Final supper! Last meals by Henry Hargreaves

• Thieves in Germany made away with five metric tons of Nutella
• How the Internet (and sex) amplifies irrational group behavior
• News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
• Brain scans show what pain looks like
• Why ‘neuroskeptics’ see an epidemic of brain baloney
• New music ‘rewarding for the brain’
• The latest on where we’re going with reading people’s dreams
• How a heavily cited economics paper contains a very erroneous Excel formula
• New App Prevents Icelanders from Sleeping With their Relatives
• China: Sex Game Horror as Live Eel Slithers Up Man’s Anus and into His Guts
• Elon Musk want to send 80,000 people per year to Mars
• Teen’s Strange Ramen Addiction – “(she) has the health of an 80 year old”
• Amusing case of the impossibility of IT Security in a Nutshell
• 9 Fascinating Abandoned Mansions from Around the World
• Fucking condom snorting is apparently a fucking ‘thing’. I fucking hate this planet sometimes.

Some truely stunning images of good ol’ New Zealand landscapes by Beven Percival.

I need to get out of the city more often.

Via another great TEDEd lesson.

Hyper-lapse photography – a technique combining time-lapse photography and sweeping camera movements – is a growing trend at the mo and the good folks at Teehan+Lax Labs have developed an open-source tool to make such videos through Google Street View. Totally cool and definitely something to check out and have a play around with.

• The New Spoiler Culture: Game of Thrones and the Fight to Live Uninformed
• Op-ed: How We’re Turning Digital Natives Into Etiquette Sociopaths
• Like-Farming: Facing up to Facebook scams
• NY Times Interview: The Joke’s on Louis C.K.
• Kickstarer: a doco that’ll explore the controversy of ‘controversial’ comedy.
• Les Blank, Filmmaker of America’s Periphery, Dies at 77
• Op-ed: Have Celebrities Hijacked Our Diplomatic Process?
• Google engineer on DRM: It’s about controlling hardware companies
• Hyper-Realistic CGI is Killing Photographers, Thrilling Product Designers
• Design Trends: Can We Please Stop Drawing Trees on Top of Skyscrapers?
• The Murderer Who Pulled a Real Life Shawshank Redemption Escape
• These identical twins, seperated at birth, found each other online 26 years later.
• Cookie Monster, Elmo in Times Square trouble
• Attach a camera to a police officer and you reduce 88% of the complaints against him/her.
• Also, their precaution of self-fingerprinting a stopped vehicle before approaching is pretty smart.
• I want: a 3D printed GlaDOS lamp

Website: How far to Mars?

• I do not fear death a 2011 essay by Roger Ebert
• Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact
• Vlado Taneski a journalist who ended up reporting his own crimes
• In 2003: The 727 that Vanished
• The Plutonium ‘Gate To Hell’ Found In Ancient City Of Hierapolis
• How one man’s lies almost destroyed the comics industry
• Tantalizing New Clues Into the Mysteries of Dark Matter
• Tactile Helmet Uses Vibrations to Help Firefighters ‘See’ in the Dark
• Supercomputers help reveal dinosaur mechanics
• Best audio interview is best: Alec Baldwin sits down with Thom Yorke