When the Earth was hit by a Gamma Ray Burst, Optimal Seasoning of Cast Iron Pans and Traditional Revealing Korean Outfits

Astronomy

• Earth Hit By Gamma Ray Burst in 775 AD

Chemistry

• Blog Syn. "Crowdsourcing meets Organic Synthesis. Speed and Aplomb." A site documenting bloggers' attempts to use published methods to create chemicals.

Cooking

• Optimal Cast Iron Pan Seasoning. And the chemistry behind it.

Computing

• Brainfuck CPU
• Topcoder ISS Solar Panel Configuration Competition. "The goal of the challenge is to position the solar collectors on the International Space Station to generate as much power as possible during the most difficult orbital configuration."
• Linux being developed away from Unix philosophy. "I’m not sure that this is a bad design, but it is most definitely not UNIX or anything like it."
• ShareLaTeX. Collaborative LaTeX environment.
• texlive.js. LaTeX in JavaScript and thus runnable in the browser.
• Myrddin. A functional flavored close to metal language.

Culture

• Slant: StackOverflow for subjective questions. "Slant helps you decide on subjective topics quickly. Instead of having to read multiple blog posts or dig through comment threads you can read summarized perspectives on topics with no definitive answer."

• Korean historical dress and exposed female nipples. Makes good sense from a breastfeeding standpoint. Not safe for puritanical work environments. See also wiki page on Décolletage

• Isaac Asimov's Visions of the Future

Information Theory

• Youtube Series of shorts on Information Theory

History

• Hardcore History Podcast

Music

• The Correspondents' "Well Measured Vice" Video. Animated by hand by the lead singer.

Productivity

• "Programmer Interrupted". Discussion on the properties of a task and the (human) memory types in utilizes and how they affect interruption response.

Science

• "Metamaterials perform image compression before light reaches the sensor". Not sure if the compression is lossy or not.

Spaceflight

• Fingernail clipping in space