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Article Collection 2014 Part II

It's not just the TLD 'ie' that is intriguing about this article and the website it is on.

About the CIA's snooping on the Senate.

About Silicon Valley culture.

A conversation with Paul Davis about the flow of time.

Something about lightning.

The loss of the night sky.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/magazine/peter-matthiessens-homegoing.html

 http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/deep/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-colonize-another-star-system-16654747?click=pp

 http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/04041306-masursky-david-scott.html

 http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/04/03/298778615/the-power-of-poop-a-whale-story

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/04/03/hiding-in-plain-sight-evidence-that-nsa-isnt-wrecking-internet-security/

 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/apr/24/future-europe-interview-george-soros/

 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/business/the-oracle-of-omaha-lately-looking-a-bit-ordinary.html?ref=business&smid=tw-nytimesbusiness

 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/apr/24/how-do-we-know-whats-moral/

 http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?268068

 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/apr/24/jenny-offill-smallest-possible-disaster/

 http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2014/mar/18/neil-turok-urges-caution-on-bicep2-results

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/in-a-prying-world-news-organizations-are-struggling-to-encrypt-their-online-products/2014/04/04/537d1fec-aed5-11e3-9627-c65021d6d572_story.html

 http://sen.com/Phil-Plait/a-galaxy-forged-in-the-furnace

 http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_the_unstoppable_walk_to_political_reform

 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/magazine/who-made-that-black-box.html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytimesbusiness

 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/cosmic-dawn/index.html

 http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/march-2014/the-oldest-light-in-the-universe
https://medium.com/matter/d15b5801b79e

 https://medium.com/matter/66e87553d22c

 https://medium.com/matter/70c3d64ff221

 https://medium.com/matter/c85e3bb29693

 https://medium.com/matter/19f753fb15e0

 https://medium.com/matter/d15b5801b79e

 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2006/oct/05/cheney-the-fatal-touch/

 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=all

 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/31/140331fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all

 http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/the-certainty-of-donald-rumsfeld-part-1/

 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/apr/03/dick-cheney-he-remade-our-world/

 https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/e47508f37037

http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4575_1.html

 http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2014/mar/18/neil-turok-urges-caution-on-bicep2-results

 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/cosmic-dawn/

 http://ngm-beta.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/issues/march-2014/

 http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_snowden_here_s_how_we_take_back_the_internet

 http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/03/17/evidence_of_inflation_astronomers_detect_gravitational_waves_from_the_early.html

 http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/03/17/malaysia_airlines_flight_370_the_craziest_theory_yet.html

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-big-bang-theory-gets-a-big-boost-evidence-that-vast-cosmos-were-created-in-split-second/2014/03/17/d6c21850-adfc-11e3-9627-c65021d6d572_story.html

 http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/big-bangs-smoking-gun-discovered-140317.htm

 http://time.com/jonathan-ive-apple-interview/

 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/science/billionaires-with-big-ideas-are-privatizing-american-science.html?_r=5

 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/science/space/detection-of-waves-in-space-buttresses-landmark-theory-of-big-bang.html?_r=5
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