• Delusional Doppelgängers: The Three Christs of Ypsilanti State Hospital
• I’m Sick Of Pretending: I Don’t “Get” Art
• NASA outlines ingenious plan to resurrect the Kepler planet hunter
• A spurned techie’s revenge: Locking down his ex’s digital life
• Physics explains why tapping the top of a beer bottle produces a geyser of foam
• TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats From The US That Prove It
• The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath
• The quest for Shadow of the Colossus’ last big secret
• Pop music is louder, less acoustic and more energetic than in the 1950s
• What the … Why everyone and your mother started using ellipses … everywhere
• A simple explanation of how money moves around the banking system
• U.S. family that tried living without anything ‘Made in China’
• Mexican Cartels Enslave Engineers to Build Radio Network
• Population 1: the town that’s been reclaimed by the prairie
• Confessions of a porn site boss: Part 1 & Part 2
• The War on the War on Death Begins
• Never let the facts get in the way of a good story eh?

Amanda Hugginkiss (variant) by Tim Doyle

• You Won’t Finish This Article – Why people online don’t read to the end
• Why Does the American Media Get Big Stories Wrong?
• 33 Unwritten Social Rules Everyone Needs To Follow
• Changes in China: 2000, now and 2025
• Then again, China’s real-estate bubble
• How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists
• Despite doomsayers, the world’s agriculture is on the rise
• The man who can see in ultraviolet
• Two accelerators find signs of a particle that nobody can explain
• A huge discovery in prime numbers and what it means for the future of math.
• Watch a Bread City Slowly Decompose Over 6 Months
• The sealed bottle garden still thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
• When We Held Kings: The oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker
• Moby Offers Music to Filmmakers for Free
• Trends found amongst the top Youtube channels

• 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

• So Long Judy Freudberg, Sesame Street Veteran; Writer Behind Land Before Time and American Tail
• Goddamnit… 35mm Film is About to Die – Studios Plan to Go With All Digital Projection by 2014
• Oh please fucking yes: HBO Considering Bored to Death Movie
• Video: a very brief online peek at upcoming Life of Pi adaptation
• The Evolution of Aesthetics: The Origins Of Music And Visual Art
• Bad astronomer on Will we ever… live on the Moon?
• Concerned Scientists Fight Back Against Ignorance in Washington DC by building a Center for Science and Democracy
• Opinion: Obama Might Lose (And He Might Win)
• Why Are Traffic Lights Red and Green? (sorta explained)

And today’s trailer is Julie Delpy’s sequel to 2 Days in Paris, now with more glasses…

Another great TED keynote. This time on the use of complex technology as a tool to creating dynamic artworks. Really great stuff in this, look forward to seeing where this thinking will take them.