That’s about a fifth of your total energy requirements. Most of this is concerned with the largely automatic process of controlling your muscles and processing sensory input, although some studies show solving tricky problems increases your brain's metabolic requirements too.

🔗 https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/does-concentrated-thought-burn-calories

16 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 20 Jul

https://astrethewey.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/computer-brain.png

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @hasherstacker 19 Jul

"Noster" means "our" in Latin. Seemingly, "Nostra" means "our" in Italian, and "Nostre" in Catalan.

24 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 19 Jul

"nosso" in portuguese :)

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 19 Jul

Cosa Nostra = "our thing" in Italian, which is slang for the mob.

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 19 Jul

Iceland Doesn't Have Mosquitos

https://media.easemytrip.com/media/Blog/International/637963444598672695/637963444598672695B3GUJt.jpg

Say goodbye to Mosquitos in Iceland. The temperature and the lack of shallow waterbodies has resulted in no Mosquitos in Iceland.

https://www.easemytrip.com/blog/fun-facts-about-europe

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 19 Jul

Kamala Harris lived in Montreal from 1976 - 82, age 12 to 18. Her mother was a cancer researcher at McGill University

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 19 Jul

So that's what's wrong with her. Too much time with Les Quebecois.

101 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 19 Jul

Happy International Blue Screen Day!!!

https://m.stacker.news/40496 https://m.stacker.news/40492

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TexasDrift 19 Jul freebie

ten does come after eight

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @hasherstacker 19 Jul

A pangram is a sentence that contains every letter in the language. For example, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 19 Jul

That one - a classic - has 35 letters. Here's an example of one that's has only 1 of each letter:

Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex.

13 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby 19 Jul

@k00b bring back Meme Monday and Fun fact Friday. Please.

63 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 19 Jul

Would you like to do them? I can send you the sats for the bounties on some cadence. 10k each contest should do it.

178 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 19 Jul

I will give it a shot. Full credit to @oliverweiss for trying this user activated version but it doesn't seem to get the traction the SN posts did.

What time do you want them posted on Monday and Friday?

63 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 19 Jul

It'd be up to you ultimately. But kr did 9a CT I believe.

1124 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 19 Jul

Ok I will give it a shot.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 19 Jul

I'd like to sponsor a meme contest sometime in ~aliens_and_UFOs, I'll add 15k to the bounty. Winner has to reference both bitcoin AND aliens, UFOs, Non-Human Intelligences, ETs, etc...

113 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 19 Jul

Was scrolling through old meme bounties. Looks like KR was doing 25k sat bounties but some are 10k sats. I think 10k is enough to generate some excitement. I am going with 10k bounty on Monday.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 20 Jul

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English dictionary, an even longer word exists outside the dictionary. The extended term for “titin” has 189,819 letters, but the first 61 letters are methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylsery..

https://m.stacker.news/40554

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Hodladi 19 Jul

Craig Wright said he was satoshi but wasn't..

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