10/29/16

10/29/16

News

• North Dakota pipeline activists say arrested protesters were kept in dog kennels
• Mass protest in Seoul against South Korean President
• The South Korean President has been under the control of a Shadow Cabal of 8 oligarchs

Science

• Elon Musk unveils solar roof with textured glass titles that look like traditional roofing tiles
• Newly Developed Transistors Use Such Low Amounts Of Power That They Can Function Without a Battery for Years
• One factory can produce 60 million mosquitoes per week that are genetically engineered to destroy other mosquitoes. Early tests "showed the population of wild Aedes aegypti insects dropped by 90 percent after the mutant mosquitoes were released."

Showerthoughts

• Earth is like a guy who knows exactly where to stand next to a bonfire.
• 10 years ago we all wanted cool ringtones. Now we all just use the standard one.
• Facebook is just a Pokédex for people.

Cool Images

• Nuclear bomb immediately after being detonated
• Frozen pond
• Wiggles

10/27/16

10/27/16

News

• Texas school district spends $12m in surplus money on football stadium, forgets it needs to build elementary school
• Berkeley protesters form human chain to stop white students from getting to class
• Iran's top Quran reciter to face court over child rapes, "threatened to leak the names of 100 of Iran’s high profile officials also implicated in raping and molesting children"

Science

• A $100m initiative to listen for signals from alien life is targeting a star with an unusual dimming pattern. The Breakthrough Initiative, backed by Prof Stephen Hawking and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, will train a US radio telescope on a target called Tabby's Star
• A desert area of 38 km^2 in inner Mongolia, Chinna was turned into grassland using cyanobacteria. Same method would be tried on Mars for terraforming
• Dutch unveil giant outside vacuum cleaner to filter dirty air: "The system is said to be able to suck in air from a 300m radius – and from up to 7 kms upwards. It could treat some 800,000 cubic metres of air an hour, filtering out 100% of fine particles and 95% of ultra-fine particles"

Showerthoughts

• Coffee should have a "caffeine by volume" rating like alcohol so I can choose how wired I really want to be when I buy coffee.
• If the "Six Million Dollar Man" show were set in the present day, instead of a bionic man it would just be a guy that had two knee replacements.
• Harry Potter would have been amazing if each book got a season in a Netflix series.

Cool Images

• Glacier caving
• Flash flood from above
• Hammer and feather gravity test on the Moon conducted by astronaut David Scott

10/26/16

10/26/16

News

• White House Urges Ban on Non-Compete Agreements
• Iran's top Quran reciter to face court over child rapes, "threatened to leak the names of 100 of Iran’s high profile officials also implicated in raping and molesting children"
• NATO calls for more troops for largest military build-up on Russia's borders since the Cold War

Science

• IBM's Watson was tested on 1,000 cancer diagnoses made by human experts. In 30 percent of the cases, Watson found a treatment option the human doctors missed. Some treatments were based on research papers that the doctors had not read. More than 160,000 cancer research papers are published a year
• New gene-editing technology successfully cures a genetic blood disorder in mice
• Google: Our Assistant Will Trigger the Next Era of AI

Showerthoughts

• Once she hits a certain age, calling a female a "big girl" goes from being a compliment to an insult.
• Why do the ninja turtles wear masks they're the only giant turtles around.
• A doctor is a veterinarian that only has to work on one species.

Cool Images

• If the machine was not spinning the ball would roll off
• 3D printed castle
• Michael van Straaten's Butterfly painting

10/25/16

10/25/16

News

• AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal
• At least Four people killed in Horror Dreamworld Ride tragedy in Queensland Australia
• Norway welcomes US Marines amid Russian tensions

Science

• Uber Self-Driving Truck Packed With Budweiser Makes First Delivery in Colorado
• Renewables made up half of net electricity capacity added last year: "The cost of wind dropped by about one third in the last five to six years, and that of solar dropped by 80%"
• Could an Astronaut's Corpse Bring New Life to Another World? Three scientists (a Nobel-winning geneticist, a chemist, and a microbial biologist) agree that a corpse could indeed seed life across the cosmos in two distinct ways

Showerthoughts

• When you catch a leaf falling from a tree, you're holding something that has never touched the ground.
• Most of the time when a pickup line 'works', it was actually just said by a good looking person.
• The person who invented swimming was the first person who didn't drown.

