Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds
Left and Right Ears Not Created Equal
NYTimes 1982 - CHANGING SAN FRANCISCO IS FORESEEN AS A HAVEN FOR WEALTHY AND CHILDLESS
We Couldn't Live Without Zero - But we once had to
Endonym Map of the World - What people call themselves
Our Connected World and the Unseen Legacies of 9/11
State of the Digital Nation 2016
How the Internet works: Submarine fiber, brains in jars, and coaxial cables
The Legend of the Yosemites Dope Lake
Why The Maker Movement Matters: Part 1: the Tools Revolution | Part 2: Agility
The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
Envisioning the Hack That Could Take Down NYC
The Primordial Reason People Need to Party
Diversity Efforts Fall Short Unless Employees Feel That They Belong
Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half
Democrats are racially diverse, Republicans mostly white
What China has been building in the South China Sea
Prison phones are a predatory monopoly
Graphiq - interactive visualizations
The Epic Century-Long English Battle to Rid Itself of American Squirrels
Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy
The US Is Finally Taking on Methane, Climate Change’s Hidden Villain
Epic centurylong English batter to rid itself of american squirrels
Why so many smart people aren't happy
The Arctic Suicides | HN comments
Protocol for Dying | HN comments
Inky the octopus escapes NZ aquarium
Homeless as WiFi transmitters create a stir
Was Mary Todd Lincoln Really “Insane”?
Who are you? questionairre answered by Einstein
Some metals kill bacteria like brass door knobs
If you're alive in 30 years, chances are good you may also be alive in 1000 years | HN Comments
How to cultivate the art of serendipity
Disappearance of Self in Japan
To fall in love with anyone do this
What Alzheimer’s Feels Like from the Inside
All of the world's money visualization
Five hours with Edward Snowden
Robert Kennedy's prediction of gun violence
Schools overlooking introverts
The Slave-State Origins of Modern Gun Rights
Generation Z | How to spot a member of generation z | Gen Z marketing profile
Second sleep - The myth of the eight-hour sleep | Segmented Sleep | Sleep twice a night | Your Ancestors Didn't Sleep Like You
Where people in each state were born.
Struggling for Gay Equality in the South
Why isn't 'American' a language?
Open Letter to Asian-Americans
Drops downs as phone interface
The Really Big One - Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest
Jack Kerouac’s On The Road Turned Into Google Driving Directions & Published as a Free eBook
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement | HN comments
War, passion and the origin of computer science
Static Shaking maps of Bay Area
Texas Marijuana Legalization bill
Whales migrating to other side of the world due to global warming
10,000 year old Deep Sea Sponge
Anxious people decision making
Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock
How would the world change if we discovered extraterrestrial life
Fracking Caused Ohio Earthquake
Data Analyst Changes How New Yorkers See Their City
California Drought Worst in 1200 years
Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart
Why your cat thinks you're a huge unpredictable ape
What we give away when we connect to public wifi networks
Peaceful use of Nukes? | HN discussion
Scientists have an answer to how the Egyptian pyramids were built
A Shocking Sabbath Carnival of Death
The Happiest Regions in America
Earth's Magnetic Field Flip Could Happen Sooner Than Expected
How Low Income Commuters View Cycling
What's the scariest thing in the world? Ask your teenage daughter
A day in the life of a new york city taxi
Why Bikes Make Smart People Say Dumb Things
The Curse of Smart People | HN comments | unskilled and unaware
How Denver is becoming the most advanced trasit city in the west
BuzzFeed uses quizzes to collect personal data
Anti-Tesla sentiment + the death of optimism (Part 1)
Same sex couples more domestic in tolerant states | Note the numbers for NM | Percentage that search for gay male porn similar across all states
Light bedrooms linked to obesity
How to tell someone's age by their name
Developer Anxiety, we're not alone... | HN comments
Why chess will destroy your mind
US in denial over poor maths standards
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose your own autobiography
For Workers, Less Flexible Companies
The Inside Story of Oculus Rift
Legendary mountain climber Jeff Lowe slowly dying of ALS-type disease
What I've learned: Chris Sharma
Park slope plane crash | Wikipedia
Male scent might impact biomedical research
Vintage crime scene photos superimposed on modern NYC
How americans die | HN comments
National Geographic | Various commentary on that article with super interesting map
XKCD: Heartbleed bug explaination
Depth of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's alleged black box
Alzheimer website slowly dissapearing
Norwegian skydiver nearly struck by meteorite | UPDATE: NASA analysis
Smarter than a CIA Agent? - Super Forcasters and current events | HN Comments
The Expert - just like my job at times
Open Floor Plans | HN Comments
Climate impacts 'overwhelming' - UN | Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come
When, not if: how do San Franciscans live with the threat of the next quake?
