Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals is a digital news outlet that primarily positions itself around European technology and innovation, with a stated focus on startups, venture capital, and emerging technologies—particularly within the Netherlands and the broader European tech ecosystem.
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 20
- Latest publication
- Aug 3, 2026
- Audience
- Top 50K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 6, 2026
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A 2007 study found that rude behavior measurably reduced performance on both routine and creative tasks and made people less willing to help, a pattern later research found extends to a single curt email (opens the original)
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A 2024 review of the love-languages theory found that most people rate all five categories as important rather than one dominant preference, and that couples matched on their stated language were no more satisfied than couples who were not (opens the original)
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The idea that Gen Z is lazy misreads the data: full-time workers aged 20 to 24 averaged 40.5 hours a week, and visible enthusiasm is not the same as effort (opens the original)
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Adults who take the same walk at the same time every evening may not be creatures of rigid habit; they may have found that repetition in the body can help the mind finally set something down (opens the original)
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When researchers followed patients recovering from spinal surgery, the ones whose rooms happened to face the sun used about a fifth less pain medication than those in dim rooms — same wound, same operation, and the main difference was which way the window faced (opens the original)
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A hospital window facing the wrong direction can cost patients hundreds of dollars in extra painkillers—and days of needless suffering.
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