Tue. 1/26 - Werner Herzog on Skateboarding

New DNA analysis upends some long held assumptions about the evolutionary background of dire wolves. How Adobe Flash broke an entire railway system. Astronomers have discovered a sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system. Say that six times fast… And the definitive Werner Herzog interview on… skateboarding.

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Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal (Scientific American)Dire Wolves Were Real (Scientific American)Dire wolves were real—and even stranger than we thought (National Geographic)When Adobe Stopped Flash Content From Running It Also Stopped A Chinese Railroad (Jalopnik)'Sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system' discovered whirling through the Milky Way (Space)DISCUSSING SKATEBOARDING WITH FILMMAKER WERNER HERZOG (Jenkem) Kottke.OrgJackson Bird on Twitter