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Why Your Brain Wants To Help One Child In Need — But Not Millions
NPR - Shankar Vedantam
Why do people sometimes give generously to a cause — and other times give nothing at all? That's a timely question, because humanitarian groups fighting the Ebola outbreak need donations from people in
Everyone is obsessed with the 'Serial' podcast
Mashable - Brian Koerber
Never has a podcast collected a loyal cult following in such a short amount of time like Serial. The nonfiction series, which unravels a story …
The Break-Off Effect
fastcoexist.com - About the author Sydney Brownstone is a Seattle-based former staff writer at Co.Exist. She lives in a Brooklyn apartment with windows that don’t quite open, and covers environment, health, and data More
At first they thought it was asthma. The fighter squadron’s 37-year-old commander suddenly started refusing to fly at high altitudes because of …
Undead and Loving It: How Did AMC’s Flagship Show Suddenly Get So Good?
grantland.com - By Andy Greenwald
I long felt that The Walking Dead punished its critics the same way its bedraggled heroes dispatched ravenous zombies: by stabbing them in the brain. …
6 Tips for Preparing a Paleo Thanksgiving
FOOD & WINE - Russ Crandall
Here, six tips that can help you create a Paleo-friendly Thanksgiving while making the meal decadent enough for your nonpracticing guests. Since the …
Minecraft players build working hard drives
CNET - by Nick Statt
Players of the pixelated building block game have taken its virtual simulation tools to an unprecedented level: building functioning hard drives that can read and write data.
Veteran Affairs Secretary: I Won't Resign
TIME - By Dan Kedmey
Embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki rejected calls for his resignation Tuesday, amid allegations that veteran care facilities had …
Networking
14 Emerging Digital Technologies That Will Change The World
Business Insider - Michell Zappa, Policy Horizons Canada
Policy Horizons Canada worked with futurist and data visualizer Michell Zappa of Envisioning to produce a report called MetaScan 3: Emerging Technologies and accompanying infographics. We are reproducing
Five out-there energy projects that are moving closer to reality
gigaom.com - by Katie Fehrenbacher
Some newer clean energy sources, like solar panels and wind turbines, are becoming mainstream industries, with low prices and established financing …
Scientists can trace your ancestors to within 30 miles using DNA
Engadget - Steve Dent
You might know where your forebears lived a few generations prior, but how about the exact village they came from -- 1,000 years ago? Thanks to DNA sequencing, it's now possible to find that out in many
New super-heavy Element 117 confirmed by scientists
Fox News
Atoms of a new super-heavy element the as-yet-unnamed element 117 have reportedly been created by scientists in Germany, moving it closer to being officially recognized as part of the standard periodic
A Groundbreaking Mini-Satellite Project May Be Doomed
The Atlantic - Adrienne LaFrance
A fleet of 104 quarter-sized satellites hit a deployment snag in space. The plan was to launch a cloud of tiny satellites into space, each one no bigger than a quarter, and scatter them like spare change
Scio Pocket Molecular Scanner Is a Google-like Device for Physical Objects
TIME - By Tim Bajarin
A couple weeks ago I had a fascinating video call with a gentleman named Dror Sharon, the CEO of a company called Consumer Physics. He showed me a …
Scientists uncover a secret of aging: Young blood helps restore elderly mice
Salon - Sarah Gray
A group of studies focused on properties of blood linked to rejuvenation, and human clinical trials are coming soon May 5, 2014 5:00pm (UTC) Three studies, two from Harvard and one from Stanford, track
Leading to the gigabit promised land?
CNET - by Blair Levin
commentary If the United States wants to be a leader in the 21st century information economy, we need to stop debating the past and start figuring out the future.