Science, Technology & Environment
- Microsoft May Soon Replace Internet Explorer With a New Web Browser – Wired
- The Rapidly Disappearing Business of Design – Wired
- Machine Intelligence Cracks Genetic Controls – Wired
- The Encryption Tools The NSA Still Can’t Crack Revealed In New Leaks – Gizmodo
- Lewis Carroll’s Doublets Net of English Words: Network Heterogeneity in a Complex System – PlosOne….pretty mindblowing…
- The Effects of Gender and Self-Insight on Early Semantic Processing – PlosOne
- Tesla’s New Car Can Go From Boston to Baltimore on a Single Charge – Smithsonian
- Examining Martian Meteorites, Scientists Think They’ve Found The Red Planet’s Missing Water – Smithsonian
- Picosecond readout of diamond nitrogen-vacancy centres coupled to graphene for future Quantum Computers with Terahertz clockspeeds – Next Big Future
- Multiferroic heroics put instant-on computing in sight – Next Big Future
- Lasers in space could trap and shape reflective dust into telescopes with diameters wider than a planet for detailed imaging of exoplanets – Next Big Future
- Nanowires Made From Solar Wonder Material, Perovskite, Promise Even More Efficient Solar Cells – IEEE Spectrum
- Study unveils new half-light half-matter quantum particles – Phys.org
- Groundbreaking biofuel project brings new life to Cornish mine – Guardian
- What Everyone Should Know about Statistical Correlation – American Scientist
- Cultures of Code – American Scientist
- Live Happier (And More Energy Efficiently) by Sleeping More And Inviting Your Friends Over – Smithsonian
- Delaware-size gas plume over West illustrates the cost of leaking methane – Washington Post
- How To Keep Mosquitoes Out Of Your Yard – Gizmodo
- Volvo Cars Will Warn Bicyclists of Impending Collisions – IEEE Spectrum
- Arctic Fibre Project to Link Japan and U.K. – IEEE Spectrum
- Cyber Espionage Malware Taps Smartphones, Sends Chills – IEEE Spectrum
- World’s Most Complex Crystal Never Repeats – Epoch Times
- Simplicity will out: Novel experiment-based expression explains behavior of unconventional superconductors – Phys.org
- American cities are many times brighter than German counterparts, study shows – Phys.org
- Nicholas Carr’s dire warning: How technology is “making the world less interesting” – Salon
- Back-end science: Facebook and big data research – Eurozine
Medicine & Health
- Diabetes Patients Are Hacking Their Way Toward a Bionic Pancreas – Wired
- Puberty Is Beginning Earlier in Girls, So What Can Parents Do? – Smithsonian
- Can Deaf People Hear Voices? – Gizmodo
- Antiaging Rapamycin used to boost immune response in humans – Next Big Future
- Memories are stored in neurons, not synapses, and therefore can be restored, shows new research – The Speaker
- Sugar molecule Neu5Gc links red meat consumption and elevated cancer risk in mice – MedicalXPress
- The biological spoils of war: Study finds those who take part in violent conflict have more wives, children – Phys.org
- In a New Approach to Fighting Disease, Helpful Genetic Mutations Are Sought – NY Times
- The mind has many rooms – their architecture is the architecture of memory – study – The Speaker
Culture, Society & History
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- If North Korea Did Hack Sony, It’s a Whole New Kind of Cyberterrorism – Wired
- Understanding the Christmas Attacks on Xbox, PlayStation Networks – Recode
- What Does “Happy New Year” Even Really Mean? – Smithsonian
- The Bank Of England Will Monitor Social Networks To Set Interest Rates – Gizmodo
- THE SECRET LIFE OF A CON MAN – Narratively
- SECRET LIFE OF A TELEMARKETING PEON – Narratively
- THE UNSUNG HEROES OF THE GAY MARRIAGE MOVEMENT – Narratively
- Argentina Has a Superstition That Seventh Sons Will Turn into Werewolves – Smithsonian
- Google’s Gmail blocked in China – Reuters
- Filmmaker says he uncovered Nazis’ ‘biggest secret weapons facility’ underground near concentration camp – Washington Post
- U.S. companies shine sunlight on ‘dark money’ – Washington Post …corporate influence on politics: a discussion which needs to be had…
- Everything we learned in 2014 about finding missing planes – Washington Post
- The battle behind Britain’s first mobile phone call – Telegraph
- The secret life of Albert Einstein – National Post …good read…
- NASA proposed 30 day crewed Venus Mission – Next Big Future
- The great gluten-free scam – Telegraph
- Welfare recipients should be forced to take birth control, says ex-Labor MP – Guardian
- Copyright changes would allow courts to block overseas file sharing sites – Guardian
- More people may be dodging NSA surveillance than you think – Open thread – Guardian
- Bitcoin hit with tax blow in Australia – Guardian
- Piri Reis Map: Evidence of a Very Advanced Prehistoric Civilization? – Epoch Times …some old maps throw up a lot of questions…
- Largest Underground City in the World Discovered in Turkey, Official Says – Epoch Times
- “No civilization would tolerate what America has done” – Salon
- The Age of Capitalism is over – Salon
- Let’s all screw the 1 percent: The simple move Obama could make to strengthen the rest of us – Salon
- LIVES OF THE MAGNATES: Inside the worlds of Clive Palmer, Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest and Nathan Tinkler – The Monthly
- Medieval Christmas: how was it celebrated? – History Extra
- The dark side of the Anglo-Saxons – History Extra
- Winged warriors: pigeons in the First World War – History Extra
- The Rise of the Turkey – History Today…the bird (as festive dish) not the nation…
- King John: Damned by his Peers – History Today
- Rise and Fall of the American Kiddie Ride – The Atlantic
- The Tragedy of the American Military – The Atlantic
- Privacy politics today – Eurozine
- Controlling the future: Edward Snowdon and the new era on Earth – Eurozine