History has such a limited return on investment. Nothing we can learn from it, no ways to improve upon it. It’s for the best that those insomniacs who were archiving the world’s newspapers for the last five years can call it quits. Let’s just get some child prodigy with a photographic memory in there to soak up all that info. Then, if we’re ever really in a bind, we can just consult his Twitter feed or Tumblr blog, where he’s translated all of our old news into short interpretive dance videos, Earth’s universal language.
ONE: G8 France meeting to discuss building a “civilized internet” (New York Times)
ZERO: Google abandons plan to archive world’s newspapers (The Phoenix)
ONE: Using algae as a fuel, Becoming more of a reality
ZERO: Facebook wants little kids (CNN)
ONE: New discovery speeds up stem cell production (Science Daily)
ZERO: Brand fans are religious (BBC)
ONE: Repealing Louisiana’s Creationism Law(Facebook)
ZERO: Twitter censoring its trend list (Meejahor)
ONE: Best black-hole photograph to date (Physorg)
— Complied by Kurt Poropatich
