Yes.

• ‘They’re like Cream, but worse’: Harsh early reviews of classic albums
• New York Time’s 100 notable books of 2012
• The great American unproduced screenplay
• Was Tycho Brahe poisoned? According to new evidence, probably not
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Have we always eaten them?
• Tips on how to avoid problem people
• How a man found out he has testicular cancer from taking a pregnancy test
• Thinking clearly about personality disorders
• Self-healing electronic skin that’s sensitive to the touch
• The Large Hadron Collider may have produced new matter
• And here’s an awesome interview with Bill Murray

• Women in the porn industry are as healthy as any other women claims new study
• Hacking my vagina: making a vibrator that listens to your body
• Yeah, it’s Pitchfork, but still: How much money is actually made from streaming music?
• Interesting piece on misogyny in Industrial Music
• SpaceX’s Elon Musk: Your ticket to Mars? Half a million dollars
• Sweet… Notch, Gearbox, Yogscast, Day[9], Bethesda and Valve to go head-to-head in a TF2 charity match
• Teleglitch: Doom with a (top-down) view
• Teller (of Penn & Teller) on how magicians manipulate the mind
• How one fake press release on a Google “acquisition” fooled the press
• Facebook makes it official – an external advertising network coming soon
• Researchers have discovered the ‘White Noise’ of smell: ‘Olfactory White’
• And, thanks to nature, you are most likely to die at 11 am

• Scientists create brain implant that improves thinking in monkeys
• Gaining consciousness: Could the Internet Ever “Wake Up”?
• What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience
• MDMA through an MRI, for science!
• Wiki-editor’s guide: No one cares about your garage band
• Magic Mushrooms: Violins constructed from infected wood sound like those of Stradivari (awesome!)
• A 2,000 year old Magnolia seed was found, planted and it grew
• Potentially usable: The most well persevered Wolly Mammoth cells yet found
• 7 Things Science Says Make You Happy (Basically, I just need to keep up doing more of this)
• Who What Why: What is blood rain?
• The Astronomical Unit is now a fixed number: 149,597,870,700 meters
• Murder-Suicide in the Keys Unravels a Doctor’s Decades-Long Mystery
• Hollywood Accounting: How A $19 Million Movie Makes $150 Million… And Still Isn’t Profitable
• The patent, used as a sword
• A real-time map of Global Cyberattacks
• Interactive cool: comparing map projections
• 99 Life Hacks to make your life easier!

Here’s a video of Prince playing an epic guitar solo during a performance of While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Posting for reasons of “I don’t have to have a reason, it’s Prince.”

• Feel Good Read of the Week: 6 True Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
• The redemption of Michael K Williams
• David Fincher: A Film Title Retrospective
• New study says music is way more depressing now
• Why Do So Many Pretty Female Comedians Pretend They’re Ugly?
• 579 – A 1939 Map of Physics
• Arctic sea ice coverage plunges to record low
• Our image of Africa is hopelessly obsolete
• What Do Swedes Think of the Swedish Chef?
• Ask A Writer: “How Do I Write What The Audience Wants To Read?”
• Images examples of how a colour-blind person sees the world (and the genius of Van Gogh)
• Couple Faces $4,000 Fine for High-Decibel Sex
• Naked People Saluting Prince Harry: The Definitive Gallery
• Make it so: How three guys got most of the Enterprise-D bridge
• Video: Insane Clown Posse Watch “Call Me Maybe”
• Interesting: 10 weird wikis
• Gallery: Inside a Creepy Abandoned Russian Sub

Hooking up an ipod to a squid’s nervous system, scientists observed and recorded the microscopic effects of Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Membrane on the cephalopod’s pigmentation cells. The results are pretty damn funky.

More details can be found here: https://news.backyardbrains.com/2012/08/insane-in-the-chromatophores/ and an explanation of how it works can be found on our TED talk: https://on.ted.com/Gage

Amphipod: zoomed in from 1 milimeter to 500 nanometers

• New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000 AD
• Stanford biologist and computer scientist discover the ‘anternet’
• Semen: Nature’s antidepressant?
• Simple animations to explain complex principles
• A gallery visualizing the properties of turbulence
• Big Think: The Neuroscience of Creativity and Insight
• The most likely to order late night take out? Art students.
• English language ‘originated in Turkey’
• Millennials: The Cheapest Generation
• Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimer’s patients in Germany
• Surviving a Death Sentence: 27 Years With HIV
• A Different Justice: Why Anders Breivik Only Got 21 Years for Killing 77 People
• A couple I disagree with, but the accusations I can’t deny: The 20 Worst Hipster Bands
• Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea’s Music Video Sensation

Lastly, another asshole cat…

Moment Factory conceived and created a “pixels rain” for the closing show of Osheaga 2012 with The Black Keys. While the band was performing “Everlasting Light”, hundreds of pixels flew over the crowd. An operation produced in collaboration with Air France.

• 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