Science & Technology
- Fairness, accountability, and transparency in big data models – Mathbabe
- SpaceX to attempt rocket landing at sea – Reuters
- Russia considers building its own space station: RIA – Reuters
- 17 Ridiculous Victorian Inventions That Didn’t Change the World – Wired
- New, tighter timeline confirms ancient volcanism aligned with dinosaurs’ extinction – Phy.org
- How the physics of champagne bubbles may help address the world’s future energy needs – Phys.org
- Research aims to improve rechargeable batteries by focusing on graphene oxide paper – Phys.org
- Computational clues into the structure of a promising energy conversion catalyst – Phys.org
- ‘4D Printing’ Makes Shape-Shifting Structures – LiveScience
- AI, eel production and cancer prevention drugs in the cards – Nikkei Asian Review
- Big Solar Step: Super-Efficient System Sets Record – LiveScience
- Mathematical description of relationship between thickness, temperature, and resistivity could spur advances – Phys.org
- New form of ice could help explore exciting avenues for energy production and storage – Phys.org
- ‘Fibonacci quasiparticle’ could form basis of future quantum computers – Phys.org
- Japan, Australia Selected for Pacific F-35 Sustainment – DefenseNews
- Material and manufacturing cost considerations for thermoelectrics are driving commercialization attempts more than just figures of merit (ZT) – Next Big Future
- Is String Theory About to Unravel? – Smithsonian
- Control on shape of light particles opens the way to ‘quantum internet’ – Phys.org
- Fraud-proof credit cards possible with quantum physics – Phys.org
- NASA rover finds organic molecules, methane gas on Mars – Reuters
- Buffett’s Smart-Grid Idea Takes Over Your Washing Machine – Bloomberg
- Using the power of a trillion light bulbs to map the nano-world – Phys.org
- Gravity’s Magic: New Seafloor Map Shows Earth’s Uncharted Depths – Universe Today
Medicine & Health
- Losing weight makes your lungs a potent CO2 emitter – LA Times
- A Feeling for Pain – The New Atlantis
- Testing Times for Alzheimer’s – Project-Syndicate
- Deadlier than cancer: Antibiotic-resistant superbugs could be one of the world’s top killers by 2050 – Salon
- How old you feel might predict how long you’ll live – Salon
- Gold nanorods target cancer cells – Phys.org
- Global population living six years longer than in 1990: study – Japan Times
- Autism risk linked to particulate air pollution – Reuters
- Obesity can be deemed a disability at work: EU court – Reuters
Environment, Global Warming & Nature
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- Greenland ice loss more ‘local’ than thought, climate study says – LA Times
- Past global warming similar to today’s: Size, duration were like modern climate shift, but in two pulses – Phys.org
- Back to the future: Scientists want ‘rewilded’ crops to boost agriculture – Reuters
- Arctic Heating Up Twice As Fast As Rest Of The Earth: NOAA – IB Times
- Origin of ‘theta aurora’—long-standing space mystery—revealed – Phys.org
- How Australia Put Evolution on Darwin’s Mind – Smithsonian
- Where Has All the (Sea Trash) Plastic Gone? – National Geographic
- NOAA establishes ‘tipping points’ for sea level rise related flooding – Phys.org
- The combined forces of herpes and global warming are threatening to wipe out the world’s oysters – Salon
- Trash talk: 269,000 tons of plastic litter choke world’s oceans – Reuters
- Ancient DNA reveals history of horse domestication – Reuters
- Murder in the Rainforest – Rolling Stone
Society Politics & History
- Evolution and Ethics, Revisited – The New Atlantis
- Depression, conflicts with parents more often factors in teen suicides than bullying, study finds – National Post
- 47 Sacks of Coke: A Charter Pilot’s Run-In with Venezuelan Drug Lords – Der Spiegel
- The unbelievable rise of single motherhood in America over the last 50 years – Washington Post
- Private colleges are a waste of money for white, middle class kids – Washington Post
- Why You TGIF Even if You Don’t Have A Job – Priceonomics
- Good Riddance to a Ridiculous Cuba Policy – The Atlantic
- The Evidence That North Korea Hacked Sony Is Flimsy – Wired
- Voluntary Ghettos: A Radical Idea for Reclaiming Urban Space – Wired
- Here’s the surprising social trait that the English and Chinese have in common – Quartz
- The Sony hack is unprecedented—and the entire corporate world should take note – Quartz
- Law school enrollment has plummeted to a 27-year low – Quartz
- How the US government’s tiny statistical error is distorting the true cost of college – Quartz
- The Sony Hackers Stole Login Credentials To Gain High-Level Access To The Company’s Network – IB Times
- The West should not let Russia fall apart – Fortune
- A Cultural History of the Baseball Card – The Atlantic
- Black teen wins legal victory over South Carolina justice system — 70 years after the state executed him – National Post
- ‘Punk rock’ snail named for the Clash’s Joe Strummer – LA Times
- In five years, more Americans will have smart fridges than fitness trackers – Quartz
- The U.S. Appetite For Cuban Cigars Isn’t What It Used To Be – FiveThirtyEight
- SECRET LIFE OF A SHOE MODEL – Narratively
- Robert Plant exclusive: “I don’t want to be stuck in the ’70s or the ’80s” – Salon
- Secret meetings with Cuba finally pay off – Reuters
- Will Pakistan’s grief force it to cut ties with Islamic militants? – Reuters
- Prisoners of ‘Ingenious’ 1962 Alcatraz Escape Could Have Survived – LiveScience
- Beer and Beef: Why the Vikings’ Elaborate Feasts Died Out – LiveScience
- Why Video Games Deserve a Place in History – LiveScience
- Did Civil War Soldiers Have PTSD? – Smithsonian
- Respond to North Korea’s cyber attack with financial sanctions on Kim cronies – Reuters
- Strong or weak, bully or buffoon? Will the real Russia please stand up? – Reuters
- A 9-year-old told China’s president to lose some weight—and censors shut him down – Quartz
- People often withhold key facts to win negotiations, and don’t think they’ve done wrong – Phys.org
- Timeline of the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack – Phys.org
- Well That Didn’t Work: The Crazy Plan to Bring 6-Wheeled Cars to F1 – Wired
- The Secret Deal to Save the Planet – Rolling Stone
- Man could set foot on Mars sooner than you think – Salon
And finally
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Boom – Project Syndicate
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