Beautifully captured stop-motion
origami.
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How social networks make
it tough to see ourselves as part of a larger group, like say, a class.
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A NASA project that studies surface-level ocean currents is
like Van
Gogh’s Starry Night come to life.
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Why thinking green could actually be bad for
the earth.
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What 2050 may really
look like (minus the flying cars).
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Backronyms and downright falsehoods: debunking linguistic
urban legends.
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The specifics on our brave
new digital world.
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What house mice can tell us about where
the Vikings have been.
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New research on the other
carbon-dioxide problem.
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How the heat wave in the Midwest
crashed
NOAA’s climate software.
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David Foster Wallace wants you to turn
the music down.
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A new app lets Facebook users “enemy”
instead of “friend.” The app, developed by a University of Texas researcher, is called EnemyGraph, and purports to encourage a more accurate reflection of our social lives than the “friending” and “liking” can.
Image by Andreas Bauer, licensed under Creative Commons.
