Science, Technology & Environment
- Space missions and events most looking forward to in 2015 – WIRED (starting Tuesday with SpaceX!)
- And then DAWN which will approach the dwarf planet Ceres next week – Next Big Future
- What everyone should know about statistical correlation – American Scientist (unlocked article)
- Online sales in Australia could be subject to tax – Gizmodo (this is one area where a GST doesn’t work…)
- Scientists discover first protein that makes other proteins – WIRED
- Mt Gox Bitcoin loss was an “inside job” – Gizmodo
- Can an engineer appreciate art? – American Scientist (Well, all emotions are algorithms of a sort…)
- Why are Australian governments addicted to road freight? The Monthly (because rail networks are best operated as a utility, i.e not for rentiers)
Medicine, Food & Health
- Man made ligament could replace ACLS – Gizmag
- The physics of champagne bubbles could power the future – Smithsonian
- Bad luck of random mutations mainly behind cancer, not genetic or lifestyle – Hopkins Medicine (this is fascinating!)
- Coffee doesn’t give you energy, it just fools your brain – Raw Story (hear that brain!)
Culture, Society & History
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- Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye talk about the Pope’s comments on the Big Bang – Salon (remember, these scientists are agnostic, not militant atheist!)
- Secret Nazi weapons facility found near concentration camp – Gizmodo
- When the Germans and US fought together against the SS in WW2 – The Daily Beast (needs to be made into a movie, was a little disappointed with Fury, this could be a corker!)
- The “Share” Market – The Monthly (does the future belong to Uber et al? Interesting…)
- The internet of “Things” – Smithsonian (this ties in with above very clearly about our future)
- How FDR outsmarted them all in WW2 – Salon (btw go on a Googlequest about the Battle of Britain….talk about Black Swans….)
- New programming changes for ABC Classic FM – Limelight (read: stupid gutting, but lets get those chaplains in our schools!)