Friday Cocktail: Styrofoam, hobbits and… do you know when the world’s going to end?

Sip: on a Full Monte No.2

Weekend browsing:

• Hobbits: still alive and living in Flores?

• Philip Tetlock is looking for superforecasters… to help predict the end of world

• Diverse democracy is hard. A new book looks for the answer

• It came from another world: amazing snaps of our space debris on Mars

Listen: to Ashley McBryde sing Styrofoam

“Thousands of usages, all kinds of stuff

And that includes forty-four ounce cups”