Top 11 Documentaries Streaming On Netflix Now That Could Change Your Life – WAKING SCIENCE
Netflix has become increasingly popular over the last few years and for good reason; viewers have the choice to watch what they want, when they want it, all without being bombarded with endless, mind-numbing advertisements.
Red flag: Oil company defaults are spiking January 22
Energy companies borrowed a lot of money when oil was worth over $100 a barrel. The returns seemed almost guaranteed if they could get the oil out of the ground. But now oil is barely trading just above $30 a barrel and a growing number of companies can’t pay back their debts.
X-Files’ Creator Tells Us What to Expect From the Show’s Return | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/x-files-chris-carter/
X-FILES’ CREATOR TELLS US WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE SHOW’S RETURN
IN 1993, CHRIS Carter promised conspiracy-minded television audiences that the truth was out there. In the near-quarter-century since then, scientists have uncovered evidence that there’swater on Mars, grown a flower in space, and once again decided that there’s a Planet Nine
A group of mysterious humans left these tools in Indonesia over 118,000 years ago | Ars Technica
Possibly related to the Homo floresiensis “Hobbits,” they likely got to Indonesia before Homo sapiens.
Source: A group of mysterious humans left these tools in Indonesia over 118,000 years ago | Ars Technica
Tesla Model S Can Now Drive Without You | TechCrunch
Today, it released version 7.1 of its software for the Model S and X that includes a “Summon” feature that enables the car to drive itself without anyone inside.
http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/09/tesla-model-s-can-now-drive-without-you/#.x0dhpm:zel6
How a Nation of Tech Copycats Transformed Into a Hub for Innovation | WIRED
China, once known more for manufacturing stuff for the rest of the world and copying everyone else’s IP, is becoming a hotbed of innovation.
Source: How a Nation of Tech Copycats Transformed Into a Hub for Innovation | WIRED
How the Internet changed the way we read
In the great epistemic galaxy of words, we have become both reading junkies and also professional text skimmers. Reading has become a clumsy science, which is why we keep fudging the lab results. But in diagnosing our own textual attention deficit disorder (ADD), who can blame us for skimming? We’re inundated by so much opinion posing as information, much of it the same material with permutating and exponential commentary. Skimming is practically a defense mechanism against the avalanche of info-opinion that has collectively hijacked narrative, reportage, and good analysis.
