• New research suggests dolphins know one another’s names, which is to say new research suggests dolphins have names.

• Elaborating on Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history” thesis 17 years after its initial publication, or “Are western values universal or are they the temporary success of a hegemonic culture?” via.

• Evolution has done its best now it’s time to call in the engineers. pop-mech looks at human upgrades.

• Check out the (once) largely secret project to develop a powerful ground-based laser weapon that would use beams of concentrated light to destroy enemy satellites in orbit. Neat pics. via.

• Design Observer offers: It Takes a Nation of Lawyers to Hold Us Back on the decline of sampling culture across all mediums.