How apraxia got my son suspended from school
American unemployed tend to blame themselves
The rise of gay retirement homes
Apple's Jonathan Ive's Time Interview
The Dozen Regional Powerhouses Driving the U.S. Economy
Animals 'scared' by bursts of light from power cables
MH370 may have had a cabin fire & discussion | MH370 may have snuck through military airspace in the shadow of another 777 & discussion
'Syndromes' that drive coders crazy | Coder Burnout
10 reasons why handheld devices should be banned | Rebuttal - Why the '10 reasons why handheld devices should be banned' article is stupid
BBC animated travel stories - American Southwest
F.lux - getting back to your circadian rhythm... kinda | Research | Circadian rhythm
PowerPointless - powerpoint is the terrible for higher ed | LHC bans powerpoint
Duolingo - Free language courses
Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (and that’s how it’s supposed to be)
Uber, Lyft crackdown in Seattle may be followed in other cities
Confessions of an Intermediate Programmer | HN Comments | Myth of the Genius Programmer
The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary
Village Voice - Best of NYC 2013
You think you know what teachers do?
Obama's Trauma Team - behind the nightmare healthcare.gov launch
Potential Columbia Rescue Plan
Alec Baldwin: Good bye public life
How much is time wrong around the world
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/03/inequality-american-cities/861/
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/03/inequality-puzzle-us-cities/858/
Texas, earthquakes, and politics
Building Chernobyl's new safe confinement
Apocalypse, New Jersey: Camden, America's Most Desperate Town
By the time you give them a raise, they are out the door
Hemingway - smart writing app points out your flaws
How I Learned to Stop Giving Advice | HN Comments
Target data leak started with HVAC company
Lost Coast Trail - 3 day backpack
How Music hijacks our sense of time
Magnet in a Copper Tub | HN Comments
The Woody Allen Allegations: Not So Fast
Life as a nonviolent psychopath
Extreme Pollution in Asian Impacting Weather Patterns
More Magnus Carlsen vs Bill Gates
Friends discover they are sperm donor sisters
Target figured out a girl was pregnant before her father did
Today's tech and tomorrows jobs
What happens when you click on those 'one weird trick' ads
Map of most photographed places
- please note the part about cellphone radiation under the blue chart
Queensboro Bridge Ramp accidents
When Doctors Google their patients
where working age americans are moving
What happens when one of your coworkers dies
inside look at the justice system
Origins of the Confederate Flag
Various pros and cons of not having managers or having a strucutureless work environment
"It is a pseudo-flat structure where, at least in small groups, you're all peers and make decisions together," she said. "But the one thing I found out the hard way is that there is actually a hidden layer of powerful management structure in the company and it felt a lot like high school. There are popular kids that have acquired power in the company, then there's the trouble makers, and everyone in between."
More on flat management structures
They don't really like creativity
How the Post covered the Internet in '88
but, use this new knowledge with this other new knowledge:
In 1983, North America experienced a massive recession in the video game industry, now known as the video game crash. The crash had devastating effects, bankrupting game company after game company. At its peak, the revenues for video games in the U.S. sat at $3.2 billion in 1983. By 1985, revenues fell a whopping 97 percent to approximately $100 million. There are many factors behind the crash. The key factor is that by 1983, the video game market was saturated with low-quality games, which resulted in a loss of consumer confidence. Anyone who could make a game was making a game, and there was little to no regulation on the part of the console makers. Players got burnt. Retailers got burnt. People stopped buying video games. The crash marked what many believed to be the end of the video game industry.
