F = m*a

• ‘Yuri Gadyukin’ and The greatest movie that never was
• On Cameron’s audacious ‘porn blocking’ – a survivor’s perspective
• True tales of (mostly) white-hat hacking
• Seeing Photosynthesis from Space: NASA Scientists Use Satellites to Measure Plant Health
• Nano Scientists Reach Holy Grail in Label-Free Cancer Marker Detection: Single Molecules
• Ed Drew’s Afghanastan: the first ‘wet-plate’ conflict photos in 150 years
• 5 People Doing Time-Lapse Photography Right
• Life on The Wire: How Bunk, Kima, Freamon, and McNulty blew off steam in Baltimore
• Revisiting Pharcyde’s ‘Drop’ Music Video
• Through pictures: Star Wars vs. Game of Thrones
• Weirdness: Ultra Business Tycoon III

And like Shiva the destroyer, here is Scientifically Accurate Ducktales

Earth from Saturn’s orbit via Cassini

• Share it like Cicero: How Roman authors used social networking
• The Sun, gravitational lensing and the 70 billion mile telescope
• DNA from a Russian cave: The Case of the Missing Ancestor
• Optogenetics: a new technique to controlling genes with light
• Scientists discover the molecule responsible for causing feelings of depression
• Life Satisfaction Linked to Personality Changes
• The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements
• From the Manson Myth to My Friendship with Charles Manson
• The 11-year-old who ran away so she wouldn’t have to get married
• Six Brain-Damage Scourges That Cripple IQ in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Cool webpage design/animation: Riding the New Silk Road
• Professor E. Paul Zehr on How Wolverine’s Claws Could Work
• 18 obsolete words, which never should have gone out of style
• 50 Great Works of Video Art That You Can Watch Online
• Great re-issue review of (one of) my Mountain Goats favourites: All Hail West Texas

You can change the direction of this train just by looking at it.

Evolution of the alphabet

I really should be posting this stuff more often rather than piling up these posts over the course of days. Well, should…

• So Cool: A surgical knife that diagnoses cancer almost immediately on contact
• Shit. Lack of sleep is key in activating excessive worrying
• Elon Musk wants to get you from NY to LA in 45 minutes
• Curiosity Mars Rover Passes Kilometer of Driving
• Four scientists debate on the origins of mathematics
• Damn, I want to see this chart: Family Tree of Fish Yields Surprises
• 33,000 feet (10 Km) up, is a bubble of bacteria that surrounds the Earth
• When at the ends of the Earth: On getting drunk in Antartica
• How Scientology changed the internet
• Woman’s work: The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
• Yes: I Write All My Blog Posts Out Longhand, and You Should Too
• Reuters, deliberately toning down their Climate Change coverage
• Here’s What It Looks Like When You Replace Photographers With iPhone-Wielding Reporters
• Think Your Office Is Soulless? Check Out This Amazon Fulfillment Center
• Woman sues Japan Yamaguchi-gumi crime boss to refund protection money over “employer liability”
• If true, this is a charming twitter story of how Erin Faulk tried to find Matt Damon
• From the master cinematographer: 20 Tips by Roger Deakins
• Rock, Paper, Shotgun interviews Charlie Brooker
• They’re making a Star Wars comic based on the original draft, looks good
• 10 of the most cryptic texts in the world
• Gallery: What does 200 Calories look like?
• Whoa, an augmented reality colouring book: colAR App

This report from PBS takes a look at a Berkeley University study that examines the psychology of wealth and its influence on generosity and altruism. The findings? Yeah, people with more money are jerks. Plenty can attest to that, but this time that person is science!

Still tracking down a copy of the study, but the video documents a good portion of researcher Paul Piff’s methodology and the results, while not very surprising, is still fairly disturbing in its practical implications.

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I finally had the time to stay in bed all day till 7pm and read a book in one sitting. Good day.

• The story of two Mexican border crosser skeletons found in the Arizona desert
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Designed a Vacuum Cleaner from His CIA Prison
• Some Day Your Passwords Could Be Replaced by a Pill
• Wisconsin man arrested for humping discarded curbside couch
• Stop Frying Eggs on Roadside, Death Valley Officials Say
• Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, the most interesting man on Wikipedia
• The Stories of Famous Bandmates’ First Meetings
• Illusion of the Week: “U Can’t Parse This” Illusion Dance
• The 50 Books Everyone Needs to Read, 1963-2013
• Total film: 50 Amazing Films You’ve Probably Never Seen

As far as launch trailers go, this is one of the better ones.

• A lengthy, well thought out breakdown of Pokemon’s Post-Capitalist society
• What Is Nostalgia Good For? Quite a Bit, Research Shows
• When launching a $200m rocket, install the parts right way up
• US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses
• Possible explanation for cosmic radio bursts: Meet the “blitzar”
• Sun’s Loops Are Displaying an Optical Illusion
• New Evidence: Antarctica’s Ancient, Ice-Covered Lake is Full of Life
• Study Finds Mammals Can ‘Choose’ Sex of Offspring
• 29-Year-Old Gets $15-Million to Decipher Song Lyrics
• The positive feedback loop: How IBM’s Watson Learns
• Marvel’s experimentation with the medium of digital comics
• Desert Bus: The Very Worst Video Game Ever Created
• If Films Were Reviewed Like Video Games
• Beverly Hills moms say pot makes them better mothers
• Artist uses rare comic book in paper mache sculpture
• 10 Musical Genres That Should Never, Ever Be Revived
• Planet of the Castors – Beaver kills man in Belarus