Hard to say who the coolest person in this picture is

“They calculated that it would take $220,000 annually to raise someone’s [mental health score] to pre-death levels after a spouse dies, $118,000 for a child, $28,000 for a parent, $16,000 for a friend and only $2,000 for a sibling.”

Very little — although since the net is clearly not just data, this is more useful as a demonstration of how small electrons are

“The brain, it turns out, [seems to have] unused sensory ports just waiting for the right plug-ins. Now it’s time to build them.”

Who knew?

Good news for goats

“If Dongtan lives up to expectations, it will serve as a model for cities across the developing world – cities that might leapfrog the environmental and public health … ‘nightmare of the 20th century.'”

Dear god