August 2016

Hours after discovery, asteroid swept by

http://earthsky.org

Global Warming Has Now Made the Northwest Passage a Thing

http://www.slate.com

The iBrain is here

https://backchannel.com

The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks

https://artsandculture.withgoogle.com

Richard Feynman: Feynman's Father and Inertia

Join President Obama on a virtual tour of Yosemite National Park

https://haptic.al

Les Bits Intéressants de la Semaine - 8/28/2016

1. L'exoplanète la plus proches jamias observée existe bien

Proxima du Centaure: portrait de notre plus proche voisine

http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr

http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr

2. Les pôles de Jupiter vont être révélés en détail pour la première fois

http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr

3. Le "papy astronaute" bat le record américain du temps dans l'espace

http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr

4. 300 peaux d'ours polaires invendues

http://www.journaldemontreal.com

Apollo AS-202 Rope Memory Modules (Part 1 - Introduction)

Interesting Bits of the Week - 8/27/2016

1. An Epochal Discovery: A Habitable Planet Orbits Our Neighboring Star

http://www.theatlantic.com

http://www.eso.org (pdf)

2. Astronaut shares gorgeous photos of Olympic National Park, Mount St. Helens

http://www.seattletimes.com

https://amp.twimg.com

https://amp.twimg.com

3. The BBC perfectly encapsulated the Rio Olympics in one bold video

4. Elon Musk announces ‘Solar Roof’ product, Tesla/SolarCity will go after the roof industry

https://electrek.co

5. Sounders 3 - Portland 1

http://www.sounderatheart.com

https://twitter.com

https://twitter.com

Super Slow-Motion Beauty of SpaceX Rockets

http://www.slate.com

Planck's flame-filled view of the Polaris Flare

http://www.esa.int

An Epochal Discovery: A Habitable Planet Orbits Our Neighboring Star

http://www.theatlantic.com

http://www.eso.org (pdf)

Google Fiber Stalls as the Industry Gears Up for Ultrafast Wireless

https://www.technologyreview.com

What is the Yarkovsky Effect?

Elon Musk announces ‘Solar Roof’ product, Tesla/SolarCity will go after the roof industry

https://electrek.co

The BBC perfectly encapsulated the Rio Olympics in one bold video

With Windows 10, Microsoft Blatantly Disregards User Choice and Privacy: A Deep Dive

https://www.eff.org

Sounders 3 - Portland 1

http://www.sounderatheart.com

https://twitter.com

https://twitter.com

Astronaut shares gorgeous photos of Olympic National Park, Mount St. Helens

http://www.seattletimes.com

https://amp.twimg.com

https://amp.twimg.com

Patagonia's CEO Explains How To Make On-Site Child Care Pay For Itself

https://www.fastcompany.com

Les Bits Intéressants de la Semaine - 8/21/2016

1. Rio 2016, athlétisme.  Usain Bolt: «Je suis imbattable»

http://www.leparisien.fr

2. Manchester United s'impose grâce à un doublé d'Ibrahimovic pour la première de Pogba

http://www.lequipe.fr

3. Voitures autonomes: c'est maintenant pour Volvo et Uber

http://www.zdnet.fr

4. Twitter veut filtrer les tweets de mauvaise qualité

http://www.lefigaro.fr

5. 14 Novembre 2031: Seattle plongée dans le froid

http://www.rtl.fr

My four months as a private prison guard

http://www.motherjones.com/

Interesting Bits of the Week - 8/20/2016

1. SpaceX is getting good at this: has hit four of five water landings

http://arstechnica.com

2. Mark takes first steps in Powered Exoskeleton

3. The most powerful camera in deep space just sent 1,000 more pics back to Earth

http://arstechnica.com

4. Uber Will Start Driverless Service in Pittsburgh—This Month

http://spectrum.ieee.org

5. Here is Intel’s all-in-one VR headset and the other super cool stuff we know so far

https://haptic.al

National Aviation Day - spacewalk installing International Docking Adapter

Great way to celebrate #NationalAviationDay! Congrats on successful #spacewalk, @Astro_Kate7, @Astro_Jeff and @NASA! pic.twitter.com/gTMxxprkNx

— Boeing Defense (@BoeingDefense) August 19, 2016

Uber Will Start Driverless Service in Pittsburgh—This Month

http://spectrum.ieee.org

Here is Intel’s all-in-one VR headset and the other super cool stuff we know so far

https://haptic.al

Intel announces new Aero drone development board based on Dronecode PX4 software

http://diydrones.com

What We Know About the Exploits Dumped in NSA-Linked Hack

https://motherboard.vice.com

Earth-like planet "might" be orbiting Proxima Centauri, "only" 4 light years away

https://boingboing.net

A free/open computer on a card that you swap in and out of a 3D printed laptop

https://boingboing.net

China's massive 500m FAST telescope ready to search the skies in September

http://gbtimes.com

The most powerful camera in deep space just sent 1,000 more pics back to Earth

http://arstechnica.com

Mark takes first steps in Powered Exoskeleton

SpaceX is getting good at this: has hit four of five water landings

http://arstechnica.com

Les Bits Intéressants de la Semaine - 8/14/2016

1. JO 2016 

Simone Biles, tout sourire, s'impose au concours général

http://www.lemonde.fr

Michael Phelps signe une fin de carrière parfaite

http://www.lequipe.fr

Katie Ledecky, le record du monde et l'or sur 800m nage libre

http://www.lequipe.fr

rugby à VII: les Fidji en or, première médaille olympique du pays

http://www.lemonde.fr

2. SpaceX: nouveau succès avec l'atterrissage réussi de son lanceur Falcon 9

http://www.lexpress.fr

MIT and DARPA Pack Lidar Sensor Onto Single Chip

http://spectrum.ieee.org

Interesting Bits of the Week - 8/13/2016

1. SpaceX has shipped its Mars engine to Texas for tests

http://arstechnica.com

2. Fan-made MCT and BFR architecture. CAD and math inside.

https://m.reddit.com/

3. MIT and DARPA Pack Lidar Sensor Onto Single Chip

http://spectrum.ieee.org

4. Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open

http://arstechnica.com

5.  Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Trailer (Official)