A slideshow by renowned animal photographer Tim Flach with annotations about their body language

In science/tech:

• New Computer Will Simulate One Billion Neurons
• Microsoft reveals a muscle controlled computer interface
• Voyager 1 is getting close to ‘the edge’ of interstellar space
• The waves in Quantum Mechanics are real
• The discovery of a HIV protein’s structural change
• The Greenland Ice Melt might not be as apocalyptic as some would make it out to be
• Plants Can ‘Talk’ To Each Other by Clicking Their Roots

In society:

• Why Bronze Medalists Are Happier Than Silver Medalists
• A US Marine couple’s personal account of the Aurora Shooting
• Scientology’s insane concentration camp for it’s Executives
• A counter-editorial of Why Men Can’t Have It All
• Still haven’t seen ‘Girls’, but the parody trailer ‘Boys’ looks good
• Revealed, at last: why women live longer than men
• How to rewire your brain for success
• Do You Believe in Magic? Yes, You Do.
• Interesting Chronicling: history’s changing understanding of mammals
• Lost footage from The Karate Kid

Others:

• Project allRGB: creating images using only one pixel for each rgb color (16,777,216)
• Online app: based on weight/height, who’s your Olympic equivalent?
• The internet map: websites illustrated according to traffic and user activity
• Web-based Game Boy emulator with a slew of games to choose from
• Video: some guy almost walks into a bear while texting

3D reproduction of Brazil’s shantytowns via iheartmyart

• Batman fans acting like dickheads on Rotten Tomatoes, site suspends comments
• Black Mirror gets second series
• Hungary Arrests Alleged Nazi, 97
• The livetweeting of a couples’ breakup on a train
• 9 of the World’s Most Ridiculously Secure Safes and Vaults
• Four Technologies That Could Revolutionize The Way We Live
• The Singularity: Will Transcending Human Intelligence Also Transcend Human Empathy?
• Major Universities Begin Offering Free Online Education
• Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30?
• Infographic: Recipe for a Summer Blockbuster

And then there’s this awesome footage of a Whale Shark that’s learned to feed from a commercial fishing net.

• YES: Rumored film about Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison rivalry starring Christian Bale and Nicolas Cage!
• Bill Murray Announces Party Crashing Tour Starting In August
• Book ‘pirate’ goes underground after being named by Terry Goodkind
• Reddit Cracked a Mysterious Cipher That Might Be a Viral Marketing Scam
• Scientists Figure Out how Dinosaurs Did it
• World’s heaviest woman sheds 98 lbs with seven-times-a-day sex
• South Caroline Funeral Home Adds a Starbucks (of course)
• Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity
• Proving you’re gay to the Turkish army
• Surveyed: Many Wall Street executives says wrongdoing is necessary
• Editorial: The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama
• Supercut: See James Bond Do Vehicles
• North: How a Small Arctic Town Became a Global Epicenter of Climate Science
• Ranked: Disney Princesses From Least To Most Feminist
• 20 Best ‘Arrested Development’ Inside Jokes and Recurring Gags
• Photos: 18 Years Of Friendship

And for your daily freak out, this video demonstrates what one, ONE DROP of Russell’s Viper snake venom can do to blood.

(Kinda graphic, only because of the ‘holy shit! That was from just one drop!’ factor).

• Vast Video Game Collection Sells for $1.2M
• A Hot Drink on a Hot Day Can Cool You Down
• Why Were CD Boxes So Big in the Early 1990s?
• Is the Web Driving Us Mad?
• Walker Arts Center Validates the First-Ever Internet Cat Video Film Festival
• Discovery of an arsenic-friendly microbe refuted
• Scientists just discovered what makes migration possible
• Tire reefs fail to revive marine life in Florida
• Share it Maybe with Cookie Monster “Call Me Maybe” Parody (yes, I know, I too feel awful)
• The 20 Awesomest Photos of Women & Bacon
• 17 Famous Literary Characters Almost Named Something Else
• 12 Fascinating True Stories About Guest Stars On ‘The Simpsons’

And lastly, a short commercial by Jon Lajoie. If you were completely honest with yourself, you’d realize that you are a terrible person.

• How can you distinguish colour? (I managed a score of 11)
• The rediscovery and survival of the largest flightless insect in the world on a deserted volcano island
• For the first time in 100 years, cities growing more than suburbs as young adults shun owning property
• Why our brains are addicted to computers
• Charisma: who has it, and how to get it
• Cyborg makes art using seventh sense
• Redefining ‘Masterpiece’: How a Shift in Collectors’ Focus Is Changing the Art World
• How bad people can make good art
• Graphing the history of philosophy
• The Early Jobs of 24 Famous Writers
• 10 Shocking Secrets of Flight Attendants

Lonesome George Is Dead, and the Pinta Island Tortoises Are Extinct

• The Newsweek Daily Beast: 100 Digital Power Index
• First ever ‘photo finish’ tie in US track and field
• A Chinese soccer fan died from exhaustion after staying up to watch every Euro 2012 match
• Why is the retirement age 65?
• Apple’s retail army, long on loyalty but short on pay
• How Apple brainwashes its store employees – turning them into clapping, smiling zealots
• Infographic: Ray Bradbury predictions fulfilled

And here’s a brief clip from some interview with Marcia whatshername, but the real star here is a plucky audience member who knows just how to work the camera:

And very hungover’dley at that…

• Are You A Paster, Presentist, Or Futurian? 
• What Your Brain Looks Like When You’re Selling Out
• How We Measure the Universe, Animated
• Gonzo: A Graphic Biography of Hunter S. Thompson
• Where did dogs come from? It turns out we don’t really know
• Brazil: Pilot Ejects Passenger Over Sexist Remarks
• Three Myths about What Customers Want
• Explore The Galaxy Using The Actual “Minority Report” Interface