Thursday, December 18, 2014

Don't Look Back In Anger

2014: The Year In Digg, Worrying About Stuff Is A Sign Of Intelligence, Still Looking For The Perfect Gift?, If You Cloned A Mammoth..., U.S. Links North Korea To Hacking, How Fast Are The TIE Fighters In 'Star Wars VII'?
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Thursday, December 18, 2014
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YEARS WE DIGG
2014: The Year In Digg
digg.com
It's been a wild one.
IF YOU'RE REALLY SMART, YOU'D CHILL OUT
Worrying About Stuff Is A Sign Of Intelligence
nymag.com
The tendency to worry about stuff could be a sign of a certain kind of intelligence.
STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED
Still Looking For The Perfect Gift?
oysterbooks.com
So you left holiday shopping until the last minute. No biggie. With Oyster, you're giving the gift of more than half a million books. And you don't even have to brave the mall crowds to give it.
IT WOULDN'T BE A GLOBAL WARMING FAN
If You Cloned A Mammoth...
daily.jstor.org
If a complete mammoth genome can be isolated from the well-preserved mammoth carcass discovered in Siberia last year, cloning is certainly possible, because the technology exists.
HUH, GUESS IT WAS THEM ALL THIS TIME?
U.S. Links North Korea To Hacking
nytimes.com
American intelligence officials have concluded that the North Korean government was "centrally involved" in the recent attacks on Sony Pictures's computers, a determination reached just as Sony on Wednesday canceled its release of the comedy, which is based on a plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader.
MAYBE WE CAN LOSE THEM IN AN ASTEROID FIELD
How Fast Are The TIE Fighters In 'Star Wars VII'?
wired.com
Will there be TIE Fighters in "Star Wars VII"? According to the trailer, yes. Now for the real questions: how fast are these TIE Fighters and how fast are their blaster bolts? Time for some video analysis using Tracker Video Analysis.
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KILL BILL
Image: A poster for the movie
A poster for the movie "The Interview" is taken down by a worker after being pulled from a display case at a Carmike Cinemas movie theater, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, in Atlanta. Georgia-based Carmike Cinemas has decided to cancel its planned showings of "The Interview" in the wake of threats against theatergoers by the Sony hackers. Credit: AP Photo/David Goldman
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