8/10/16

8/10/16

News

• Speeders want $3M back from New Miami's traffic cameras; 40 percent of money collected went to traffic company
• The water in one of the Olympic swimming pools in Rio has turned green and officials are unsure why
• Vietnam has discreetly fortified several of its islands in the disputed South China Sea with new mobile rocket launchers capable of striking China's runways and military installations across the vital trade route

Science

• Cyborg stingray swims toward light, breaks new ground
• Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR (video)
• Scientists Develop a 'Bed-of-Nails’ Surface that Physically Rips Bacteria Apart While Leaving Human Cells Alone

Showerthoughts

• I definitely used way more glue in the first five years of my life than I have in all the time since then.
• Let's take a moment to appreciate that mother nature not only pre-sliced but also pre-wrapped oranges.
• The Olympics would be so much better if YouTube or Netflix had the rights to stream them.

Cool Images

• Lightning captured at 7200 Frames Per Second
• Stop motion run cycle
• Riptide