- NYC Nikola Tesla Exhibit Opens in Queens, In Time For His 157th Birthday
- The Oatmeal: Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived
- Epic Rap Battles of History Season 2: Nikola Tesla vs Thomas Edison
- Skydiver Felix Baumgartner breaks sound barrier
- World's Roundest Object!—Come for the shiny ball, stay for the hunky bearded scientist.
- Inside the world's most 'impossible' science project
- A Roller Coaster That'll Leave You Weightless for Eight Long Seconds
- How pixels could make tanks invisible—"When you 'lose yourself' inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior and thoughts to match that of the character, a new study suggests."
- The Hollow (Thermoelectric) Flashlight
- This Guy Reinvented the Wheel ... by Turning It Into a Cube
- How Science Invented a Remarkable New Harder-Than-Diamond Nanomaterial
Nerds!
- Portlandia - Nerd PSA
- At last! Science draws a line between geeks and nerds
- Gor: The Most Ridiculous Nerd Fantasy Ever
- GOP's 7 most jaw-dropping "scientific" theories Salon
- The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science
- Flipside: Bill Nye, Firebrand for Science, is a Big Man on Campus—"William Sanford Nye, better known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, has gone from TV host to fierce defender of scientific issues that have been polemicized for religious, political and even economic reasons." NYT
- Spain says U.S. tipoff led it to query Bolivian flight
- A Patriot Act History Lesson: How Warnings Were Mocked in the Senate—"In 2006, Russ Feingold anticipated exactly how the government would stretch, exploit, and abuse vague language -- and was derided for it."
- US must fix secret Fisa courts, says top judge who granted surveillance orders—"James Robertson breaks ranks and says he was shocked to hear of changes to allow broader authorisation of NSA programs."
- Tiny Utah-based ISP makes a name for itself by rebuffing government snoops—"Meet Xmission, the internet service provider embracing transparency as it shields customers from warrantless authorities."
- Anyone Brushing Off NSA Surveillance Because It's 'Just Metadata' Doesn't Know What Metadata Is
- NSA Blackmailing Obama? Interview with Whistleblower Russ Tice
- The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'
- Security-Enhanced Android: NSA Edition
- Montana the first state to pass spy law—"Montana made history this spring after passing the first state law to prevent the government from spying on anyone in the state by tracking personal information stored in their electronic devices."
- The Pirate Bay founder is raising money for spy-proof messaging app
- Warning: Cover Up Your Webcam When Not in Use—"The BBC has uncovered an entire industry centering on the buying and selling of access to compromised webcams, especially those owned by women."
- Facebook Graph Search is scary good—"Social media stalking has never been so easy. And guess what: You can't opt out." Salon
- Texas Lawmakers Too Busy Targeting Abortion Providers to Deal With Exploding Fertilizer Plants—"More than two months after the deadly explosion in West, Texas, the state has done almost nothing to prevent future disasters."
- Quebec train crash death toll rises to five as police search for more victims—"Train operator says the locomotive may have been shut down after it had been parked for the night, releasing air brakes." Evidence points to that likelihood.
- Blast from the Past: Hindenburg mystery solved after 76 years—"Scientists believe that a series of events sparked by static electricity lead to the 1937 explosion."