Cool Images

• Stunt plane stabilized camera
• Character creator cup
• Winter in Estonia

10/24/16

10/24/16

News

• Oklahoma shootings: Gunman on loose with AK-47 after killing two people and shooting two police officers
• Ex-CEO of red light camera firm sentenced to 14 months for bribery
• Venezuelan Congress Declares That President Maduro Has Staged a Coup

Science

• Coal will not recover | Coal does not have a regulation problem, as the industry claims. Instead, it has a growing market problem, as other technologies are increasingly able to produce electricity at lower cost. And that trend is unlikely to end
• India’s solar power set to outshine coal
• An artificial intelligence system has correctly predicted the outcomes of hundreds of cases heard at the European Court of Human Rights, researchers have claimed. The AI predicted the verdicts to an accuracy of 79%, according to the scientists involved.

Showerthoughts

• A telephone makes sound travel faster than the speed of sound.
• You could just post a picture of a random object and say it's cake and people would be super impressed.
• Calling yourself a hacker for executing a DDoS is like calling yourself a lock picker because you blew up a door with dynamite.

Cool Images

• 3D kitchen ad
• Two trains on three tracks
• Saw Scaled Viper

10/23/16

10/23/16

News

• Man killed wife's father and sister to lure her to their funeral, then murdered her at the service
• China wants to give all of its citizens a score – and their rating could affect every area of their lives: The Communist Party wants to encourage good behaviour by marking all its people using online data. Those who fall short will be denied basic freedoms like loans or travel
• Chinese gang kidnaps and cripples children, forces them to beg on streets of Malaysia

Science

• Spain aiming for 100 per cent renewable energy: "Enough wind energy is being generated in Spain to power more than 29 million homes every day, according to one of the country's biggest renewable energy companies."
• City banks plan to hoard bitcoins to help them pay cyber ransoms: "Experts say blue chip companies have decided it’s cheaper to deal with extortionists than risk damaging attacks"
• The Little-Known Company That Enables Worldwide Mass Surveillance: "technology that allows its clients to “monitor, intercept and capture 100% of traffic on networks.” The Auckland-based company’s motto is “power to see all” and its logo is an eye."

Showerthoughts

• If a stranger insults me, I'l probably ignore it, as their opinion is meaningless. If a stranger compliments me, I'll probably treasure it, as their opinion is important.
• The last person I would want giving me love and marriage advice during my wedding ceremony is a priest that has lived a life of celibacy.
• The only reason I know about Aleppo is because Gary Johnson didn't.

Cool Images

• Escaping death
• Barkour
• The throne of St. Peter

10/19/16

10/19/16

News

• Record high 60 percent of Americans back legal pot, poll finds
• Feeding cows seaweed could slash global greenhouse gas emissions, researchers say: "They discovered adding a small amount of dried seaweed to a cow's diet can reduce the amount of methane a cow produces by up to 99 per cent"
• Finland is becoming increasingly worried about what it sees as Russian propaganda against it, including Russian questioning about the legality of its 1917 independence. The country shares a 1,340 km (833 mile) border and a difficult and bloody history with Russia, of which it was once a part

Science

• Migraines could be caused by gut bacteria, study suggests: "In the future, the researchers said, it might be possible to “have a magical probiotic mouthwash” that would alter the balance of bacteria to help prevent migraines"
• A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing
• Google has more than 1,000 artificial intelligence projects in the works

Showerthoughts

• Putting soymilk into coffee is putting beanwater into a different kind of beanwater.
• In some countries people are broke and don't even have clean drinking water and in my country we have fountains in public places that spew clean water and people just throw their unwanted money into it.
• Having a video not load after watching an entire ad, is like the equivalent of having a vending machine eat your money.

