2014-07-18

Pathing.

• LeBron James on why he's returning to Cleveland.
• Reid Hoffman says that companies should be honest with their employees about how long they'll stick around.
• A very good list of things to live your life & career by.
• The guy behind Woot is really interesting.

Building.

• The internet of contraception? (As a guy, all I can say here is "this sounds cool.")
• The competition for the world's blackest (i.e. most light-absorbing) material is rather interesting.
• Inside NASA's food lab.
• Boeing and Lotus developed a cool way of printing carbon fiber reinforced F1 parts.

Logistics.

• Nicola Twilley on the difficulties of hulling rice in small batches.
• Inside FedEx's Memphis sorting facility and Package Lab, where engineers destructively test packages.
• Safaricom is opening up M-Pesa's agent agreements.
• An informal study on the rates at which women and men interrupt one another.
• Some genius put an arduino + video camera inside a package and sent it in the mail. The footage (of the logistical guts of the USPS) is really interesting.
• Crime rates in Denver have fallen dramatically since Colorado legalized pot.

Reflecting.

• How Arup became the go-to engineering firm for the coolest projects.
• What happens when your joke goes viral on Twitter.
• The many ways that our bathrooms are really shitty. ;)
• What the design aesthetics of startup offices say about the future of work.
• A long article on the depths of the internet.
• Great photos of Apollo 11 being built.

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

• Self-serve beer is now available at Twins games.
• Crazy Russian concept vehicles.
• The health effects of vitamins are highly disputed.
• The new font that Google's developing (and that font geeks sniffled at all week)
• An underappreciated, classic tumblr: What Ali Wore.
• Cool photos of porcelain figurines kind of coming alive as they're being smashed.

And.

Using animals to 3D print (ish) stuff.