Friday, June 12, 2015
How a history of eating human brains protected this tribe from brain disease - The Washington Post
The Forgotten History of How Bird Poop Cripples Power Lines - IEEE Spectrum
Could Storytelling Be the Secret Sauce to STEM Education? | MindShift | KQED News
Learning to say ‘you’re fired’ in Europe - Macleans.ca
What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Seoul - NYTimes.com
Catapulta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Breaking Into the Holy Grail of Texas Swimming Holes | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
How The Navy's New Gigantic Railgun Works - Digg
May you live in interesting times - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keith Biggins
House of cards: Deconstructing Canada's housing market valuations - The Globe and Mail
California Runs Dry - The New Yorker
How Nicaraguan Villagers Built Their Own Electric Grid - IEEE Spectrum
AT WORK: Historical Images of Labour in Saskatchewan » Search and Browse Images
For Drinking Water in Drought, California Looks Warily to Sea - NYTimes.com
Can the world economy survive without fossil fuels? | Larry Elliott | News | The Guardian
BBC - Future - The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust
Aluminum battery from Stanford offers safe alternative to conventional batteries
The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much - NYTimes.com
California Drought Tests History of Endless Growth - NYTimes.com
The Mountain that Eats Men | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
How Companies and Services Like Facebook Are Shaped by the Programming Languages They Use | MIT Technology Review
Stuck In Seattle | Bloomberg Business - Business, Financial & Economic News, Stock Quotes
The Simple, Elegant Algorithm That Makes Google Maps Possible | Motherboard
How Tim Gunn of ‘Project Runway’ Spends His Sunday - NYTimes.com
An Opossum May One Day Save You From a Deadly Snakebite
This is why the euro is collapsing - The Washington Post
The crazy, true-life adventures of Norway's most radical billionaire
Birdman - NYTimes.com
Anatomy of a Hack
Many Drones Were Harmed In The Making Of This Film - Digg
The girl who gets gifts from birds - BBC News
Page 6 of The White Devil Kingpin: How John Willis Became a Chinatown Overlord | Rolling Stone
A ‘megadrought’ will grip U.S. in the coming decades, NASA researchers say - The Washington Post
A Stormy Arctic Is the New Normal [Excerpt] - Scientific American
BBC - Future - The invisible network that keeps the world running
The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, By Ants
When Monkeys Surfed to South America – Phenomena: Laelaps
The Music Behind The Worst Album Covers Ever - Digg
The long, slow decline of the nation's industrial heartland - The Globe and Mail
Rust Belt revival: Lessons for southwest Ontario from America’s industrial heartland - The Globe and Mail
A Railway Pilgrimage in Pakistan | Roads & Kingdoms
The Cheesemaking Monk of Manitoba - Modern Farmer
Flawed concrete found on Detroit Metro Airport runway
We Used to Recycle Drugs From Patients' Urine | Smart News | Smithsonian
In photos: Off the grid and on top of the world in the Yukon - The Globe and Mail
NSA has VPNs in Vulcan death grip—no, really, that’s what they call it | Ars Technica
How did Hitler's scar-faced henchman become an Irish farmer? - BBC News
New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Fire Its Gun Until 2019 - The Daily Beast
Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking that IQ Tests Miss - Scientific American
How Whales Geoengineer the Oceans for Us | Motherboard
Living Off the Grid | By Megan Easton | Anthony and Mary Ketchum, Sustainable Home Ontario | Winter 2015 | University of Toronto Magazine
yadada - Imgur
Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever – Lary Wallace – Aeon
Refrigerators
Barney Curley: Only fools and horses | The Economist
Conservatives changed the nature of Canadian immigration - The Globe and Mail
Detroit by Air - NYTimes.com
China Has Overtaken the U.S. as the World’s Largest Economy | Vanity Fair
Confessions of a Mortician — Matter — Medium
Smart meters linked to 13 fires in Ontario, Fire Marshal says
Fresh worries arise over future of General Motors in Canada - The Globe and Mail
Shut’em Down for Michael Brown | Street Smart
Layer-by-Layer: The Evolution of 3-D Printing - IEEE - The Institute
Strange thrust: the unproven science that could propel our children into space - Boing Boing
Nestle continues to sell bottled water sourced from California despite record drought — RT USA
I’m Terrified of My New TV: Why I’m Scared to Turn This Thing On — And You’d Be, Too | Brennan Center for Justice
Mixing Oil and Water - An inside look at what happens when land sinks and oil money is on the line
Attack on Mers-el-Kébir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
world.andersen.im
Old Masters at the Top of Their Game - NYTimes.com
Toward Land’s End | Roads & Kingdoms
Natural Gas Is Leaking And Warming The Climate — And You’re Paying For It | FiveThirtyEight
The Home for Hollywood Dreamers and Dropouts | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
Introducing USB Armory, a Flash Drive Sized Computer
Mindsuckers - National Geographic Magazine
How Grid Efficiency Went South - NYTimes.com
What the Garbageman Knows
To Survive Climate Change, We Should Be More Like the Eskimos | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian
Mat Fraser Of 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' Is An Inspiration - Digg
How American parenting is killing the American marriage – Quartz
The self-made man, history of a myth: From Ben Franklin, to Andrew Carnegie, to Sophia Amoruso.
