Wes Phillips

Brazil's Guilherme Marcondes shows the big studios how to make animation interesting. Tyger mixes puppetry, illustration, photography, and CGI together to create something that Neil Gaiman describes as "like something I dreamed as a boy." When you start channelling Gaiman's dreams, you're in serious territory.

How long do CD-Rs last? Not long, says IBM's Kurt Gerecke. Two years on average—five, if you keep it in a cool dark place. Phew that's where I keep mine . . . wait a minute, I just remembered I don't.

Are scientists getting close to telepathy?

Slips, stumbles, and verbal blunders—an excerpt from Michael Erard's new book on slips of the tongue. Inspired by the Decider, by the way.

The original transparencies of an iconic Beatles album cover had been thrown in the garbage and crushed.

Air and Space has a fascinating article about the mechanical naughty bits of the Wright Brothers aircraft. You can all but smell the hot oil.

Not as in counterculture, but as in the London Underground, Cool tour of unused and abandoned stations. Gosh I love this stuff—the only thing better is actually sneaking in yourself.