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In Nick Maggiulli’s book Just. Keep. Buying. I came across an interesting story about focus. Jeffrey Seder, a Harvard-educated lawyer, discovered his passion for horses after a stable visit with his girlfriend. This passion became his profession. After studying horses extensively, Seder made a breakthrough discovery: heart size was the decisive factor in racing success. Not bloodlines. Not pedigree. Not training methods. Just heart size. Seder began performing MRIs on potential purchases, selecting horses solely based on heart size while ignoring metrics like bloodline, coat, etc....

Microplastics are those microscopic plastic particles smaller than 5 millimetres that have sneaked their way into pretty much everything around us. And when I say everything, I mean everything - including our bodies. For years, scientists have been finding microplastics in various human organs - from our blood to our lungs. Last year, researchers found microplastics in human testicles. And they think this might be why sperm counts in men have been reducing globally....

Cecile Steele was supposed to receive 50 chicks from a hatchery in 1923, but a clerical error resulted in her receiving 500 instead. Nobody predicted that this would lead to the $30 billion chicken industry. In the early 1900s, chickens were largely kept for eggs. Only when their output had been lowered were they slaughtered for meat. But Cecile Steele had 450 more chickens and no room to store them. Since returning these chickens was not an option, she chose to keep them in the limited area she had....

Efforts to clean up our oceans might be accidentally speeding up global warming. Umm, but how, why? I had the exact same question when I came across this article from Financial Times, and I tried my best to understand it and now I’m trying my hand at explaining it. I am by no means an expert but here is what I have understood. In 2020 the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) decided to reduce sulphur emissions from ships....

We’ve all heard that money can’t buy happiness, but happiness can buy money, and cried a little every time we heard it. But it turns out there could be some truth to this: being happy - or more specifically, being optimistic - might actually help you save more money, according to research from the American Psychological Association. The research team, led by Dr. Joe Gladstone from the University of Colorado Boulder, conducted an extensive study across multiple countries....