Interesting links | 5th January 2014

Below is a varied collection of the best articles and interesting reads I have found online over the last month or so. Articles marked with a heart I found particularly good.

The Big Sleep | The New Yorker ♥ The Big History Project | Big history Project ♥ Round art of 𝜋 , Φ and e | Martin Krzywinski ♥ Polish Stamps of 1963 | Ministry of Type Fifty Years of Exploration | National Geographic ♥ 2013 in Science | Wikipedia The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson's Face | Nautilus Microbe Counts and Transgenerational Epigenetics | PLOS blogs Prometheus Inc | Aeon Magazine The Madness of the Planets | Nautilus A FISH FOR OUR TIME | intelligent life Factory Farming: The True Price of a Pork Chop | Speigel international In the Belly of the Beast | RollingStone Absurd Creature of the Week: The Frog Whose Young Erupt From Under Its Skin | WIRED Evolution in a Finite World | Nautilus Things of interest in maths and science | Mathen You don't understand "ordinary people." – Richard P. Feynman to Stephen Wolfram | cat-v