Cool Images

• Octopus kite
• Front foot of a male diving beetle
• Converging rivers in Geneva, Switzerland

10/18/16

10/18/16

News

• Islamist girls’ school that taught pupils gay people should be killed and men could beat their wives forced to close
• Scientists Accidentally Discover Efficient Process to Turn CO2 Into Ethanol
• Judge presiding over 'El Chapo's' case shot, killed while jogging outside home

Science

• Scientists Accidentally Discover Efficient Process to Turn CO2 Into Ethanol: The process is cheap, efficient, and scalable, meaning it could soon be used to remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere
• Poll shows 54% of Europeans would favour limited Basic Income via Central Bank cash injection
• Self driving cars will be ‘bullied’ by aggressive drivers, survey says

Showerthoughts

• I just realized that whenever I hear a "... walk into a bar" joke, I've been picturing the same bar my whole life. I wonder if it exists somewhere or if its just a mesh of different bars I saw on TV as a kid.
• In some countries people are broke and don't even have clean drinking water and in my country we have fountains in public places that spew clean water and people just throw their unwanted money into it.
• If earphones keep getting tangled and shoelaces keep getting untangled, why don't we use earphones as shoelaces and shoelaces as earphones?

Cool Images

• Bird watching through time
• Winter in Sweden
• What scallops actually look like

10/17/16

10/17/16

News

• WikiLeaks has confirmed that Ecuador is responsible for cutting Julian Assange's internet access
• UK admits it spied illegally for 17 years, is sorry, won't stop
• Russia Today bank accounts 'frozen in UK'

Science

• Largest-Ever Destroyer Just Joined US Navy, and It Can Fire Railguns
• The U.S. government just made its biggest clean energy purchase ever: "will power roughly one-third of the electricity needs of 14 naval installations in the state, including San Diego’s naval base and the Marines’ Twentynine Palms and Camp Pendleton."
• AI can now independently learn from its own memory

Showerthoughts

• If Netflix required you to sign in frequently, 80 percent of the people I know wouldn't have Netflix.
• Every time I watch a mountain climbing documentary, all I can think is how the true star is the cameraman.
• The ultimate goal of a good dating app is to be deleted.

Cool Images

• Burning steel wool
• Dual handed water painting
• Freezing a bubble

10/16/16

10/16/16

News

• ND Prosecutor Seeks "Riot" Charges Against Amy Goodman For Reporting On Pipeline Protest
• Turkey legalizes cannabis production for medicinal and scientific purposes in 19 provinces
• UAE's Sheikh Mohammed fills his private plane with $354,000 of supplies and sends to Haiti

Science

• In Scotland, gusts of wind usher in a quiet energy revolution: On August 7th Scotland became the latest country to power all their electricity needs 100% from renewables for a day
• Scientists just broke a fusion world record - and it lifts the bar for clean energy potential: "The new record stands at 2.05 atmospheres - a 15 percent jump over the previous record of 1.77 atmospheres"
• The latest patent for the 'impossible' EM Drive has just been made public - and it’s wild

Showerthoughts

• The first immortal creature will probably be a lab rat.
• When I picture the Middle Ages in my head, I also imagine people casting spells and fighting dragons, even though I know none of that ever happened in real life.
• You can't see photons, but photons are the only thing you can see.

Cool Images

• Bottom of water lily
• Ducks in water
• Stunning light effect from 1000W LED equipped drone

10/12/16

10/12/16

News

• Police arrest more people for marijuana use than for all violent crimes combined
• 65 thousand Iraqi soldiers ready for Mosul liberation battle
• Australian man Damian Berg cleared by CCTV footage after being 'framed' for Philippines drug deal

Science

• How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
• Physicist who helped discover the Higgs Boson developed a fertility app while she was still at CERN with an algorithm confirmed by 2 clinical trials to have a 99.5% efficacy rating making it as effective as the pill. It is the only app of its kind to be regulated as an approved medical device
• Japan has more electric vehicle chargers than gas stations

Showerthoughts

• I am more comfortable talking with newer friends because they are familiar with the newest incarnation of me and hold less expectations.
• You know you are no longer a child when getting money causes relief instead of excitement.
• We have two minutes to live but breathing resets the clock.

