‘Today I Learned’: 50 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School

Here is a hacker with a heart of gold.

I believe this is referred to as a "white hat" hacker?

You never hear about GOOD hackers! Amazing!

I love this hacker.

Should be SOP (after acquiring permission from the owner of the computer, of course!) for programmers working for companies developing internet security programs. Since experts forget that what they see as simple and easy to do isn’t that way for non-experts, I would think it would be the best real world source for programmers to truly understand the kinds of vulnerabilities there can exist in computers owned by non-tech savvy people, who may not even realize it until their computer is hacked or attacked with a virus.

Everyone who upvoted this should check out Bombshell: The Hedy Lemarr story on Netflix.

She lost her position because she was jewish

She laid the foundation for win(ners). Women in Neuroscience.

A couple of minutes ago, I was reading some 5 year old BP articles, like "https://tinyurl.com/Mind-Bending-Photos."

How did she lose her job? Was she booted so the job could be given to a man? Regardless, it takes dedication to set up your lab in your bedroom when you’re denied a more sophisticated, and better stocked, location like a university research department. By doing that, continuing her research, making the discovery, and very deservedly winning the Nobel Prize, she sure showed up the pricks who gave her the boot—-and kept all the credit herself, instead of having to share it with the university.

My two faves

I highly recommend the book "Mind of the Raven" by Bernd Heinrich for more information on this fascinating subject. His theory is that the decline in raven numbers is directly linked to the persecution of wolves by humans.

I wonder if ravens also led ancient humans to prey, or if they found us untrainable.

The relationship between these two animal species is very deep. In Canada about 20 years ago researchers went to go trap some wolves they would set up the trap and hide pretty far away and every time they saw the wolves come near there anticipation would build Ravens would fly between the wolves, land between the trap and the wolves, the wolves refused to go past the ravens. No matter how careful the researchers were this happened over and over again and after a while one of the researcher said let’s set this up at night. They set it up at night when of course the ravens were asleep and sure enough they caught their wolves. The ravens had watched the researchers putting up the trap and had warned the wolves over and over again. I learned this from one of the researchers it was a fascinating story and I love that he shared it

No wonder Raven and Beastboy are a couple!!!

Good man.

Musicians and artists have frequently been leaders in breaking down stereotypes and confronting injustices. I like to think it's because they're tapped into deeper truths. They recognize that people are connected in heart/mind/soul, and the surface stuff doesn't really matter.

I keep seeing young people saying that racism in the US has never been worse than now and so on. I think this makes the point that, while we may have a lot of work to do, things now are far, far, better than they were not too long ago.

My dad played tenor sax and I remember listening to Dave's music as a child. Good on him for standing up to such racism.

Brilliant.. Great man. Amazing musician. Sadly missed.

Awesome!

501st Legion?

Imagine being one of those fans, that would be an amazing experience

I learned this on BP last year, lol

$15 million an episode and they couldn't budget for a few costumes! Honestly, the amount of money poured away on this stuff is eye-watering.

You can't replace the tactile quality of a book.

I have paper books and a kindle but I still prefer paper. The bonus with the kindle is that I have over 150 books and it takes up a tiny amount of space compared to my paper book collection that takes up 2 large shelves.

You can't beat the smell of a new book!

I wonder if this varies by category. For how-to books or anything that might contain illustrations or figures, I purchase a paper book, but for novels, I tend to get the e-book.

I only have an e-reader, because I ran out of shelf...

I've always said that bees were our little friends.

Wow, This is recent. Published in Nature just this last Sept.