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Scientists create contact lenses that zoom when you blink twice - CNET

It is absolutely the stuff of science fiction: a contact lens that zooms on your command. But scientists at the University of California San Diego have gone ahead and made it a reality. They've created a contact lens, controlled by eye movements, that can zoom in if you blink twice. Scientists create contact lenses that zoom when you blink twice - CNET

Story time: the five children’s books every adult should read | Books | The

I have been writing children’s fiction for more than 10 years now, and still I would hesitate to define it; it is a slippery, various, quicksilver thing. But I do know, with more certainty than I usually feel about anything, what it is not: it is not exclusively for children. Story time: the five children’s books every adult should read | Books | The

Yes, the moon has it's own Catholic Bishop

An obscure law from 1917 places the moon under the purview of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida. The Diocese of Orlando, Florida, covers much of the greater central Florida area. It encompasses nine counties, hundreds of cities, nearly 401,000 Catholic residents, and, strangely enough, the moon. Yes, the moon has it's own Catholic Bishop

10 Bad Habits of Unsuccessful People - Forge

Darius ForouxJul 9 · 5 min readhe first successful person I ever met — truly successful, with accomplishments I admired and ambition I strove to emulate — was an entrepreneur in his forties, a client of mine in the first real business I’d ever started. 10 Bad Habits of Unsuccessful People - Forge

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Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it w

PARIS — The security employee monitoring the smoke alarm panel at Notre-Dame cathedral was just three days on the job when the red warning light flashed on the evening of April 15: “Feu.” Fire. It was 6:18 on a Monday, the week before Easter. The Rev. Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it w

Apollo 11: Eleven things you never knew about NASA's landmark moon mission

Some of the most intriguing details from the Apollo 11 saga remain largely unknown or poorly understood. Fifty years ago next week, 600 million people around the world watched on live television as Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took those historic first footsteps on the moon. Apollo 11: Eleven things you never knew about NASA's landmark moon mission

Humans May Be Accidentally Geoengineering the Oceans - Scientific American

As the saying goes, what goes up must come down—and, as it turns out, a lot of what goes up comes down into the world’s oceans. Iron particles, released by human industrial activities, are one example of a pollutant that goes into the atmosphere and eventually settles into the sea. Humans May Be Accidentally Geoengineering the Oceans - Scientific American

Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languag

In 1886, the British archaeologist Arthur Evans came across an ancient stone bearing a curious set of inscriptions in an unknown language. The stone came from the Mediterranean island of Crete, and Evans immediately traveled there to hunt for more evidence. Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languag

The women who win hundreds of sweepstakes per year

Click here to win a free trip to Iceland! … Enter to win a 2019 Ford F-150! … Share a photo on Twitter and win a lifetime supply of Hershey’s Kisses! Spend enough time online, and you’ll come across some kind of contest or sweepstakes offering you a chance to win a prize. The women who win hundreds of sweepstakes per year

The bizarre, tragic Disney history of Goofy’s wife and family - Polygon

Some things are so tragic that they take time to process and recover from before we can discuss what happened, even with family and friends. Time might be able to heal all wounds, but there’s no schedule that shows exactly how long it might take. I respect that. The bizarre, tragic Disney history of Goofy’s wife and family - Polygon

Behold, the most (intentionally) poorly designed website ever created | Ars

Sometimes we take Web and user interface design for granted—that's the point of User Inyerface, a hilariously and deliberately difficult-to-use website created to show just how much we rely on past habits and design conventions to interact with the Web and our digital devices. Behold, the most (intentionally) poorly designed website ever created | Ars

Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending – Columbus’ Egg – Medium

“Agile is dead.” People keep saying that. But then they say, “We’re just kidding.” They tell you they meant the way you do Agile is dead. And stupid. But “real” Agile isn’t dead. It’s just that everyone does Agile wrong. So I guess real Agile is, you know, Agile in theory. Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending – Columbus’ Egg – Medium

How a trivial cell phone hack is ruining lives

On a Tuesday night in May, Sean Coonce was reading the news in bed when his phone dropped service. He chalked it up to tech being tech and went to sleep. When he woke up, his Gmail account had been stolen and by Wednesday evening he was out $100,000. How a trivial cell phone hack is ruining lives