9/29/16

9/29/16

News

• Major Train Accident in Hoboken, Injuries Reported
• World of chess in uproar after women told they must play at next year’s world championships in Iran wearing hijabs
• India hits Pakistan terror launchpads in surgical strikes along LoC

Science

• NVIDIA AI Car Demonstration: Unlike Google/Tesla - their car has learnt to drive purely from observing human drivers and is successful in all driving conditions.
• Mean world temperatures from 1880 until last month
• The FDA just approved the first 'artificial pancreas'

Showerthoughts

• It would be scary if the entire Ocean was clear like a swimming pool.
• Someone should develop an AI specifically for reading Terms & Conditions and flagging dubious parts.
• They should charge less for drinks in the drive-thru because you can't refill them.

Cool Images

• A controlled spin
• Robot opening door
• Calbuco eruption

9/26/16

9/26/16

News

• Arnold Palmer Dies In Pittsburgh At 87
• 'Anti-Vaxxer' Mom Changes Mind After Her Three Kids Fall Ill
• Saudi women file petition to end male guardianship system

Science

• New gel coating makes rechargeable nanowire batteries last forever
• SpaceX fires its Raptor engine for Mars flights for the first time
• Solar power cost down 25% in five months - "There’s no reason why the cost of solar will ever increase again"

Showerthoughts

• As a kid I used to think of "kicked the bucket" as a tame way to state somebody died. I just realized as an adult it signifies kicking the bucket from underneath your feet that is keeping you alive before you hang yourself.
• One of the most environmentally friendly things I can do for the planet is not have children.
• Historically, when a new land is discovered and colonized, people eventually revolt and win their independence from their country of origin. When we go to Mars, it is inevitable that people born there will feel no love for Earth and will start a revolution to claim the planet as their own.

Cool Images

• Lava caves 300 feet below Washington D.C.
• Manually wiping hard dive
• Rocket propulsion hovering

9/25/16

9/25/16

News

• New North Carolina law (goes into effect Oct. 1st) seeks to block the public from seeing dashboard and body camera videos recorded by police
• Mass shooting in downtown Baltimore, at least 8 victims
• Indian Prime Minister: "I want to tell the people of Pakistan, India is ready to fight you. If you have the strength, come forward to fight against poverty. Let's see who wins. Let's see who is able to defeat poverty and illiteracy first, Pakistan or India."

Science

• Newly Developed Cell Derived from Spinach Leaves Uses Sunlight to Produce Electricity and Hydrogen from Water
• Human DNA Shielded from X-Rays by 'Water Bear' Protein
• Gary Johnson Calls for Space Colonization

Showerthoughts

• Every hotel refrigerator should at least fit a pizza box.
• Cannibalism could potentially solve both world hunger and overpopulation.
• For April fools day, SnapChat should have all of their filters work as normal, but once sent the filter is removed.

Cool Images

• 1500s Colossus
• Very clear ice
• Total Lunar Eclipse In Tajikistan

9/24/16

9/24/16

News

• First Ever Quadriplegic Treated With Stem Cells Regains Motor Control in His Upper Body
• Student suspended after posting picture of discolored water in school bathroom
• The UN just declared antibiotic resistance “the greatest and most urgent global risk"

Science

• How To Eradicate One Of Our Deadliest Enemies
• The world's first hydrogen-powered passenger train is coming to Germany
• As Our Jobs Are Automated, Some Say We'll Need A Guaranteed Basic Income

Showerthoughts

• It’s socially acceptable to talk about how reliant and addicted you are to a drug as long as that drug is caffeine.
• When YouTubers die their children will have hours upon hours of voice/video recording to remember them by.
• I used to look at my Grandfather carving with a knife and thought he was a master carpenter. He'd look at me with a computer and think I was a software engineer

Cool Images

• Tulip fields
• Shark
• Double bottle flip

9/23/16

9/23/16

News

• Pope says journalism based on fear-mongering, gossip is form of 'terrorism'
• Archeologists denounce Dakota Access pipeline for destroying artifacts: Coalition of 1,200 archeologists, museum directors and historians say $3.8bn Dakota Access pipeline disturbs Native American artifacts in North Dakota
• German politicians approve new law making it illegal to have sex with prostitutes without a condom

Science

• How To Eradicate One Of Our Deadliest Enemies
• Basic Income Might Be The Answer To Society's Productivity Crisis
• Stephen Hawking: If aliens call, we should be 'wary of answering'

Showerthoughts

• Uber should have a "no small talk" option when requesting a car
• The more money companies spend for longer, non skip-able YouTube ads, the less I want to use their product.
• It would be a good idea to have "The Price Is Right" with billionaires, just to see how out of touch they are.