Bursting the filter bubble that protects us from opposing views
Why I don't trade stocks and probably neither should you | HN Comments
How money moves in the banking system
This can also be seen as an argument to allow people to work from home instead of just for giving people their own offices. Fast Company | HN Comments | My favorite comment
Craziest OKCupid date ever | HN Comments
... And number 11 of top paying jobs via CNN is... - Makes me want to go back to school for geology... seems like I was onto something when I was younger.
Denial of service tool aimed at healthcare.gov to slow it down
Hans Rosling: How much do you know about the world?
The odds of being the ‘next big thing’ are even slimmer (of the order of 0.07%). As a VC-backed start-up the chances are that you will work 80+ hours a week for peanuts for several years and end up with little more than experience at the end of it.
It Takes a Village - community play space in crown heights for kids 3 and under
The power of waking up at the same time everyday
Koch Brother's political agenda
What happens when you interrupt a programmer
When ignorance begets confidence
Space Shuttle Enddeavor's last voyage
Making a living collecting cans
In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell
roots of the government shutdown
More stuff about the shutdown and the debt ceiling
Budget Crisis months in planning
More stuff about the shutdown and the debt ceiling
More stuff about the shutdown and the debt ceiling
And a bonus about campaign finance law
Man responsible for the government shutdown
The "Weird Caucus" or "Suicide Caucus"
More on The "Weird Caucus" or "Suicide Caucus"
A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help, according to an analysis of census data by The New York Times.
Because they live in states largely controlled by Republicans that have declined to participate in a vast expansion of Medicaid, the medical insurance program for the poor, they are among the eight million Americans who are impoverished, uninsured and ineligible for help.
Open source systems save money
Icelandic phone app stops you dating close relatives
Decoding text typed into nearby keyboard with your phone
- its like we are in the future!
Manhattan Skyline from Brooklyn
Cat people / Dog people Fun video
Cat people / Dog people video part 2
a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.
Grand Central Mural during WWII
To my daughter's high school programming teacher
School is a prison and damaging our kids
Drug use lower in kids, higher in old people
Psychopathic criminals have empathy switch
Mammals can 'choose' sex of offspring
Armchair Aircrash investigator
and even more state of the internet
HIV patients after bone marrow transplant
- I could only get the cached version of this link because I couldn't reach the guardian site.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Climbing the Golden Gate Bridge
i don't usually dig on gifs but
iMessage and Facetime encryption
http://www.correntewire.com/six_reasons_why_choosing_hong_kong_is_a_brilliant_move_by_edward_snowden
http://mashable.com/2013/06/14/yahoo-fought-prism-lost/
http://mashable.com/2013/06/14/yahoo-fought-prism-lost/
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/21/politics/21nsa.html?_r=0
http://kottke.org/13/06/you-commit-three-felonies-a-day
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm - note the date
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/07/AR2007110700006.html
Techy news type whatnot | HN comments - ben, this is my reddit, except now i'm trying to get into reddit ;)
- zerg rush
- atari breakout
http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/article/316418/8/10-News-Investigators-discover-short-yellow-lights
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21322183
http://www.etsy.com/listing/84706721/big-sleeping-grizzly-bear-bean-bag
http://project.wnyc.org/cicadas/#buildyourown
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/why-fabulously-wealthy-apple-is-borrowing-money/
http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/business/subway.html
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=402544
http://www.american-pictures.com/english/book/book-9.htm
http://www.smudgestudio.org/smudge/GeoCity.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=urban-geology
http://www.serverunderground.com/archive/bill_watterson.html
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130422-feeling-ill-swallow-a-parasite
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/04/22/177455764/What-Does-Modern-Prejudice-Look-Like
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/whats-tylenol-doing-to-our-minds/275101/
http://www.webpop.com/blog/2013/04/16/can-a-puppy-sell-a-cms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli
http://www.alastairhumphreys.com/
http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/06/kara-swisher-instagram
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/04/google-street-view-hyperlapse/
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia14944.html
http://www.benjaminasmith.com/blog/2013/04/12/continuing-education/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/11/health/aspergers-work-irpt/index.html?sr=fb04113aspergerswork7p
http://www.delanceyplace.com/view_archives.php?2137
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1992.tb00019.x/abstract
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5542453
http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
http://forecast.io/#/f/40.7143,-74.0060
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/strongbox-and-aaron-swartz.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57577887-38/apples-imessage-encryption-trips-up-feds-surveillance/
http://b.jonw.com/post/46853309918/making-a-physical-product
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/home
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/community_rules
http://blog.discourse.org/2013/03/the-universal-rules-of-civilized-discourse/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/alamo-drafthouse-new-york-metro-theater_n_1406904.html
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/its-the-sugar-folks/?smid=tw-share
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus
http://www.getmarketprice.com/
http://www.zephyrosanemos.com/
http://availability.newyorkbygehry.com/availability/detail/188
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/01/apple-fires-chinese-supplier-for-using-underage-workers/
http://raganwald.posterous.com/acts-of-god
http://fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/space/keplers-tally-of-planets.html?_r=0
http://www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archives/2013/2013-11.shtml - Voyager 1 has left the solar system!!!!
