Glenn Beck interviews Ray Kurzweil

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Amazing Interactive 360 degree video from a helicopter flying over the active Plosky Tolbachik Volcano

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Bloody amazing

360 video, Plosky Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia, 2012
In early 2011 we developed a method for filming and editing 360 video shot by 4 Canon DSLR cameras and posted an article with technical details on our website.
Here you can see our first 360 video tests.
Something that was impossible for many years is now happening on your screens.
Now we would like to show the unique 360 video of the Plosky Tolbachik volcano eruption, Kamchatka, Russia which has been taken in December 2012.
Please note that in order to view 360 video online you need a powerful computer and fast Internet connection.

List of hoaxes on Wikipedia

Great Fireworks Show

Nice use of the tallest tower in the world.

Planet orbiting in the habitable zone discovered just 12ly away

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A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
The world is one of five thought to be circling Tau Ceti, a star just 12 light years away that is almost identical to the sun.
Astronomers estimate the Tau Ceti planets to be two to six times bigger than Earth. One of them, with five times the Earth's mass, lies in the star's "habitable zone".
Also known as the "Goldilocks zone", this is the orbital region that is neither too hot nor too cold to allow liquid surface water and, potentially, life. Details of the discovery are to appear in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

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How Programmers Read Code

From the article How Do We Read Code?

I recently got to participate in a psychological experiment for programmers. A friend of mine, Mike Hansen, is doing research on how people comprehend programs. The goal is to figure out some way of measuring what features in programming systems help programmers understand what they are doing, and how this can be used to make systems that lead to higher quality software. Mike is currently running an experiment where he shows people several short Python programs and asks them to tell the output of the program. The test subject is sitting in front of an eye tracker, so afterwards Mike can see where you were looking at various times during the experiment.

I recommend pausing the video for a second and studying the code yourself and then watch the eye-tracking as the participant solves the puzzle. Quite interesting.