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

Stevefaces (gallery)

• ‘Stomach share’ The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
• How stomach bacteria may affect weight gain
• New study to measure effect of hip hop music on native birds
• This Whale’s (After) Life
  Studies into how a single whale’s body can support an ecosystem for years familiar to those of hydrothermal vents.
• Boxcar Energy – Brilliant new strategies for storing power. No. 4: First you roll a train uphill …
• Airline to charge overweight passengers more
• The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet
• How to Build Your Own Syncing RSS Reader with Tiny Tiny RSS
• The Saddest Map In America
  Charts the “missed connections” of Craigslist
• With S3, The Walking Dead is a “different show”—the most interesting one yet
• 10 amazing scientific facts about lists
• Huey Lewis reverses roles in this clever American Psycho parody

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The Unsettling Beauty of Lethal Viruses

• If you can’t manage comments well, don’t offer comments at all
• Love of Musical Harmony Is Not Nature but Nurture
• How to turn living cells into computers
• Small-molecule drug drives cancer cells to suicide
• Declassified: America’s Secret Flying Saucer
• The village with a 9,000 year old history
• A cleaner form of demolition – Japan’s incredible shrinking building
• What it’s like to leave Westboro Babtist Church (for Megan Phelps-Roper no less)
• Stop pretending cyberspace exists as a mythical country
• Damnit science… Germans developing weed-controlling laser armed drones
• Techno Viking and the curse of internet celebrity
• Top 11 Biggest Lies of Mainstream Nutrition
• Unable to afford life insurance, Apollo 11’s crew got creative in providing for their family
• How to win arguments by pretending to be a simpleton
• Cinema Tarantino: The Making of Pulp Fiction
• Link: a 404 page where you save Lemmings
• The search for the genetics of intelligence
• The giant camera resolution tests scattered across America
• Inside China’s genome factory
• Three Plus One Geometries of the Universe
• Kubrick’s rejection letter to Anthony Burgess on their Napoleon collaboration
• “Ok, Glass, record a video”: Google provides another glimpse of Glass

• Firefighter assembles terrifying/awesome supercut of helmet footage
• NYC iPhone owner tricks thief using dating App
• ‘Oompa-Loompas’ sought over city assault
• That’s Dedication: California couple visited Disneyland every day in 2012
• Top secret tombs: the classified stealth aircraft burial grounds
• The science behind 9 big diets
• Still smarting from SOPA, Congress to shy away from copyright in 2013
• NASA mulls plan to drag asteroid into moon’s orbit
• Binary star systems make for unstable planets
• The Helical Model – animations of a vortex solar system
• PlayStation 2 manufacture ends after 12 years
• Stats show the eBook craze is slowing
• My Father’s “Eviscerated” Work – Christopher Tolkien’s first interview in ever
• Ten things on Vince Gilligan’s mind as he writes the final Breaking Bad episodes
• Quentin’s World: NYT interview with Tarantino
• From kottke: Another great Bill Murray story

• Bryan Stevenson’s crusade with the US justice system and why mass incarceration defines us as a society
• While Europe debates it, decriminalising prostitution has been great for New Zealand
• Craig Thornton and the obsessive world of underground cuisine
• “It’s so pervasive. It’s a virus.” Tom Waits’ 2002 letter on the commercialisation of songs
• The 25-GPU cluster that’ll crack a password in under 6 hours
• A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science
• Statistician Howard Wainer on the most dangerous equation (pdf)
• Study shows Fox News viewers have a 20 point lower IQ than the national average
• A man wrestled a shark to get back his nephew’s severed arm
• Wickr – now you can send ‘self-destructing’ messages
• A new trailer released for that South Park video game. Still looks good.

• Photos: What it looks like inside Amazon
• Truth in advertising: The Birth of ‘Just Do It’ and Other Magic Words
• Christopher Nolan discusses making his first feature Following
• On Monday, not a single violent crime was reported in New York City
• Chew On This: 10 Food Idioms Explained
• Like it or not, non-replaceable CPUs may be the future of desktops
• Augmenting a light bulb to make a touch screen desk
• Prices have finally been announced for the Surface Pro
• Plus Microsoft have put out a pretty great self-depreciating ad for IE10