Sea change: Satellite photos show world's fourth-largest lake disappearing - Yahoo News Canada
A Fresh Look at Rust | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
Who Made That Charcoal Briquette? - NYTimes.com
How Burmese Elephants Helped Defeat the Japanese in World War II
Unprecedented drought puts Sao Paulo water supply at risk - The Globe and Mail
Danila Tkachenko / Projects / Escape
How Stoical Was Seneca? by Mary Beard | The New York Review of Books
The Spooky Nature of Electromagnetic Radiation
Kit to study Venus Fly Traps - Boing Boing
Drawings from the Gulag – Ink drawings of the Soviet gulag’s horrors, perversions and peculiarities - Boing Boing
Skinner-box rats trained to predict currency market movements - Boing Boing
Why Peak-Oil Predictions Haven't Come True - WSJ
Plaquemines Louisiana Environmental Disaster: The Land Is Vanishing | New Republic
Portrait Of A Brooklyn Hustler - Digg
The Work Of A Professional Neon Sign Maker - Digg
The Meditations of Europe's Last Brewmaster Nun - The Atlantic
Paul Stamets at TEDMED 2011 - YouTube
BBC News - Inside South Africa's whites-only town of Orania
Chinatown’s Kitchen Network
The Destruction of Mecca - NYTimes.com
Muslims Interogate Comedian about Insulting Islam, but unfortunately he has all the Answers... - YouTube
Nobody Knows What The Hell They Are Doing - 99U
Find Your Beach by Zadie Smith | The New York Review of Books
2000 Years Of Europe's Changing Borders, In Less Than A Minute - Digg
An inside look at Thomas' Utopia Brand's tomato manufacturing line
Sex Is Sex. But Money Is Money. — Matter — Medium
Dynamic Vision Sensors Enable High-Speed Maneuvers With Robots - IEEE Spectrum
Carbon Nanotube Yarns Could Replace Copper Windings in Electric Motors - IEEE Spectrum
How cities are making our rats smarter and spiders bigger
Statue or Bust: Around the World in Lenins - In Focus - The Atlantic
Welcome to the Failure Age! - NYTimes.com
Video: Globe Now: For the love of glass: Why we can't afford to ignore the long-term impacts of new condo design - The Globe and Mail
Last Call — Medium, Long — Medium
The Math Behind Pixar's Animation - Digg
Nordic Prisons Are Nothing Like American Ones - Digg
Mini-documentary about the world's largest e-waste dump - Boing Boing
Look Out Edmonton Documentry - YouTube
Footage Of The Rarely-Filmed Anglerfish Being Its Wonderfully Creepy Self - Digg
What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change - IEEE Spectrum
The Business Tycoons of Airbnb - NYTimes.com
Nuclear safety: The ultimate security blanket | The Economist
10 National Geographic Photographers Give Thanks for the Photos That Changed Them | PROOF
Texas A&M Bonfire still burns fifteen years after collapse kills 12 students
What the World Eats | National Geographic
US Navy’s first laser weapon cleared for combat, blows up a boat, a small plane (video) | ExtremeTech
The Bizarre And Brilliant Reason The UK Is Littered With Concrete Pillars - Digg
Construction of Wooden Propellers - Part 1 - YouTube
Watch this guy strip down and rebuild car engine in mesmerizing stop-motion animation - Boing Boing
Inside Beijing's airpocalypse – a city made 'almost uninhabitable' by pollution | Cities | The Guardian
Slow Boat From China | Roads & Kingdoms
American cities have bigger things to worry about than gentrification | Grist
Cell Towers Can Double As Cheap Radar Systems - IEEE Spectrum
WATCH THE TRAILER | The Need to Grow Film
What to Eat After the Apocalypse - Issue 101: In Our Nature - Nautilus
American Manifesto - Boing Boing
There's No Rabies In Britain, And Here's Why - Digg
The Wreck of the Kulluk - NYTimes.com
American Theme Parks Will Never Be Truly Fun Until They're This Dangerous - Digg
Why are free proxies free?
