http://www.cracked.com/article_20411_6-harmless-fads-that-caused-widespread-destruction.html/
It turns out some fads have poisoned thousands, started wars, and enslaved entire nations, all for the sake of some dumbass thing people wanted to ride, wear, or eat.
The average carbon dioxide reading surpassed 400 parts per million at the research facility atop the Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii […] The best available evidence suggests the amount of the gas in the air has not been this high for at least three million years […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/science/earth/carbon-dioxide-level-passes-long-feared-milestone.html
Via my good friend and fellow traveller Jaap van Till… every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn to code. Software is now in nearly everything around us, and many are needed to define and create it.
Even if you don’t (want to) create code yourself, a better understanding will help you get to what you want and need to do.
The Coalition’s broadband policy slogan states that they will “Complete the current NBN cheaper and faster.” This simply isn’t true.
See http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2013/02/21/3695094.htm for the full story.
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/23053.html
A pair of mathematicians — one from Indiana University and the other from Sichuan University in China — have proposed a unified theory of dark matter and dark energy that alters Einstein’s equations describing the fundamentals of gravity.
(thanks Andrew Chalmers for the original link)