Simon Stålenhag

• Developed: the good for 1000 years, 5-dimensional memory crystal
• Forget LED bulbs—the future of interior lighting is lasers
• After 50,000 generations, bacteria continue evolving greater fitness
• Fourier Transform: The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face
• Recent surface warming has probably been underestimated
• What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move?
• How a hatred of bureaucrats and a wall saved a Japanese nuclear plant from meltdown after tsunami
• China will look to Thorium Salt reactors for energy starting in 2040
• China unveils boldest reforms in decades
• Why Scandinavian women make the rest of the world jealous
• Pope’s unprecedented survey signals far-reaching reform
• Abandoned Walmart is now America’s largest one-floor Library
• How One Man Earned 4 Million Airline Miles by Buying Dollar Coins
• Alison Bechdel on the Bechdel Test
• Fuck yeah! AMC Ordering ‘Preacher’ Pilot
• Rave and Hardcore YouTube Comments Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
• Some of history’s weirdest and fiercest combat helmets
• White Teen In Blackface Responds To Black Critics: ‘Worry About Finding Your Dad’
• Brazil referee decapitated after stabbing player

Plus, Howard, the world’s first Kim Jong-un Impersonator. I want one for my birthday party.

• 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.

40,000 LEDs and a perfect tree

• 10 favourite tweets the Modern Seinfeld account (Comedy gold Jerry! Gold!)
• Six scientists tell us about the most accurate science fiction in their fields
• The hum that helps to fight crime
• Finally! A project to curb down ocean noise pollution.
• Shake It, Baby: GOG.com giving Duke 3D away for free
• Oh wow, only now is it the end of 386 processors
• Why are dead people ‘liking’ stuff On Facebook?
• Raymond Briggs: The Snowman is not really about Christmas, it’s about death 
• Paul McCartney to replace Kurt Cobain in Nirvana reunion
• Website: every animated wikipedia gif
• Video: A student who has fallen asleep in a physics lecture

Tom Price

Alastair Mackie

Bruce Munro

Okay, these lamps? I totally want them. At 189 EUR/US$260 each it’s a bit overkill, but hey, if anyone is feeling generous over Christmas or likes to make things, I’m totally down with the me charity.