Pathing.
- Max Nisen: "The US lawyer bubble has conclusively popped."
- Quora: "Why did Quora join the 2014 Y Combinator batch?"
- NYTimes: "Valuable Humans in Our Digital Future." Be a people person.
Manufacturing.
- TechCrunch: "A Tour Through Autodesk's Pier 9 Workshop."
- TheFabricator: "Abrasive waterjets move into 3-D shapes, including pipe intersections." This is a couple years old but 5-axis waterjets are really cool.
- Graphenea: "Movies of graphene nanopore opening." Graphene's filtering applications are awesome.
- US Naval Research Lab: "NRL Scientists Push and Pull Droplets with Graphene."
- KurzweilAI: "Transistors that wrap around tissues and morph with them." Implantables.
- IEEE Spectrum: "Vattenfall Ditches Carbon Capture and Storage Research." Possible sign that the future of green energy is in renewables/distributed power - not coal+CCS.
Logistics.
- Gigaom: "Boom! Google integrates Chrome apps into the Mac OS X Finder."
- IEEE Spectrum: "Panasonic Revives Hospital Delivery Robot."
- IEEE Spectrum: "Space Hackers Prepare to Reboot 35-Year-Old Spacecraft."
Reflecting.
- BI: "The Untold Story of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback." Long + awesome.
- Motherboard/Vice: "The Multisensory Psychology of Wine Tasting." How color & sound influence the way we perceive flavor.
- de zeen: "3D printers have a lot to learn from the sewing machine." This is pretty smart.
Stuff that doesn't fit into my dumb/arbitrary categories.
- New Republic: "The Secret Messages Inside Chinese URLs."
- Orion: "Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus." This is great.
- NYTimes: "Mirror, Mirror in the App: What's the Fairest Shade and Shadow of Them All?" L'Oreal's makeup demo app.
- Scientific American: "The Flavor Connection [Interactive]." Very cool.
And.
Love, Spencer.
ps - Thank you to everyone - especially my friends at Gin Lane, Undercurrent, and on twitter - who referred me to everything here.
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