• NY Times bog on Today’s smartphone society and its sensory deprivation
• Write up on ‘Inviting machines into our bodies’ and it susceptible security compromises (serious Ghost in the Shell fangasm here)
• Bad Astronomer clarifies/explains the “UFO” spirals in the sky reports
• NASA Expedition Reveals Unprecedented Blooms Of Ocean Plant Life Beneath Arctic Ice
• Interesting proposition: Germany, Not Greece, Should Exit the Euro
• Syria and Should the U.S. assassinate Assad?
• Is China Looking to Conquer the Art World, Too?
• 6 Rules for a Great Story from Barnaby Conrad and Snoopy

Collecting 100 years of criminal mugshots by Mark Michaelson