11/27/16

11/27/16

News

• Six people file complaint after Minneapolis officer shoots into car during downtown brawl
• Switzerland Votes to Keep Nuclear
• Marijuana advocates sceptical about Canada path to legal pot

Science

• Two teenage girls built Africa's first-ever private satellite - In May 2017, Africa will launch its first private satellite into space
• Theory that challenges Einstein's physics could soon be put to the test - Scientists behind a theory that the speed of light is variable - and not constant as Einstein suggested - have made a prediction that could be tested
• As contactless payments are on the rise, the use of cash in Sweden is declining and it is on the brink of becoming the world's first country to use digital only money

Showerthoughts

• There should be a millennial edition of Monopoly where you just walk round the board paying rent, never able to buy anything.
• If Apple owned the ISS it would spell disaster for other spacecraft that wanted to dock with it.
• A person with actual psychic powers would more likely be found working on Wall Street than working as a fortune teller.

Cool Images

• Tilt shift
• Fire fighting from the sky
• Food peeling machines

11/23/16

11/23/16

News

• Porn websites in the UK will be banned from showing a huge range of sex acts under new law
• It's Over: Volkswagen Says It Will Never Sell Another Diesel in the U.S.
• Massive paedophile ring uncovered by police in Norway after arrest of 51 men

Science

• Finland set to become first country to ban coal use for energy
• India aims to build 1 terrawatt of global solar power – four times the current worldwide total – and become a 100% electric vehicle nation by 2030. Those are great ambitions, but they still far short from what is needed for a true energy transformation away from coal
• Tesla powers a whole island with solar to show off its energy chops

Showerthoughts

• What if Socrates was being literal when he said "I know nothing" and the Socratic Method was just him asking questions because he had no idea what was going on?
• My "I'll be home in 5 minutes" and my wife's "I'll be ready in 5 minutes" is the same thing.
• Redbull seems to sponsor the activities you would least likely to get drowsy doing.

Cool Images

• Pipe bender
• Wet cherries collide
• 200mph

11/22/16

11/22/16

News

• No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS: Wal-Mart, Target, CVS sell aloe without appearance of plant
• Turkey's PM withdraws bill that would pardon men who sexually abuse underage girls if they marry the victims
• The richest 1% of Indians now own 58.4% of wealth

Science

• Obama Says Fake News Is Impeding Progress on Climate Change: "There was a baseline of facts that we could all work off of. And now we just don't have that"
• Tired of reading about climate change? Let's solve it...and create 2.8 million jobs.
• Donald Trump Says He Has ‘Open Mind’ on Climate Change Accord

Showerthoughts

• If someone offered to pay for my food and rent for the next 18 years, I'd do anything they ask of me. But I complained every time I took the trash out while living at my parent's house.
• When someone says there may be aliens in other galaxies, I'm inclined to believe them. When someone says they have proof, I think they're full of crap.
• Thinking my cat was simple minded for being entertained by string. Only to realize I was being entertained by a cat playing with a string.

Cool Images

• Perfect demolition
• West Scotland rare white rainbow
• Under the bridge

11/21/16

11/21/16

News

• Police, citing ‘ongoing riot,’ use water cannons on Dakota Access protesters in freezing weather
• 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake hits Fukushima, Japan. 3 Meter Tsunami warning at this time (22 November, 2016, 5:59am)
• UK Government Confirm Move to Force ISPs into Blocking “Adult” Sites

Science

• Tesla officially acquires SolarCity
• Modular Exoskeleton reduces muscle force need for hard labor by 2.5 times, workplace version available now and medical version in early 2018
• Why president Trump can’t squash the innovating, job creating, money saving clean energy industry: "79% of Americans would like to see more emphasis on domestic solar energy production. Over 80 major companies have committed to the goal of 100% renewable energy."

Showerthoughts

• My parents taught me to be kind and humble, honest and hardworking, and to save an unnecessary ton of plastic bags under the sink.
• Parking meters are just a convenient way to pay rent on a small plot of land.
• I spend most of my time at work to pay rent for a place that I hardly see because I'm at work.

