1. Perhaps you’ve come across terms like aquiline nose, hircine visage, or pierine grace in something you’ve read, or maybe you’ve seen aedine disease or ovine embryology in scientific or medical writing. Here’s a list of as many animal-related -ine (or -ian) words that I can find!

    My new favourite is phalangine.

  2. Society needs journalism – but in a different way. Investigative journalism is always relevant. We need reporting that polices our institutions and uncovers truth. But important findings don’t have to arrive in the form of news. Long journal articles and in-depth books are good, too.

  3. Google and Android are forces which are are very powerful but which are, to a large degree, uncontrolled, even by their own managers.

  4. The premise is simple, split apart the components of your multi-color vector, add each element to your icon font, and then stack them to create a mega-icon.

  5. Time passes at a rate of one second per second for every observer. The frequency of a remote clock relative to an observer is affected by velocity and gravity. The clocks inside GPS satellites are adjusted for relativistic effects.