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