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Breathtaking aurora formed by the largest magnetic storm in 10 years

Interesting short film about prejudice against robots

Computing

• Introducing HUD menus for Ubuntu
• Deobfuscating malicious code layer by layer
• The rise of developeronmics

Science

• 47 year old television signals bouncing back to Earth
• Your body wasn’t built to last
• 10 incredibly strange brain disorders

Bonus

• Rocket UI – Build complex UI widgets without coding
• The Noun Project – Vector Art for Everything
• AndroidPttrns – Design/Interaction Patterns
• SuperEmbedBuilder
• Video Game Programming Tutorials
• 30 free programming e-books

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Time lapse video of comet Lovejoy

Vertical progression through the human skull

Image Gallery

Long exposure photo of a candle procession

World’s largest 3d painting

Gale Crater: Landing site for the Curiosity Mars Rover

Larissa Sansour: Palestine in Sci-fi

Inventor of the multi-tabbed browser

Science

• How to build smarter airport terminals
• 10 mega-construction projects that could save the environment
• 10 bodily functions that continue after death
• Out bodies want us to stay fat
• Perils of in-breeding: Debunked
• Special relativity in a nutshell

Computing

• Detecting kinship from a pair of images
• Ascii Ray tracer
• Illustrative guide to cryptographic hashes
• Elevator Algorithms
• Infinite Compilation Problem
• Why do big companies tend to only build with Java

Bonus Links

• Brand Name Generator
• Android Home Screen Gallery

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Canon 5D2 DSLR Time Lapse

Bouncing water droplets

Throwable Ball Panoramic Camera

Whale Fall: After life of a whale

TED Talk: How to spot a liar

Image Gallery

Nikon D300s travel’s to the edge of space

WebGL Terrain Simulation

Design that solves problems for the poor

Science

• Why we can’t drink sea water
• Myths about the mind
• 10 stubborn myths about food
• Bayesian theory of the brain

Computing

• Siri: A verbal command line
• On extroverted programmers
• Piracy is not theft
• A collection of handy Perl one-liners

Bonus

• Sleep Timing

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Image Gallery

Realistic Skin Rendering in WebGL

A rainbow cloud shimmers over Ethiopia

X-ray reveals hidden Goya painting

Science & Technology

• HIV vaccine passes phase one human trials with 90% success rate
• MIT’s ‘Artificial leaf’ makes fuel from sunlight
• Mind-reading technology reconstructs videos from brain
• Corporate Taxes: How Low Can You Go?
• Don’t dumb girls down
• Tallest squat in the world
• Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera

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Images worth a thousand words

Light bulb that’s been on since 1901

Data-driven enhancement of facial attractiveness

Sitting is killing you

Science & Technology

• Teen brain data could predict pop hits
• Japan scientist synthesizes meat from feces
• What sugar does to your brain and body
• Why is there only one human species
• What would a teaspoonful of neutron star do to you
• Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible
• The rising threat of Super Bacteria
• The Muslim Art of Science

Computing

• Why Google Earth Can’t Show You Israel
• Average color of New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes
• What is BitCoin

Images worth a thousand words

25 Futuristic Abandoned Yugoslavian Monuments

Simon Schubert creates complex scenes in paper using creases

Science & Technology

• Neural Networks Simulate Schizophrenia with Hyper-learning
• Voyager set to enter interstellar space
• Why leaves really fall off trees

Computing

• Web development is just broken
• Programming is not a craft

Interesting Reads

• How China recycles millions of cell phones every year
• How the American Man spends his money
• The Unwritten Laws of Engineering
• The Cognitive Cost to Doing Things
• Superiority – Arthur C. Clarke
• The Nine Billion Names of God – Arthur C. Clarke

Bonus

• Online Encyclopedia of integer sequences
• Future Timeline

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1. Liquefaction from the Sendai earthquake

2. World’s biggest wholes

3. Quadrocopters juggle balls cooperatively

4. RED Epic Footage: Rise of the Valkyries

5. Zdenek Kalal’s object tracking algorithm learns on the fly

6. How Can I Take Better Photos in Low Light?

7. Why Questions

8. Music synthesized from the Game of Life

Images worth a thousand Words

Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years

Gravity satellite yields ‘Potato Earth’ view

Fractal Lab lets you create 3D WebGL fractals that you can explore

Science & Technology

• Probabilistic processors possibly pack potent punch
• Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics Technique
• Water-Powered Spaceship Could Make Mars Trip on the Cheap
• The mathematics of being nice

Interesting Reads

• Cats adore and manipulate women
• The Simple Secret To Identifying Your Strengths
• Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth ‘Crying In Rage’
• Why Fahrenheit is better than Celsius
• Hiring Developers: You’re Doing It Wrong

Computing

• I’m graduating with a Computer Science degree but I don’t feel like I know how to program.
• Why did Google feel that Google Wave was a good product?
• What Does the IPv6 Transition Mean to Me?
• Fundamentalism in the age of Facebook

Assorted

• Earth from above
• Visualizing the new Arab Mind
• Timelapse: A Sequence of Lines Traced by Five Hundred Individuals
• Why It is Nearly Impossible to Tickle Yourself
• Income Distribution Within U.S. Religious Groups