a new area
Relocating in your 60s is not only a scenery decision. It changes habits, support networks, access, identity, costs, and the practical infrastructure of daily life.
Curiosities
Roseto once reported unusually low heart-disease mortality, but the cause was never…
Roseto's mid-century mortality pattern became a famous social-cohesion story, but the evidence was observational and the interpretation was disputed from the beginning.
Curiosities
A mosasaur called Tylosaurus grew to more than 13 metres in the Late Cretaceous seas…
Tylosaurus stretched past 13 metres in the Late Cretaceous seas, longer than two great white sharks nose to tail, with backward-pointing palatal teeth that turned its throat into a one-way ratchet. A newly named species from Texas, Tylosaurus rex, pushes the genus to its upper limit.
Silicon Canals
Why some people use television as a sleep aid, and what the evidence actually shows
Television is a common sleep aid, but research does not show that the habit reveals a particular childhood history or means the nervous system reads silence as danger.
Business
Europe’s nuclear fleet is being throttled by the same heatwave driving record demand…
Across France, Spain, Germany and Poland this week, control room operators are watching two graphs at once: the air temperature outside, and the temperature of the river water flowing past their nuclear plants.
Silicon Canals
Nine lessons some people associate with growing up in the 1960s and 1970s
A Silicon Canals Mind piece on the behavioural lessons many people practised in the 1960s and 1970s, from waiting and repair to attention, privacy, and local obligation.
Technology
In 1977, Jerry Ehman was paging through computer printouts from Ohio State’s Big Ear…
On August 15, 1977, Ohio State's Big Ear radio telescope recorded a 72-second narrow-band signal from Sagittarius that was 30 times louder than background noise — sitting almost exactly on the hydrogen line where SETI researchers had been listening since 1959. Jerry Ehman circled it in red ballpoint days later. It has never been heard again.
Technology
The Netherlands just sent its trade minister to lobby US Congress directly — and the…
The Netherlands has dispatched its trade minister to Washington in an unusual lobbying push against US legislation that would sharply tighten semiconductor export controls on China.