Wearing EnChroma’s Color Blindness-Fixing Glasses For One Month

"Life in Technicolor: One month wearing EnChroma's color blindness-fixing glasses"

New Blue

"Licensing agreement reached on brilliant new blue pigment discovered by happy accident".

Story from last year, but I hadn't heard of this until now. (Via Virginia Postrel and H.R.)

Dino Killer Update

"We Finally Know How Much the Dino-Killing Asteroid Reshaped Earth"

Milky Way Map

"Marvel at the Newest Map of the Milky Way"

(Update: Link was broken, now fixed!)

Classic Video Games Playable Via Web Browser

"13 classic video games you can play right now in your web browser"

Internet And Elections

"How the Internet flips elections and alters our thoughts".

If the internet can alter consumer shopping preferences, it's at least plausible that it could alter voter election results.

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016

MIT Technology Review: "10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016"

Google Image Locator

"Google Unveils Neural Network with 'Superhuman' Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image"

The Setup Wizard

The Setup Wizard: "Daily Accounts of a Muggle IT Guy working at Hogwarts"

Lord Of The Rings Music

"Lord Of The Rings: How Music Elevates Story". Great discussion of leitmotif.

DIY Diabetes Update

NYT: "A Do-It-Yourself Revolution in Diabetes Care"

Dark Spider

"The Spider That Crawls the Dark Web Looking for Stolen Data"

The World's Worst Airline

A review of Air Koryo, "the world's worst airline".

Quants 2.0

NYT: "A New Breed of Trader on Wall Street: Coders With a PhD"

Fancy MIrror

"NHTSA Just Approved GM's Fancy New Rear-View Camera Mirror". (Via H.R.)

More Space Filling Curves

"Fractal charm: Space filling curves"



And his earlier video on space filling curves:

Sarah Parcak, Space Archaeologist

Wired: "Sarah Parcak Is a Space Archaeologist. Soon You Will Be Too." (Via B.E.)

The Artificial Universe That Creates Itself

"Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself"

Stethoscopes

"Why Are Stethoscopes Still a Thing?"

Single Time Zone

Washington Post: "The radical plan to destroy time zones". (Via Tyler Cowen.)