Cool Images

• Household objects?
• Amazing antlers
• Finger painting

9/22/16

9/22/16

News

• Bumble bee is proposed for U.S. endangered species status
• The United Arab Emirates is going to start taking in Syrian refugees
• New mayor kills off Rome's bid for 2024 Olympics

Science

• How To Eradicate One Of Our Deadliest Enemies
• Senate panel authorizes money for Mars mission, shuttle replacement
• Researchers teleport particle of light six kilometres

Showerthoughts

• When I procrastinate, current me really expects a lot out of future me.
• What if Earth is like the North Korea of the solar system and all the other planets are inhabited, but we are kept from the truth, and our world leaders are viewed as cruel and oppressive by the other planets.
• When I was younger I thought cookie jars would be a bigger point of contention in the house.

Cool Images

• Where the Earth meets the sky, Bolivia
• Star trails
• Most powerful solar furnace, 7,000°F

9/21/16

9/21/16

News

• I called the Wells Fargo ethics line and was fired
• Nashville becomes 1st city in Tennessee to decriminalize small amounts of pot.
• Antibiotics: World leaders sign groundbreaking UN declaration to tackle 'biggest global health threat'

Science

• How To Eradicate One Of Our Deadliest Enemies
• SpaceX Chief Elon Musk Will Explain Next Week How He Wants to "Make Humans a Multiplanetary Species"
• NASA will soon reveal a 'surprising' discovery about a moon of Jupiter that may support life

Showerthoughts

• I like reading comments because it's like a conversation between people, but it's not weird if I just listen and don't add anything.
• I wonder if any of my ancestors owned one of my dog's ancestors.
• The world's most famous carpenter died nailed to a board.

Cool Images

• Skydiving catch
• Dropping a spinning basketball off a dam
• Special book

9/20/16

9/20/16

News

• China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth
• Student suspended for turning in knife
• Teachers at Christian fundamentalist schools in Britain allegedly performed exorcisms on pupils, beat children in religious rituals and “groomed” girls for marriage, according to former students who say they have decided to speak out now after years of suffering in silence

Science

• The U.S. government says self-driving cars “will save time, money and lives” and just issued policies endorsing the technology
• Microsoft will 'solve' cancer within 10 years by 'reprogramming' diseased cells
• A Faster Internet: Terabit Networking Was Just Successfully Tested

Showerthoughts

• Dr Seuss would have had a hell of a time trying to write his stories with autocorrect
• In ancient times, a bag of Trail Mix would be a luxury unlike any other. They'd have to import chocolate from Central America, cashews from India, almonds from Africa, peanuts from South America, and raisins from North America.
• Microsoft should make all previous versions of Windows free, upon release of a new version, to show 100% confidence that the new one is better than any that came before.

Cool Images

• Spirograph rainbow
• Climbing without rope
• Chinese students

9/19/16

9/19/16

News

• NY, NJ bombings: Suspect charged with attempted murder of officers
• CCTV captures the moment 'an election official stuffs a pile of voting papers in to a ballot box' in Russia as Putin's party sweeps to victory amid claims of vote-rigging
• India offers land to Elon Musk to test Hyperloop

Science

• Elon Musk scales up his ambitions, considering going “well beyond” Mars
• A world without work? Utopia or hell?
• Companies are hiring playwrights and poets to create meaningful AI

Showerthoughts

• I've never had to change the lightbulb in a microwave.
• Remember that every corpse on Everest was once a highly motivated person.
• First we put watches in phones so that we don't need to look at our watch, now we put our phones in watches so that we don't need to look at our phones.

