Pathing.

• Why there are so many wallets on Kickstarter.
• One NASA team wants to send a submarine to explore the oceans of Titan, while another is apparently serious about building a Star Trek style warp drive.
• An excellent, old Paul Graham essay on being an outsider.
• Tesla is open sourcing (ish?) their patents.
• Apple buying Beats + encouraging headphones to use Lightning connectors = An interesting shift.
• How Seattle's new minimum wage could spur automation of low-wage jobs.

Building.

• Bill Gates reviews a book on building materials.
• Arup, 3DSystems, and Within Labs are working on DMLS building components.
• A great profile of Xiaomi, the Chinese handset manufacturer.
• Factorli is working to help startups prototype and manufacture medium-size hardware runs.
• Ford is teaming with Heinz to find automotive uses for tomato scraps.
• "Bipedal Humanoid Robot That Makes Humans Laugh With Use of the Method of Comedy and Affects Their Psychological State Actively."
• A 3D printer is going to the ISS this summer.
• Travertine is a form of limestone deposited by mineral springs.

Logistics.

• Xerox's transportation logistics business is really interesting.
• An interview with the head of freight rail operations at the NYCEDC.
• Amazon is apparently planning a local services marketplace.
• The University of Michigan is building an urban test course for autonomous cars.
• iOS8 will scramble users' MAC addresses for privacy.

Reflecting.

• Doctors on Quora on how revolutionary HealthKit could be.
• A very fun review of the 1984 Mercedes Benz 300TD wagon.
• On LeBron's leg cramping and the pseudoscience of sports hydration.
• RAS Syndrome.
• Nate Silver compares Eric Cantor's loss to an earthquake.

Stuff that doesn't fit into my dumb/arbitrary categories.

• A computer called "Eugene" passed the Turing Test (haters gonna hate, but whatever - it's philosophy).
• Junto, Benjamin Franklin's mutual improvement club.
• John F. Simon's 1996 piece "Every Icon" generates every possible combination of 32x32 pixel icons.
• It's possible that not everyone saw the excellent NYer spoof on the NYTimes dialect quiz. That should change.
• FiveThirtyEight's is searching for America's best burrito.

And.

Arnell's "Breathtaking" is the most amazing brand study you've ever seen.