• Word: Don’t write articles like this
• Wisdom: Life lessons from Dave the barman
• From NPR: An Anthropologist Walks Into A Bar And Asks, ‘Why Is This Joke Funny?’
• The history of ‘business casual’
• Crime Doesn’t Pay (Well): The Economics of Bank Robberies
• Going three days without the internet
• Newest booze/creativity correlation: vodka and cranberry
• The AV Club: Creative processes we wish we’d witnessed
• Big Think: How to Form a Good Habit
• These days, you don’t even need to sell 10,000 albums to make it to No. 1
• Some music sales data that highlight consumers tendency for singles over albums
• A Tor of the Dark Web
• How measuring the shape of a photon could lead to new ways of encoding information
• Microbes maketh man: We’re not just people, we’re made of a lot of microbes too
• Profiled: concentrated solar power plants
• Study: Homeless people find equality, acceptance on social networking sites
• GetGlue: television’s future interactivity on our ‘second screens’
• Website: AirPano – 360 degree panoramas tours of the world

The real Mitt Romney stands up and reflects on who he is, what he believes and why he is running for office.

Damnit man, they’re made of candy!

Australian artistic duo Pip & Pop configure these intricately patterned floor installations made of multihued sweets mixed with glitter, beads, toys, sand, and other equally vibrant found objects.

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Vogue 120 shoot

• Games of Hoez: Police Seize Pimping Rules During Raid
• Holy crap… A real life Walter White wanted for manufacturing meth
• From Politico: Mission Impossible: Managing Joe Biden
• The ultimate Mitt Romney flip-flop compilation
• Woo! Millennials Buy More Books Than Everybody Else
• Some really fascinating societal trends
• Cool: The Marshmallow Test pays off, 40 years later
• How WikiLeaks Blew It: The sad downfall of Julian Assange and his empire of secrets
• The limit on how tall a building can be

Lastly, this video explaining how computers privately communicate with each other is really good.

I’m totally in love with this guy’s artwork at the moment. Russian illustrator Uno Moralez‘s pixelated style is very reminiscent of that mid-90’s period of video game artwork; and utterly fucking twisted at the same time.

via The Fox is Black

via Soul Pancake

POGO returns with a Wizard of Oz sampled track with himself in front of the camera looking uncannily like a young Chris Morris.

• Fuck yeah! Let’s Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum
• At 314,159,265 now: the US population is pi
• Scottish people’s DNA study could ‘rewrite nation’s history’
• Botanicus Interacticus: Disney’s interactive plant technology
• Don’t You Forget About Me: Sarkozy is not about to go quietly into the night.
• Big Think: How To Recognize Your Next Brilliant Idea
• Dr. Michio Kaku’s five must-see science five
• See (and buy) 27 concept images for never-made Gaiman Sandman movie
• How unbreakable this glass is is pretty mental

The notion of space is central to understand ‘Le Cercle Fermé’ by Martine Feipel and Jean Beachameil. It’s about the obvious necessity of finding a new type of space while going beyond the physiological limits of our perception and the limit of space as a result of our traditions.

via https://www.ignant.de