Episode 59 - 2/03/16: Hella

Is life more like Tetris or chess?  An internet opinion haver leans towards Tetris--maybe because he plays it every day.  Technology gets even better at delivering a faster internet, and science makes more advances toward understanding how our brains work.  Nature provides more examples of unbelievable animals (and their behavior) and history shows us how little we know about ourselves.

Finally, find out how YOU WILL DIE. 

https://medium.com/life-learning/your-life-is-tetris-stop-playing-it-like-chess-4baac6b2750d#.o15hne5wa

 

http://www.sciencealert.com/google-s-planning-to-deliver-super-fast-5g-internet-from-solar-powered-drones

 

http://www.sciencealert.com/these-4-cosmic-phenomena-travel-faster-than-the-speed-of-light

 

http://www.sciencealert.com/our-brain-s-memory-capacity-is-10-times-larger-than-we-thought

 

http://www.feelguide.com/2015/04/22/science-links-anxiety-to-high-iqs-sentinel-intelligence-social-anxiety-to-very-rare-psychic-gift/

 

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/10-000-year-old-massacre-does-not-bolster-claim-that-war-is-innate/

 

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/20/fairytales-much-older-than-previously-thought-say-researchers?CMP=share_btn_fb

 

http://phys.org/news/2016-01-equation-large-scale-conspiracies-quickly-reveal.html

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/28/464447457/shifting-colors-of-an-octopus-may-hint-at-a-rich-nasty-social-life?sc=17&f=3

 

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-spiders-create-50000-strong-armies-peruvian-rainforest

 

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-louder-the-monkey-the-smaller-its-balls-study-finds-42361364663309

 

http://www.sciencealert.com/earth-is-made-up-of-two-planets-fused-together-by-a-head-on-collision-new-research-suggests

 

http://flowingdata.com/2016/01/19/how-you-will-die/