The future of space exploration might depend on… mushrooms?! 🍄
NASA are exploring how fungi could grow habitats, building materials and radiation shields on the Moon – and Mars!
Could these ancient lifeforms be the unlikely ingredient that propels us to the stars? ✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTZ-...
🤔 Are you one of the 93% of people who believe they’re better-than-average multitaskers?
⏰ Time for a reality check with the latest iluli newsletter:
iluli.substack.com/p/does-multi...
#multitasking #neuroscience #psychology #productivity #monotasking
Think multitasking is your superpower? Think again.
Your brain isn’t built for doing multiple complex tasks – it just rapidly switches between them, leaving you drained and less effective.
The secret to productivity? Do one thing. Fully.
🎥 Find out more: youtu.be/NB_SPnu7JYc
#productivityhack
New Year's resolutions failing already? 😬
Try this instead:
💡 Form hypotheses
🧑🔬 Run experiments
🔬 Analyse results
🔄 Adapt and repeat
Self-improvement, but scientific.
Find out more in the first iluli newsletter of 2026 👉iluli.substack.com/p/a-scientific-approach-...
Instead of bold New Year's resolutions that fizzle out by February, why not make 2026 the year of "Tiny Experiments"?
Watch our latest video, inspired by @neuranne.bsky.social's book, to see how thinking smaller can unlock big progress:
youtu.be/UkC9d1vfB5g
#NewYearsResolution #NewYearNewYou
Advent is in 10 days (!)🎄and somehow we’ve gone from peeling back cardboard windows to building miniature DeLoreans. We’ve rounded up a few of the more unusual #adventcalendars for 2025 – science kits, coding challenges and retro throwbacks aplenty…
www.iluli.eu/post/unusual...
Today marks 70 YEARS since Doc Brown slipped, hit his head, and dreamt up the flux capacitor.
But does the science stack up? Could Einstein, wormholes and a splash of exotic matter actually get us back to 1955? ⚡️
Time to find out 👉 www.iluli.eu/post/great-scott-70-years-of-the-flux-capacitor
If ChatGPT is doing the thinking, are we doing any learning? 🤔
The latest iluli newsletter explores how AI could revolutionise education – and why school might never look the same again.
iluli.substack.com/p/how-to-lea...
#education #ai #school #futureoflearning
Think you’d thrive on The Traitors? 🤔
Science suggests it’s tougher than it seems... Find out why 👇
www.iluli.eu/post/the-tru...
#celebritytraitors
“Superforecasters” have proven there is a science to predicting the future 👀🔮
The latest iluli video explores:
❌ Why predictions fail
📈 How the Good Judgment Project changed the game
✅ Habits to think like a superforecaster
Ready to level up your foresight? Watch now 👇
youtu.be/W9sFZkYqvLo
⚡️ Romans used electric fish to cure headaches.
⚡️ Nikola Tesla believed electrified classrooms would make children smarter.
⚡️ Today brain-zapping headsets are being used to treat depression.
📖 Exploring the strange history and promising future of neurostimulation: open.substack.com/pub/iluli/p/...
🧦 Bluetooth socks
🥶 Smart fridges
🚨 Predictive policing
💸 Faulty welfare algorithms
There’s a tech "solution" for virtually everything. But do they always help?
The latest iluli newsletter explores what happens when solutions create new problems.
open.substack.com/pub/iluli/p/...
Would you use electricity to improve your brain?
Neurostimulation devices are helping to treat depression, anxiety and more. There’s now evidence they can boost cognitive performance too.
Should we be excited? Or worried? This month’s iluli video takes a look: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V6C...
Should you trust your gut instinct?
Intuition can be incredibly powerful. But it can also mislead us. In the latest iluli newsletter, we explore:
✨ Life-saving hunches
🧠 Fast vs slow thinking
⚠️ Biases and blind spots
✔️ A checklist for better decisions
open.substack.com/pub/iluli/p/...
🌌 A telescope that can spot a golf ball on the Moon.
📸 Images so detailed, you'd need 400 Ultra HD TVs to see just one.
@vrubinobs.bsky.social just dropped its first images – and they're stunning. But who was Vera Rubin? And why does dark matter... matter?
🔗 substack.com/home/post/p-...
In 2024, Sonos rolled out an app update that broke multi-room sound systems – a textbook product fail.
The latest iluli blog unpacks what went wrong, and how four key lessons from Inspired by @martycagan.bsky.social could have helped avoid it.
www.iluli.eu/post/inspire...
#tech #sonos #blog
🦖 Jurassic Park? Not happening.
🦣 A gene-edited woolly mammoth? Maybe...
🦤 A dodo comeback? It’s being worked on.
Dive into the wild world of de-extinction:
www.iluli.eu/post/can-we-...
#science #deextinction #colossal
Can a fake be just as good as the real thing? 🤔 When it comes to medicine, the placebo effect says... maybe.
Watch the explainer to find out more 👇
youtu.be/tiGRfr66TjI
#placebo #medicalmystery
🎯 Are you chasing rewards – or driven by something deeper?
In his bestselling book Drive, Daniel Pink challenges old ideas about what truly motivates us. Spoiler: it’s not about carrots and sticks.
Find out more in my latest blog: iluli.eu/post/stick-y...
#Purpose #Motivation
🌍 More GDP. More growth. More… problems?
Trees don’t carry on growing forever. What if economies shouldn’t either?
The latest iluli Substack newsletter dives into Degrowth - the radical idea to overhaul economics and save the planet.
📰 open.substack.com/pub/iluli/p/...
Most of us tell white lies. But what happens when dishonesty hits science? 🧪
In the superconductor sphere, the pressure to deliver breakthroughs has sparked a cycle of hype and hoaxes.
What’s driving the desperation? And how could a real superconductor change the world?
🎥 youtu.be/MIhG_mtl02k
What do the most successful people have in common? Is it talent? Hard work? Or luck?
The new iluli newsletter explores the real formula for success — and reveals what science can tell us about how to improve our own luck.
✨ Free to read here: iluli.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
Happy 146th birthday to Albert Einstein! 🎉
His theory of special relativity says time slows down if you move incredibly fast. But forget 88 mph – you’d need near-light-speed to travel into the future!
#factoftheday #didyouknow #timetravel
The coldest temperature ever recorded at ground level on Earth was -89.2°C in 1983 at the high-altitude Vostok weather station in Antarctica. Brrrr 🥶
#factoftheday #didyouknow
It was sent on 3rd December by Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old British software programmer commissioned by Vodafone to develop a Short Message Service (SMS). Nokia introduced a phone with SMS functionality the following year.
#factoftheday #didyouknow
Taste buds detect five basic tastes: sweet, salty, bitter, sour and umami – a savoury flavour often associated with monosodium glutamate 👅
#factoftheday #sciencefact
What makes a healthy diet? It often seems to depend on who you ask.
🥚 Eggs = protein powerhouse or cholesterol nightmare
☕ Coffee = brain boost or cognitive risk
The new iluli newsletter explores whether personalised nutrition might be the answer open.substack.com/pub/iluli/p/...
This is causing Earth's rotation to very gradually slow down. As a result, our days are getting roughly 1.09 milliseconds longer each century. 🌎🌕
#factoftheday #didyouknow
Astronauts tend to return from space missions 3% taller than when they left. This is because of the effect of microgravity on their spines.
#factoftheday #didyouknow #space
More growth, more problems? 🤔
Degrowth challenges everything we know about the economy, arguing that progress means scaling back, not expanding. Could this save the planet? 🌍
Find out in the latest iluli video: t.co/3JICUoZdpA
#Degrowth #SustainableLiving
