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Ultra-hot Jupiters — named as such because of their physical similarities to the planet Jupiter — are exoplanets that orbit stars other than the sun with temperatures so high that the molecules in their atmospheres arecompletely torn apart. They are among the most extreme environments in our galaxy. They also whip around their parent stars in orbits that only last a few days, and astronomersstill aren’t surehow it’s possible for them to form....

My first experience creating and building in a shared space was at the Palomar5 in Berlin, Germany. Thecrazy idea: 30 people from all over the world, less than 30 years old to think about the Future of Work for the Digital Generation. What a program! A very “digital natives project.” Indeed, it seems thatGeneration Yis more than ready to revolutionize what defines our workspace. It’s not that we’re more oriented towards openness or sharing knowledge than other generations, but we’ve had the chance to grow up in a different context....

We’ve seen plenty of people use verycreative ways to get hired in the pastbut this latest effort using Twitter is one of the best yet. It uses a clever hack where the user basically created five different twitter accounts with the words “Hire Us” appearing on the person’s profiles. You’ll have to watch the video (first spotted here) to understand a little better how it works but it is a genius idea and fundamentally simple at heart....

Imagine it’s Friday afternoon and it’s up to you to plan the night. What do you do? Research onYelp? Scan upcoming Facebook events? Grab a New York Mag or fire upFlavorpill? What if there was a sweet service to suggest social itineraries for you in the same wayWanderflysuggests travel plans? There is! And it’s aptly calledWeotta, a San Francisco based startup that launched this week at Tech Crunch Disrupt in New York City....

There are a number of different services that provide an easy way for charities and fundraisers to collect donations, but a new service fromWePay, simply namedWePay Givingis perhaps the quickest and most transparent of them all. When I say transparent, WePay allows users to create what it calls “open” accounts, meaning anyone that donates to a cause can see exactly where their money is going, perhaps the most obvious limiting factor when soliciting donations....