by Jean-Yves Lemoigne

• Trending: The ethics of live-tweeting a break-up
• English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet
• Jack Vale’s social media experiment on people’s ‘privacy’
• Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
• Genetic Russian Roulette or how to second-guess having children
• The Pentagon’s 6’2″, 330-pound humanitarian robot
• How Facebook uses your profile for advertising
• Businessweek looks at what’s in store for 2014
• Polling academics: 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel
• Tinder Dates, Drake Retweets, and Sex Offenses: Seven Streakers Share Their Stories
• The Inokashira Park dismemberment incident where some poor sod was cut into 1cm slices
• Gallery: Cats wearing thights

Plus, these freakin’ kids cover Tool’s 46 and 2 and kick some serious arse with it yo.

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

• 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.

Website: How far to Mars?

• I do not fear death a 2011 essay by Roger Ebert
• Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact
• Vlado Taneski a journalist who ended up reporting his own crimes
• In 2003: The 727 that Vanished
• The Plutonium ‘Gate To Hell’ Found In Ancient City Of Hierapolis
• How one man’s lies almost destroyed the comics industry
• Tantalizing New Clues Into the Mysteries of Dark Matter
• Tactile Helmet Uses Vibrations to Help Firefighters ‘See’ in the Dark
• Supercomputers help reveal dinosaur mechanics
• Best audio interview is best: Alec Baldwin sits down with Thom Yorke

• ‘They’re like Cream, but worse’: Harsh early reviews of classic albums
• New York Time’s 100 notable books of 2012
• The great American unproduced screenplay
• Was Tycho Brahe poisoned? According to new evidence, probably not
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Have we always eaten them?
• Tips on how to avoid problem people
• How a man found out he has testicular cancer from taking a pregnancy test
• Thinking clearly about personality disorders
• Self-healing electronic skin that’s sensitive to the touch
• The Large Hadron Collider may have produced new matter
• And here’s an awesome interview with Bill Murray

• The Secret Lives of Supercutters
• NASA is actually working on a Faster-than-Light Warp Drive
• Cambridge to study technology’s risk to humans
• Shinichi Mochizuki’s ABC proof too tough even for mathematicians
• China’s state paper falls for Onion joke about Kim Jong-Un, publishes 55 photos in “sexy” tribute
• The New Moot: 4Chan wants to make Kim Jong-Un Time’s Person of the Year
• What would happen if Texas actually seceded?
• Building the World’s tallest skyscraper in 90 days
• An interesting outcome to a really good job interview

• 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

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/

Using high speed cameras, this video explains the dynamics of how cats are able to rotate themselves in the air when falling, while conserving their angular momentum.

Since the announced discovery of the Higgs boson, I’ve been ranting on about it to damn near everyone I come into contact with, on and offline.

Thankfully there’s this video doing the online rounds at the moment that does a much better job of explaining what the search for the Higgs has been all about and incidentally, also involves less crazy eyes and frothing at the mouth.

The Higgs Boson Explained from PHD Comics on Vimeo.