BBC News - Berlin and its 'democratic' canteen culture

BBC News - A Point Of View: Making sense of China

BBC News - Algeria: A nation yearning for change

It's My Birthday Too, Yeah - NYTimes.com

How Cell-Phone Data Could Slow the Spread of Malaria - Technology Review

Zombieslakken: walgelijke werkelijkheid | Flabber

Spider Silk Could Weave Biodegradable Computer Chips | Wired Science | Wired.com

‘The Men Who Built America,’ on the History Channel - NYTimes.com

Cobra effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mexican Doctor’s Baths for Corpses Reinvigorate Cold Cases - NYTimes.com

Picasso and Monets Are Stolen From Dutch Museum - NYTimes.com

Modern-Day Alchemy Has Iron Working Like Platinum - NYTimes.com

Raising Sought-After Snails in California - NYTimes.com

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Heart of Glass: The Art of Medical Models | Wired Science | Wired.com

NOVA | Strands of Evidence

The crowd psychology of Grand Central Station - Boing Boing

Yang Kyoungjong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

mossmann's blog: HackRF Jawbreaker

Climate-changing methane 'rapidly destabilizing' off East Coast, study finds - U.S. News

Scratch-built motor uses a clever design - Hack a Day

How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole | Threat Level | Wired.com

Coal-Eating Microbes Might Create Vast Amounts of Natural Gas | MIT Technology Review

Why We Can't Solve Big Problems | MIT Technology Review

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Junkies in the Hurricane | The Fix

Fake gold bars infiltrate precious metals market - Boing Boing

Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves | MIT Technology Review

Potentially Awesome Outcomes: Adam Savage on the Courage to Try | Wired Design | Wired.com

Scientists Move Closer to a Long-Lasting Flu Vaccine - NYTimes.com

Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain, Tellin’ Me Just How this Bridge Will Fail - IEEE Spectrum

The Ant Internet - IEEE Spectrum

COOKING UP ROCKET FUEL!

Mexican Cartels Enslave Engineers to Build Radio Network | Danger Room | Wired.com

Scientists Unsure if Climate Change Is to Blame for Hurricane Sandy - NYTimes.com

University of Michigan News Service | Biofuel breakthrough: Quick cook method turns algae into oil

Coursera, edX, and MOOCs Are Changing the Online Education Business | MIT Technology Review

In backup generators we trust? - Boing Boing

Storm Raises Costs of Shoring Up Coastal Communities - NYTimes.com

Printed Circuit Board Disassembles When Submerged in Hot Water : TreeHugger

First commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore - Channel NewsAsia

The Vine Nerds | Wired Science | Wired.com

The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm - Businessweek

How a Network Snafu in Indonesia Blocked Google in California | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Air-Powered Motorcycle Runs on Scuba Tank, Rotary Engine | Autopia | Wired.com

BURN - The Detroit Firefighter Documentary - YouTube

Now Wikipedia Used to Predict Movie Box Office Revenues | MIT Technology Review

Vermont School Cut Off From Technology Faces Its Intrusion - NYTimes.com

BBC News - Viewpoint: Part-legalisation may eradicate bribery

BBC News - Why India loves a good electrician

BBC News - A Point Of View: Is China more legitimate than the West?

BBC News - Leaving our mark: Fossils of the future

BBC News - Al Roth: An economist who saves lives

BBC News - Computer viruses and malware 'rampant' in medical tech, experts warn

BBC History - The WWII interrogator who used kindness over violence

BBC News - Food price crisis: What crisis?

BBC News - Liu Bei: China's warlord who teaches good management

BBC News - The maths that made Voyager possible

The creepiest sight in China? Tiananmen anti-self-immolator firefighters

Maker Faire Africa: Schoolgirls Create Urine-Powered Generator | Wired Design | Wired.com

Kior ‘Biocrude’ Plant a Step towards Advanced Biofuels | MIT Technology Review

Oklahoma-Born Motorcycles, Custom-Made Down to the Engine | Aut

opia | Wired.com

Remarkable footage shows heron using bread as bait to catch fish

Underworld Economics: Why Are So Many Bikes Stolen? What Happens to Them? : TreeHugger

How the border between India and Pakistan is closed, every day. [VIDEO]

Building Cheap Batteries to Circumvent the Grid - Technology Review

Anti-party-politics-as-usual posters up in DC Metro - Boing Boing

Saving the ISS by hacking a toothbrush - Hack a Day

Amazing images from Google Street View - Boing Boing

Watch the Sun "burp" - Boing Boing

In Race to Algae Fuel, Sapphire Scores Point for Open Ponds - Technology Review

Nation Rich in Land Draws Workers From One Rich in People - NYTimes.com

Story of the family business whose gears are inside the Mars rovers - Boing Boing