Cool Images

• Exiting a tunnel going 300 km/h
• Amazing lighter trick
• Surprise painting

9/18/16

9/18/16

News

• Video surfaces in DUI lawsuit showing officers planning fabricated charges
• Police Chief: St. Cloud Crossroads Mall Stabber Mentioned Allah, Asked Victim if He Was Muslim
• Hong Kong election: ballot papers outnumbered voter turnout in at least 5 polling stations

Science

• An AI system at Houston Methodist Hospital read breast X-rays 30x faster than doctors, with 20% greater accuracy
• The Capital of the Philippines, Manila, is phasing out gasoline powered public transport tricycles in favor of electric powered ones
• US Army will begin 50 Kilowatt laser testing in 2017 and then advance to 100 kilowatt tests and deployments through 2021

Showerthoughts

• "Where are you" is probably the least used phrase in sign language.
• I know more people whose lives were ruined as a result of World of Warcraft than as a result of smoking pot.
• It is amazing to think that nighttime is actually the natural state of the universe, and the only reason we have daytime is because Earth just so happens to be facing a giant star illuminating it.

Cool Images

• Open close
• The reflection on his helmet visor
• A guy grew a tree and formed it to be a chair. This entire chair is one solid piece of wood

9/17/16

9/17/16

News

• Chicago police rolling out new, mandatory 'de-escalation' training
• Amid California drought, Los Angeles water department waters fake grass
• "Copyright is not a divine right" - Indian court rules in favour of photocopying college textbooks

Science

• France imposes a ban on plastic cups and cutlery
• Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California Grid
• Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced plan to launch a chip-sized spacecraft to a neighbouring star

Showerthoughts

• You can't tell anything about a person from their star sign, but you can tell a lot about someone who believes in them.
• Scientists are adult kids stuck in the "why phase".
• Bubbles underwater are the opposite of rain.

Cool Images

• Drone fishing
• Hummingbirds
• Wall pong

9/16/16

9/16/16

News

• Chicago police rolling out new, mandatory 'de-escalation' training
• Oakland Police Say They Accidentally Deleted 25 Percent Of Their Body-Cam Archive
• Apple hit with $118m ‘back tax’ payment in Japan

Science

• 26% of Netflix Users May Cancel Cable TV This Year
• Audi self driving car ad
• Robots will eliminate 6% of all US jobs by 2021, report says

Showerthoughts

• Two babies born at the same time on different sides of the world would have different birthdays.
• If I know someone can take a joke/insult without being offended, then I don't mind if they insult me. But if it is someone who gets offended easily who insults me, I find that offensive.
• The best sign of a healthy relationship is no sign of it on Facebook.

Cool Images

• Parkour
• Drone fishing
• Baton skills

9/15/16

9/15/16

News

• Boston police commissioner says union sent harmful message by fighting body camera program
• California High School Student's Grade Lowered For Sitting During Pledge Of Allegiance
• Australians petition to put Steve Irwin on their money

Science

• Uber'€™s Self-Driving Taxis Have Hit The Streets
• Russian scientists have found that treating cells with cold plasma leads to their regeneration and rejuvenation
• Switzerland is voting "for a sustainable and resource-efficient economy"

Showerthoughts

• The movie Snowden should be leaked online before it gets released in theaters.
• Students are stereotypically viewed as being lazy, but I worked ten times harder as a student than I do in my career now.
• As an adult I don't procrastinate; I just straight out ignore my responsibilities.

Cool Images

• Tape measure skills
• From clay to hand
• Face painting

9/14/16

9/14/16

News

• ‘It’s My Job to Save Them:’ Maryland School Bus Driver Pulls 20 Children From Burning Vehicle
• Bernie Sanders, Daniel Ellsberg, former members of the NSA and more weigh in: 'Edward Snowden did this country a great service. Let him come home'
• The richest one per cent of the UK population now owns more than 20 times the total wealth of the poorest fifth, making the country one of the most unequal in the developed world

Science

• "If Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has his way with high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, the American billionaire's company SpaceX may test-run its futuristic high speed train, the Hyperloop, in Pune [India]"
• My ride in a self-driving Uber; or how I learned to stop worrying and trust the algorithm
• NASA Scientist Claims Space Mining is Possible With Today's Tech

Showerthoughts

• I hate when people show me YouTube videos but love showing people YouTube videos.
• 10 years ago I used to joke about how in the heck Fidel Castro is still alive. Fidel Castro is STILL alive.
• Hard drive recovery will be a valuable skill for future archaeologists.

