Read

• Alternative ways of launching things to the orbit
• London life: A day in a life of a bookie
• Story on VR documentary shot for Oculus Rift
• Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind

Watch

• Blackout city timelapse. An experimental film on how London would look like in a night if the city lights would go pitch black.
• Wanderers, short film voiced by Carl Sagan
• Stereoscopic pictures from Inverness, Scotland

Listen

• Christmas special episode of our tech / art / science podcast Radio Badger is out in the wild

Personal notes

• Average size of Christmas trees sold on London streets seems to be half of what you'd usually get in Finland. Then again, living space.