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You can (probably) sing better than you think
You don't need to be the 1 in 10,000 people with absolute perfect pitch to sing well. Credit: Deposit Photos The ability to identify or produce any musical note from memory without reference, aka true perfect pitch, is a rare gift. In fact, less than one in 10,000 people have it—but you don’t need the
August 15, 2024
Everything You (Probably) Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your Steam Deck
If you want to be extra efficient with your Steam Deck, you’ll also want a dock of some sort so you can plug in a mouse and keyboard.Photo: Kyle Barr / GizmodoThe Steam Deck remains extra popular partly due to the stranglehold Valve’s Steam has on the PC games market but also partially because it
April 25, 2024
Why chickens probably crossed the Silk Road
The mystery of what came first, the chicken or the egg has generally been solved–it was the egg. However, some questions remain about how well chickens were dispersed in the ancient world, as some wild bird bones have been misidentified as domesticated chicken bones. With the help of new technology, a recent analysis of eggshell
April 2, 2024
Here are The Uses Of Alum Stone You Probably Didn’t Know About (Opinion)
The crystalline forms of potassium can be found in the form of alum blocks or stones. These blocks have a wide range of applications, including treating skin irritations, skin wounds, and water. They can also be used to repair wounds. In Cameroon, alum blocks go by a variety of names, including loba and woba, to
February 26, 2024
‘This Is Probably the Most Obviously Fake Data I Have Seen’: What We Heard This Week
"This is probably the most obviously fake data I have seen." -- Kyle Sheldrick, MBBS, PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales, on the potentially fraudulent data underpinning an infamous study of vitamin C for sepsis. "It is OK to have financial relationships with industry." -- Adam Bitterman, DO, of Northwell Health Physician…
March 27, 2022
You’re Probably Using These Psychological Terms Wrong on Social Media
Photo: OlgaOtto (Shutterstock)When I first joined TikTok in 2020, I couldn’t go a day without seeing videos about abusive narcissists, whether in the form of “toxic” exes, or emotionally absent parents. While narcissists obviously do exist, the content was so prevalent that you’d be forgiven for thinking narcissists were as common as people named Bob.…
February 23, 2022
Protons are probably actually smaller than previously thought
February 6, 2022
In the 1990s, protons were thought to be 0.88 femtometers. But a new study by the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Darmstadt suggests that the protons are probably actually smaller than assumed since the 1990s. This discovery comes as a surprise to the scientific community- some researchers even believed that the Standard…
Well, at least Gearbox probably isn’t going to do NFTs
Some actual good NFT news for you this weekend What’s the Gearbox NFT strategy? It looks like “nothing, with a bit of scorn” at the moment, which is generally good news. Randy Pitchford, who is still the Gearbox CEO, took to Twitter this month to rip into NFTs in various threads. While he argued with…
January 22, 2022
This is probably the first time I’ve seen someone take a shot at a letter.
Idk singing the song in my head like this makes sense, not like that song should define anything but ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOPRS-TUV-WX-QY&Z.
January 11, 2022
Tom Holland Is Probably the Highest Paid Spider-Man
Tom Holland has had a good run of playing Spider-Man. The 25-year-old actor has already starred in three successful solo Spider-Man films and helped integrate the character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe by appearing in three more (Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Captain America: Civil War). For a relatively young actor, he's done pretty…
December 18, 2021