Every day, the same, again
Bear trapped in garage rescued by other bear.
Startup has technology to read fingerprints through the air from 6 meters away.
Adidas cancels release of sneaker designed by Jeremy Scott.
Sea-level rise accelerates faster on US east coast.
Alligator caught in Connecticut River.
Scientists Discover That Mars is Full of Water.
Excitement Builds Over Expected Higgs Boson Announcement.
Persistence is learned from fathers, study shows.
Female sex offenders receive lighter sentences for the same crimes than males.
We form impressions of strangers incredibly quickly: What your choice of shoe says about you.
New research suggests that overall happiness in life is more related to how much you are respected and admired by those around you, not to the status that comes from how much money you have stashed in your bank account.
Semen helps sperm stick to the bitch’s uterus.
Remember the Famous Invisible Gorilla Experiment? The Same Thing Can Happen With Sound.
The idea is to apply Darwinian-like selection to music.
Google tells operators of YouTube-MP3.org that by converting YouTube music videos into MP3 files, they violate the site’s terms of service and risk “legal consequences.” Also: Clip.dj. Clipped along with YouTube-MP3.
Google detects 9500 malicious sites per day.
Outside of Search, Google’s products— Android, Google Docs— are s**t.
Gigapixel camera could revolutionise photography.
The Truth About What Works in Digital Marketing.
Could Morality Have a Source? [PDF]
I guess I am old enough now for my music-writing “career” to have entered officially into the obituary rather than the discovery phase. Anyway, I wanted to write something about Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Welch after I heard about his death last week.
In a 2011 study, psychologists found that individuals who had seen a spoiler paragraph prior to reading a short story rated the story as more, not less, pleasurable. And that held true even of stories where the plot, the “trick” so to speak, was seemingly the center of the experience, such as one of Roald Dahl’s signature ironic twist tales or an Agatha Christie mystery. Why? When we know the plot, the twist, the surprise, we become more able to focus on everything else: language, character, the intricacies of rhythm and technique. We may even pay closer attention than we otherwise would, trying to wrestle with elements that we hadn’t even noticed the first time around. So, too, with magic.
The Long History of the Espresso Machine.
An air conditioner is a device that lowers temperatures to an artificially cold level, by contributing to global warming. It thereby perpetuates and increases the problem it is designed to solve. Great business model. Just like heroin.
Does the U.S. Really Have More Oil than Saudi Arabia?
And then I learned the first cardinal rule of VC - it’s all about the team.
Chessboxing Worldchampionship.
Another Thing Paris Hilton Sucks At: DJing
