• 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

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.

Final supper! Last meals by Henry Hargreaves

• Thieves in Germany made away with five metric tons of Nutella
• How the Internet (and sex) amplifies irrational group behavior
• News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
• Brain scans show what pain looks like
• Why ‘neuroskeptics’ see an epidemic of brain baloney
• New music ‘rewarding for the brain’
• The latest on where we’re going with reading people’s dreams
• How a heavily cited economics paper contains a very erroneous Excel formula
• New App Prevents Icelanders from Sleeping With their Relatives
• China: Sex Game Horror as Live Eel Slithers Up Man’s Anus and into His Guts
• Elon Musk want to send 80,000 people per year to Mars
• Teen’s Strange Ramen Addiction – “(she) has the health of an 80 year old”
• Amusing case of the impossibility of IT Security in a Nutshell
• 9 Fascinating Abandoned Mansions from Around the World
• Fucking condom snorting is apparently a fucking ‘thing’. I fucking hate this planet sometimes.

• The New Spoiler Culture: Game of Thrones and the Fight to Live Uninformed
• Op-ed: How We’re Turning Digital Natives Into Etiquette Sociopaths
• Like-Farming: Facing up to Facebook scams
• NY Times Interview: The Joke’s on Louis C.K.
• Kickstarer: a doco that’ll explore the controversy of ‘controversial’ comedy.
• Les Blank, Filmmaker of America’s Periphery, Dies at 77
• Op-ed: Have Celebrities Hijacked Our Diplomatic Process?
• Google engineer on DRM: It’s about controlling hardware companies
• Hyper-Realistic CGI is Killing Photographers, Thrilling Product Designers
• Design Trends: Can We Please Stop Drawing Trees on Top of Skyscrapers?
• The Murderer Who Pulled a Real Life Shawshank Redemption Escape
• These identical twins, seperated at birth, found each other online 26 years later.
• Cookie Monster, Elmo in Times Square trouble
• Attach a camera to a police officer and you reduce 88% of the complaints against him/her.
• Also, their precaution of self-fingerprinting a stopped vehicle before approaching is pretty smart.
• I want: a 3D printed GlaDOS lamp

Stevefaces (gallery)

• ‘Stomach share’ The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
• How stomach bacteria may affect weight gain
• New study to measure effect of hip hop music on native birds
• This Whale’s (After) Life
  Studies into how a single whale’s body can support an ecosystem for years familiar to those of hydrothermal vents.
• Boxcar Energy – Brilliant new strategies for storing power. No. 4: First you roll a train uphill …
• Airline to charge overweight passengers more
• The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet
• How to Build Your Own Syncing RSS Reader with Tiny Tiny RSS
• The Saddest Map In America
  Charts the “missed connections” of Craigslist
• With S3, The Walking Dead is a “different show”—the most interesting one yet
• 10 amazing scientific facts about lists
• Huey Lewis reverses roles in this clever American Psycho parody

• HEAVILY ARMED SEX CRAZED DOLPHINS on RAMPAGE in Black Sea
  (new ‘best headline ever’ nominee)
• Scientists have gotten one rat brain to ‘talk’ to another using electronic link
• A study has shown that using a handsfree kit while driving can be just as dangerous as being over half the legal alcohol limit. Texting? You’re totally shitfaced.
• Gender differences in education scores persist regardless of gender equality
• A story full of aww: How a newly wed couple found their son in the Subway
• An illuminating article on How Disney bought Lucasfilm — and its plans for ‘Star Wars’
• Great short essay: The many wonders of Christopher Walken
• Scathingly brilliant – An Oscar voter’s brutally honest ballot
• Nice op-ed on design: Why we love beautiful things
• The King Clone is estimated to be the world’s oldest bush, dating around 11,700 years
• Atlas Obscura: The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India
• Vice answers: What do hate groups think of Jennifer Lawrence?
• Your obsessive love or hatred of me means nothing in the grand scheme of geological time by (not) Justin Bieber
• Video: Hitler finds out Google Reader is shutting down
  (Looks like me and Hitler finally agree on something)