In another stunning photo captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it passed by Jupiter's surface, we get to see two storms next to each other.

Accompanying the famous Great Red Spot storm in this image is a second storm nicknamed Oval BA. Unlike its larger russet companion, Oval BA formed under scientists' eyes, when three smaller storms collided in 2000.

The visible-light camera on board Juno, called JunoCam, has been able to watch Oval BA change over the course of the mission, with the storm becoming paler since a previous visit nearly a year ago, according to a statement from the Southwest Research Institute, which manages the mission.

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If it is generally thought that children who have no siblings would be spoiled and selfish, then I would be the first to say that not all single children are like that, and I can attest to that.

I grew up as an only child and though my parents lavished their love and attention upon me, I was never raised to think only of myself and expect that I would get what I want when I cry about it. In fact, it is quite the opposite. I was taught to work hard if I want something and even if I did, we still had to consider the budget constraints.

So, no. Only-child syndrome is not something that all single children experience. It still depends on how they were raised.

In A Study of Peculiar and Exceptional Children published in the 19th century by educator E. W. Bohannon from Clark University in Massachusetts, detailed the results of a questionnaire—a new form of data collection at the time—filled out by 200 test subjects. In it he had asked respondents about the peculiarities of any only children they knew. In 196 cases participants described children without siblings as excessively spoiled.

Not necessarily:

According to data compiled in the 21st century, however, these notions are nonsense and only children show no serious deficits. Toni Falbo, a psychologist at The University of Texas at Austin, and an only child, opposes the idea you need brothers and sisters to grow into a decent person. In her 1986 survey, for which she examined more than 200 studies on the subject, she concluded the characteristics of children with and without siblings do not differ. The only difference, she found, was that only children seemed to have stronger bonds with their parents compared with children who had siblings.

Perhaps, one of the things that I realized as I grew up being an only child is that I actually would have liked to have a sibling. Despite the perks of being an only child, there are things that children with siblings relish like bonds with their brothers and sisters.

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Truly, love knows no bounds but it also goes beyond comprehension at times. Sure, sometimes there are certain qualities and traits that we find very attractive no matter how risky it might seem, but for some those traits score high in the psychopathy index.

In 2005, Scott Peterson was convicted of the murder of his wife Laci and her unborn child. During the first hour on death row, he received a marriage proposal, and within a day the warden's office was inundated with over 30 phone calls from women asking for his mailing address as well as letters from women professing their love for him.

This is not an isolated incident, and there is even a clinical term for it: Hybristophilia.

According to research, there are two main clusters of traits that measure for psychopathy. The first is fearless dominance and the other, self-centered impulsivity. Having either one of these traits is fine but possessing a combination of both gives you the tendency for psychopathy.

Now, even though psychopathy can be measured, very little is known as to why people are attracted to such traits.

While there has been research measuring psychopathy in the general population, surprisingly, there has been very little systematic analysis of the attraction to psychopathic characteristics.

In a new study, Ashley Watts and colleagues overcame some of these prior limitations to investigate whether people are especially attracted to psychopathic characteristics, and whether there are individual differences in such attraction.

What did they find? Well, the answer might not be that surprising.

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As scientists continue to examine evidences of possible existence of life on Mars millions of years ago, geologists look at Moqui marbles or what they call concretions as possibly giving a clue.

Concretions are found all over the world, and even beyond this planet. In 2004, NASA’s Mars Rover found concretion in Mars, which scientists have named Martian blueberries. It is thought that the Martian variety formed in a similar manner as their terrestrial counterpart, providing evidence that Mars once had a wet surface.

There is also evidence that certain bacteria and microorganisms can help precipated iron to form concretaion—a fact that will certainly bear on the search for evidence of past life on Mars.

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Many thrift stores today are seeing a trend in an increase of people giving away their stuff as a result of the KonMari method, which has been featured on Marie Kondo's book and Netflix series.

Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizing consultant-turned-author whose book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, re-popularized the idea that the first step to achieving inner peace is to give away the useless piles of things you’ve accumulated over the years.

Per the KonMari method, you’re first encouraged to hold the stuff, think about the stuff, and thank the stuff for its service.

It seems to be working. Thanks to this trend, a lot of thrift stores have seen a surge in donations from old and new faces alike.

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What was so special about 1959? Today, 1969 is all the rave because it has been 50 years since then. So many things happened that year, particularly the famous Apollo 11 moon landing. But ten years before, some significant things went down as well. With that in mind, the 1959 Project was conceived.

Helmed by Natalie Weiner, a sportswriter and history-of-jazz superfan, the premise is simple: every day, a snapshot of the world of jazz sixty years ago.

Check it out: The 1959 Project. via Kottke

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No space is safe anymore, not even outer space. Apart from the light pollution that many urban cities around the world are emitting, a Russian startup called StartRocket had said that they want to launch space billboards. As if we don't have enough ads invading our everyday lives, now this would even prevent us from seeing the stars at night.

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Men have been stereotyped as disorganized, unruly, filthy, and just all-around disgusting. But that's not really how men see it. From our perspective, tidying up should be an easy and hassle-free task. And this is how we do it.