Cool Images

• Atlas the robot balancing on a 2 cm-wide board for 22 seconds before falling off.
• Oozing lava
• Rotating flame

9/13/16

9/13/16

News

• Police union resists body cams, judge orders Boston cops to wear them
• Police officer sacked for not shooting black man holding an unloaded gun
• Edward Snowden says Obama should grant him a pardon for disclosing government surveillance programs

Science

• AI will eliminate six percent of jobs in five years, says report
• Brad Wardell warns robots will be used to suppress attempts by the masses to rise up
• Deutsche Bank has studied the last 35 years and says the next 35 don’t look so good

Showerthoughts

• In order to grow our muscles, we kill other animals and eat THEIR muscles.
• If someone says they will "google" something in a show or a movie, they probably aren't getting payed for it. But if they say they will look something up on Bing, you can bet it's product placement.
• Every morning you get up, you're thousands of miles away from the position where you went to bed the last night.

Cool Images

• Car donuts
• Giant beach ball
• Swedish warship

9/12/16

9/12/16

News

• Confirmed: Mysterious ancient Maya book, Grolier Codex, is genuine
• Wells Fargo exec who headed up phony accounts unit walks away with $125 Million USD
• 5.3 Earthquake in South Korea

Science

• A paralysed woman wearing an exoskeleton suit has completed the Great North Run in the UK
• This New Electric Bus Can Drive 350 Miles on One Charge
• Yes, We Can Build Industry in Space—And We Should Start Now

Showerthoughts

• There are infinite numbers, but the very first one, sorted alphabetically, is "eight."
• Every time a wind farm powers my desk fan, I'm just teleporting wind.
• Universities should be free upfront and take 10% of your earnings for the first 10 years of your career. So they would be motivated to teach you useful stuff.

Cool Images

• Human eyes can't see all 12 dots at the same time
• Lego plane crash
• Realistic tattoo

9/11/16

9/11/16

News

• Passengers terrified on easyJet flight as deported migrant screams 'death is coming' 17 times
• Dozens of birds fall from sky in Boston, dead from unknown cause
• $122 Million in Cash Found in Apartment Belonging to Acting Head of Russia's Anti-Corruption Agency

Science

• Elon Musk is Looking to Kickstart Transhuman Evolution With “Brain Hacking” Tech
• This girl isn't real, and its proof that CGI isn't creepy anymore
• General Electric wants to build a $1 billion 3D-printing empire

Showerthoughts

• Teenagers aren't in a rebellious stage they just reached an age where they know that adults don't have a magic stopping power.
• On 9/11, I remember how the country came together. 15 years later, I don't think it's been further apart.
• I wish I could see a slow-mo replay of all the times I unknowingly almost died.

Cool Images

• Very sharp knife
• Wafers
• Train track laying train

9/10/16

9/10/16

News

• US government halts oil pipeline opposed by Native Americans
• Cops Seize $171 During Arrest, Court Wants $175 To Get It Back
• A Chinese billionaire may have hidden 6% of the world's aluminum in the Mexican desert

Science

• Google's DeepMind Achieves Speech-Generation Breakthrough
• Stem cell therapy restores arm, hand movement for paralyzed man
• Electricity-Generating Windows Could Turn Skyscrapers into Solar Farms

Showerthoughts

• The problem is not people being uneducated; The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they've been taught. And not educated enough to question what they've been taught.
• Sour, bitter and salty are very different tastes but very similar moods.
• I may go through my whole life with an allergy without ever knowing what it is.

