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​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: the intricate engineering of a checkbox, a brain that rewired itself, and the molten blobs under our feet.

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TECH SUPPORT WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK ​The 'I'm Not A Robot' Checkbox Is Actually Absurdly Complicated, And Other Facts digg.com ​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: the intricate engineering of a checkbox, a brain that rewired itself, and the molten blobs under our feet. OS HEX IBM's Great, Big Microkernel Failure tedium.co How IBM bet big on the microkernel being the next big thing in operating systems back in the '90s — and spent billions with little to show for it. THE VOID WHICH REMINDS How The Universe Remembers Information nautil.us A "memory matrix" might solve Stephen Hawking's black-hole paradox. CASH BACK WE DIGG | SPONSORED Outrageous Credit Card Offers 0% Interest Until 2020 nextadvisor.com This jaw-dropping card is offering 0% APR for 14 Months and 5% back in rotating categories. Pay no interest until March 2020 and double your cash back. THE LONGEST SHORTEST MONTH PISCES POST All Of February 2019 In One Big Post digg.com A bad gun, some worse french fries and one extremely fast bulldog. Here are the 9 big things that happened in February 2019, all in one big post. TRUE STORY THE FATE OF BANDA The Hidden History Of The Nutmeg Island That Was Traded For Manhattan atlasobscura.com Dutch colonists committed genocide to secure a spice monopoly. But there's more to the story. THEY F*** YOU UP, YOUR MOMO AND DAD Don't Freak Out About The 'Momo Challenge,' Which Is Not A Real Thing digg.com Well-meaning parents and educators are inadvertently spreading a scary hoax when there's no evidence that it actually exists. THE ARSENIC ASSASSIN The Minnesota Murderess magazine.atavist.com A new wife, a dead husband and the arsenic panic that shook the Victorian world. DC IS FOR WRITERS Where Your Job Is Most Popular, Visualized flowingdata.com Some jobs are common nationwide, because they are needed everywhere. Then there are jobs more specific to geography. Use the searchable map grid below to see the popularity of your job in each state, compared against the national average. VIDEO OF THE DAY WE DESTROY THE THINGS WE LOVE Longhorn Bull Accidentally Deflates His Ball, Has The Deepest Sadness digg.com Well, if this isn't the most relatable thing we've seen all week. IN THE NEWS Trump Ordered Officials To Give Jared Kushner A Security Clearance The $35,000 Tesla Model 3 Is Here At Last Reddit Is Letting Users Tip Real Money — To One Guy In One Subreddit HBO Chief Richard Plepler Leaves Network After 27 Years FBI Finds 2,000 Human Bones At Indiana Home: 'Unlike Anything We'd Ever Seen' DIGG PICKS This Tabletop Machine Makes Molds For Soap, Chocolate, And Concrete digg.com All you creative, hands-on makers take note. The ability to make molds and other cool stuff out of plastic sheets is no longer a thing only factories do. The Mayku FormBox will be your favorite new appliance. Enjoy your weekend, and please correct any panicked relatives about Momo. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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