IBM's Watson Memorized the Entire 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It - The Atlantic
How the Blues Brothers got made - Boing Boing
Repairmen Unplugged - Marketplace - CBC Player
Fibonacci Sculptures That Animate Under A Strobe Light - Digg
Secrets of sea otter fur - Boing Boing
Why The Prime Meridian Changes Location, Based On What Country You're From - Digg
Why Do So Many Countries End In -Stan? - Digg
What It's Like Living in the Coldest Town on Earth | WIRED
Bronson (2008) - IMDb
Everyone In This Alaskan Town Lives In The Same Building - Digg
Laser Etched Surface Redefines Dry | Hackaday
The Rat Tribe of Beijing | Al Jazeera America
The Fight to Save Japan’s Young Shut-Ins - WSJ
Stanford researcher: Hallucinatory 'voices' shaped by local culture
Built to Last: David Macaulay: 9780547342405: Books - Amazon.ca
Solving an Unsolvable Math Problem - The New Yorker
Meet Walter Pitts, the Homeless Genius Who Revolutionized Artificial Intelligence
New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers | WIRED
How Green Screen Worked Before Computers - YouTube
How a lone hacker shredded the myth of crowdsourcing — Backchannel — Medium
94.7 WCSX - Detroit - Classic Rock
Prohibition in Northern Canada: VICE INTL (Canada) - YouTube
Redesigned E. Coli Resists Viruses And Might Make GMOs Safer | Popular Science
A Love Letter To Plywood - Digg
This Ingenious Machine Turns Feces Into Drinking Water | Bill Gates
The Real Story Of The NASA Space Pen - Digg
Kids, Allergies And A Possible Downside To Squeaky Clean Dishes : Shots - Health News : NPR
Gotham City SF: a noir hyperreal time-lapse - Boing Boing
The dazzling kinetic sculptures of Bob Potts - Boing Boing
Why Cold Weather Wreaks Havoc on Trains | WIRED
The Secret Life of a Public Library Security Guard | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
Will Tesla Ever Make Money? - Bloomberg Business
What Your Bones Have In Common With The Eiffel Tower | WIRED
Ikea - Fortune
Does Lady Luck exist or do you make your own? – Carlin Flora – Aeon
Plastic runs in my family, and in yours too – Rebecca Altman – Aeon
The Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, but the New York City Sewer System Says Don’t - NYTimes.com
Turning Japanese: coping with stagnation
Moscow: Opulent, Overwhelming, and Pulsing With Power
The Deadly Global War for Sand | WIRED
The Hidden Consequences of Low Oil Prices — The Atlantic
Thirty-Five Percent of Engineering Jobs Now Require 3-D Printing Skills - IEEE - The Institute
The Singapore Vertical-Farms that herald an Agricultural Revolution - YouTube
Yes, You Can Catch Insanity: Reviving the debate about the immune system and mental illness.
Wood Is the New Steel · thewalrus.ca
Art deco Cadillac collection kept in replica 1930s ballroom | Driving
Drilling, Dollars and Disease Down North | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
A Fortune at the Top of the World - The New Yorker
Why Sea Mines Work And How To Stop Them - Digg
LOW-TECH MAGAZINE: How Sustainable is PV Solar Power?
Why Tall People Make More Money - The Atlantic
2-Stroke Engine too Beautiful to Behold | Hackaday
PolyStat: Of programming for machine learning, speed and Julia
These Beautiful Floating Villages Are Made From Old Oil Tankers | Co.Exist | ideas + impact
Still Secret and Secure, Safe Rooms Now Hide in Plain Sight - NYTimes.com
BBC - Future - The engineer making meat tastier
We Need Antibiotics. They’re Not Profitable To Make. Who Pays? – Phenomena: Germination
Holy Shit! Almonds Require a Ton of Bees | Mother Jones
This Church Might Not Look Like Anything Special, Until You See It From Different Angles
America's Alzheimer's time bomb
The female mathematician who changed the course of physics—but couldn’t get a job | Ars Technica
What Bill Gates Is Afraid Of - Digg
This Crazy Land Art Deflects Noise From Amsterdam's Airport | Innovation | Smithsonian
We went to Omaha to get the same $18 haircut as Warren Buffett and found out so much more - MarketWatch
Alberta's Boom Time Hangover | VICE News
My Misspent Youth · thewalrus.ca
Escape to Bro-topia - NYTimes.com
A Design Dilemma Solved, Minus Designs | Quanta Magazine
The Mystery of the Brand-New Bay Bridge's Corroded Steel | WIRED
The Economist explains: How did Estonia become a leader in technology? | The Economist
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