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You should try using a trackball mouse. No, really. Sure, they were ugly and annoying to use back in the day but have you heard of the modern trackball mice that's beginning to make a comeback?

Most peripheral manufacturers gave up on making trackball mice a long time ago, but Logitech is still plugging away at it. Their flagship MX Ergo is one of the best around—and the one I use regularly—but they also make cheaper models. Kensington is the only other major name in the trackball space, but they tend to make more traditional style trackballs.

At this point you might ask yourself, “Why in the world would I use a trackball when they died off years ago?” It’s a fair question. For starters, they can be easier on your wrists and forearms. With a typical mouse, you need to bend your wrists and slide your arms across your desk repeatedly. A trackball mouse like the MX Ergo sits in one place, and only your thumb needs to move.

So, how about it? Well, you can still use the optical mice we have nowadays but I would definitely try using these modern-style retro mice.

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The ingenuity of humans have led to some crazy but effective ideas. Cars nowadays have automatic windshield washers that spray the glass with water or some other cleaning fluid while the wipers dry them away. But back in the 1960s, that was too much of a luxury for car manufacturers. Volkswagen was faced with the same predicament.

Initially, VW installed a hand pump in their Beetle model that would manually spray the fluid on the windshield. But it was too tedious for people to use so instead they used something else that they already had: the spare tire.

Old VW windshield washers work by using the air pressure of the spare tire.

Yes, the spare tire! Personally, I think this is one of the most clever hacks in all of motoring. 99% of that spare tire’s life it’s doing nothing but taking up room in your trunk. VW put that tire to work, providing pressure to clean your windshield for, essentially, free.

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When I watch a film for the first time, I wouldn't usually pay attention to how the film was done and simply focus on what was happening in the story. Of course, if something was poorly executed, I would not find it entertaining or enjoyable despite the story. For filmmakers, there is a certain pet peeve that they just don't like. It's called motion smoothing or motion interpolation.

This refers to the process of artificially increasing the frame rate of your content by inserting fake frames into a video in effort to remove motion blur from the image. Motion smoothing can make sense for sports, which can move quickly and get blurry on your TV set.

Most films, however, are traditionally shot at 24 frames-per-second and motion blur naturally occurs. Artificially increasing the frame rate and removing motion blur removes the filmic, dreamlike essence from films, giving them a hyperreal quality.

This can also be done to TV shows and I have seen video clips of some of my favorite shows being played on 60 frames-per-second (fps) which does enhance certain parts of the visual but loses its raw quality, in my opinion. But it all depends on the preferences of each person.

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We can see so many pop culture references in various media today from memes on the internet to skits done on parody shows like SNL as well as insertions in some animation shows like Family Guy. The team at AV Club compiled this list of pop culture references they learned from parodies.

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She was created through CGI but her features seem so real. This is not the first time that CGI has been used to create a virtual person that looks real, but this could very well be the first to appear on the cover of a magazine. Her name is Imma.

Her name Imma is a wordplay on the Japanese word “ima” (今) meaning “now.” According to IT Media, she was created by Tokyo-based CG company Modeling Cafe and recently graced the cover of CGWorld magazine.

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I recently received an email about a supposed hacking incident that involves millions of accounts and passwords to which the IT department warned me to check all my accounts to see if I have been pwned. This so-called megabreach, according to some research done by KrebsOnSecurity, is not necessarily the largest neither is it the latest.

The dump, labeled “Collection #1” and approximately 87GB in size, was first detailed earlier today by Troy Hunt, who operates the HaveIBeenPwned breach notification service. Hunt said the data cache was likely “made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources.”

KrebsOnSecurity sought perspective on this discovery from Alex Holden, CTO of Hold Security, a company that specializes in trawling underground spaces for intelligence about malicious actors and their stolen data dumps. Holden said the data appears to have first been posted to underground forums in October 2018, and that it is just a subset of a much larger tranche of passwords being peddled by a shadowy seller online.

If you haven't yet checked whether your accounts have potentially been hacked, then you may go to the site HaveIBeenPwned and take steps to secure them.

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Though we may share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees and a significant percentage with other apes, there are still so many things that make us worlds apart from them. One being the qualities of human dads to be involved and empathetic. Sure, not everyone experiences that, but that quality is still quite unique in humans.

Anne Machin has done research on the subject and has written a book called The Life of Dad: The Making of the Modern Father.

However, there is one aspect of human behaviour that is unique to us but is rarely the focus of these discussions. So necessary is this trait to the survival of our species that it is underpinned by an extensive, interrelated web of biological, psychological and behavioural systems that evolved over the past half a million years.

Yet, until 10 years ago, we had neglected to try to understand this trait, due to the misguided assumption that it was of no significance – indeed, that it was dispensable. This trait is human fatherhood, and the fact that it doesn’t immediately spring to mind is symptomatic of the overwhelming neglect of this key figure in our society.

When I began researching fathers 10 years ago, the belief was that they contributed little to the lives of their children and even less to our society, and that any parenting behaviour a man might display was the result of learning rather than any innate fathering skill.

Stories of fathers in the media centred on their absence and the consequences of this for our society in terms of antisocial behaviour and drug addiction, particularly among sons. There was little recognition that the majority of men, co-resident or not, were invested in their children’s lives.

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