7/30/16

7/30/16

News

• England's plastic bag usage drops 85% since 5p charge introduced: Number of single-use bags handed out dropped to 500 million in first six months since charge, compared with 7 billion the previous year
• Hot Air Balloon Carrying at Least 16 People Crashes in Texas
• Human-Like Speech Seen In Orangutans For The First Time

Science

• New Tech Installed on The ISS Set To Form Solar System-Wide 'Internet'
• Breakthrough invention of solar cell that works like a plant
• First tour of the Tesla Gigafactory. Will this be what future factories look like?

Showerthoughts

• I wonder how many animals we had to jump on the backs of before we noticed horses were cool with it.
• When I was younger, I hated staying in on a Friday night. As an adult, I hate having to go out on a Friday night.
• "Dream job" is an oxymoron. My dream is to not need a job.

Cool Images

• Advil Dissolving
• Look, then squint
• Twelve box fans and a fire

7/29/16

7/29/16

News

• Israel Proves the Desalination Era is Here - One of the driest countries on earth now makes more freshwater than it needs
• Breastfeeding within hour of birth provides baby’s ‘first vaccine,’ says UNICEF
• France to create National Guard after terror attacks

Science

• This Week in Science: A Major ALS Breakthrough, Tech That Reads Your Emotions, 3D Printed Food, And More!
• Male hormone reverses cell aging in clinical trial
• Bacteria made to turn sewage into clean water – and electricity

Showerthoughts

• Buying a wallet is like trading your books for a shelf.
• Someone should develop a browser app that very gradually starts changing words so you can begin to learn a language.
• What if dogs are scared of thunder because they think it's the bark of a more dominant dog?

Cool Images

• SpinFlo
• When the lights go out
• Bernoulli's Principle

7/28/16

7/28/16

News

• Norway considers giving mountain to Finland as 100th birthday present - Norwegian government considers shifting border to gift its Nordic neighbour a peak that would become its highest point
• Rio 2016: Olympic athletes told to ‘keep your mouth closed’ when in contaminated water
• Germany's Chancellor Merkel "firmly" rejects calls to change refugee policy despite recent terror attacks

Science

• Breakthrough solar cell captures carbon dioxide and sunlight, produces burnable fuel
• CO2 can be stored underground for 10 times the length needed to avoid climatic impact: study
• Promising Alzheimer's treatment flops in new trial

Showerthoughts

• What if instead of playing dodgeball or climbing ropes, gym class focused on proper body mechanics like good posture, running properly, squatting correctly or lifting a box from the ground?
• If alcohol reveals your true self, then my real self just want to go to sleep.
• The world is not getting dumber. It's just easier for dumb people to get their thoughts heard.

Cool Images

• Computational thermoforming
• DIY electrolytic metal etching with 9V batteries
• Perspective

7/27/16

7/27/16

News

• French newspaper Le Monde to stop publishing pictures of terrorists to avoid 'glorifying them in death
• Leading insecticide cuts bee sperm by almost 40%, study shows - Discovery provides possible explanation for increasing deaths of honeybees in recent years, according to scientists
• Japan to unveil huge $266 billion economic stimulus, say reports: Shinzo Abe aims to breathe life into moribund economy with expected boost for low earners and infrastructure schemes

Science

• A Plane Just Flew Around The World Without A Single Drop Of Fuel
• Porsche will hire over 1,400 employees to build its electric cars
• Introducing FarmBot Genesis, an automated robot that can grow enough food to feed a person for a year

Showerthoughts

• I’m so glad I was born just before the time when all of my embarrassing childhood videos would have been stored on the Internet.
• If your views in life haven't changed since freshman year of high school, you were either a very wise 14 year old, or are a very ignorant adult.
• How come flies always seem to get in through the the tiniest gap but can't escape through the big open window?

Cool Images

• Daytime fireworks
• Girl Morphing
• Amazing mechanisms

7/26/16

7/26/16

News

• Highest-paid CEOs run worst-performing companies, research finds
• 'Hostages taken' in French church by 2 armed men- BBC News
• Russia denies it was behind the hacking of DNC emails while Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claims the scandal was just a 'diversion' by Hillary Clinton

Science

• Germany's largest Bank says a form of Basic Income may be needed to keep the global economy growing
• New microneedles will provide painless injections and will only pierce the outer layer of the skin
• How Two Facebook Developers Could Decide the Election

Showerthoughts

• 'Coffee flavored water' doesn't sound good but that's what coffee is.
• Who looked at a bowl of rice and was like "I bet the most efficient way of eating this is with two sticks."
• I love how literal the word "fireplace" is.

