Science & Technology
- Gogoro Unveiling Electric Scooter With Battery-Swapping Service – Bloomberg
- Software: The Next Challenge for Grid Batteries – Scientific American
- Quantum gravity: The most exciting discovery in physics could come about thanks to telecoms satellites. Is a single theory of reality in sight? – Aeon.com
- Hubble discovers that Milky Way core drives wind at 2 million miles per hour – Phys.org
- The future is bright, the future is quantum dot televisions – Phys.org
- Piezoelectricity in a Free-Standing 2-D Material – IEEE Spectrum
- Google’s Self-Driving Car Prototype Ready to Hit the Road – IEEE Spectrum
- Europe’s Smart Highway Will Shepherd Cars From Rotterdam to Vienna – IEEE Spectrum
- Graphene can be used to collect hydrogen from moist ambient air to power fuel cells – Next Big Future
- First 3D Metamaterials will enable higher resolution ultrasound, stealth submarines and other applications – Next Big Future
- Cable has 10 Gigabit per second internet technology but will only deploy 600 megabit per second or less in 2016 – Next Big Future
- Panasonic has photocatalytic water purification tech – Phys.org
- Bill Gates’ Plan to Help the Developing World Profit From Its Sewage – Wired
- Potential signs of ancient life in Mars rover photos – Phys.org
- Will Electric Scooters Take Over the World’s Mega Cities? – Smithsonian
- Nvidia Tegra X1 Superchip will be the brain of self driving cars – Next Big Future
- A Novel Way to Speed Up 3-D Printing, Using Bio-Inspired Architecture – Wired
- Simple Pictures That State-of-the-Art AI Still Can’t Recognize – Wired
Medicine & Health
- Immunology: Fifty years of B lymphocytes – Nature …very good read…
- Antibiotic Pulled From Dirt Ends 25-Year Drug Drought – Bloomberg
- Rave drug holds promise for treating depression fast – Nature
- Promising antibiotic discovered in microbial ‘dark matter’ – Nature
- Blood Test Tells How Long Concussion Symptoms Will Last – Scientific American
- The calculus of contagion: In the battle against disease, the difference between a raging epidemic and a passing fever comes down to a single number – Aeon.com
- ‘Flying carpet’ technique uses graphene to deliver one-two punch of anticancer drugs – Phys.org
- Rotating night shift work can be hazardous to your health – MedicalXpress
- New Non-invasive MRI can detect early stage Alzheimer’s in a living animal – Next Big Future
- Scientific team sounds the alarm on sugar as a source of disease – MedicalXpress
- Gaining Ground Against Germs – Bloomberg
- Science Graphic of the Week: Scientists Discover the First Protein That Can Edit Other Proteins – Wired
- DNA origami could lead to nano ‘transformers’ for biomedical applications – Phys.org
- ‘Glowing’ new nanotechnology guides cancer surgery, also kills remaining malignant cells – Phys.org
- Scientists develop pioneering method to define stages of stem cell reprogramming – Phys.org
- Understanding DNA repair and cancer resistance genes from Bowhead whales to enable 200 year lives in humans – Next Big Future
- Researchers uncover key cancer-promoting gene – MedicalXpress
- More effective diet pill: ‘Imaginary meal’ tricks the body into losing weight – MedicalXpress
- Study pinpoints autism-linked protein for sculpting brain connections – MedicalXpress
- Corn syrup more toxic than table sugar in female mice: study – Reuters
- How to age gracefully? Ask a bowhead whale – Reuters
Environment, Nature, Global Warming & Space
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- Life is quantum: Weird quantum effects are so delicate it seems they could only happen in a lab. How on Earth can life depend on them? – Aeon.com
- Insecticide-Treated Nets May Create Super Mosquitoes – Smithsonian
- New Super-Earths Double the Number of Life-Friendly Worlds – Smithsonian
- New Deep-Sea Snails Are Nature’s Own Punk Rockers – Smithsonian
- Scientists Can Tell How Old a Star Is by Observing How Fast It Spins – Smithsonian
- Much of world’s fossil fuel reserve must stay buried to prevent climate change, study says – Guardian
