Dogs have evolved over the millennia to have an excellent symbiotic relationship with humans. No wonder they’ve gotten so good at reading our feelings and responding the way we want them to even if they don’t feel that emotion at all.
There are of course parallels to conditioned human response that lacks the advertised emotion. Communication is a tricky thing.
Ars Technica gives us a look into the world of “High Frequency Trading” (HFT), a lightspeed quick automated style of stock-market trading that uses semiautonomous systems to buy and sell assets in a fraction of a second, for a fraction of a cent more t…
Jag Bhalla wrote a fun book for National Geographic called I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World. It’s illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist Julia Suits.
Here are some examples:
Not hanging noodles on…