Freaking REALLY cool shit...carbon nanotubes and cellular shit going on. Don't get confused...just watch the video.
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Justifiable homicide in the city shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands. The local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average. Residents, unable to rely on a dwindling police force to keep them safe, are fighting back against the criminal scourge on their own. And they’re offering no apologies. “We got to have a little Old West up here in Detroit. That’s what it’s gonna take,” Detroit resident Julia Brown told The Daily. The last time Brown, 73, called the Detroit police, they didn’t show up until the next day. So she applied for a permit to carry a handgun and says she’s prepared to use it against the young thugs who have taken over her neighborhood, burglarizing entire blocks, opening fire at will and terrorizing the elderly with impunity. I don’t intend to be one of their victims,”
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This is a site I just wasted a lot of time watching shit on. Perhaps someone better at this computer thing can get some of these funny gifs off the site to share....most likely a PC user.
So I can't tell if this guy is Spanish or from Latin America, but his art is pretty sweet. I'm lovin' the Old School Heroes pics at least half way down
Some advances come in the form of new handheld devices and applications. Others promise to elevate solar into a mainstream energy source that may one day replace greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil fuels. Here are five recent innovations that have left both solar experts and newbies in a daze.
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| 126 views | www.azcentral.com
Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say a 65-year-old man was justified in shooting two teenagers -- one fatally -- who tried to rob him as he rode his bike along a popular river trail. Berks County District Attorney John Adams says the bicyclist acted in self-defense after three teens knocked him off his bicycle in Cumru Township on Wednesday. Police say two of the teens were assaulting the man when he pulled out a gun and shot them. Officials say 16-year-old Julius Johnson died and a 15-year-old was hospitalized. The third teen was uninjured and sent to a youth detention center. Adams said at a news conference Thursday that it was the teens' third random robbery attempt in about an hour. He noted the man is licensed to carry a gun.
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Holy Shit crazy luck.
None of the newly discovered planetary systems are like our solar system, though Kepler-33, a star that is older and bigger than the Sun, comes close in terms of sheer numbers. It has five planets, compared to our solar system's eight, but the quintet all fly closer to their parent star than Mercury orbits the Sun.
Pics and descriptions of an albino hummingbird. up arrow, down arrow, shmeg off.
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"The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2. The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle."
UK scientists have detected a huge dome of fresh water that is developing in the western Arctic Ocean. The bulge is some 8,000 cubic km in size and has risen by about 15cm since 2002.
cool animation video showing what's happening as well.
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Oshkosh Police Department officers arrested the 26-year-old Appleton man after he decided to give an officer more cowbell after the officer requested the group of Recall Walker demonstrators gathered in the 1800 block of Oshkosh Avenue Thursday afternoon stay quiet and avoid blocking a restaurant’s driveway.
The feature, announced by Colin McMillen, a senior software engineer, is fairly straightforward: To create a meme, all you have to do is grab a photo, drop it into your “Share” box, and then add your own text. The finished product is your image with a nice, meme-y-looking text overlay.
Someone create a meme forum and let's see this thing get put to work.
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| 123 views | www.physorg.com
Fancy Science talk dumbed down for the common man. Makes perfect sense and not TL;DR.
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this will last two times and then it will fall apart. It should just happen once but the US GOVT is ran by dee dee dees.
Stephen Colbert is currently polling at 5% in South Carolina, better even than real-life candidate Jon Huntsman, who logs just 4% of prospective voters...even though he's not running.
Only a third (33%) of likely voters think that 'corporations are people' compared to 67% who think that 'only people are people.'...supporters of every Republican candidate believe that 'only people are people,' including two-thirds (66%) of Romney's.
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My heroes of the week. Stick it to em, Grandmas!
Hmm...which one of you bastards has quit commenting...
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| 139 views | www.boston.com
Holy Shit, look at the pics some guy managed to get!
