Federico Pistono

List of things worth mentioning, in no particular order.

Awesome YouTube channels

• CGP Grey - incredible reason and clarity, great sense of humour, debunking misconceptions like no others.
• potholer54 - science and reason FTW, debunking creationists, climate deniers, and generally idiots with painstaking patience and incredible irony.

Films worth watching

• Possession (1981)
• L'homme qui plantait des arbres (1987)
• Hotaru no haka (1988)
• Tetsuo (1989)
• Spiklenci slasti (1996)
• Pi (1998)
• Waking Life (2001)
• Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984)

Science and technology sites I regularly read

• Slashdot - news for nerds, stuff that matters
• PhysOrg - science news, technology, physics, nanotechnology, space science, earth science, medicine
• ZeitNews - technologies that can change the world, for the better.
• KurzweilAI - accelerating Intelligence.
• Singularity Hub - the future is already here.
• TorrentFreak - because information is free.
• arXiv blog - mostly physics.
• Not Even Wrong - an alternative view to String Theory.
• Building a smarter planet - according to IBM.
• Daniel Lemire - good analysis on the impact of technology in today's society.

Web comics I enjoy

• xkcd - a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Basically a geek bible. My universe.
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: excellent irony about science and society.
• Dresden Codak - a celebration of science, death and human folly. Obligatory read if you read any of Kurzweil's works, and have a general knowledge of physics and accelerating change.
• The Oatmeal - stinking, rancid awesomeness.
• Dilbert - life in a cubicle.
• PHD Comics - the life a of typical researcher. I can confirm, it's all true!