Ones and Zeros: That Little $2 Trillion Mistake That Downgraded Our Credit Rating

Carl Sagan would be very happy now. Also, sad.

One: The neuroscience of the Wall Street panic button (NYT)

Zero: Standard & Poor’s $2 trillion math error that drove their decision to downgrade the country’s credit rating (WSJ)

ONE: SETI gets it’s funding back, for now (Setistars)

ZERO: Mug-Shot Industry Will Dig Up Your Past, Charge You to Bury It Again (Wired)

ONE: Anti-matter belt found around Earth by Pamela craft (BBC)

Zero: Data center emissions (PC World)

ONE: Converting acidic boron into a base (New Scientist)

ZERO: Electric car stat lies on Top Gear (Guardian)

ONE: Boeing will have manned space-flight missions by 2015 (BBC)

Zero: The things people say in the Conde Nast elevators (Twitter)