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Alogrithm X

from BBC Algorithms Are Making Us Small-minded Your life is mapped out for you but, not in the way that you think. How predictive algorithms narrow your perspective – and ultimately your choices. By Sydney Finkelstein Online retailers like Amazon offer us products based on our previous browsing habits – but that can add to […]

Henry Heimlich Gone

from The LA Times Henry Heimlich, doctor who invented lifesaving anti-choking procedure, dies at 96 by Steve Chawkins When he was a 21-year-old camp counselor, Henry Heimlich saved a life and had his first brush with fame. On the way back to New York City from Massachusetts at summer’s end, his quick thinking in a train […]

Rock Beyoncé, Amadeus

from Atlas Obscura Mozart Has Sold More CDs in 2016 Than Beyoncé By Eric Grundhauser Jealous? JOHANN NEPOMUK DELLA CROCE/PUBLIC DOMAIN The artist who sold the most CDs in 2016 hasn’t toured in over 200 years, but is still more famous than Drake. According to a report on Billboard, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a massive comeback this year with […]

Rock, Paper, Holy Shit!

from Kotaku Japan’s Most Intense Rock, Paper, Scissors Competition by Brian Ashcraft [GIF via Nippon Channel] Leave it to Japan to make a friendly game of rock-paper-scissors into an event, complete with cosplay, cheering, and crying. Since 2010, members of idol group AKB48 and its sister groups have duked it out in paper-rock-scissors competitions or “janken taikai” […]

Hidden City @ The South Pole

from The Sun Shock claims massive ancient civilisation lies frozen beneath mile of Antarctic ice – and could even be Atlantis Conspiracy theorists believe that there is a secret city which has frozen over – and it could even be the Lost City of Atlantis BY JENNIFER HALE An artist’s view of what an ancient […]

Oldie But Goodie

National Asteroid Day decreed by QUEEN

from PASTE Thanks to Queen’s Brian May, We Now Have “International Asteroid Day” By Monica Hunter-Hart The fact that an asteroid could easily and suddenly obliterate Earth is something people usually try not to think about. But Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May would caution against blissful disregard; thanks to him and three co-founders, the U.N. Committee On […]

The Miracle Of The Can

They’re Talking To Us

from The Independent Strange messages coming from the stars are ‘probably’ from aliens, scientists say by Andrew Griffin ‘It is too early to unequivocally attribute these purported signals to the activities of extraterrestrial civilizations,’ a group of scientists looking for aliens have warned – but the signals are encouraging Scientists have heard hugely unusual messages from […]

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