Many, if not all, bookmarking apps have failed to capture a large, lasting audience, but new alternatives are still being developed. Aside from being simple to make, the lack of a dominant bookmarking app means developers see an “itch” to be scratched: a bookmarking app that offers a new, specific type of bookmarking. However, that itch is precisely what causes these apps to fail. While the itch exists, it’s not big enough of a demand to sustain a bookmarking app for years to come. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
