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The science behind what we eat for breakfast

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Our ideas of what qualifies as breakfast food are cultural distinctions, not scientific ones. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. If you live in the United States, there's a good chance you were picturing some combination of eggs, bacon, cereal, and/or pancakes. Of course, we also know that a classic British breakfast consists of beans and fried bread--two savory foods most Americans don't associate with their first meal of the day. Is there a science behind why we think of some foods as breakfast and others as not?


This artificial intelligence system predicts the future to help you around the house

#artificialintelligence

There's an artificial intelligence system that can peer into the future and anticipate what you're about to do. No, we're not talking about anything like Roko's Basilisk -- it can't travel through time or take over the world (at least not yet). Instead, fortune-telling AI can only guess what someone will do within the next few minutes. As long as those next few minutes definitely involve cooking. And the past few minutes also involved cooking.