• Psychopaths don’t lack empathy, they just have a switch for it
• Serco: the company that is running Britain
• ‘Rivers’ in air could boost flooding
• Scientists discover what’s killing the bees
• They Finally Tested The ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ On Actual Prisoners — With Unexpected Results
• Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.
• New app puts idle smartphones to work for science
• 5 thoughts from a month with the Oculus Rift (Christ, I want one)
• More optogenetics: Fake memory implanted in mice with a beam of light
• US government recognizes League of Legends players as pro athletes
• This is what happens when you attempt to take a video of police in Sweden
• Video: Historically Accurate Disney Princess Song
• If Facebook existed during World War II
• Web Game: You Can’t Write Proper English Under Pressure
• To play later: Kanye Quest 3030

Also, these guys made a campfire setup with lazer lights and the visual effect is effin’ awesome.

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

Thomas Jackson

• Exposing the Racket: A Simple Stunt Reveals How Blogs Will Print Anything for Pageviews
• Cleaner air linked to more hurricanes
• English is no longer the language of the web
• Only The Lonely By Stephen Fry
• Some of the interesting mindgames of the Korean DMZ
• Secrets of the Magus: a 1993 profile of magician Ricky Jay
• Sophia Stewart, The Real Creator of ‘The Matrix,’ Wins Billion Dollar Copyright Case
• The Changing Shape of Cinema: The History of Aspect Ratio
• Deconstructing the Cinema’s resolution jargon
• Mystery solved: meteorite caused Tunguska devastation
• DroneNet: The future of pizza delivery
• Man creates “invisible headphones” by implanting magnets into his ears
• Ryan Holiday on How To Read More
• Infographic: An Astounding Map of Every River in America

• The ‘Mad Men’ Economic Miracle: the new business model that’s brought on a wave of great TV
• From the Criterion Collection: Christopher Nolan, self-made filmmaker
• Facebook scans private messages for brand page mentions, admits a bug is boosting Likes
• GravityLight: lighting for developing countries
• Quantum networks may be more realistic than we thought
• Largest glacier break-up yet caught on video
• Video: These guys get two hookers to re-enact a scene from Braveheart
• Video: Kids songs with Cat Power

• Scientists create brain implant that improves thinking in monkeys
• Gaining consciousness: Could the Internet Ever “Wake Up”?
• What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience
• MDMA through an MRI, for science!
• Wiki-editor’s guide: No one cares about your garage band
• Magic Mushrooms: Violins constructed from infected wood sound like those of Stradivari (awesome!)
• A 2,000 year old Magnolia seed was found, planted and it grew
• Potentially usable: The most well persevered Wolly Mammoth cells yet found
• 7 Things Science Says Make You Happy (Basically, I just need to keep up doing more of this)
• Who What Why: What is blood rain?
• The Astronomical Unit is now a fixed number: 149,597,870,700 meters
• Murder-Suicide in the Keys Unravels a Doctor’s Decades-Long Mystery
• Hollywood Accounting: How A $19 Million Movie Makes $150 Million… And Still Isn’t Profitable
• The patent, used as a sword
• A real-time map of Global Cyberattacks
• Interactive cool: comparing map projections
• 99 Life Hacks to make your life easier!

• 10 of the oddest/awesome entries into 2013’s Guinness World Records
• Wind power: how we could supply all our energy needs without altering the global climate
• Wired profiles Cosmo the hacker ‘God’ who fell to Earth
• James Cameron puts to rest the idea that Jack could have fit on that plank with Rose
• Nice…  who did invent sliced bread?
• This man hasn’t missed a day at the pub for 72 years

Also, celebrity say “fuck” super cut…

Have a fucking good weekend y’all.

• Some guy called Brad does acid, live-tweets it
• Ordos: The biggest ghost town in China
• Sweden is so efficient with its waste-to-energy program, that it’s importing trash from other European countries
• Awesome: Focus on the Family is giving up on reaching out to Millennials
• The TPP: A first-hand look at the secret international talks that could change the Internet
• A university built a supercomputer with Raspberry Pi(s) and Lego
• Mathematician claims proof of connection between prime numbers
• It Ain’t 1979 Anymore: Why this week’s attacks on American embassies aren’t the Iran hostage crisis all over again.
• Somehow missed: Vice interviewed my hero cinematographer Christopher Doyle
• Cool… 45 Years of the John Peel Show is available on Soundcloud.
• Comedian Josh Sankey will travel across the U.S. with only bacon as currency
• On the tubes: a recording of Tolkien reciting a poem in Elvish

Lastly… cats compilation video, because cats compilation video.

An X-Ray of a Heliotrygon Gomesi Stingray

• What your crutch word says about you
• Tracking LiveJournal: the demise of the social media platform
• Oddly (if not depressingly) plausible: The Onion gives up
• From The Atlantic: How Google builds it’s maps
• Amusingly, author Philip Roth needed a second source to correct his own book’s wiki page
• Amazon’s approach with it’s new Kindle is looking pretty good yo
• Declassified: footage from the “Starfish Prime” tests
• From Foreign Policy: Why environmentalists should reconsider nuclear energy
• May is still the operative word: Too much light at night may lead to depression
• John Cusack interviews law professor Jonathan Turley about Obama administration’s war on the Constitution
• Looking back at the year 1555 AD
• Four geeky laws that rule our world
• 7 Urban Wonders of the Modern World

Also, this automated bar-tending drinks machine. Wants it.

• Feel Good Read of the Week: 6 True Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
• The redemption of Michael K Williams
• David Fincher: A Film Title Retrospective
• New study says music is way more depressing now
• Why Do So Many Pretty Female Comedians Pretend They’re Ugly?
• 579 – A 1939 Map of Physics
• Arctic sea ice coverage plunges to record low
• Our image of Africa is hopelessly obsolete
• What Do Swedes Think of the Swedish Chef?
• Ask A Writer: “How Do I Write What The Audience Wants To Read?”
• Images examples of how a colour-blind person sees the world (and the genius of Van Gogh)
• Couple Faces $4,000 Fine for High-Decibel Sex
• Naked People Saluting Prince Harry: The Definitive Gallery
• Make it so: How three guys got most of the Enterprise-D bridge
• Video: Insane Clown Posse Watch “Call Me Maybe”
• Interesting: 10 weird wikis
• Gallery: Inside a Creepy Abandoned Russian Sub

• Word: Don’t write articles like this
• Wisdom: Life lessons from Dave the barman
• From NPR: An Anthropologist Walks Into A Bar And Asks, ‘Why Is This Joke Funny?’
• The history of ‘business casual’
• Crime Doesn’t Pay (Well): The Economics of Bank Robberies
• Going three days without the internet
• Newest booze/creativity correlation: vodka and cranberry
• The AV Club: Creative processes we wish we’d witnessed
• Big Think: How to Form a Good Habit
• These days, you don’t even need to sell 10,000 albums to make it to No. 1
• Some music sales data that highlight consumers tendency for singles over albums
• A Tor of the Dark Web
• How measuring the shape of a photon could lead to new ways of encoding information
• Microbes maketh man: We’re not just people, we’re made of a lot of microbes too
• Profiled: concentrated solar power plants
• Study: Homeless people find equality, acceptance on social networking sites
• GetGlue: television’s future interactivity on our ‘second screens’
• Website: AirPano – 360 degree panoramas tours of the world