Cool Images

• Trippy images
• Stunning Persian architecture
• Dark side of the loom

11/16/16

11/16/16

News

• British woman arrested on 'extra-marital sex' charges after reporting gang rape to police in Dubai as attackers go free
• Researchers And Politicians Slam The War On Drugs As A Failure - " over $100 billion is spent each year on trying to enforce prohibition, but with very little effect. In 2014, around one in 20 adults around the world are thought to have used some sort of illegal drug"
• China websites block searches for 'Fatty Kim the Third'

Science

• Snowden: We are becoming too dependent on Facebook as a news source; "To have one company that has enough power to reshape the way we think, I don’t think I need to describe how dangerous that is"
• Scientists from the National Institutes of Health have identified an antibody from an HIV-infected person that potently neutralized 98% of HIV isolates tested, including 16 of 20 strains resistant to other antibodies of the same class, for development to potentially treat or prevent HIV infection
• What Happens When You Give Basic Income to the Poor? Canada Is About to Find Out

Showerthoughts

• "Smoking or non-smoking" will eventually refer more to marijuana than to cigarettes.
• The speed of light is basically just the fastest the universe can render.
• The craziest prediction that the tv show "The Jetsons" made about life that far in the future was that a man could still support a middle class family of 4 by working in a factory.

Cool Images

• Zipline surfing
• Beauty of nature
• Bad posture

11/15/16

11/15/16

News

• West Virginia official who called 'Michelle Obama an 'Ape in Heels' fired following outcry
• Google will soon ban fake news sites from using its ad network - Cutting off their revenue streams
• China Warns Trump against Abandoning Climate Change Deal, Increases Climate Change Aid to Developing Countries to $ 3.1b

Science

• China will soon trump America: The country is now the global leader in climate change reform
• Florida's Amendment 1 defeat shows why solar won't be stopped, Trump or no Trump
• Michigan becomes the first state to allow driverless cars without a human driver or steering wheel

Showerthoughts

• The 5 second youtube ads are genius, I will watch those and even like what's being advertised. 30 second ones where you can't skip make me hate whatever product is being advertised.
• Monopoly is basically Dungeons and Dragons for accountants.
• Parents used to say 'don't believe everything you read on the internet.' Now if I ask my dad a question his first response is 'google it.'

Cool Images

• Strange painting
• Volcanic eruption and meteorite
• Underwater tiger

11/14/16

11/14/16

News

• Barbed wire stretched across bike path left cyclist having to pull it from around his throat
• Two-thirds of the world's internet users live under government censorship - report: China ranked as the worst abuser of internet freedom for the second consecutive year, followed by Syria and Iran
• Muslim-majority Bangladesh to drop Islam as state religion for strategic reasons 'when time comes': Ruling Awami League leader

Science

• Dan Rather: Now, More Than Ever, We Must Stand Up for Science
• First home-use brain implant allows ALS patient to communicate in everyday life
• Forget Mars, Trump Wants NASA To Visit Jupiter'€™s Moon Europa And Explore The Solar System

Showerthoughts

• Every time I save my game I choose "create new save", thinking I might go back to them at some point, but never do.
• I'm old enough to miss the days when I couldn't be reached at a moments notice.
• We are planning to sustain life on Mars yet we can't even do that in 3rd world country's on Earth.

Cool Images

• NYC at night
• Horsetail falls
• Wavy

11/13/16

11/13/16

News

• Climate change has destroyed half of Japan’s major coral reef
• 108-year-old Cubs fan died six days after celebrating second World Series win
• Powerful 7.4 earthquake strikes near Christchurch, New Zealand

Science

• This Week in Science
• First home brain implant lets ‘locked-in’ woman play games: "A paralysed woman has learned to use a brain implant to communicate by thought alone. It is the first time a brain–computer interface has been used at home in a person’s day-to-day life"
• Britain Says It Will Ditch Coal Power By 2025

Showerthoughts

• A zoo is a really safe place to fart.
• I'm glad dogs can't read the "no dogs allowed" signs so they don't feel sad and left out.
• I feel like every year there is a "the moon only looks like this every 100 years" event.

