Magnets - how do they work? (Answer: When they're superconducting, they work awesomely)

(via a few people on FB)

Interesting Links for 18-10-2011

• Here Are The Four Charts That Explain What The Protesters Are Angry About...
  (tags: protests usa finance money business wages poverty inequality )
• Leo DiCaprio slated to play Alan Turing in biopic
  (tags: LeonardoDiCaprio AlanTuring movies )
• The Great Tech War Of 2012
  (tags: technology patents mobile google apple amazon facebook )
• Marvel exec confirms: Doctor Strange movie will be happening
  (tags: DoctorStrange comics movies marvel )
• Advice to a new PhD student
  (tags: phd academia advice education )
• Personally, I think that framing Dr Who as a joke that the audience is in on is terribly clever.
  (tags: drwho scifi )
• The 8 Strangest TV Show Ideas Ever Made
  (tags: tv weird )
• Doctor Who scene deleted because Moffat thought it 'too naughty'
  (tags: drwho StevenMoffat tv )
• The people that censor your web accees - a bunch of barely-trained students.
  (tags: uk censorship web )
• Traffic accidents plunged during BlackBerry outage in Dubai, Abu Dhabi
  (tags: blackberry email .distraction driving )
• Someone finally gets it right on Steve Jobs' religious beliefs
  (tags: SteveJobs buddhism webcomic )
• US Debt Accumulation by President
  (tags: debt usa economics )
• Those gender differences in why, how and how often people want sex - wrong!
  (tags: gender sex )
• A new view of self-harm
  (tags: self-harm )
• TV - not good for children under two, probably bad for them.
  (tags: tv babies development )
• US/UK extradition law not biased against Britons
  (tags: extradition law usa uk )

Awesome photos from around the web

via e_apraksina


via this post by theferrett


via lpetrazickis, who got it from the source.


via a friend on FB whose LJ name I have sadly completely forgotten...