Science and Technology
- Scientists predict green energy revolution after incredible new graphene discoveries (Independent UK)
- Reflecting sunlight into space has terrifying consequences, say scientists (Guardian)
- The spoon that could make Thanksgiving more enjoyable for those suffering from tremors (Washington Post)
- Scientists predict green energy revolution after incredible new graphene discoveries (Independent UK)
- Samsung’s ‘eyemouse’ lets anyone control computers with just their eyes (Independent UK)
- Scientists grow human pain in a dish (NZ Herald)
- First gene therapy drug sets million-euro price record (Reuters)
- Sacred Geometry and the Platonic Solids (Mathematics Magazine)
- Cold hard facts: Underwater robot measures Antarctic sea ice (Reuters)
- Sustainable Development Economics (Sachs, Project-Syndicate)
- Regin Spyware Collects Government and Industry Secrets, Then Covers Its Tracks (Popular Science)
- Decipher Your Car’s ‘Check Engine’ Light Via Bluetooth (Popular Science)
- This Crazy Visual Symphony Is Like Being Inside a Computer, on Drugs (Wired)
- THE BAFFLING AND BEAUTIFUL WORMHOLE BETWEEN BRANCHES OF MATH (Wired)
- Algorithms Are Great and All, But They Can Also Ruin Lives (Wired)
- Mirrors could replace air conditioning by beaming heat into space (Guardian)
- Frozen’s Elsa and Anna teach girls to code (CNN)
- Supersonic jets can fly from New York to L.A. in 2.5 hours (or less) (CNN)
- Proceeds Of Crime: How Polymer Banknotes Were Invented (Gizmodo)
- New Gene Studies Suggest There Are Hundreds of Kinds of Autism (Wired)
- DNA can survive trip to suborbital space and back (Japan Times)
- The Science Of Nightmares (Allday)
- The Excrement Experiment (New Yorker)
- An Oral History Of Apple Design: 1992–2013 (Fast Company)
- This German Data Center Wants To Heat Your House With Its Servers (Fastcoexist)
- 3D LED printer makes a contact lens display possible – (Geek)
Nature, Environment and Global Warming
- Will a ban on oakmoss kill the French perfume industry? (Independent UK)
- Climbing a Glass Building? Try a Gecko’s Sticky Pads (NY Times)
- Japan vows to resume Antarctic whale hunt for ‘science’ next year (Washington Post)
- Deep-Sea Dwellers Make A Natural Antibiotic (Popular Science)
- Data From Satellites Confirm: Glaciers Are Retreating (Popular Science)
- 2014: Will It Be The Hottest Year Ever? (Popular Science)
- Scientists reveal the 12 ‘megashocks’ that threaten Australia’s biosecurity (Guardian)
- Climate change is an obvious myth – how much more evidence do you need? (Guardian)
- Capitalism v environment: can greed ever be green? (Guardian)
- Beijing considers permanent odd-even ban on vehicles after success of ‘Apec blue’ (SCMP)
Society and History
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- China Shows Off Holographic Ground Control System for Drones (Popular Science)
- Miss World staggers on: how the women have changed – in pictures (Telegraph)
- The Sun had 7ft safe with 30 years of ‘eye-popping’ unprintable stories, court told (Guardian)
- Does Europe have the power to break up Google? (Guardian)
- E.U. Watchdogs Want “Right to Be Forgotten” Applied Worldwide (Recode)
- Physicists solve mystery of why cats rule, dogs drool (Reuters)
- Gut check: how vultures dine on rotting flesh, and like it (Reuters)
- The art and science of the bottom of a whisky glass (CNET)
- What have climate engineering boffins learned? (ScienceInsider)
- Swiss museum publishes list of Nazi loot art trove (Reuters)
- Mystery of Alexander the Great-era tomb holds Greeks in thrall (Reuters)
- Wahhabism to ISIS: how Saudi Arabia exported the main source of global terrorism (New Statesman)
- A Massacre in the Family (WSJ)
- Is Internet Addiction a Real Thing? (New Yorker)
- The Great Paper Caper (New Yorker)
- Vinyl record sales hit 18-year high (BBC)
- How Beauty Standards Have Changed Throughout History (Allday)
- The Evolution Of Sleep (Allday)
- The Origins of Aggressive Atheism (Atlantic)
- Why Americans Call Turkey ‘Turkey’ (Atlantic)
- Peru Forcibly Sterilized 300,000 Poor Women in the ’90s. Now They Could Decide the Country’s Future. (New Republic)
- Routing around the Great Firewall of China (LA Times)
- Why the Rolling Stones’ insurance battle matters to mere mortals (Guardian)
- Bhopal: Thirty years on, misery and questions linger in the air (Fairfax) …an utter disgrace 30 years ago this week…
Sundry Ideas Concepts and Thoughts Ambient
- This is one manufacturing industry we must protect (ABC)
- Polarizing Foods (Slate)
- Will Paris’ First Skyscraper in 40 Years Be a Giant Triangle? (Slate)
- Cryptic Kryptos Clue (Slate)
- An Artist’s Tribute to the Obsolete Gadgets That Fill Our Trash Dumps (Slate)
- Inequality and the Internet (De Long, Project-Syndicate)
- Education in the Second Machine Age (Project-Syndicate)
- What if Our Money Were Designed to Celebrate Science Instead of Presidents? (Wired)
- Older people may be better learners than we think (The Conversation)
- Move over big power – the micropower revolution is here (The Conversation)
- The significance of digits: just how reliable are reported numbers? (The Conversation)
- Should doctors and patients learn to plan humane, happier endings rather than trying to prolong life? (Independent UK)
- These Giant Circles in the Mideast Are One of the World’s Last Mysteries (Smithsonian)
- No, “Bath Salts” Won’t Turn You Into a Cannibal (Smithsonian)
- Decoding the Lost Diary of David Livingstone (Smithsonian)
- The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’ (CNN)
- There’s a Better Way to Board Planes (Atlantic)
- How Much Can You Really Change After You Turn 30? (New Republic)
- Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It (Wired)
- Mind-Bending GIFs Push the Limits of the Format (Wired)
Dinkum…
- A job for Victoria’s next leaders: save the Central Highlands (The Conversation)
- Blocking piracy websites is bad for Australia’s digital future (The Conversation)
- Conservative commentators Bolt, Jones and Albrechtsen turn on Abbott (Fairfax)
- Brisbane stunned by severe storm: ‘no time to evacuate, no warning’ (Guardian)
- Clarke and Dawe (ABC) (Video) …come to terms with Australia’s media and the FTA with China…
- Roads to nowhere (The Monthly)
- There is no Left (The Monthly)
- Promises, promises… (The Monthly)
- Pass the Iced VoVos: the resurrection of Australiana (The Conversation)