Adventurers of the Year: Morning Report 11/19/13

"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision." - Maimonides

Pictured Above: Ice climbing. One of the most important things to do/remember is chucking the dinner plates, or near bricks of ice that come falling down when you attempt to sink your axe.

Relevant and less-than-relevant goings-on from around the interwebs:

  • State of Smartphones: Part I of... ? Is a three-sided phone in the future? Meanwhile, totally free voice, text, and data — including the hardware. [Ars Technica, Gizmodo]
  • Mind Over Matter: How big data systems of tomorrow will mirror the human brain of today. And how they will not. [VentureBeat]
  • Human Computer: The art of doing everything. [Fast.Co]
  • Onward: These Adventurers of the Year have a backpack full of memories to better keep on moving forward. [National Geographic]
  • Reaching Deep: The sport of free diving pushes the human's physical and mental state to literal limits, and the recent death of Nicholas Mevoli represents the pursuit's dangerous growth. [NYT]
  • Rocketman: Swiss Francois Gissy hits 285 kilometers per hour... on a bicycle. We're not sure whether that or the soon-to-be-attempted 300 miler per hour run on a street luge is more batshit crazy. [Hublot, Gizmag]
  • It feels appropriate to now introduce some current designs that go a ways in saving lives. And then some old ones that look like they have no business anywhere near a body. [Wired]
  • Head Banger: 100 years of rock, in one minute. [Concert Hotels]

Also, did you know... Mount Everest was named after George Everest, a retired surveyor general who never saw the peak. [list 25]