Stephen Harper to be awarded the ‘World Statesman of the Year’ award in New York City | Canada Politics - Yahoo! News Canada

Water bear hunter (video) - Boing Boing

Documentary on the Dude on whom 'the Dude' was based - Boing Boing

Fear and Trembling: Prion diseases on Twitter - Boing Boing

At least 200,000 tons of oil and gas from Deepwater Horizon spill consumed by gulf bacteria

Smart Meter Causes Dumb Fire | Threat Level | Wired.com

What Made This University Researcher Snap? | Wired Magazine | Wired.com

"Superbug" NDM-1 Found In US Cat (ICAAC 3) | Wired Science | Wired.com

Oldies But Goodies - IEEE Spectrum

Clockwork - K'nex Ball Machine - YouTube

Ancient Egyptian faience may be key to printing 3D ceramics

Little Limit to the Amount of Wind Energy - IEEE Spectrum

Live in a Greenhouse

Mayan collapse mystery solved? Deforestation exacerbated a drought - CSMonitor.com

Trackable Banknotes, at Last - IEEE Spectrum

Wireless Power Beamed Straight to Your Heart - IEEE Spectrum

Tapping the Power of 100 Suns - IEEE Spectrum

The mayor and the students | Local | News | The London Free Press

Overcoming Spectrum Scarcity - IEEE - The Institute

The Cheapest Generation - Derek Thompson and Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic

Don’t Tell Anyone, but the Stimulus Worked - NYTimes.com

This is the Sexiest and Best TV Ad for Public Transportation Ever Made : TreeHugger

Dinosaur-Inspired Designs Make Wind Turbines More Aerodynamic : TreeHugger

Hyundai gaat super-3D | Flabber

The Beards - Got Me a Beard | Flabber

Russia reveals shiny state secret: It's awash in diamonds - CSMonitor.com

Audi Backs a Biofuels Startup - Technology Review

New Demotic Dictionary Translates Lives of Ancient Egyptians - NYTimes.com

Hot Wheels corkscrew jump with real car - Boing Boing

Fermentation Guru Seeks Out New (and Old) Flavors - NYTimes.com

Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Restoring the Walls, and History, at a Hitler Command Post - NYTimes.com

Why Mac-n-Cheese Is A Tastier Investment Than Facebook | Wired Business | Wired.com

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Automated system to identify and repair potential weak-spots in 3D models before they're printed - Boing Boing

This Robot Could Transform Manufacturing - Technology Review

The Co-Worker of the Future - Video - The New York Times

Variable frequency laser using shaken ball bearings - Hack a Day

Shaking metallic grains turns them into tunable laser - physics-math - 29 June 2012 - New Scientist

17-stage Great Ball Contraption must use all the LEGO pieces - Hack a Day

Indoor Navigation Takes Signals And Sensors - IEEE Spectrum

“Knuckleheads” in IT Responsible for Errant Trading, Knight Capital CEO Claims - IEEE Spectrum

Euro or No, Economics of Everyday Greek Life Is Eroding - NYTimes.com

This Week In Cybercrime: Some New Computers Have Malware Already Installed - IEEE Spectrum

How to clean up oil spills - MIT Media Relations

Intel's Tiny Wi-Fi Chip Could Have a Big Impact - Technology Review

Tatzu Nishi’s ‘Discovering Columbus’ Installation - NYTimes.com

Communicating with a beam of light - Hack a Day

Pulse jet tea kettle - Hack a Day

Outcry over jailed Russian chemist : Nature News & Comment

One Google query = one Apollo program's worth of computing - Boing Boing

Small fish makes undersea "crop circles" - Boing Boing

Molotov cocktail in the shape of a heart - Boing Boing

Incredible lava lake video - Boing Boing

Slime Molds Take Over the Globe | Wired Science | Wired.com

Life Expectancy for Less Educated Whites in U.S. Is Shrinking - NYTimes.com

Innovation in Manufacturing Takes a Village - Technology Review

Greenland’s Unfrozen Future - Video - The New York Times

Arctic Resources, Exposed by Warming, Set Off Competition - NYTimes.com

Open source brick machine: the evolution - Boing Boing

Mitt Romney's Disastrous Energy Plan | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Waste Heat to Electricity Breakthrough - IEEE Spectrum

Spectrometer | publiclaboratory.org

Speech recognition on an Arduino - Hack a Day

The Drug That Never Lets Go

Nuclear Fuel From the Sea - IEEE Spectrum

BBC News - Chinese families' worldly goods in Huang Qingjun's pictures

BBC Nature - Earthworm invasion: Aliens causing more harm than good?

