• Pamela Ribon’s horrific and yet hilariously told masseuse experience
• They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside
• The Big Apple’s Mayor Makes A Very Scary Video on CO2 Emissions
• NYC payphones get revived as touch-screen tablets
• Visual evolution of the mobile phone
• Straight Outta ‘Goodfellas’: $1.5 Million In iPads Stolen In JFK Heist
• UK’s ‘last typewriter’ produced
• Whoa… Sound bullets in water
• Remember that scary undersea “bloop” noise? At last we know what caused it.
• Why Revolution Can’t Come to North Korea
• NYT Op-ed: The Trouble With Online Education
• The Magnificent Find: Discovering the Lincoln Death Photograph
• The Red Bull 400: a 45 degree, 400m race
• 22 Things your doing wrong
• This guy’s version of Episode I’s potential plot is pretty damn good (and depressing)

• Wheels Down on Mars. Now It’s Time to Reinvent America, Says Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Why NASA should abandon a manned mission to Mars
• How mobile phones will pioneer future space technology
• The implications of overpopulation are terrifying. But will we listen to them?
• Woo hoo! First pictures from the new set of Arrested Development
• US Olympian aren’t too thrilled about Fox news either
• Take a Cue from the Olympics to be the Best Business Athlete
• Why the Sikh temple shooting got less coverage than the Aurora massacre
• Why Do So Many Murderers Have Three Names?
• The Moral Significance of Sex Workers and People With Disabilities
• From Damn Interesting: Better Call Sol
• New type of chemical bond may form in extreme magnetic fields of stars
• How Big Is Infinity? An Animated Explanation from TED
• Probably should: Please turn on two-factor authentication
• The Science of “Breaking the Seal”
• 25 Behind-the-Scenes TV Photos That Will Mess With Your Mind
• Website: https://www.ilooklikebarackobama.com/
• Video: Animals Acting Like Sharks Week

Finally, a recording still for the ages: In 1996, just months before he died, Carl Sagan recorded this message to future colonists living on Mars.