To Learn in 2013

I love Gizmodo (and not just because the writing is so clever)!
"63 Essential Things to Learn Before 2012 Ends" (go to this link for individual links to the below) --
- What Really Happens When You Get Blown Out of an Airlock
- Why There Are 24 Hours in a Day
- How Do Computers Understand Speech?
- Batteries: The Absolute Definitive Guide
- What Nuclear Radiation Does To Your Body
- Why Toilets Are Still Made of Porcelain
- How To Use Android
- Why We Yawn—And Why Yawning Is So Contagious
- Why Printers Suck (And What You Can Do About It)
- What Exactly Is That New Car Smell?
- Why Are There So Many Tornadoes This Year?
- Spicy Food, Oils, and Sex: The Myth and Science of WHERE THE HELL IS MY BABY
- What the Strange Symbols on Your Gadgets Mean
- Could an Explosion Really Knock You Over Like in the Movies?
- Paper or Plastic? Try Neither
- How Induction Cooktops Make Meals with Magnets
- Why Salt Water in the Subway Is So Extremely Dangerous
- What It Takes to Restore Cellular Service After a Hurricane
- How Hurricane Sandy Might Become a Snowpocalyptic Frankenstorm
- What Happens When You Flush a Toilet on an Airplane?
- Why the Snooze Button Is Ruining Your Sleep
- The Crazy Journey of an MMS from Your Phone to Your Friends
- Why You Have Bad Breath in the Morning
- How NASA Prevents a Space Plague Outbreak
- How 4K TV Works
- How Duct Tape Fixes the World
- Music's Wild Ride: From Sound Waves to Digital Files and Back Again
- What Happens When You Get Struck By Lightning
- What Happens When You Stare Directly at the Sun
- What Is Big Data?
- What Is an Atmospheric River?
- What Is Israel's Iron Dome?
- What Is Anodizing?
- What Is Friction-Stir Welding?
- What Is Apple Fusion Drive?
- What Is Pheed?
- Can You Work Out What This Thing Was Used For?
- What Is Intel Clover Trail?
- What Is Miracast?
- What Is a Frontlit Display?
- What Is MIMO?
- What Is Medium?
- What Is an App Launcher?
- What Is Intel Turbo Boost?
- What Is Cocaine Psychosis?
- Why Poison Oak Is the F&%*ing Worst
- What Is CISPA?
- What Is 4/20?
- What Is The New Aesthetic?
- What Is Temporal Noise Reduction?
- What Is an Earthquake?
- What Are Steroids?
- What Comes After 4G?
- What Is SOPA?
- What Is MHL?
- What Is a Hangover?
- What Is Carrier IQ? (Updated)
- What Is Distortion?
- What Is Coil Embolization?
- What Is A Gustnado? (Hint: It May Have Collapsed The Indiana State Fair Stage)
- What Is a Hurricane?
- What Is an RPG?
- What Is the LRAD Sound Cannon?