- Everybody go right now and support the effort to make a LEGO kit of the HMS Beagle. (But why does the creator’s Flickr photo set include a Jemmy Button figure, but not the official LEGO Ideas site?)
- In related news, the evolutionary success of smallness, and Rebecca Higgitt argues that Newton’s Principia is more influential than Darwin’s Origin. Fight!
- In praise of virtual classes: “Human brains have evolved with a flitting, fleeting ability to maintain focus on any one thing.”
- This article from Nautilus has won the AAAS’s Kavli Award for Science Journalism.
- The graph isomorphism problem is no longer a problem.
- “When there are incidents, trains are located by deduction.” That and other devastating lines can be found in this fantastic Atlantic investigation of the challenges of the large technological system/gigantic computer more commonly known as the New York subway.
- CRISPR and the dream of genetic manipulation, version 3.
- Former American Science blogger Lee Vinsel’s 95 theses on innovation.
- Astronomers have found a dwarf planet in the Solar system, more than 100 AUs away.
- And the many historical uses of beards.
Links for Monday, November 16, 2015
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