my father always told me: "if you want to go for a run, go for a run, don't look for company. sooner or later, on your fifth run or your twentieth, like-minded people will find you themselves." and only recently have i realized that this principle works everywhere.

Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable, but VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable. "Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.” 🧵⬇️

The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been

When I was in high school, I didn't realize difference of two squares literally meant "What's the difference between these two squares?" Here's how we can visually show why x²-y²=(x-y)(x+y).

In Japanese, “tsundoku” means collecting books and letting them pile up - not for neglect, but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories. 📍Kinokuniya Book Store, Tokyo

This math joke. 😂

Thank you for teaching me the meaning of "plethora". It means a lot.

One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.

we need a word for people who invent elaborate social situations in their head to justify buying new clothes but don't actually like socializing

One of the best feelings in music is recognizing a sample

My grandpa always said, “When one door closes, another one opens.” Amazing man. Horrible cabinet maker

The ‘atchoo’ noise we make when we sneeze is learned behaviour. Filipino sneezers say ‘ha-ching’ and Japanese sneezers say ‘hakashun’. Deaf people sneeze silently.

I normally knock on the fridge door before I open it. Just in case there’s a salad dressing

The risk of AI for education is not students cheating in exams, it is people in general cheating themselves into believing they understand things they don’t.

"Unpopular Academic Advice" #8: When I was younger, I envied people who could ace exams effortlessly. They had the talent. I had the grind. I could get high scores, too, but only by working painfully hard. For a long time, I thought that meant I was behind. Years later, I see it

No cap, if the tree slays, the apple slays not far from it.

A dead trout placed in a vortex wake swims upstream without muscle movement, and it won the 2024 IG Nobel Physics Prize. The fish’s flexible body resonates with swirling water patterns, passively extracting energy. Live trout use the same trick, reducing muscle effort by ~50%.

There’s a fine line between a numerator and a denominator

Squirrels always look and act like it's their first day being a squirrel.