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blogland/2012/dec/18/snowflake-science/
http://www.weather.com/news/why-we-name-winter-storms-20121001
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121203.html
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek - sweet awesomeness
http://www.ecology.com/2012/06/14/ice-methane-climate-change/
http://www.radiolab.org/2012/dec/17/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671627/study-shows-how-classroom-design-affects-student-learning
http://www.gimcrackd.com/etc/src/
http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=1615
http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/11/catos-hike-helps-unlock-the-little-programmer-in-all-of-us
http://snap.berkeley.edu/snapsource/snap.html
http://www.sugarrae.com/rants-in-bitchland/women-tech-conferences-and-bs/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339552
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/the-panel-pledge-a-follow-up/266886/
Related: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/
http://www.jimchines.com/2012/05/facts-are-cool/
http://www.threechords.org/blog/diversity-in-tech-still-an-issue-2013/
http://blog.pbell.com/2013/03/19/innovation-debt/
http://blog.jetstrap.com/2013/04/introducing-jetstrap-1-0/
http://mashable.com/2013/02/21/apple-patent-flexible-iwatch/
http://pansentient.com/2011/04/spotify-technology-some-stats-and-how-spotify-works/
http://www.romainbrasier.fr/404.php?lang=en
http://ruby.bvision.com/blog/please-stop-embedding-bootstrap-classes-in-your-html
http://jobs.wibidata.com/puzzles/portal/
http://brython.info/index_en.html
http://blog.firebase.com/post/41803484857/backfire-firebase-bindings-for-backbone-js
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-javascript/index.html
https://ventrellathing.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/git-a-nightmare-of-mixed-metaphors/
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/01/the_787s_problems_run_deeper_t.html
http://goldfirestudios.com/blog/104/howler.js-Modern-Web-Audio-Javascript-Library
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
https://gocardless.com/blog/unresponsive-design/
http://jcreamerlive.com/2013/01/29/getting-started-with-anvil-js/
http://beust.com/weblog/2012/12/29/migrating-from-ember-js-to-angularjs/
http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html
http://weburbanist.com/2013/01/30/incredible-shrinking-building-top-down-demolition-in-style/
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1392#page-21
http://www.zdnet.com/how-to-affordably-own-your-office-software-7000011449/
http://thestandardsmanual.com/
http://plus.maths.org/content/carol-syndrome
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/we-found-our-son-in-the-subway
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2012/06/art3full.pdf
http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20130128-central-texas-cuisine-raises-the-steaks
http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/are-placebos-really-sugar-pills.html
http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/41960243010/starting-a-bike-shop
http://priceonomics.com/toilets/#japanese
http://eduardo.intermeta.com.br/posts/2013/1/25/how-to-land-a-plane-if-you-are-not-a-pilot
https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/railscheck
http://unofficialnetworks.com/collapse-video-glacial-size-city-116670/
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_%28Bookshelf%29
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/02/21/the-saddest-map-in-america/
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/your-trip/LGBT-travellers