Cool Images

• Railing painting
• Ants dragging a dead worm
• Nervous system

9/9/16

9/9/16

News

• USA swelters through hottest summer nights in 121 years | No state saw a cooler-than-average season
• U.S. passes bill, allows 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia
• 19-year-old female Kurdish fighter Asia Ramazan Antar has been killed when she reportedly tried to stop an attack by three Islamic State suicide car bombers

Science

• The first "Waste Shark" has been released in the Rotterdam Port. A water drone that "eats" plastic, up to 500kg a day
• "Star Trek" ComBadges That Work With Your Phone Are Coming
• Star Trek’s Transparent Aluminum Has Now Been Invented

Showerthoughts

• If my calculator had a history, it would be more embarrassing than my browser history.
• When the older generations says this generation is terrible, they're really saying they sucked as parents.
• People who buy the iPhone 7 won't be able to catch it mid-air when they drop it by holding the earphones cable.

Cool Images

• Tape on a ceiling fan
• Star Wars vinyl record
• Dust devil

9/8/16

9/8/16

News

• North Korea bans sarcasm because Kim Jong-un fears people only agree with him ‘ironically’
• A court in the Indian city of Mumbai has given the death penalty to a man for throwing acid at a woman at a busy railway station three years ago in what is being hailed as a landmark ruling
• Tourists Are Flocking to the Great Barrier Reef Because It’s Dying - Australia tried to hide information about the fragile Great Barrier Reef, but millions of tourists still got the memo

Science

• New test spots cancer 10yrs before symptoms show
• The Age of the Wordless Logo: "Consumers are jaded about advertising in a way they weren’t several decades ago"
• Paralyzed woman completes half marathon using robotic exoskeleton

Showerthoughts

• If you're 24 years old, you've already been around for 10% of American history.
• I think the worst part about a break up isn't the loneliness; it's knowing there is someone out there who knows how incredibly weird you are that you no longer trust.
• The world would probably be a better place if people thought "Is it ethical?" instead of "Is it legal?" more often.

Cool Images

• Underwater wave
• Tallest building in Los Angeles
• The most powerful nuclear explosion

9/7/16

9/7/16

News

• 70 year old Man robs bank, sits down in lobby and tells police he would rather be in jail than keep living with wife
• As Gynnya McMillen coughed and gasped for air, shaking in a seizure while taking her final breaths, a Kentucky juvenile detention youth worker stood outside her isolation cell watching, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the 16-year-old’s estate
• Costa Rica has been running on 100% renewable energy for 2 months straight: 76 days and zero fossil fuels

Science

• How Tesla Autopilot drove a man with a blood clot to the hospital, and expanded the autonomous car debate
• A massive indoor vertical farm is about to open in the US and it grows baby leaves and herbs using a method which requires no sunlight or soil and next to no water
• For First Time Ever, Carbon Nanotube Transistors Have Outperformed Silicon

Showerthoughts

• When a company offers me a better price after I cancel their subscription, they're just admitting they were overcharging me.
• Bodies are weird. I can run, jump, wakeboard, do cartwheels, play piano, and type 90 words per minute, but if I brush my teeth with the wrong hand it's like time slows down while my brain tries to process what the actual hell is going on.
• Having someone's picture as the background of your smartphone is the modern day equivalent of having someone's picture in your wallet.

Cool Images

• Cutting a carrot
• Vantablack 2.0
• Panasonic transparent TV

9/6/16

9/6/16

News

• A revolutionary drug that melts away cancer in some stage four patients has been given fast-track approval in the United States
• Industry insiders estimate EpiPen costs no more than $30
• The 'impossible' EM Drive is about to be tested in space - It uses electromagnetic waves as 'fuel', creating thrust by bouncing microwave photons back and forth inside a cone-shaped closed metal cavity

Science

• The Next Industrial Revolution Could Put Millions Out of Work
• San Francisco Lowe's stores to get robot workers this fall
• A Brief Explanation of the Kardashev Scale: How Far Can Humanity Really Advance?

Showerthoughts

• There should be a college course where you're REQUIRED to bring your smartphone to the the exams in order to find answers to the questions (in topics you've never studied before), because quickly finding information available online is an important life skill to have.
• Trees live underground and use the above-ground part as a snorkel.
• I find it funny how the first Netflix ads were aired on TV. It's like the the television networks assisted in their own homicide.

Cool Images

• Giant air cannon
• Train at sunset
• Drone Selfie