Could Probiotics Replace Prozac?
Study shows mouse depression can be eased with yogurt
Game of Thrones season 7 premiere date, teaser revealed
July 16. No new footage in the teaser
Living and dying on his own terms
The Dazzling Reinvention of Zelda
“They said, ‘Change anything you want,’ ” Fujibayashi recalled. “So we wrote down all of the stress points, the things that make Zelda games less enjoyable, and we replaced them with new ideas.”
Ridley Scott Is Planning 6 More Alien Movies
An Alien in New York, Chestburster: The Musical, Alien vs. My Little Pony, Gladialien… go ahead, run with those, Ridley
Strange and probably polarizing short film.
•The Timing, Source, and What’s Missing: WikiLeaks’ CIA Cyber Arsenal Dump Explained
Fascinating:
There are no names of either individuals or organizations mentioned in the documents. WikiLeaks claims to have made 70,875 redactions in the “Vault 7” files. This is an amazing number, which raises two related questions. First, Assange has always been against redactions, often quarrelling with news organizations that have partnered with WikiLeaks in the past over their insistence on protecting the identities of individuals. What made him change his policy? Also, by all accounts, including Assange’s, WikiLeaks has limited resources and very few employees, certainly nowhere near enough to carry out 70,875 redactions – if that figure is even accurate. All this indicates that either the source (and in this case it wouldn’t have been one former disgruntled government employee) or some other well-funded organization, probably an intelligence agency, have been working on these documents for quite some time.
Path Finder Update : No Man’s Sky
Huge expansion of a game that was a little thin at launch.
Analysis: GOP plan to cost Obamacare enrollees $1,542 more a year
We reported above the results for individuals. For families, the Republican bill would increase costs by $2,243 if the bill were in effect today. For families with a head of household age 55 to 64, the bill would increase costs by $7,604. For families with income below 250 percent of poverty, the bill would increase costs by $6,228.
David Letterman on Donald Trump and Late-Night TV Today
George Saunders: what writers really do when they write
US Senate calls on British spy Christopher Steele to give evidence on explosive Trump-Russia dossier
Radiohead and sadness: a data analysis
So lower scores on the “gloom index” are more gloomy? I guess that makes sense. Anyway, saddest albums appear to be Amnesiac and A Moon Shaped Pool.
Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose
Porsche Design’s Book One is a beautiful alternative to the Surface Book
Hey, a Porsche convertible! Seems pretty cool, but these things are much better laptops than tablets. As a tablet it’s either super heavy, if you keep the keyboard attached, or it only gets 3 hrs battery, and either way it’s way bulkier than an iPad.
YouTube, the world’s biggest video site, wants to sell you TV for $35 a month
Includes main US broadcast networks plus the cable channels they own, so Fox News, ESPN and Bravo, but no CNN, AMC, HBO. Also includes “A cloud DVR with unlimited storage space”.
Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War
Pretty good overview, but doesn’t get into the full extent of his Russian ties
Joseph Boyden defends his story against allegations
New Commerce Secretary at nexus of lucrative Trump Russian deal
More serious dope on Trump/Russia connections
Streetcars are Toronto’s civic treasure and the King St. plan gives them their due
Besides, if you want to drive without streetcars in the way, you have your pick of all kinds of other cities. You can go to Hamilton, or Mississauga, or Pickering. You can go most places, and they won’t have streetcars. We do have them, and they’re a civic treasure. It’s about time we treat them like it.
Patience Is a (Sexual) Virtue
What’s in your chicken sandwich? DNA test shows Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken
Apparently a kind of “restructured meat” containing a lot of soy:
Restructured products are essentially smaller pieces of meat or ground meat, bound together with other ingredients to make them last longer, taste better and, as Bohrer puts it, “add value” — restaurant speak for cheaper.
NASA Telescope Reveals Record-Breaking Exoplanet Discovery
Ultra-cool dwarf alert!
The TRAPPIST-1 star, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it.
Scientists Say They’ve Discovered a Hidden Continent Under New Zealand
Scientists say they have identified an underwater continent two-thirds the size of Australia — and they are calling it Zealandia.
“There is an Incentivized Path to Mediocrity”
Re: problems with the Canadian film industry