Bark: An Intimate Look at the World’s Trees | Brain Pickings
French photographer Cedric Pollet travels the world to document the most beautiful tree barks in a project that is part stunning art photography, part implicit manifesto for biodiversity.
'Boarding school at an early age is child abuse' – video | Comment is free
George Monbiot still struggles with the emotional impact of being sent away at the age of eight. Why are upper-class parents getting away with what has become a form of acceptable cruelty?
"NFL 2015" — A Bad Lip Reading of The NFL - YouTube
"...and then you invented dirt lumps." More of what COULD have been said in the NFL.Like on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/badlipreadingFollow on Twitter!...
Lenovo installs adware on customer laptops and compromises ALL SSL. | Marc'
A pretty shocking thing came to light this evening – Lenovo is installing adware that uses a “man-in-the-middle” attack to break secure connections on affected laptops in order to…
Of robber Barons and Corvo antics | confused of calcutta
A few days ago someone sent me a link to Robert Reich’s piece in Slate, “America is headed full speed back to the 19th century (on the dangers of on-demand j…
Spot Classic is a four-legged robot designed for indoor and outdoor operation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. Spot Classic has a se...
Jake talks about some of the pruning saws available at Niwaki, from his favourite, the Bakula Hunter folding saw, up to the mighty Silky Genki Temagari and Katanaboy.
Rents in London are unaffordable. We can’t afford to live here. We are sharing bedrooms with strangers and commuting for four hours a day. We are spending over 75% of our salaries on rent. We are...
Dealing with people who exhibit passive-aggressive behavior is easily one of the most challenging aspects of our social lives. Here’s what you need to know about this annoying personality quirk and how you can handle people who express their hostility in indirect and backhanded ways.
I quit my job to set up a post-apocalyptic commune | Society | The Guardian
Dylan Evans was worried about the end of the world. So he sold his house and headed for the Scottish Highlands with his cat, Socrates, and a couple of yurts. What could possibly go wrong?
The mystery of the missing hen harriers | Patrick Barkham | Environment | T
The long read: Who has been killing one of England’s rarest birds? Patrick Barkham reports on the fierce conflict between game hunters and wildlife conservationists
Do the right thing, Wait to get fired | Brendan Sterne
I stumbled upon this bit of wisdom in Team Geek: A Software Developers Guide to Working Well with Others, and it resonated. It comes from Google engineer Chade-Meng Tan: Do the right thing, wait t…
Q&A: Amy O’Leary on eight years of navigating digital culture change at The
"In 2007, as digital people, we were expected to be 100 percent deferent to all traditional processes. We weren't to bother reporters or encourage them to operate differently at all, because what they were doing was the very core of our journalism."