Boy watching solar eclipse… taken from 1.5 miles away

• If you “Like” something on Facebook, you just gave it permission to post in your Timeline
• Having Access to the Internet is Good for Your Love Life (But Only if you are Under 30)
• White LEDs Lighting Directly On Paper
• Q: Why Do We Wear Pants? A: Horses
• UK government slammed for ignoring key security issues
• Lucas Foglia: the photographer in search of off-the-grid Americans
• The trouble with wind turbines
• No Matter the Drilling Method, Natural Gas Is a Much-Needed Tool to Battle Global Warming
• Mysterious radiation hit the earth just over 1200 years ago
• What divorced readers did with their wedding rings
• How Neuroscience Is Challenging Our Conception of Justice
• The Ghost in the Machine: Unraveling the Mystery of Consciousness
• Scientists Predict Synthetic Life Within a Year
• Crime Waves Will Follow the Heat Waves of Climate Change
• Letters of Note: A government complaint about a ‘debris’ dam and the landowner’s response on behalf of its builders
• Want: I’ve Never Meta-Pizza I Didn’t Like
• Build a bonkers hi-fi system
• Super-Resolution From a Single Image
• A rare interview: with Christopher Tolkien
• If the Wizard of Oz were set in China, it might look something like this

• YES: Rumored film about Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison rivalry starring Christian Bale and Nicolas Cage!
• Bill Murray Announces Party Crashing Tour Starting In August
• Book ‘pirate’ goes underground after being named by Terry Goodkind
• Reddit Cracked a Mysterious Cipher That Might Be a Viral Marketing Scam
• Scientists Figure Out how Dinosaurs Did it
• World’s heaviest woman sheds 98 lbs with seven-times-a-day sex
• South Caroline Funeral Home Adds a Starbucks (of course)
• Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity
• Proving you’re gay to the Turkish army
• Surveyed: Many Wall Street executives says wrongdoing is necessary
• Editorial: The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama
• Supercut: See James Bond Do Vehicles
• North: How a Small Arctic Town Became a Global Epicenter of Climate Science
• Ranked: Disney Princesses From Least To Most Feminist
• 20 Best ‘Arrested Development’ Inside Jokes and Recurring Gags
• Photos: 18 Years Of Friendship

And for your daily freak out, this video demonstrates what one, ONE DROP of Russell’s Viper snake venom can do to blood.

(Kinda graphic, only because of the ‘holy shit! That was from just one drop!’ factor).

Rare blue ‘night-shining clouds’ pictured at dusk over Edinburgh

• Seinfeld’s Producer: Listen to Your Gut, Then Fight For What it’s Telling You
• When His Project Was Canceled, an Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job
• Higgs week starts with Fermilab updates, strong evidence expected
• Scientists Invent Particles That Will Let You Live Without Breathing
• How Do Glowsticks Glow?
• How To Decide Baking Temperature When a Recipe Doesn’t Mention It
• Why you were just ‘unfriended’ on Facebook
• Anderson Cooper: “The Fact Is, I’m Gay and the internet’s reaction
• With Google Now, Android Puts Apple’s Siri To Shame
• The Oatmeal fights back, snaps photo of cash, sends money to charity
• If Harry Potter was written like a Madeline book
• Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn’t work
• Video/Article: On board a real-life ‘ghost train’

• The Connection Between Genius and Madness?
• CDC disclaims ‘Zombie Virus’
• History of Facebook Developer Platform: Infographic
• Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
• Eating dark chocolate reduces heart diseases
• The World of Wes Anderson
• Why popular music isn’t always the best
• Photos: Students Home Party, 1960s, New York
• We encouraged people to learn to program and just look at what happened

• Neil deGrasse Tyson Presents: Manhattanhenge! (awesome)
• This book contains the first Google image result for every word in the dictionary
• As Memorial Day Nears, a Single Image That Continues to Haunt
• Governments pose greatest threat to internet, says Google’s Eric Schmidt
• Don’t Worry, These Are Not Community’s New Showrunners
• A concise personal lament on technology and books
• Facebook: Wallstreet 1, America 0

• Carl Sagan on Mastering the Vital Balance of Skepticism & Openness
  

  Seven years ago this week, David Foster Wallace argued that “learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.” Yet in an age of ceaseless sensationalism, pseudoscience, and a relentless race for shortcuts, quick answers, and silver bullets, knowing what to think seems increasingly challenging.

• ‘Are SF writers “slacking off” or is science fiction still the genre of “big ideas”?’
  

  Calls for more big ideas in SF are generally a political cri de coeur. We might equally imagine a similar essay in the context of mid-sixties Soviet fiction, calling for more fiction about tractors and breakthroughs in agricultural genomics.

• How Facebook Threatens the Legitimacy of the Stock Market
• The Perfection of the Paper Clip
• Could Angry Birds lead to mass murder?
• 2012 TV Body Count Study Results

• Has the Art Market Lost its Mind?
  

  The week after The Scream sale, a sale of postwar and contemporary art took in $388.5 million at Christie’s and a sale of Impressionist and modern art garnered $266.6 million at Sotheby’s. Souren Melikian of The New York Times said it was a week of blockbuster art sale profits that “conclusively proved that the disconnect of the art market from the broader economy is now radical.”

• The Value of Facebook: A Time Capsule
• Is Fashion Ready for a New Aesthetic?
• Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality
• Andromeda’s majestic spray of billions of hot stars
• Dear Einstein, Do Scientists Pray?

• The Oatmeal: Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived
• Android Fragmentation: The many faces of a little green robot
• Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
• Facebook Unlike and Internet Schadenfreude
• How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit

Ryuta Iida

If Facebook were invented in the 90s