If you were given the task of trying to crack a random credit card by repeatedly trying PIN codes, what order should you try guessing to maximize your chances of selecting the correct number in the shortest time?

https://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/index.html

It never occurred to me that they'd come for the butterflies.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/national-butterfly-center-closed-sex-trafficking-qanon/

A Black cowboy named George McJunkin, who died 100 years ago, found a site that would transform scientific views about the deep history of Native Americans in North America. https://www.sapiens.org/column/curiosities/george-mcjunkin/

Three cheers for Mrs. Gussky.
https://twitter.com/CAwkward/status/1486860427233579015

"We have only one life, each of us. Through literature and language we can begin to understand the lives of other people and get insight into how others see the world."
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/stephen-breyer-intellectual-influences/

Multiple images from the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) were used to generate this view of a regional dust storm obscuring Syrtis Major and Jezero Crater (white circle). The images were acquired on Jan. 9, 2022. https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/26498/dust-storm-and-jezero-crater/

From the very beginning, e-paper seemed magical. https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-e-ink-developed-full-color-epaper

Long before the 20th century punks gave us studs and spiked Mohawks during the social unrest of the late Seventies, the post French Revolutionaries of 1793 gave us blood chokers, ripped corsets and cropped, tangled locks, all aimed at symbolising the horror of the guillotine and ridiculing the very foundations of the post-revolutionary society. https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/01/20/how-french-fashion-emerged-even-more-decadently-from-the-guillotine/

Maxis didn’t want to make professional simulation games. But for two brief, strange years, they did. https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/

New data from wildlife surveys shows Mexico’s endangered jaguar population increased by 20% between 2010 and 2018, giving conservationists confirmation that their strategies are working. https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/jaguars-in-mexico-are-growing-in-number-a-promising-sign-that-national-conservation-strategies-are-working/

Oh you kids who complain about "distracted drivers" with cell phones. Back in my day, we all had to drive while reading a Thomas street map! https://laist.com/news/thomas-guide-maps-the-rise-and-fall

"The average Briton owns more than 50 books, but do they organise them alphabetically, by colour, genre, or size - or simply let chaos reign? Our research shows that many simply prefer to let chaos reign." https://yougov.co.uk/topics/arts/articles-reports/2020/03/05/how-Brits-organise-books

At 650 km in diameter, the cloud would obscure most of Great Britain and the east coast of Ireland. It is almost the same size as mainland Spain.
https://graphics.reuters.com/TONGA-VOLCANO/lgpdwjyqbvo/

Is that a tiny tent or just a very large cat? https://tinytents.com/collections/tiny-tents/products/sky-blue-tiny-tent

We all know I'm not going to make these things, but OH BOY do the tools look fun. They had me at "cat rice mold." https://www.bonappetit.com/story/bento-box-gear

The hottest travel accessory for 2022 is ... an antigen rapid test https://www.insidehook.com/article/travel/best-covid-tests-while-traveling

An international group of researchers has compiled the first database of marine conservation efforts in China, and the results have surprised everyone. The country has 326 protected areas covering almost 13% of its territorial waters — and the researchers still aren't sure they've found all of them. https://hakaimagazine.com/news/chinas-surprisingly-robust-system-of-marine-protection/

An honor indeed for actor Jeff Daniels: he’s had a new species of tarantula-killing worm named after him. https://phys.org/news/2022-01-scientists-tarantula-killing-worms-parasite-actor.html