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Science & Technology
- Deregulation at heart of Japan’s new robotics revolution (CNBC)
- The Statistical Crisis in Science (American Scientist)
- In the World of Wearables, Tech Companies Are Suddenly Taking Heart (Rate) (Recode)
- How to Ask Programming Questions (ProPublica)
- Flat battery? New prototype turns waste heat into electricity (The Conversation)
- The Rosetta lander detects organic matter: the seeds of life? (The Conversation)
- Brain food: diet’s impacts on students are too big to ignore (The Conversation)
- The Proton and Neutron Just Got Two Brand New Subatomic Cousins (The Atlantic)
- America could power itself 100 times over with solar energy (Washington Post)
- Surrogate sushi: Japan biotech for bluefin tuna (AP)
- Early statin use may give long-term heart benefits (U-T San Diego)
- Marijuana’s long-term effects on the brain demonstrated (Science Daily)
- Gecko-inspired adhesives allow people to climb walls (Science)
- Google Says It Can Now Launch Up To 20 Project Loon Balloons Per Day – TechCrunch
- Whatsapp starts encrypting user messages on Android devices – RT
- Spooky alignment of quasars across billions of light-years – Science Daily
- World’s First Zero-Gravity 3D Printer Installed on Space Station – Space
- Chinese Programmer Sticks Windows 95 On An iPhone 6 Plus – TechCrunch
- Donut shaped aircraft on the horizon – Irish Times
- Hand dryers ‘splatter’ users with bacteria, scientists warn (Telegraph)…I have always wondered…
Environment & Climate Change
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- Clarity in Climate Modeling (American Scientist)
- There’s growing evidence that global warming is driving crazy winters (Washington Post)
- China’s Pollution And C02 Emissions Solution: Export It (IB Times)
- Is a ban on GM crops more harmful than growing them? (Guardian)
- Merchants of Doubt film exposes slick US industry behind climate denial (Guardian)
- 2014 Boils Toward Warmest Year Ever with Three More Records Broken (NBC)
- Arctic faces an ice-pocalypse (Science)
- Volcano eruptions in Alaska could cause trans-Atlantic chaos for airlines (The Conversation)
- Can Climate Change Cure Capitalism? (NY Review of Books)
- Great Barrier Reef will be ‘slaughtered’: scientists dismiss Julie Bishop’s claim reef not at risk (Fairfax)
Society & Living
- Perfect storm brewing for bipartisan health-care reform (CNBC)
- We Post Nothing About Our Daughter Online (Slate)…disturbing read…
- How do you frighten political strongmen? Teach journalism. (The Conversation) …precisely why the ABC is in the gun…
- Does it really cost $2.6 billion to develop a new drug? (Washington Post)
- Why a college degree shouldn’t be a commodity (Washington Post)
- Paleolithic diets: bigger on fashion than fact (Prospect)
- Immigration Reform 2014: Tech Industry Wants More Green Cards For Foreign Programmers (IB Times)
- Corruption is Putin’s Achilles’ heel – and golden opportunity (BNE)
- Why Can’t I Take an Orange Through Customs? (Priceonomics)
- Your Job May Affect How Your Brain Ages (FiveThirtyEight)
- Man’s headaches due to parasitic worm living in his brain for four years (Guardian)
- The brave world of super-commuters (BBC)
- The Banality of Islamic State: How ISIS Corporatized Terror (Bloomberg)
- Who wants to live forever? The new frontiers of posthumous rock (New Statesman)
- The end of the affair (The Monthly) …good read vis Malcolm Turnbull…
- What’s Next for Space Exploration? (Slate)
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History, Arts, Social Sciences, Concepts & Ideas
- The Invention of the Jewish Nose (NY Review of Books)
- The Long Migration Of English Football (FiveThirtyEight)
- MATE OF THE UNION: How to corrupt a party (The Monthly)
- They believe in teachers and in education for all: why Finland’s kids often top league tables (The Conversation)
- The greatest zombie lie ever told (The Conversation)
- Georgia O’Keeffe painting sets new record of $44.4 million for work by female artist (Telegraph)
- The Curious Case of Jesus’s Wife (The Atlantic)
- The World Is Flatulence: The Enduring Appeal of the Tasteless (The Atlantic)
- On biology and leadership – Simon Sinek (Youtube)
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