Beauty and the brain | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/10/06/beauty-and-the-brain/
via
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/31/a-round-up-of-the-year/

Euphemism List — Examples & Meanings of Euphemisms

http://www.euphemismlist.com/

List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement

Top 10 Truly Bizarre Programming Languages

http://listverse.com/2011/02/17/top-10-truly-bizarre-programming-languages/

10 More Common Faults in Human Thought

http://listverse.com/2010/04/12/10-more-common-faults-in-human-thought/

10 Facts about Portable Electronics and Airplanes | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/12/22/10-facts-about-portable-electronics-and-airplanes/?WT.mc_id=SA_Twitter_mdichristina

300 years of fossil fuels history – in 5 minutes | Plugged In, Scientific American Blog Network

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2011/12/21/300-years-of-fossil-fuels-history-in-5-minutes/

15 bumfit - Numberphile | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/282707/detail/

Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/antonio_damasio_the_quest_to_understand_consciousness.html

Doodling in Math Class: Spirals | MilkandCookies

http://mcooki.es/282010

Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2011 - physicsworld.com

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/48126

Tool detects patterns hidden in vast data sets | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

http://www.broadinstitute.org/news/3784

Paul McCartney: Yesterday, 1965 vs 2011 | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/280836/detail/

Letters of Note: Space: The Final Frontier

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/12/space-final-frontier.html

How biased is your sample? | Nathan Green's S word | Science | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/02/biased-sample-statistics

Letters of Note: Space: The Final Frontier

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/12/space-final-frontier.html

Dmitri Mendeleev's business card and Ernest Rutherford's potato masher | Brady Haran | Science | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/dec/07/dmitri-mendeleev-business-card

Taking good notes: Tricks and tools |

http://www.theopennotebook.com/2011/12/06/taking-good-notes/

Deepest Trench Now With More Deep | Deep Sea News

http://deepseanews.com/2011/12/deepest-trench-now-with-more-deep/

Air France 447 Flight-Data Recorder Transcript - What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 - Popular Mechanics

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877

IR remote for DSLR cameras - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/12/08/ir-remote-for-dslr-cameras/

Google's Nerdiest Move Ever: Now It's a Graphing Calculator!

http://m.gizmodo.com/5865326/googles-nerdiest-move-ever-now-its-a-graphing-calculator

Bull beware: Truth goggles sniff out suspicious sentences in news » Nieman Journalism Lab

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/11/bull-beware-truth-goggles-sniff-out-suspicious-sentences-in-news/
What BSD really stands for

The Best Siri Hacks So Far - Technology - The Atlantic Wire

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/11/best-siri-hacks-so-far/45454/

Alejandro Rojas: Ridley Scott's New Alien Movie Influenced by Ancient Astronaut Theory

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alejandro-rojas/ridley-scotts-new-alien-m_b_1124808.html
Right, another scifi film release has started... we can expect more UFO sitings to be in the news....