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.

• Marketing research discovers ‘Netflix adultery’: the act of watching shows ahead of your spouse
• The twins, separated at birth, who led strikingly similar lives
• The Economist: How does copyright work in space?
• 7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy (An Insider’s Perspective)
• An editorial against ‘Bravery’ Debates
• Kiwi man sick of playing Xbox on home detention asks for jail
• Letter from Loretto – A Prison Letter from a CIA Whistleblower
• Japan’s radiation disaster toll: none dead, none sick
• Why DIY fecal transplants are a thing (and the FDA is only part of the reason)
• The self-inflicted brain wound that cured a man’s mental illness
• Peterborough City Hospital patients watch films during surgery
• The world that only formerly-blind people can see
• The World’s longest hangover
• Information Theory in Three Minutes
• Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics’ biggest problems
• How one man had sex on the moon
• Pixar’s Lightspeed will entirely ray-trace all of Monsters University
• 5 clever clues of foreshadowing in films
• Steven Spielberg predicts ‘Implosion’ of Film Industry
• If Developers Were Houses on Game of Thrones

And to cap off, some remarkable NASA footage of those Oklahoma tornadoes of late.

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.

Amphipod: zoomed in from 1 milimeter to 500 nanometers

• New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000 AD
• Stanford biologist and computer scientist discover the ‘anternet’
• Semen: Nature’s antidepressant?
• Simple animations to explain complex principles
• A gallery visualizing the properties of turbulence
• Big Think: The Neuroscience of Creativity and Insight
• The most likely to order late night take out? Art students.
• English language ‘originated in Turkey’
• Millennials: The Cheapest Generation
• Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany
• Surviving a Death Sentence: 27 Years With HIV
• A Different Justice: Why Anders Breivik Only Got 21 Years for Killing 77 People
• A couple I disagree with, but the accusations I can’t deny: The 20 Worst Hipster Bands
• Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea’s Music Video Sensation

Lastly, another asshole cat…