1/9/17

1/9/17

News

• Man jailed for 22 years for stealing a television remote | Eric Bramwell must serve at least half of the sentence before he is eligible for parole
• Nigeria purges 50,000 ‘ghost workers’ from State payroll in corruption sweep
• US may shoot down North Korean ballistic missile test, Carter says

Science

• Decline of the dentist's drill? Drug helps rotten teeth regenerate, trial shows
• Millennials May Be the First Generation to Lose a Majority of their Jobs to Automation.
• Telekom CEO Backs Basic Income to Safeguard Social Stability

Showerthoughts

• If I was kidnapped and had my mouth duct taped, I would most likely die because my nose is clogged 90% of the time.
• Go jogging at 5am and your neighbors think you are an early-riser health nut who probably has to get to work early. Go jogging at 3am and they think you are a sketchy tweaker who probably doesn't have a job.
• The 2000's were the golden age for celebratory New Year's Eve glasses.

Cool Images

• Inverted aquarium
• Attention to detail
• Half a townhouse

1/7/17

1/7/17

News

• Nagasaki Mayor received a surprise gift : two origami paper cranes folded by U.S. President Barack Obama.
• Canada Judge Suspended for Wearing Trump Cap in Court
• A Really Big Crack In An Antarctic Ice Shelf Just Got Bigger

Science

• Even when all teenagers, rich and poor, have equal access to the internet, a “digital divide” remains in how they use technology. Richer teenagers are more likely to use the internet to search for information or to read news rather than to chat or play video games.
• 2017 tech trends: 'A major bank will fail' | "We're going to have to figure out how to create jobs for people in this new economy, and if there literally are going to be fewer jobs, then we'll need to establish some sort of living standard or basic income for people."
• Automation: Almost 50% of American jobs to dissappear

Showerthoughts

• If I run a red light my picture is taken in HD but someone robs a bank and the video looks like footage from minecraft
• I'm a middle-aged man and it just today dawned on me that, if I wanted to, I could buy a chainsaw.
• My untied shoelaces seem to bother other people far more than they bother me.

Cool Images

• Frozen soap bubble
• Pinapple cut
• What happens when you die

1/6/17

1/6/17

News

• Multiple people shot at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Intl. Airport
• London breaches annual air pollution limit for 2017 in just five days
• Putin 'sought to help' Trump in US vote

Science

• Autonomous cars are ‘the vaccine that will cure deaths on the road’, says industry figurehead - "For each day that we can accelerate connected and autonomous vehicles, we will save 3300 people a day."
• UK wind power overtakes coal for first time
• Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Trump: ‘I think we may see some surprising things from the next administration on renewables’

Showerthoughts

• Deaf people should buy houses really close to airports or highways, because they are cheaper and the noise doesn't matter.
• It makes me sad that tigers would rather eat me then let me scratch their cheeks, rub their bellies, and provide them with giant cardboard boxes.
• Vampires are just cannibals on a juice diet

Cool Images

• Self balancing motorcycle
• Drawing
• Fog

1/5/17

1/5/17

News

• Hate crime charges filed against 4 in torture of teen
• Immigrants should be made to learn English on arrival to help integration in UK, parliamentary report finds
• Looting in Mexico spiraling out of control over 20% gas hike; 430 arrested

Science

• China to invest £292bn in renewable power by 2020 - World’s largest energy market looks to move from coal towards cleaner fuels
• Japanese company replaces office workers with artificial intelligence - Insurance firm Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance is making 34 employees redundant and replacing them with IBM’s Watson Explorer AI
• HBO Helps America Prep for the Automation Revolution - 'Westworld' forces its audience to answer some uncomfortable questions about their core functions

Showerthoughts

• Do you think Tom Hanks ever holds down the shift key too long and types out "THanks" and then giggles to himself?
• I'm in my 20's and I still sing "ABC's" in my head when searching for where a letter falls
• I used more glue in the first 5 years of my life than I probably will for the rest of it

Cool Images

• Wood Carving
• Snow falling
• Bullet spinning on ice

1/4/17

1/4/17

News

• Legal marijuana sales in US 'bigger than dot-com boom'
• Anti-surveillance clothing aims to hide wearers from facial recognition | Hyperface project involves printing patterns on to clothing or textiles that computers interpret as a face, in fightback against intrusive technology
• Amazon now has 45,000 robots in its warehouses

Science

• Robotics Expert Predicts Kids Born Today Will Never Drive a Car - Motor Trend
• Autonomous heavy-duty trucks threaten jobs of nearly 1.7 million drivers, White House says
• Google’s AlphaGo AI secretively won more than 50 straight games against the world’s top Go players

Showerthoughts

• In 20 years or so, I'm going to have to jailbreak my car to drive above the speed limit
• Every student headed to college must now be asking themselves "What CAN'T be done by a robot"
• The best way to lie is telling the truth sarcastically

Cool Images

• Nuclear Bomb Being Detonated
• Massive Wave
• Actual photograph

1/3/17

1/3/17

News

• Ford Cancels Plan to Build Plant in Mexico, Will Invest in Michigan
• CNN uses screenshot from ‘Fallout 4’ to show how Russians hack things
• Cannabis ingredient to be classed as medicine in UK

Science

• Could Technology Remove the Politicians From Politics?
• Things to Come
• The First Reprogrammable Quantum Computer Has Been Created

Showerthoughts

• I'm a phenomenal secret-keeper because, deep down, I really don't care about your shit enough to actually talk about it.
• Samsung just announced a series of water resistant phones. Just what you want in a phone that sets itself on fire - to be water resistant.
• You don't realize how much you fart until you spend 24 hours with a girl.

Cool Images

• Design on this floor
• Hairspray powered barbecue
• LED snowboard

1/2/17

1/2/17

News

• Doctors, pharmacists indicted in $100M fraud case
• Istanbul nightclub attack: ISIS claims responsibility
• Indian court bans politicians from using religion, caste to win votes

Science

• Arnold Schwarzenegger: 'Go part-time vegetarian to protect the planet' - "Emissions from farming, forestry and fisheries have nearly doubled over the past 50 years and may increase by another 30% by 2050"
• Things to Come
• The World’s First “Artificial Pancreas” Will Be Hitting the Market in 2017

Showerthoughts

• You don't realize how often you swallow until you have a sore throat.
• In my 20-odd-year history of using duct tape, I have never once applied it to any ducts.
• Disneyland is a people trap set by a mouse.

Cool Images

• Bird shaped mark
• Every known universe in a single view
• Blowing up a dam

1/1/17

1/1/17

News

• Hollywood Sign Vandalized and Now Reads 'Hollyweed'
• L.A. sheriff's deputies disciplined after horrific torture death of 8-year-old boy
• Costa Rica completes 2016 without having to burn a single fossil fuel for more than 250 days. 98.2% of Costa Rica's electricity came from renewable sources in 2016

Science

• MIT's self-folding origami technology
• 13-foot Avatar-like manned robot built by South Korean robotics companyTesla completes another microgrid project with Powerpacks – powering an island in North Carolina
• Amazon has 45,000 warehouse robots, bought the robot company

Showerthoughts

• I find strangers attractive because they haven't pissed me off yet.
• Every year when I see the 'NYE' acronym I read "New York...ah fuck"
• The "Be Cool. Stay In School." campaign is what taught me that dropping out was even a possibility.

Cool Images

• An amazing eyeball drawn with ballpoint Pen
• The floating ball
• Pong in space