Mosha, the Asian elephant, received the first prosthetic limb made especially for her species.

Machines are natural psychopaths.

“Some 21st-century philosophers” about robots, ethics and artificial intelligence.

Rise and fall or fall and rise…?

The rise and fall of Europe, in maps (via reddit.com).

Kung Fu Motion Visualization.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: How Taking Photos Increases Enjoyment of Experiences (PDF). Via t3n.de.

Diehl, K., Zauberman, G., & Barasch, A. (2016, June 6). How Taking Photos Increases Enjoyment of Experiences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. dx.doi.org

ViziCities lets you see cities in completely new ways, unlocking the data hidden within them (via github.com).

Big data is people!

Why big data is actually small, personal and very human.

“The sum of our clickstreams is not an objective measure of who we are, but a personal portrait of our hopes and desires.”

“When many lower-income Americans feel isolated and empty, they yearn for physical social networks. All across US, this happens organically at McDonald’s.”

Words, evolving like the music of the Romanian fanfare.

How philosophy came to disdain the wisdom of oral cultures.

“(…) imagine how differently language would have been experienced in a culture of ‘primary orality’. There would be nowhere to ‘look up a word’, no authoritative source telling us the shape the word ‘actually’ takes.”

How lobsters use their 12 ‘noses’ to woo mates, find food and win fights.