Cool Images

• Lava
• Japan bamboo tunnel
• Small camera

10/11/16

10/11/16

News

• Samsung to permanently end production of Galaxy Note 7 phone
• UK government finally concedes cannabis has a medicinal effect
• BP has decided not to go ahead with its controversial plans to drill for oil in the commonwealth marine reserve in the Great Australian Bight

Science

• Tesla CEO Elon Musk challenges Big Coal to go toe-to-toe with 0 subsidies after being called a fraud
• The Age of Vertical Farming Is Officially Upon Us
• Barack Obama: America will take the giant leap to Mars

Showerthoughts

• If someone tells me they're dumb, I assume they're smarter than they think, but of someone tells me they're smart I assume they're dumber than they think.
• Tobacco companies should be leading in the search for a cancer cure. The day after a cure is found, sales of cigarettes are going to go up by 500,000% from the millions of us that quit for health / longevity reasons.
• If I'm ever being followed in a car, I'm gonna go to a fast food drive-thru and test their commitment.

Cool Images

• Eclipse light through a tree
• Fountain pen
• Our universe

10/9/16

10/9/16

News

• A man who kept sexts sent between his teenage stepdaughter and her boyfriend because he wanted police to act has been convicted of possessing child pornography and placed on the sex offenders register
• Wrong Way Driver Kills 5, Steals a Police Cruiser, and Keeps Going
• Dropbox, Google Drive, Github blocked in Turkey

Science

• Want to Slow Climate Change? Stop Having Babies
• This protein is mutated in half of all cancers. New drugs aim to fix it before it’s too late
• One-Nanometer Gate Dimensions for Transistors Have Been Achieved

Showerthoughts

• If someone told me to transport a $30,000 object that, if mishandled, could kill everyone around it, I would walk it so slowly and carefully to its destination. But I drive my car with one hand, while messing with the radio, going 70 mph.
• When someone tells you to go and do a chore you were about to do anyway, it makes you about 100 times less willing to do it
• Car companies should periodically produce replicas of iconic cars with EXACTLY the same exterior design specifications but modern internal engineering and instruments.

Cool Images

• The power of atmospheric pressure
• Clever editing
• My favorite GIF

10/8/16

10/8/16

News

• Leaflet calling for death of those who insult Islam 'handed out at London mosque'
• Vermont becomes the 2nd US state to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day instead of Columbus Day
• German push to ban combustion-engine cars by 2030 wins support

Science

• How an Australian University Student Beat NASA at Its Own Game - Through his Honours, Masters, and PhD, Paddy invented the Neumann Drive, a world record-breaking ion engine that can achieve more than 11,000 seconds of specific impulse beating NASA's best experimental efforts of 9,600
• CIA Can Predict Social Uprisings 3-5 Days in Advance thanks to powerful super computers dubbed Siren Servers by the father of Virtual Reality, Jaron Lanier. The agency has beefed-up its “anticipatory intelligence” through the use of deep learning and machine learning servers.
• AI making a difference in cancer care - “in 30 percent of patients, Watson found something new—so that’s 300-plus people where Watson identified a treatment that a well-meaning, hard-working group of physicians hadn’t found” -trained to read 25 million published medical papers in about a week

Showerthoughts

• Over the past year I've taken so many "before" pictures of my body while telling myself im going to start working out, I basically just have a slideshow of me getting fatter.
• I wonder how many times I've seen the same bird without realizing it.
• If batteries could be charged from the friction of scrolling, our phones would never die.

