News Wire Stories for December/January

Advanced Mathematics With Legos In A Washing Machine

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/advanced-mathematics-legos-washing-machine

Watch: Mobile Recycling Center Turns Soda Cans Into Trendy Stools

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/10/mobile-factory-turns-trashed-soda-cans-into-trendy-stools/?viewall=true

The Myth of “I Can’t Code”

http://blog.flatironschool.com/post/66383520349/the-myth-of-i-cant-code
http://stephaniehoh.github.io/blog/2013/11/06/the-myth-of-i-cant-code/
https://kidscodecs.com/imposters-and-kids-who-cant-code/

10 Ingenious Bike Hacks

http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/technology/10-ingenious-bike-hacks

The New Lifecycle of Your Old iPhone

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/the-new-lifecycle-of-your-old-iphone/

Early Technologies That Were Supposed to Disrupt Education

http://blog.longreads.com/post/a-brief-history-of-technologies-that-were-supposed-to-disrupt-education/
http://www.fastcompany.com/3021473/udacity-sebastian-thrun-uphill-climb

NSA Infected 50,000 Computer Networks with Malicious Software

http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/11/23/nsa-infected-50000-computer-networks-with-malicious-software/

Own a Street-Legal Flamethrowing Batmobile Replica for Just $200K

If you’re in New York City this holiday season, apparently their store has a hovercraft, submarine, and robot exhibit. The Batmobile is catalog-only.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/11/66-batmobile-replica/
http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=12197&promo=Category-NewArrivals&catid=60

The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/11/the-neuroscientist-who-discovered-he-was-a-psychopath/

Can Facial Recognition Really Tell If a Kid Is Learning in Class?

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2013/11/can-facial-recognition-really-tell-if-a-kid-is-learning-in-class/

How an Epic Blunder by Adobe Could Strengthen Hand of Password Crackers

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/how-an-epic-blunder-by-adobe-could-strengthen-hand-of-password-crackers/

Fridaygram: Connected Classrooms, Migrating Pronghorns, New Helpouts

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/11/fridaygram-connected-classrooms.html

Your Tweets Can Predict When You'll Get the Flu

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/11/your-tweets-can-predict-when-youll-get-the-flu/

Dear President Obama, We Need Title IX for Funding Women's Startups

http://women2.com/dear-president-obama-need-title-ix-funding-womens-startups/

Four Years of Go

The Go programming language, featured in the current December/January issue, turned four on November 10th!
http://blog.golang.org/4years