Cool Images

• Loop rail
• Planet Earth pilot
• Impressive car climb

11/12/16

11/12/16

News

• Judge orders door-to-door water delivery for Flint residents
• South L.A. teacher caught on audio telling students their parents would be deported
• Lego ends advertising with Daily Mail after calls for companies to 'Stop Funding Hate'

Science

• A systematic review of 63 reports confirms that a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and mortality rates are possible by shifting current Western diets to a variety of more sustainable dietary patterns, such as a reduction in animal-based food, finds UK researchers
• China warns Trump against abandoning climate change deal
• Google’s DeepMind AI grasps basic laws of physics

Showerthoughts

• My dad used to say that if I didn't watch any television news, I would be ignorant and uninformed. Now I think my dad is ignorant and uninformed for watching too much television news.
• My clothes have been to countries I haven't.
• Even immortals do not know what it is like to live forever.

Cool Images

• Changing Lincoln
• Amazing street art
• Same pixels, different order.

11/8/16

11/8/16

News

• Orlando to buy Pulse nightclub, turn it into memorial
• Netflix Will Allow Offline Viewing, Just Not For US Customers
• Indian rupee ₹500 and ₹1000 abolished from midnight by India

Science

• Tesla plans to choose location for ‘Gigafactory 2’ in Europe next year, will produce both batteries and cars
• Expert: When an AI Invents Something, It Should be Credited as the Inventor
• Robots are taking more factory jobs than Mexico or China

Showerthoughts

• Whenever there's a hold-up in the drive-thru line I never blame the employees for being slow, I always assume it's the customer's fault for ordering too much or something too complicated for the drive-thru.
• 8 years ago I would not have bought a phone where you couldn't change the ringtone, now I think I've had the same default ringtone for 5 years.
• Millions of people have accidentally made a human, but no one has accidentally made a muffin.

Cool Images

• Flowerbed
• Sea monster
• Big silly birds

11/5/16

11/5/16

News

• US Jewish groups declare support for Standing Rock protest
• Netflix Will Allow Offline Viewing, Just Not For US Customers
• Iceland’s president turns down a monthly pay increase of 5,300 USD

Science

• Elon Musk: The Model 3 Will Incorporate Tesla’s Solar Roof Technology
• Elon Musk thinks we need a 'popular uprising' against fossil fuels
• These New Solar Panels from Tesla are looking slick. They might just even look better than normal shingles.

Showerthoughts

• When people think about travelling to the past, they worry about accidentally changing the present, but no one in the present really thinks they can radically change the future
• Someone should make a documentary where they fly a Flat Earth theory supporter to space station for a couple of days.
• For once I would like to see an action movie where half way through it the hero dies and we get to see what the villain does when he conquers the world.

Cool Images

• Holovect
• Interesting wall
• FlexSys morphing wing

11/3/16

11/3/16

News

• Montana Supreme Court says citizens have a right to trial by jury before the state can take private property in civil forfeiture cases
• Lafayette, LA quietly introduces its tax on solar panel users--$26/month total
• UK government must consult Parliament before triggering Article 50 to leave EU, High Court rules

Science

• Elon Musk Says Advanced A.I. Could Take Down the Internet: "Only a Matter of Time."
• New Alzheimer's Drug Clears Milestone in Human Clinical Trial
• TedX talk making the case for orbital space colonization and speaker made the most detailed space colony simulator ever

Showerthoughts

• '58 was 58 years ago for 58 more days.
• As a kid, 99.9% of the times I cried was due to physical pain. As an adult, 99.9% of the times I have cried was due to emotional pain.
• Aliens finding "Never Gonna Give You Up" on the Voyager Golden Record would have been the greatest rickroll ever.

Cool Images

• Cave cliff jumping
• World's heaviest aerial firework
• This guy predicted the 2016 world series 2 years ago in a tweet

10/31/16

10/31/16

News

• Chicago school cancels 'Christian' haunted house that depicted Pulse nightclub massacre for Halloween
• 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