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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.

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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