Evolution of the New York City Skyline via Smithsonian Magazine

•  Good Luck: A web project dedicated to amalgamating a ‘universal’ terms of service system
• The demise of the daily deal website business model
• Hottest temps ever at LHC and more hints about early Universe
• Food and exercise are not matter and anti-matter
• Weird: Ron Howard Directing Documentary on Jay-Z’s Made in America Festival
• Jodie Foster on the Stewart/Pattinson spectacle
• Keanu Reeves spills what Bill & Ted 3 is actually gonna be about
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to U.S. Interests in the Middle East
• Surreal: The General Mills Lawn Protester Has Died
• Humor: 45-year-old salesman apologises for closing ceremony
• Today’s not for epileptics website: https://www.staggeringbeauty.com/

• Fucking hell… How a fatal accident victim’s insurance company ended up in court defending her killer
• And then the story of how United Airlines lost a 10 year-old and didn’t care
• But at least the leader of an Hungarian anti-Semitic party discovered he’s Jewish
• Further interesting ‘discrimination’ as fight attendants force single men to sit away from unattended children
• From the New Yorker: Why nobody in America cared about the Sikh temple shooting
• The circle is complete as growing Indian companies begin outsourcing jobs to the US
• Just cause: Teddy Roosevelt’s magnificent sideburns
• Online: The lastest 360 degrees panorama of Mars
• How science-y are the social sciences?
• Forbes: Beck ‘produces’ a genius innovation that appeals to the user-generated generation
• Awesome is: this comic book store designed to look like a comic book
• 11 pop culture references younger readers won’t get
• Wow: Bill Finger – the Batman origin story you’ve never heard before
• I’m so making all of these: Simple ways to make food taste awesome
• Visualised (awesomely): the imports and exports of small arms (1992 – 2010)
• An ‘everyone-is-lying-to-me’ thriller movie trailer parody: Ghost Tits
• Also, there’s this pretty prophetic PSA by 5th grade kids about the internet (made in 1995)
• Today’s distracting online game: https://thisissand.com/

Finally, here’s a short video of the aptly named Teddy, the asshole cat…

Boy watching solar eclipse… taken from 1.5 miles away

• If you “Like” something on Facebook, you just gave it permission to post in your Timeline
• Having Access to the Internet is Good for Your Love Life (But Only if you are Under 30)
• White LEDs Lighting Directly On Paper
• Q: Why Do We Wear Pants? A: Horses
• UK government slammed for ignoring key security issues
• Lucas Foglia: the photographer in search of off-the-grid Americans
• The trouble with wind turbines
• No Matter the Drilling Method, Natural Gas Is a Much-Needed Tool to Battle Global Warming
• Mysterious radiation hit the earth just over 1200 years ago
• What divorced readers did with their wedding rings
• How Neuroscience Is Challenging Our Conception of Justice
• The Ghost in the Machine: Unraveling the Mystery of Consciousness
• Scientists Predict Synthetic Life Within a Year
• Crime Waves Will Follow the Heat Waves of Climate Change
• Letters of Note: A government complaint about a ‘debris’ dam and the landowner’s response on behalf of its builders
• Want: I’ve Never Meta-Pizza I Didn’t Like
• Build a bonkers hi-fi system
• Super-Resolution From a Single Image
• A rare interview: with Christopher Tolkien
• If the Wizard of Oz were set in China, it might look something like this

• Backstage gossip from touring Guns N Roses roadies
• The Necronomicon-Thin Crust pizza (I like to call it a Necronominom)
• How a Boiled squid inseminated a woman’s mouth
• Stoya on the difference between a prostitute and a porn actress
• Yanis Varoufakis on becoming Valve’s economist-in-residence for their virtual economies
• Why smart people can be so dumb
• Is Creativity Sexy? The Evolutionary Advantages of Artistic Thinking
• Singularity University Rule #1: The best way to predict the future is to invent it
• Lifehacker’s guide on how to tie your running shoes
• New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza on reporting and how Twitter has fostered a crisis in political journalism
• These are the books that will make you totally undateable
  

  “Eat Pray Love. Elizabeth Gilbert isn’t a bad person, but if this book is your choice, you are.”

• Interesting discussion on How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
  

  “Non-reading is not just the absence of reading. It is a genuine activity, one that consists of adopting a stance in relation to the immense tide of books that protects you from drowning. On that basis, it deserves to be defended and even taught.”

• A visual summary of Michael Fassbender’s role in Prometheus
• Oh Christ, I thought I could avoid posting a “call me maybe” cover thing, but this MC Chris version with bath salts zombies is catchy.
• Also, Star Wars subtitled with existential philosophy

And for your funny late show segment of the day, here’s 30 Rock’s nice guy Jack McBrayer and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog visiting the Weiner Circle, Chicago’s infamously hostile hot dog stand.