Monday, August 29, 2011

Daily Links: August 29, 2011


Above: "Steve Jobs for Fortune magazine" by Deanna Lowe of Tsevis Visual Design for Fortune magazine.


10 Species You Can Kiss Goodbye

Before it was a website, Ask A Mathematician / Ask A Physicist was two guys sitting in the desert at Burning Man, presuming to answer (almost) any question that happened to occur to whomever happened to appear at our stand.

The Daily Beast takes a look at the Irene Survival Kits people put together.

The influential American fiction magazine, Weird Tales has a new editor, and a new direction. It's hard to overstate the importance the magazine has played as a platform for genre fiction. Founded in 1923, it has featured authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, C. M. Eddy, Jr., Clark Ashton Smith, and Seabury Quinn. Official link and statement from departing editor Ann Vandermeer.

Living to 100 and Beyond: Scientists are on the brink of radically expanding the span of a healthy life. Author Sonia Arrison on the latest advances—and what they mean for human existence. People are actually thinking about immortality these days. Or at least living a long, long time. (There's a jellyfish that's already made it.) Aubrey de Grey says we can avoid aging. In fact, he believes that the first person who will live to be a thousand years old may already have been born.

A self-styled "ninja" is patrolling the streets of Yeovil in a bid to make the town a safer place. 'Martial arts expert and father-of-two Ken Andre, 33, also known as Shadow, has been monitoring the streets of the Somerset town for the past six years.'

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