Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face — miles and miles of face — of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole.

1. The Story of a Suicide | New Yorker | A gay freshman at Rutgers, a spying roommate, and the trial that followed.
2. The Innocent Man | Texas Monthly | The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.
3. Cocaine Incorporated | New York Times Magazine | How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.
4. Fear of a Black President | The Atlantic | The false promise and double standard of integration in the Obama era.
5. The Chickens and the Bulls | Slate | The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”
6. American Vespers: The Ebbing of the Body Politic | Harper’s | “When I died, I died of many things: the failing systems; the weakening of age; the exhaustion of the long war against dying. Finally, I succumbed to the lack of ethics in a California hospital, killed by filth and neglect.”
7. Battleground America | New Yorker | The insanity of U.S. gun law.
8. Cigarettes and Alcohol: Andy Capp | PlanetSlade | “Reg Smythe was the greatest British newspaper strip cartoonist of the 20th Century—and second only to Peanuts’ Charles Schulz on a global scale. So why don’t we treat him that way?”
9. Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class | New York Times | How the U.S. lost out on iPhone work.
10. The Truck Stop Killer | GQ | As a 15-year runaway hitchhiker, the writer was nearly killed by a trucker. Twenty seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades.

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Källa: http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/02/27/science/100000002087758/finding-the-visible-in-the-invisible.html

A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a computer program that reveals colors and motions in video that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye.

“We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion”. Hoppas jag.

Geoff Mackley, Bradley Ambrose, Nathan Berg, after an epic struggle with the weather for 35 days, we became the first people ever to get this close to Marum Volcano’s famed lava lake on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. Coming within 30 metres of the lava lake down a watercourse, it was possible to stand the heat for only 6 seconds. With Fire Brigade breathing apparatus and heat proof proximity suit it was possible to stand on the very edge and view the incredible show for over 40 minutes.