Dog ownership, like cocaine use, can be seen as an economic indicator, says the The Pooch Index. (India ranks in the bottom 5, but I’m guessing if they did a survey of stray dogs, that position would reverse pretty quickly!)
Brain Surgery [Video]
No, but it’s close. How do you cut a bagel (or a donut) into two intertwining, interlocked bagel parts, unbroken, one twisting through the other (also known as a Mobius bagel)?. Here’s the computerised version, but watch this kid doing it in 15 minutes in class! (he’s going to be a brain surgeon, surely!)
Why Education? [Video]
He’s probably one of the most important contemporary philosophers. Noam Chomsky spells out the purpose of education in this video
Credit Card with personality?
As if plastic money isn’t addictive enough for a whole generation who’ve never seen cash, MasterCard issues a new credit card with its own LCD Screen.
Sacrilege! [News]
Just saying, now that the Pope has decided to join Twitter.
Citizenship Beyond the Election
Thoughts from the CTO of the US govt… http://codeforamerica.org/2012/11/07/citizenship-beyond-the-election/
The belly button [article]
Ever wondered what that stuff in your belly button is?
On the Occasion of My Belly Button Entering the Scientific Literature
Lover of the light [Video]
Cartoon equivalents on Twitter
Herring Farts & Diplomacy
Science doesn’t have to be dull to be important. Magnus Wahlberg at TEDx Goteborg. Magnus is the Scandinavian chief of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research, which awards the Ig Nobel Prize (an alternative Nobel Prize that honors achievements that first make people laugh, & then think)