From Vice’s Motherboard and my friend Alex Pasternack, here is a great short documentary on an alternative nuclear energy model that many interviewed believe would have safety and economic benefits. Moving from a uranium and plutonium fuel cycle to one based on thorium, they say, would produce reactors whose failure state would be a safe one. The doc is a sympathetic view of folks who may look like cranks—but what’s to say they’re not on to something?*

*I have literally no idea whether this would work. As your local nuclear physicist.

Here is a four-minute report from MTV News in 1995, which includes Newt Gingrich speaking against net censorship, Snoop Dogg claiming the World Wide Web is where it’s at, and David Bowie claiming to be have gotten “so tired of the rubbish on it that I dropped out of it again.”

Via Gorociao

Alex Lundry gives us lessons in graphical literacy for political speech. Some pointers:

• Common tactic: Play games with the origin and axis. (Change where the chart’s “zero” is.)
• Correlation / Causation: Don’t conflate them.
• “Pie charts suck, so be wary of them.”

And he gives us a great video.

[h/t Infosthetics]