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| 139 views | io9.com
The secret is a naturally occurring form of titanium called titanium dioxide (TiO2). TiO2 is often used as a dye on account of its bright white pigmentation (you'll find it in everything from paint to milk), but it's also used in industry for its photocatalytic properties. A photocatalyst is something that accelerates a chemical reaction in the presence of light. And it just so happens that when TiO2 is exposed to light, it breaks down dirt and wipes out odor-causing microbes. The thing is, we've known about TiO2's photocatalytic properties since the sixties. We've used it to make self-cleaning tile and glass. We've even used it to make self-cleaning fabrics before; truth be told, the self-cleaning properties of Long and Wu's fabric, in and of itself, aren't terribly revolutionary. So what makes this fabric so special?
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| 362 views | www.independent.co.uk
Scientists estimate that there are hundreds of millions of tonnes of methane gas locked away beneath the Arctic permafrost, which extends from the mainland into the seabed of the relatively shallow sea of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf. One of the greatest fears is that with the disappearance of the Arctic sea-ice in summer, and rapidly rising temperatures across the entire region, which are already melting the Siberian permafrost, the trapped methane could be suddenly released into the atmosphere leading to rapid and severe climate change.
Begin yet another epic climate change argument NAO!
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Just ONE point in the article: "Goldman Sachs covertly bought 2.3 billion Euros in Greek debt, converted it into yen and dollars, and then immediately sold it back to Greece at a supposed loss. Goldman Sachs had struck a secret deal with the then, free-market government to conceal its massive budget deficit. Goldman's confected loss was Greece's imaginary gain just to meet Europe's requirement that its deficit never surpass 3 % of GDP. Now, it's reported that Goldman made a $250 million fee on the deal and a motza on credit default swap insurance sold to Greek bond holders against the country going bust. Apparently this only became known to Prime Minister, George Papandreou and his Socialist government when they came into office and investors demanded monster interest rates to lend more money to roll over this debt."
The governors said Wednesday they want the federal government to list marijuana as a Schedule 2 drug, allowing it to be used for medical treatment. Marijuana is currently classified a Schedule 1 drug, meaning it's not accepted for medical treatment and can't be prescribed, administered or dispensed. Washington and Rhode Island are two of 16 states, and the District of Columbia, that have laws allowing the medical use of marijuana. "Each of these jurisdictions is struggling with managing safe access to medical cannabis for patients with serious medical conditions," the 99-page petition and report reads. "Our work with the federal agencies has not resolved the matter." Gregoire said that the conflict between state and federal laws means legitimate patients lack a regulated and safe system to obtain marijuana. "It is time to show compassion and time to show common sense," she said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday.
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Virologist Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands lead aFouchier admitted the strain is 'one of the most dangerous viruses you can make' but is still adamant he wants to publish a paper describing how it was done. The study is one of two which has caused serious debate about scientific freedom and about regulating research which might have potential public health benefits but at the same time could also be useful for bio-terrorism.
Deutch’s amendment, called the Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy (OCCUPIED) Amendment, would overturn the Citizens United decision, re-establishing the right of Congress and the states to regulate campaign finance laws, and to effectively outlaw the ability of for-profit corporations to contribute to campaign spending.
“No matter how long protesters camp out across America, big banks will continue to pour money into shadow groups promoting candidates more likely to slash Medicaid for poor children than help families facing foreclosure,” said Deutch in a statement provided to ThinkProgress. “No matter how strongly Ohio families fight for basic fairness for workers, the Koch Brothers will continue to pour millions into campaigns aimed at protecting the wealthiest 1%
"Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing?" And this: "How can a securities fraud of this nature and magnitude be the result simply of negligence?"
Rakoff of course is right - the settlement is nuts. If you take Citi's $160 million profit on the deal into consideration, what we're talking about then is a $125 million fine for causing $700 million in damages. That, and no admission of wrongdoing.
Fucking WINNER.
Some farmers have tried to hire domestic workers. Orchards have “pickers wanted” signs, and growers have asked neighbors for extra workers. But their efforts have been unsuccessful to replace the immigrant farm workers they typically hire. So just like farmers in Alabama and Georgia, their crops will go to waste without without the experienced workers to pick the apples by hand.
So are Americans too proud to work a job like this? Is it unreasonable considering the pay? Should French people be coming over and working?
