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The endorsement came during a wide-ranging interview with a Richmond, Virginia news outlet.

A meme highlights that a course of treatment that costs $900 in India has a far heftier price tag of $84,000 in the United States.

The concept/product is interesting, especially with that Bluetooth GPS alert sent to your friends. Although the massive response seemed exaggerated, I can see this being a decent option over your standard key chain pepper spray bottle, especially if your college campus doesn’t allow for concealed carry.

Opening in London later this year, is this huge tunnel slide wrapped around the ArcelorMittal Orbit, a sculpture that was designed for the 2012 Olympics. The slide will allow visitors to loop their way through parts of the structure on their way to the ground. The tight corkscrew design of the tunnel slide will have visitors descending 178m (over 583 feet), from the observation level to the ground.

h/t: contemporist. Photos © ArcelorMittal Orbit

This is what the sculpture looked like when it was originally built (without the slide), with the stairs winding their way up to the observation tower.

Les lauréats de l’édition 2016 du Audubon Photography Awards nous offrent cette année un palmarès consacré aux oiseaux. Qu’il s’agisse de corbeaux, de chouettes ou de hérons, chacune des images apporte son lot d’insolite et de beauté en sensibilisant une nouvelle fois à rétablir la biodiversité dans les régions et d’en restaurer l’écosystème. Parmi 7,000 images réalisées à travers toute l’Amérique du nord, ces images illustrent à quel point ces créatures ailées sont aussi majestueuses qu’elles sont fascinantes. Pour découvrir les autres clichés de ce merveilleux concours, rendez-vous sur le site officiel.

Common Raven, photographed in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Amateur Honorable Mention. Colleen Gara.

Wood Stork. Top 100, Amateur Category. Richard Johnson.

Eastern Screech-Owl / Top 100, Amateur Category. William Kleinfelder.

Greater Sage-Grouse. Top 100, Professional Category. Ken Archer.

American Goldfinch / Top 100, Amateur Category. Deborah O’Sullivan.

Yellow-billed Oxpecker. Top 100, Professional Category. Aaron Baggenstos.

Bald Eagle. Top 100, Amateur Category. Howard Arndt.

Osprey. Top 100, Amateur Category. Thomas Chadwick.

Roseate Spoonbills. Top 100, Amateur Category. Judylynn Malloch.

Little Blue Heron. Top 100, Amateur Category. Lynn Miller.

Great Blue Heron. Top 100, Amateur Category. Christopher Schlaf.

Long-billed Thrasher. Top 100, Professional Category. Hector Astorga.

Osprey. Professional Winner: Dick Dickinson.

Great Horned Owls and Black-chinned Hummingbird. Top 100, Professional Category. Ed Mackerrow.

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For years, critics have claimed that the US' Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is a pushover: it's allegedly so reluctant to reject spying orders that it's little more than a speed bump for the FBI and NSA. True or not, that reputation isn't a...

It's still not perfectly clear whether or not law enforcement can force you to unlock your phone with your fingerprint, but an LA court isn't waiting to find out: for the first time in a federal case, a judge has ordered a person to unlock her smartp...

We’ve all seen exaggerated depictions of kung fu in movies or maybe a demonstration by a practitioner in real life, but German digital artist Tobias Gremmler decided to portray the Chinese martial art in an entirely new light through the use of motion capture. By capturing the motion of different sequences Gremmler is able to distill the data into these animated sculptures, effectively turning movement into structure and volume. The motion of limbs is turned into a complex moving scaffold or interpreted as dramatic bursts of particles, the visuals used to seemingly isolate the physics of kung fu. If you enjoyed this also check out films like Asphyxia, Walking City, and these similar idents for CCTV. (via The Creator’s Project, Prosthetic Knowledge)

The Long Boat
#carnivalcruises #hallway #ship #boat #cruise (at Pacific Ocean)

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The Illuminaughty Manual
#menu #lit #backlit #carnivalcruise #ship #boat #cruise #bar #alchemybar (at Alchemy Bar, Carnival Spirit)

set on a steep hillside overlooking the lake, residents are constantly immersed with their surroundings using balconies, terraces and expansive windows.

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Architect and digital artist Laurent Rosset creates sweeping photographic landscapes that seem to curl upward into infinity like an enormous wave that obliterates the sky. Rosset uses much of his own photography to create each image and enjoys discovering how even slight manipulations can vastly change the composition or meaning of a photograph. You can see more of his work on Instagram, and if you liked this also check out Aydin Buyuktas. (via Colossal Submissions)

JAXA has given up trying to rescue its doomed X-ray satellite. The Japanese space agency has announced that it's discontinuing Hitomi's operations. Previously known as Astro-H, the x-ray observatory was designed to study black holes, galaxy clusters...

A video posted by Cooper Griggs (@coopergriggs) on Apr 29, 2016 at 8:24am PDT

Splish Splash
#washingtondc #usa #libraryofcongress #fountain #waterfountain (at The Library of Congress)

Shortly after The Walking Dead star Jon Bernthal was tapped as the Punisher in season 2 of Marvel's Daredevil series, rumors circulated that the character would get its own show. Well, a few weeks after his debut, Netflix made the spin-off official....

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In a biannual transparency report, Facebook has revealed that 60 percent of the data requests it gets from world governments includes a gag order. That means they include non-disclosure directives that prevent the company from telling the user about...

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In most parts of the world, tipping for certain services has been a long-standing tradition. Still, Uber made sure that was never the case between its riders and drivers, unless a yellow taxi was involved. But after a recent $100 million class-action...

If you're not showing up for your Uber, you might get charged sooner than you think. The company is trialling fees if you keep your driver waiting more than two minutes after they arrive at the pickup spot. The waiting period was previously five minu...

The BBC and Netflix have teamed up to produce a new version of Richard Adams' seminal children's novel, Watership Down. The pair will "reinterpret" the story into a four-part animated mini series that'll air in 2017 on the BBC in the UK and globally...

Reports of a drone hitting a plane at Heathrow Airport may have been inaccurate. Responding to MP questions in the House of Commons, transport secretary Patrick McLouglin said: "The incident which was reported on the 17th of April, it's now thought t...

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Google parent company Alphabet has been on the lookout for established automakers to help its self-driving car initiative for some time now, and it looks like the company is close to announcing a major new partnership. First reported by auto blog Aut...

Authorities might soon be required to get a search warrant if they want providers like Gmail to hand over your emails, even if they're older than 180 days. The US House of Representatives has unanimously passed the Email Privacy Act, which updates th...

A video of an excavator destroying a plane was circulated along with the claim that the act was carried out by a disgruntled employee.