The Atlantic definitely grabbed my attention with this headline. The article is all about how websites (and even vending machines) are using dynamic pricing to capture as much of the price/demand curve as possible. | learn more
UK-based Tokamak energy’s fusion reactor has reached plasma temperatures in its core for the first time. It’s on track to produce temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius by 2018, and its CEO “says to expect fusion energy ‘in years, not decades.’” | learn more
Professors from Princeton University and UW-Madison use the latest genetic evidence to clarify that racial divides as we know them are completely BS. “The genetic distance between East Asians and Europeans is shorter than the divergence between Hazda in north-central Tanzania to the Fulani shepherds of West Africa (who live in present-day Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Guinea). So much for Black, White, Asian, and Other.” | learn more
This interesting infographic gives you a glimpse into how much code is used in various technologies, including the F-35 Fighter jet, the Large Hadron Collider, and a modern car. | learn more
Cartography expert Justin O'Beirne created a fascinating post diving into the nuanced changes in Google and Apple maps over the past year. This is way more interesting than it sounds! Thanks to Alex S for the link. | learn more
“The development of a microprocessor is one of the riskiest, costliest, and most technically complex feats in business.” One of Intel’s chip factories can cost “at least $8.5 billion”. In May, the team from Bloomberg were lucky to receive one of the most extensive tours of the factory in years, and they wrote all about it. | learn more
Hipsters sometimes have impressive ideas. | learn more
Josh Worth put together this interesting website that gives you some serious perspective on our solar system. “If the moon were only 1 pixel…” | learn more
Mark Manson, the author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck, talks about his experience writing the book, including the diminishing returns and negative returns of spending extra hours per day on the endeavor. | learn more
The rice industry is mad at cauliflower. The recent market success of cauliflower rice has them freaking out, even asking the FDA to evaluate whether manufacturers should be allowed to use the word rice to describe the product. Oddly, they don’t feel the same way about rice milk. | learn more