Sending astronauts to Mars would be stupid, astronaut says bbc.com #

Paddy Ashdown Dead theguardian.com #

Civil rights 'under serious attack' across the globe theguardian.com #

Node.js Fundamentals - Web Server Without Dependencies blog.bloomca.me #

I quite like the design of the top part of the page to this Nieman Journalism Lab site, the bottom half feels kind of squashed to me, maybe this is a new style? niemanlab.org #

E-cigarette maker Juul is giving each of it's 1500 employees $1.3 million dollars as part of an investment deal with Altria (the parent company of Philip Morris) inc.com #

There may have been no drones at Gatwick Airport at all, police say inews.co.uk #

How US billionaires are fuelling the hard-right cause in Britain - Interesting piece that sheds some light on the strategies behind the cauldron of activities that surrounds the funding of alternative media and political groups - "Universities would produce the intellectual raw materials. Thinktanks would transform them into a more practical or usable form. Then “citizen activist” groups would press for the implementation of policy change." theguardian.com #

5 unicorns that will probably go public in 2019 (besides Uber and Lyft) techcrunch.com #

How to Be an Artist - A bunch of short bite-sized lessons that you can snack on over the holidays vulture.com #

Quantum Quantum everything is Quantum quantamagazine.org #

"Not another fucking drone" - Yep it's drone again, what a surprise en.wikipedia.org #