I'm sure this will help us cope with Global Warming...

I'm sure this will help us cope with Global Warming...

Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette

This protein may be the key to slow-melting ice cream http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/08/31/this-protein-may-be-the-key-to-slow-melting-ice-cream/ 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/08/31/this-protein-may-be-the-key-to-slow-melting-ice-cream

I wonder how the plaintiff could have proved that his phone records were collected.

I wonder how the plaintiff could have proved that his phone records were collected.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/dc-circuit-overturns-ruling-against-nsa-bulk-collection-program/2015/08/28/d91c1876-4d92-11e5-84df-923b3ef1a64b_story.html

What could possibly go wrong?

What could possibly go wrong?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/26/first-state-legalizes-armed-drones-for-cops-thanks-to-a-lobbyist.html

A court just made it easier for the government to sue companies for getting hacked

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/08/24/a-court-just-made-it-easier-for-the-government-to-sue-companies-for-getting-hacked/

And now people are going to enter other people's names and e-mail addresses into some random website?

And now people are going to enter other people's names and e-mail addresses into some random website? How's that a good idea? Is someone, next, going to make a site that tells you whether someone suspected you might have been in the #AshMad  database?
http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/19/technology/ashley-madison-search/index.html

Should I open this? Hmm... I think not.

Should I open this? Hmm... I think not.

Oooh!

Oooh!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1041610927/znaps-the-9-magnetic-adapter-for-your-mobile-devic

An interesting take on web evolution.

An interesting take on web evolution. I remember an early complaint about Google+ was that you couldn't link multiple photos and/or websites in the text to create more of a blog-type article rather than just commentary on a single photo or article (like I just did).

Do you perceive the loss he's describing? I think things have definitely been streamlined, possibly as a way to handle the explosion of content. 

Originally shared by Abraham Williams

Well now. That's a depressing (but important) read.
https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426

Pretty but I'm dubious.

Pretty but I'm dubious. 

At one angle just after it takes off it looks like a Romulan Bird of Prey.

Originally shared by Dave Martinez

i will take two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHJTZ7k0BXU&feature=share

I don't often share press articles about our products – they rarely seem to say much of use – but this was just such...

Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger

I don't often share press articles about our products – they rarely seem to say much of use – but this was just such a good case of a journalist Getting It Right that I had to share. Google+ is very much alive, and our recent changes are focused on making it be the best product it can be for what it's best at: helping people meet people and have great conversations about things they're passionate about. 

One particularly noteworthy thing in this article is its discussion of the "majority illusion:" people tend to assume that their friends are typical of the wider world, but almost by definition they aren't – for one thing, they all have one uncommon attribute in common, which is being your friend in the first place. And since people don't choose their friends randomly from the entire spectrum of humanity, one's friends are always a distorted sample. 

So yes, we have here a tech press article which (correctly) uses an important result in cognitive psychology to explain why lots of tech press articles are nonsense.
http://www.eweek.com/cloud/google-is-alive-and-well-despite-persistent-media-reports.html

Better to say that this particular GM wheat experiment is a failure.

Better to say that this particular GM wheat experiment is a failure.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33262885