Nothing Is Real, Except The Weekend

Quick, look at your hands: Are they real? Yeah, sorry, they are. But then look at what's surely in one of them: Your phone. Is anything in THERE real? Who the hell knows?

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MOTHERBOARD + DIGG Nothing Is Real: A Note From This Weekend's Guest Editor, Motherboard's Derek Mead digg.com Quick, look at your hands: Are they real? Yeah, sorry, they are. But then look at what's surely in one of them: Your phone. Is anything in THERE real? Who the hell knows? A HIGHER PLANE OF EXISTENCE FROZEN IN TIME ​The Girl Who Would Live Forever motherboard.vice.com As a toddler, Matheryn Naovaratpong became the youngest person to be cryogenically frozen and preserved for future revival. IS EVOLUTION EVEN REAL? The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality quantamagazine.org The cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman uses evolutionary game theory to show that our perceptions of an independent reality must be illusions. IS THIS SOME KIND OF SICK JOKE? How Many Times Have I Died motherboard.vice.com After the robots gain consciousness, but before they gain independence, what would they think of us? SMILES WE DIGG | SPONSORED There's Never Been An Easier Way To Get Better Teeth smiledirectclub.com If you're thinking about braces but don't want to spend a fortune, SmileDirectClub's got you. Their aligners are invisible, affordable and shipped straight to your door. Everything's assessed online, so you don't even need to visit the orthodontist. WHAT IS THIS PLACE? WE BELIEVE IN NOTHING Null Island: The Busiest Place That Doesn't Exist digg.com Nothing really exists at 0°N 0°E, but "Null Island" is still used in mapping systems to help catch errors. ALIENS AMONG US WATCH: In 'Alive In Joburg', We're Not Afraid Of Aliens, We're Afraid Of Ourselves digg.com Neill Blomkamp ("District 9") shot this alien flick by interviewing real people about human refugees. OF TWO MINDS JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL Are We In Control Of Our Brains? Probably Not motherboard.vice.com The best adage about the internet is also an old one: If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. TAKE THE RED PILL, OR TAKE THE BLUE PILL One Nation Divisible bloomberg.com "The picture we pieced together shows just how divided we've become — and helps explain why." TRUST ISSUES WHY TRUST THIS? How Technology Disrupted The Truth theguardian.com Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. EVERYDAY LIFE IS PUZZLING ENOUGH 'Myst' And The Truth Of Objects killscreen.com "To insist on evaluating [video games'] aesthetic worth by the criteria applied to other arts is to devalue what makes games, for all their diversity, singular." VIDEO OF THE DAY ALL TOO REAL This Vision Of Hyper-Reality Is An Instant Panic Attack digg.com It's not too hard to envision a future where augmented reality and virtual reality flow into real life until it's hard to tell which is which. Check out more of Motherboard's picks on Digg.com. Here's to a panic-free weekend. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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