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Ones and Zeros: Being a TV Idol has a New Meaning, New Fragrance Conjures Stuffy Nose Nostalgia

_It turns out smoking hookah is a lot worse for your lungs than previously thought. I guess getting herpes isn't the worst thing to come out of sharing a pipe._ h3. ONE: Synthetic Cells could speed up the creation of vaccines and biofuel...

It turns out smoking hookah is a lot worse for your lungs than previously thought. I guess getting herpes isn’t the worst thing to come out of sharing a pipe.

ONE: Synthetic Cells could speed up the creation of vaccines and biofuel-producing bacteria (Technology Review)

ZERO: A TV that watches you (New Launches)

ONE: Fake news and naive friends: a winning combo (The Atlantic)

ZERO: China censors internet in hopes of extinguishing Mongolian Protests (Computer World)

ONE: Sleep, the best thing ever, helps improve concentration, short-term memory, productivity, mood, sensitivity to pain and immune function (New York Times)

ZERO: Linux founder cancels lectures at Israeli Universities due to Palestinian pressure (Globes)

ONE: Single cell organism the size of a beach ball (New Scientist)

ZERO: American arrested in Thailand for blogging (Channel News Asia)

ONE: Western special forces caught on camera in Libya (Guardian)

ZERO: One hookah session is like smoking 100 cigarettes (New York Times)

ONE: Researchers find an “eternal sunshine” drug (New Scientist)

ZERO: Japan: in defense of nuclear dependency (New York Times)

ONE: New perfume is a real Acqua di nada (New York Magazine)