Cool Images

• Beach in a box
• Face tracker and projector
• Unused Xbox one booting animation

10/6/16

10/6/16

News

• Massachusetts police used a military style helicopter to seize a single marijuana plant from an 81 year old woman using it to ease her arthritis and glaucoma
• Working class white men have lower incomes than they did in 1996
• Tourist faces two years in prison after pulling a loudspeaker plug during a religious sermon so he could get some sleep

Science

• No country on Earth is taking the 2 degree climate target seriously: we are betting our collective future on being able to bury millions of tons of carbon. It’s a huge and existentially risky bet — and maybe one out of a million people even know it’s being made
• First farm to grow vegetable in a desert using only sun and seawater
• After nearly a decade of research showing that it makes mice live up to 60% longer, scientists are trying Rapamycin out as an anti-aging drug in dogs and humans

Showerthoughts

• Whether you type "111111" or "123456", you will most likely think the same numbers while entering it.
• Humans have made themselves so comfortable that they build scary rides so they can remember what it's like to be really afraid.
• I wonder if 90-year-olds are ever like "oh man, what was I thinking when I was 80? I have life way more figured out now"

Cool Images

• Japanese rice field art
• Plane propulsion
• Hanging Bridge in AJ-Petri, Crimea

10/5/16

10/5/16

News

• A 7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn’t wake her parents. Police found them dead at home
• Indian Police detains 500 call-center employees for duping US citizens via phone scams
• After mass protests, Poland won't back total abortion ban

Science

• The Cost of Solar Power Has Fallen 25% in Only 5 Months
• Futuristic 'invisible TV' turns TRANSPARENT when you're not watching it - leaving just a pane of glass
• The UK’s solar panels generated more electricity than coal across the past six months combined

Showerthoughts

• Of all the bodily functions that could be contagious, thank goodness it's the yawn.
• I've seen so many price tags ending in 99 that I feel a little mentally weirded out when I see a normal, whole number price.
• I've never been so congested that I couldn't taste how shitty cough syrup is.

Cool Images

• Custom axe
• Freshly waxed car
• Camera stabilizer

10/4/16

10/4/16

News

• Ben Stiller Goes Public With Being Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer at 48
• BP platform leaks 95 tonnes of oil into North Sea
• Oktoberfest sees lowest number of visitors in 15 years - The world’s most famed beer fest experienced its lowest turnout since the September 11th 2001 attacks, but at the same time had an increase in sex crimes reported

Science

• Elon Musk: A Million Humans Could Live on Mars By the 2060s
• A Hyperloop train could be trialed in Australia - with a top speed of 1,200km/h it could cut journey time between Sydney and Melbourne to 55 mins, faster than a flight.
• British man might be first in the world to be cured of HIV after 'breakthrough' treatment

Showerthoughts

• You know that your game of monopoly starts to escalate when someone asks for the game instructions.
• No matter how good I clean my body, I feel filthy until I brush my teeth.
• Dog food can say it's any flavor it wants, it's not like you're going to test it.

Cool Images

• Weight distribution dynamics
• Science teacher trick
• Spider builds bubble nest

10/3/16

10/3/16

News

• Mother sues airline after staff fly 5-year-old boy to wrong city and present her with a different 'son'
• In 1990, more than 60% of people in East Asia were in extreme poverty. Now only 3.5% are.
• Saudi Princess Accused of Threatening Decorator Claims Diplomatic Immunity and Flees Paris

Science

• Decide who lives and who dies. The Moral Machine
• As tech trickles in, medicine is about to hit warp speed
• Urban Food Park: Scandinavia is Growing a “Silicon Valley for Agriculture” - "Innovation occurs best when knowledge is concentrated in clusters and cross-pollinate. By linking food production to urban life, we have tried to create an environment where people, knowledge and ideas meet."

Showerthoughts

• I don’t necessarily work ‘better under pressure’, I just literally will not work until I am under the extreme pressure of time constraints created by my own unnecessary procrastination.
• When someone posts a pic of themselves in their home, I'm more interested in the background to get a glimpse of their real life rather than the one they're trying to show.
• As a kid, I thought America seemed ancient and eternal. Now I realize that America is only 238 years old and could collapse at any time just like the Roman Empire.

Cool Images

• Skydiving near 360 rainbow
• Arty by Rob Gonvalves
• Dart throw