• The story of two Mexican border crosser skeletons found in the Arizona desert
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Designed a Vacuum Cleaner from His CIA Prison
• Some Day Your Passwords Could Be Replaced by a Pill
• Wisconsin man arrested for humping discarded curbside couch
• Stop Frying Eggs on Roadside, Death Valley Officials Say
• Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, the most interesting man on Wikipedia
• The Stories of Famous Bandmates’ First Meetings
• Illusion of the Week: “U Can’t Parse This” Illusion Dance
• The 50 Books Everyone Needs to Read, 1963-2013
• Total film: 50 Amazing Films You’ve Probably Never Seen

As far as launch trailers go, this is one of the better ones.

• A lengthy, well thought out breakdown of Pokemon’s Post-Capitalist society
• What Is Nostalgia Good For? Quite a Bit, Research Shows
• When launching a $200m rocket, install the parts right way up
• US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses
• Possible explanation for cosmic radio bursts: Meet the “blitzar”
• Sun’s Loops Are Displaying an Optical Illusion
• New Evidence: Antarctica’s Ancient, Ice-Covered Lake is Full of Life
• Study Finds Mammals Can ‘Choose’ Sex of Offspring
• 29-Year-Old Gets $15-Million to Decipher Song Lyrics
• The positive feedback loop: How IBM’s Watson Learns
• Marvel’s experimentation with the medium of digital comics
• Desert Bus: The Very Worst Video Game Ever Created
• If Films Were Reviewed Like Video Games
• Beverly Hills moms say pot makes them better mothers
• Artist uses rare comic book in paper mache sculpture
• 10 Musical Genres That Should Never, Ever Be Revived
• Planet of the Castors – Beaver kills man in Belarus

Optical Ripple by Simon C Page

• An ad agency is testing adverts that transmit via train windows into a person’s head
• The Nigerian Prince and the Valley Girl: chronicling the changing history of spam
• The amazing story of Kim Jong-Il’s sushi chef
• Images of the ‘World’s largest building’ now open in China
• New Zealand, home to the best/worst news graphic ever
• History repeats as Spain’s best and brightest flee
• PBS is curating great unreleased interviews through their youtube channel Blank on Blank
• It’s kinda lunar littering, but I so want to send a £300 Kickstarter spacecraft to the moon
• Avatar creator Bryan Konietzko responds on colouring and dynamic lighting in animation
• DC teased out some details on Neil Gaiman’s new Sandman comic
• GIFs: How marbles are made
• Being a Lifelong Bookworm May Keep You Sharp in Old Age
• Former Blizzard dev: World of Warcraft “ruined a genre”

And awesome! New Walking Dead DLC has been released!

Thomas Jackson

• Exposing the Racket: A Simple Stunt Reveals How Blogs Will Print Anything for Pageviews
• Cleaner air linked to more hurricanes
• English is no longer the language of the web
• Only The Lonely By Stephen Fry
• Some of the interesting mindgames of the Korean DMZ
• Secrets of the Magus: a 1993 profile of magician Ricky Jay
• Sophia Stewart, The Real Creator of ‘The Matrix,’ Wins Billion Dollar Copyright Case
• The Changing Shape of Cinema: The History of Aspect Ratio
• Deconstructing the Cinema’s resolution jargon
• Mystery solved: meteorite caused Tunguska devastation
• DroneNet: The future of pizza delivery
• Man creates “invisible headphones” by implanting magnets into his ears
• Ryan Holiday on How To Read More
• Infographic: An Astounding Map of Every River in America

• A few notes on The Culture by Iain M Banks
• A Nigerian cook survived 2 days underwater in a shipwreck air bubble
• CIA Releases Analyst’s Fascinating Tale of Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture
• Why France insist school pupils master philosophy
• A SEAL Team 6 veteran comes out as transgender and what it could mean for the military
• Fitch says China credit bubble unprecedented in modern world history
• The numerous crazy keywords the NSA is tracking
• Brain training app brings big data to human cognition
• Recent breakthroughs mean we are on the cusp of Big Graphene Solar Sails for crude interstellar missions
• How Close Are We to Getting Google Glass in a Contact Lens?
• Is “ironic” the most abused word in English? When is it correct to say “that’s ironic?”
• The Quiet Shame of the Half-Book Reader
• At The Movies, The Women Are Gone
• I wanna play Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe

This great video recounts the history and establishment of the border between these sister countries and reveals some pretty crazy shit that exists right up to today.

Amanda Hugginkiss (variant) by Tim Doyle

• You Won’t Finish This Article – Why people online don’t read to the end
• Why Does the American Media Get Big Stories Wrong?
• 33 Unwritten Social Rules Everyone Needs To Follow
• Changes in China: 2000, now and 2025
• Then again, China’s real-estate bubble
• How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists
• Despite doomsayers, the world’s agriculture is on the rise
• The man who can see in ultraviolet
• Two accelerators find signs of a particle that nobody can explain
• A huge discovery in prime numbers and what it means for the future of math.
• Watch a Bread City Slowly Decompose Over 6 Months
• The sealed bottle garden still thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
• When We Held Kings: The oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker
• Moby Offers Music to Filmmakers for Free
• Trends found amongst the top Youtube channels

• Marketing research discovers ‘Netflix adultery’: the act of watching shows ahead of your spouse
• The twins, separated at birth, who led strikingly similar lives
• The Economist: How does copyright work in space?
• 7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy (An Insider’s Perspective)
• An editorial against ‘Bravery’ Debates
• Kiwi man sick of playing Xbox on home detention asks for jail
• Letter from Loretto – A Prison Letter from a CIA Whistleblower
• Japan’s radiation disaster toll: none dead, none sick
• Why DIY fecal transplants are a thing (and the FDA is only part of the reason)
• The self-inflicted brain wound that cured a man’s mental illness
• Peterborough City Hospital patients watch films during surgery
• The world that only formerly-blind people can see
• The World’s longest hangover
• Information Theory in Three Minutes
• Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics’ biggest problems
• How one man had sex on the moon
• Pixar’s Lightspeed will entirely ray-trace all of Monsters University
• 5 clever clues of foreshadowing in films
• Steven Spielberg predicts ‘Implosion’ of Film Industry
• If Developers Were Houses on Game of Thrones

And to cap off, some remarkable NASA footage of those Oklahoma tornadoes of late.