8/19/16

8/19/16

News

• Louisiana floods destroy home of Christian leader who says God sends natural disasters to punish gay people
• Putin's new right-hand man claims to have invented a device called a "nooscope" which can tap into global consciousness and "detect and register changes in the biosphere and in human activity"
• US Olympic Committee apologizes to city of Rio for swimmers' actions on night of alleged robbery

Science

• 'We're just rentals': Uber drivers ask where they fit in a self-driving future
• The US will soon no longer control the internet’s domain name system
• Uber'€™s first self-driving cars will start picking up passengers this month

Showerthoughts

• Taxes are like a subscription to your country that you can't cancel, no matter how bad the service gets.
• I hate any shampoo company that shapes their bottles in a way that makes it impossible to put them down upside down.
• I wonder how often people who work at the patent office say to themselves, "I should have thought of that."

Cool Images

• SU-35 Jet slows down by thrust vectoring
• Negative trick
• Great welding is like an art form