2014-05-17

Pathing.

• Max Nisen: "The US lawyer bubble has conclusively popped."
• Quora: "Why did Quora join the 2014 Y Combinator batch?"
• NYTimes: "Valuable Humans in Our Digital Future." Be a people person.

Manufacturing.

• TechCrunch: "A Tour Through Autodesk's Pier 9 Workshop."
• TheFabricator: "Abrasive waterjets move into 3-D shapes, including pipe intersections." This is a couple years old but 5-axis waterjets are really cool.
• Graphenea: "Movies of graphene nanopore opening." Graphene's filtering applications are awesome.
• US Naval Research Lab: "NRL Scientists Push and Pull Droplets with Graphene."
• KurzweilAI: "Transistors that wrap around tissues and morph with them." Implantables.
• IEEE Spectrum: "Vattenfall Ditches Carbon Capture and Storage Research." Possible sign that the future of green energy is in renewables/distributed power - not coal+CCS.

Logistics.

• Gigaom: "Boom! Google integrates Chrome apps into the Mac OS X Finder."
• IEEE Spectrum: "Panasonic Revives Hospital Delivery Robot."
• IEEE Spectrum: "Space Hackers Prepare to Reboot 35-Year-Old Spacecraft."

Reflecting.

• BI: "The Untold Story of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback." Long + awesome.
• Motherboard/Vice: "The Multisensory Psychology of Wine Tasting." How color & sound influence the way we perceive flavor.
• de zeen: "3D printers have a lot to learn from the sewing machine." This is pretty smart.

Stuff that doesn't fit into my dumb/arbitrary categories.

• New Republic: "The Secret Messages Inside Chinese URLs."
• Orion: "Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus." This is great.
• NYTimes: "Mirror, Mirror in the App: What's the Fairest Shade and Shadow of Them All?" L'Oreal's makeup demo app.
• Scientific American: "The Flavor Connection [Interactive]." Very cool.

And.