Cool Images

• 36,000 feet over Australia
• Metal forging is hot
• Perspective art

7/24/16

7/24/16

News

• Rio Olympics 2016: Russia not given blanket ban by IOC
• The Media Village at the Rio Olympics Is Built on a Mass Grave of Slaves
• ISIS men dressed as women arrested in Syria

Science

• 19-year-old "Robot Wars" star picked up all his engineering skills from YouTube tutorials
• Federal regulators says car makers “cannot wait for perfect” on automation
• Remote-Controlled Microrobots Are Now Available for Surgeries

Showerthoughts

• The two things that I resist the most in my day are going to bed at night, and getting out of bed in the morning.
• Jack really dodged a bullet by not eating those beans.
• The leaning Tower of Pisa - When you mess up so bad it becomes a tourist attraction.

Cool Images

• Fractal Jigsaw
• Air powered lego car
• Soccer on bikes

7/23/16

7/23/16

News

• Great Barrier Reef Undergoing a 'Complete Ecosystem Collapse,' Scientists Say
• Erdogan shuts down 1,000+ private schools, 1,200+ charities, 15 universities
• Suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan leave at least 80 dead

Science

• Nation's longest bike path will connect Maine to Florida: The East Coast Greenway will stretch from Calais, Maine, to Key West, Florida, a 2,900-mile distance. The project will provide non-motorized users a unique way to travel up and down the East Coast through 25 cities and 16 states
• Donuts in flight in first US-approved drone delivery
• Remarkable 24-Seat Driverless Cabs Are Arriving in Singapore

Showerthoughts

• If opposites attract, I should be dating a gorgeous, billionaire supermodel that has a loving family.
• My lawn drinks cleaner water than most of the world.
• Tobacco companies kill their best customers.

Cool Images

• Awesome recovery!
• Water Slinky
• Lightning illuminates curtains of rain against an Arizona sunset

7/22/16

7/22/16

News

• 'Shots fired' in Munich shopping centre
• Alcohol is a direct cause of seven ​​forms of cancer, finds study: "...the epidemiological evidence can support the judgment that alcohol causes cancer of the oropharynx, larynx, oesophagus, liver, colon, rectum and breast”
• Christians, Muslims and atheists call for end to compulsory religious education in Ireland. "The schools need to prepare for situations where a majority of students may wish to withdraw and where religious instruction and worship may be required by a minority, if at all"

Science

• This Week in Science: A Dramatic Loss in Earth's Biodiversity, Using Genetic Engineering To Defeat Arthritis, And More!
• New Artificial Muscles Could Be The Holy Grail Of Soft Robotics
• Snowden Designs a Device to Warn if Your iPhone’s Radios Are Snitching

Showerthoughts

• Fingerless gloves are now perfectly sensible for Pokémon trainers to wear.
• The idea that humans are able to consider another species "over populated" is kind of arrogant.
• If I'm ignorant of the law, I get a citation. If the cop is ignorant of the law, I get a citation.

Cool Images

• Waterfall
• Battlebots
• The Sun in different wavelengths

7/21/16

7/21/16

News

• Turkey to temporarily suspend European Convention on Human Rights after coup attempt
• Kickasstorrents domains seized, owner arrested by Polish authorities and facing extradition to the US
• UK nuclear submarine collides with merchant vessel off Gibraltar

Science

• Elon Musk releases his Master Plan: Part 2
• Police 3D-printed a murder victim's finger to unlock his phone
• Tesla Autopilot reportedly prevented serious injury or saved the life of a pedestrian in DC

Showerthoughts

• I don't think we're thankful enough that the whole world agreed on the same units of time.
• Pharoahs convincing people they were gods and that taxes should go to building the world's largest buildings for them to die in was the original pyramid scheme
• As a kid I could never get my hands on a fast food meal and as an adult I can never get my hands on a home cooked meal

Cool Images

• Korean Riot Police Techniques
• Japanese Artist Shinji Nakaba hand-carves pearls into exquisite ‘Fairy Skulls’
• Divers found two metallic lumps weighing approximately 40 pounds (18 kilograms) and made up of thousands of ancient coins, fused together in the shape of the pottery vessel in which they were held