Ensuring Nothing's Left Behind in a Patient - NYTimes.com

Bumblebee Flight Paths Could Inspire Faster Computers : TreeHugger

Coureursvrouw rijdt met man mee | Flabber

An actively cooled cloud chamber - Hack a Day

Retired Generals Fear That Kids Are Too Fat for War | Danger Room | Wired.com

Save Your Bacon: Shortage on the Way | Wired Business | Wired.com

Meet the Man Who Built a 30-Story Building in 15 Days | Wired Design | Wired.com

Behind a Stove Emergency, a Troubleshooter - NYTimes.com

Another great backyard observatory build - Hack a Day

Save the Canadian National Archives - Boing Boing

Raspberry Pi's Secret: 'Sell Out a Little to Sell a Lot' | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

The Farm Life Draws Some Students for Post-Graduate Work - NYTimes.com

Could Supercomputing Turn to Signal Processors (Again)? - IEEE Spectrum

Looking for an edge: cooling your palms works ‘better than steroids’ - Health - Macleans.ca

Into the Cloud - Video Feature - NYTimes.com

Raising Frogs for Freedom, Prison Project Opens Doors - NYTimes.com

Russians Eagerly Participating in Medical Experiments, Despite Risks - NYTimes.com

Die van de Noren is langer | Flabber

Hybrid rocket engine uses acrylic as fuel - Hack a Day

GE's New Natural-Gas Turbines Could Help Renewables - Technology Review

New Method of Turning Sewage Sludge into Biodiesel is Low-Cost, High-Yield : TreeHugger

The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On - YouTube

Quant: leaving finance made me happy, you should try it - Boing Boing

Bayer Cuts Price of Contraception Implants for Poor - NYTimes.com

In Business, Nondrinking Can Be a Costly Expense - NYTimes.com

BBC News - Seven of the week's best reads

BBC News - Black mamba venom is 'better painkiller' than morphine

BBC News - Priority queues: Paying to get to the front of the line

Rooftop Mats Could Let Buildings Sweat to Cool Off : TreeHugger

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Motion Sensor Accurate to the Diameter of a Single Nucleus - IEEE Spectrum

How Collecting Opium Antiques Turned Me Into an Opium Addict | Collectors Weekly

Dwight - choose two enough sleep grades or social life false cho

Study reveals ancient greenhouse gas emissions - latimes.com

Why Your Car Isn’t Electric - NYTimes.com

Machine Vision Sees Into Chickens’ Futures - IEEE Spectrum

Odds-Heterosexual Man - YouTube

How Rethink Robotics Built Its New Baxter Robot Worker - IEEE Spectrum

Google Puts Its Virtual Brain Technology to Work - Technology Review

‘Duck Dynasty’ Lures a Growing Audience on A&E - NYTimes.com

Nancy's Almanac, Oct. 5, 2012: Drought worsens — again - Omaha.com

Canada Highlights War of 1812, Casting U.S. as Aggressor - NYTimes.com

Deep in the Woods, This Reclusive Toymaker Builds His Robot Army | Underwire | Wired.com

Worries About Lead for New York’s Garden-Fresh Eggs - NYTimes.com

Bending Wires Is the Next Big Thing in Desktop Fabrication | Wired Design | Wired.com

How to Get Away with Stealing - YouTube

Beautiful, "lethal" freeformed Nixie tube clock - Boing Boing

Prank signs for the London Underground - Boing Boing

Magnetic Microbots to Fight Cancer - IEEE Spectrum

America’s Slippery Slope Into Britishisms - NYTimes.com

For Some Drivers, Electric Motorcycle Could Be the Best of Both Worlds - NYTimes.com

Tassafaronga Village and Richardson Apartments in Bay Area - NYTimes.com

An honest boss. [fb] - Imgur

Two CIA Prisoners in China, 1952–73 — Central Intelligence Agency

Climate Change - YouTube

Grim global warming outlook for India post 2030: IISc's research - Economic Times

Attention Disorder or Not, Children Prescribed Pills to Help in School - NYTimes.com

Prefab Greenhouse + Ardunio Controls = Automated Agriculture (Video) - Slashdot

In California, a Grand Experiment to Rein in Climate Change - NYTimes.com