New Zealand Rocket Launches

"Behind the scenes at Earth's most beautiful rocket launch site". (Via H.R.)

Hating Your Own Voice

"The Real Reason the Sound of Your Own Voice Makes You Cringe"

Night Vision Update

"Nanoparticles Will Give You Superhuman Night Vision".

I'm totally fine with others being the early adopters on this procedure.  (Via H.R.)

Robotic Tail For Elderly

"Japanese researchers build robotic tail to keep elderly upright". (Via H.R.)

Light Posting Notice

Admin note: Posting may be very light(or non-existent) for the next two weeks, due to external obligations.

Doomsday Returns

"The New Nuclear Arms Race -- and How Washington and Moscow Can Stop It"

Reliability Of Intuitions?

"Can We Rely on Our Intuition?"

Quantum Internet Update

"A super-secure quantum internet just took another step closer to reality":

Now physicists at the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of Vienna in Austria have found a way to ship even more data using something called quantum trits, or qutrits...

Conventional bits used to encode everything from financial records to YouTube videos are streams of electrical or photonic pulses than can represent either a 1 or a 0. Qubits, which are typically electrons or photons, can carry more information because they can be polarized in two directions at once, so they can represent both a 1 and a 0 at the same time. Qutrits, which can be polarized in three different dimensions simultaneously, can carry even more information. In theory, this can then be transmitted using quantum teleportation.

Stolen Fingerprints

"What Can a Hacker Do With Your Stolen Fingerprints?"

Similar Suburbs

Video: "Why so many suburbs look the same"

First Space Crime?

"NASA investigating possible first allegation of criminal wrongdoing in space".

Related story from New York Times: "How a Bitter Divorce Battle on Earth Led to Claims of a Crime in Space".

Police And Photoshop

Police use Photoshop to make a suspect more closely resemble the perpetrator caught on video, to "help" witnesses make a positive identification. US Attorney calls this "prudent" and "appropriate".

As one of my lawyer friends says, "So what evidence does that earn the government? An eyewitness identification of a manipulated photograph. Otherwise known as defense attorney manna from heaven."

Medical Innovation

"This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself."

Elvish Immortality

"Tolkien's Elves: How the Eldar Half Lives (and Lives, and Lives, and Lives)"

Hungry Black Hole

"Astronomers Spy a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron Star"

Silent Book Club

"A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts A Space To Socialize"

The Walkman And Headphone Culture

WSJ: "How Sony's Walkman Created Headphone Culture"

Quiz: Horror Film Or Grad School?

"Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your Ph.D. Program?"

Russian Message

"Alaska man discovers message in bottle from Russian Navy"

All Carbon Rings

"Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon"