Good thinking
Good writing
Brexit Britain deserves a better PM than Theresa the Technocrat
Not because I agree with this wholeheartedly but because it's one of those positions most columnists are too afraid to take. Mainly, that ideology and zeal aren't dangerous traits of leadership to be avoided at all costs - a central tenet of Third Way philosophy's reaction to Thatcherism - but necessary qualities for leadership, now more than ever.
Mmm Technology
Google Maps Gets a New, 700-Trillion-Pixel Cloudless Satellite Map
Introducing 'mosaicking':
A mosaicking algorithm inspects each pixel of imagery individually—across all of the images of that particular pixel collected by Landsat 7 and 8. (If the archive is properly calibrated, that one pixel should describe the same spot of Earth no matter when it was taken.) In essence, the algorithm takes an initial average color value for that pixel over time. Then it drops the images that are much lighter than that average—since they likely include clouds—and averages the most recent set of remaining, now-cloudless photos to find a final color value.