Being bored over the summer holiday, I decided that I would document the cool things I ran across on the Internet. Over the last week, there have been many of these. If I see anything particularly amazing, it’ll go in one of these aggregation posts.

• Neurons are surprisingly beautiful: http://blog.eyewire.org/gallery/image-gallery/
• A rather neat and very short story: https://qntm.org/timeloop
• A bit less short but just as good a short story: https://qntm.org/responsibility
• A rant with which students can all identify, in The Cambridge Student magazine: now lost from the Internet.
• An Easter Island word “tingo” means “to borrow objects from a friend’s house one by one until there are none left”: (“http://web.archive.org/web/20100516040410/http://blog.web-translations.com/2008/12/toujours-tingo-words-that-dont-exist-in-english/)
• Musings on free will: http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTaoist.html
• A thing that I just have to share again: http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/06/technical-hurdles-have-been-overcome.html
• The human brain is a really weird piece of kit: http://lesswrong.com/lw/20/the_apologist_and_the_revolutionary/
• We have to make one of these at some point: http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project/302/1"
• This is quite soothing in a weird kind of way: https://thingsfittingperfectlyintothings.tumblr.com/
• It is possible to be deficient in arsenic. (Link to the Soylent Discourse forum is permanently defunct.)
• A really useful website for when you don’t want to have to spin up Wolfram|Alpha to work out time differences: http://everytimezone.com/
• Why never to talk to the police (seriously, never talk to the police): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
• A fascinating book about the power of positive and negative reinforcement, and why they’re often done wrongly: Don’t Shoot the Dog
• The Church of England really took its time, but at last they’ve done it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23215388
• The Hawkeye Initiative, for the liberation of women in comics: http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/