- Europe’s olive trees threatened by spread of deadly bacteria – Guardian
- Australia accelerates coal mine projects in the face of study that finds it should stay buried – Guardian
- EU Banned Pesticides to Help Bees, But Now Other Bugs Are Invading – Bloomberg …the writers didn’t get the point of banning bee killing pesticides obviously…
- Cheap Solar Power Emerges From Mineral Named for Russian Count – Bloomberg
- A closed loop: The DNA helix gave 20th-century biology its symbol. But the more we learn, the more life circles back to an older image – Aeon.com
- Engineering the ocean: Once you know what plankton can do, you’ll understand why fertilising the ocean with iron is not such a crazy idea – Aeon.com
- Massive star reveals its unstable heart – Nature
- Embankments Exacerbate Sea Level Rise in Bangladesh – Scientific American
- Chicken of tomorrow: How a massive breeding contest turned a rarely eaten backyard bird into the technological marvel that feeds the world – Aeon.com
- Drought led to massive ‘dead zone’ in Lake Erie – Phys.org
- The Challenge of the Planets, Part One: Ports-of-Call – Wired
- Peat fires—a legacy of carbon up in smoke – Phys.org
- Years-long ‘silent quake’ unleashed Fukushima tsunami – Phys.org
- Geochemical reactions may decrease effectiveness of carbon storage schemes – Phys.org
- Astronomers Get Closer Than Ever in the Hunt for Earth’s Twin – Wired
- The Space Missions and Events We’re Most Looking Forward to in 2015 – Wired
History & Culture
- THE TOWN WITHOUT WI-FI – Washingtonian
- THE BELFAST OPERATION – DownEast …good read…
- THE CODE: A DECLASSIFIED AND UNBELIEVABLE HOSTAGE RESCUE STORY – The Verge …good read about hostage communication via commercial radio…
- Scientist tackles mystery of ancient astronomical device – Phys.org
- Study suggests history of Rapa Nui on Easter Island far more complex than thought – Phys.org
- Uncovering twenty-five century-old mystery behind ancient Greek coins – Phys.org
- The Rapidly Disappearing Business of Design – Wired
- Our System Is So Broken, Almost No Patented Discoveries Ever Get Used – Wired
- Oldest time capsule in American history opened – Telegraph
- Vinyl’s difficult comeback – Guardian
- MY ROOMMATE THE PROSTITUTE – Narratively
- SECRET LIFE OF A FUNERAL CRASHER – Narratively
- What Is Music? – Humanities
- Paul Cézanne Revered the Old Masters, yet Influenced Waves of Modernists as They Broke with the Past – Humanities
- Admit It: You’re Rich – Bloomberg …good read…
Politics & Society
- The Income Gap at the Polls: The rich aren’t just megadonors. They’re also dominating the voting booth. – Politico…a good argument for compulsory voting?…
- To the Office, With Love – NYMag
- A reversal of fortunes – The Monthly…good read on the QLD election…
- Hacker fakes German minister’s fingerprints using photos of her hands – Guardian
- Yes, Chinese Police Openly Spy on Your Calls and Texts – Bloomberg
- Soros’s Terrible Plan to Throw Money at Ukraine – Bloomberg, Bershidsky…pertinent read…
- Men who take a lot of selfies ‘show strong links to psychopathic tendencies’ – Fairfax
- The Mortgage Mistake – New Yorker...more questions need to be asked about housing as both a social good and investment class (as well as for whom)…
- Remote Control: Can an exiled oligarch persuade Russia that Putin must go? – New Yorker
- Maginot Line in the South China Sea – Next Big Future
- Ukraine-Russia War spins up Cold War 2.0 and New tanks are back in national budgets – Next Big Future
- National Archives documents reveal the 100-year war against public service sickies – Fairfax
- Russia will have next generation Armata T-14 tank in 2015 and will lead to fully robotic tank – Next Big Future
- ROADS TO NOWHERE – The Monthly...good read…
- Analyzing the Demand – Supply Dynamics of the Australian South Eastern Gas Market Using PLEXOS® – IEEE Spectrum (requires registration)
Just a reminder to keep things in perspective and have a good weekend before going back to work on Monday!
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