Cooper Griggs

It's not just ground-based transportation that could stand to benefit from clean-running fuel cells. Cruise ship operator Royal Caribbean has revealed that it's developing a new class of ship, the Icon, that will run on liquified natural gas fuel cel...

Via the Enough Trump Spam subreddit, where the image credit was attributed to Imgur user, FayeKalius.  The image may be a composite; if the hand positions have been Photoshopped, I'll take the post down, but a Google Image search shows other similar photos.

Addendum:  a tip of the blogging hat to reader The First for locating other images from the second debate to confirm that the arm positions are not Photoshopped.  Example here.

DeNiro was supposed to record an ad for a nonpartisan voter campaign but went off script to lambaste Trump instead.

For people who love showing off their high-end A/V gear, documentaries from BBC Earth are about as good as it gets for infinitely rewatchable reference material. But the clock ticks ever forward and some of those older releases don't look quite as go...

4gifs:

Cat maintains eye contact to establish dominance. [video]

The skeleton war has begun. (via Gabrielle Sarann)

kateordie:

Hi! I almost never share my personal comics anymore, but this one felt important. Therapy isn’t for everyone, but it absolutely saved my life. I’m just trying to help get rid of that stigma I bought into for so long.

I don’t mention it often here, but I still do comics like these regularly on Patreon for $1+ per month. If you miss ‘em. Thanks!

Richard Clarkson Studio (previously) has teamed up with Crealev (previously) to produce a miniature floating cloud, one that hovers indoors while both playing your favorite music and lighting up in tune to the beat to replicate a storm. The design, called Making Weather, is formed from polyester fibers which hide a Bluetooth speaker, LED lights, and a magnet. This magnet allows the form to float above the piece’s mirrored base in opposite polarity with another magnet, seeming to organically hover and sway to the music that is pumped through it.

Currently in prototype form, the indoor cloud will be hopefully become available for living room use in the near future. (via My Modern Met)

darkness-matters:

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breebird33:

wessasaurus-rex:

The first time i saw this vine, i laughed so hard. 

YESSS MY FAVORITE!!!!

I ALMOST SHOVED MY COMPUTER OFF MY DESK OH GOD

I said that this couldn’t be that great.

I was so wrong.

jedavu:

Mount Nyiragongo And Its Bubbling Hot Lava Lake

Few volcanoes are as spectacular as Mount Nyiragongo. Known for its active lava lake and (relatively) frequent eruptions, this incredible volcano has the potential for widespread disaster. Unfortunately, political unrest prevents the scientific community from studying the dangerous volcano in depth. But as seen in these breathtaking images, scientists and photographers have still been able to capture the bubbling, fiery lava that churns within the mountain’s lava lake.

A video posted by The Skinny Jewish (@prozac_morris) on Oct 4, 2016 at 6:18am PDT

We’re gonna need a bigger bath.

Indian media reports that hundreds of call center employees were detained and dozens arrested.

We got some good things out of the Cold War, like James Bond and John le Carré, but overall it was a pretty miserable period in history. That's why it's so disappointing to see Russia trying to bring us back to those dark with its latest attem...

Russia directed the hack of the Democratic National Committee and other recent invasions of political organizations, according to the US Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security. The col...

theatlantic:

Today The Atlantic’s editors made history by choosing to endorse Hillary Clinton for president. Since the magazine’s founding in 1857, the only other candidates to receive an official endorsement were Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Here’s an excerpt from the editors’ note Against Donald Trump:

Donald Trump, on the other hand, has no record of public service and no qualifications for public office. His affect is that of an infomercial huckster; he traffics in conspiracy theories and racist invective; he is appallingly sexist; he is erratic, secretive, and xenophobic …

Read the entire note here.

“These concerns compel us, for the third time since the magazine’s founding, to endorse a candidate for president. Hillary Rodham Clinton has more than earned, through her service to the country as first lady, as a senator from New York, and as secretary of state, the right to be taken seriously as a White House contender. She has flaws (some legitimately troubling, some exaggerated by her opponents), but she is among the most prepared candidates ever to seek the presidency. We are confident that she understands the role of the United States in the world; we have no doubt that she will apply herself assiduously to the problems confronting this country; and she has demonstrated an aptitude for analysis and hard work.“

she.

today is the first day that all the “she” hit me.

today was a great day for me professionally. i’ve earned the trust and confidence of senior leadership, leading some high profile projects that, at a meeting today, they say need “me”. me, a woman in IT. a female leader in IT. backwards in heels. and today it all came together.

so the “she” is hitting me pretty hard.

but let’s be clear:

i’m not voting for her because i have a vagina.

i’m voting for her because i have a brain.

all that “she”, that’s just icing.

Following a Reuters report that in 2015 Yahoo scanned customer emails for US surveillance, the New York Times has followed up with details from anonymous sources of its own. Although Yahoo responded a day later claiming the initial report was "mislea...

Cave of the Crystals or Giant Crystal Cave is a cave connected to the Naica Mine 300 metres (980 ft) below the surface in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. The main chamber contains giant selenite crystals (gypsum, CaSO4·2 H2O), some of the largest natural crystals ever found. The cave’s largest crystal found to date is 12 m (39 ft) in length, 4 m (13 ft) in diameter and 55 tons in weight. The cave is extremely hot with air temperatures reaching up to 58 °C (136 °F) with 90 to 99 percent humidity. The cave is relatively unexplored due to these factors. Without proper protection people can only endure approximately ten minutes of exposure at a time.

A group of scientists known as the Naica Project have been heavily involved in researching these caverns.

Naica lies on an ancient fault and there is an underground magma chamber below the cave. The magma heated the ground water and it became saturated with minerals, including large quantities of gypsum.

The hollow space of the cave was filled with this mineral-rich hot water and remained filled for about 500,000 years. During this time, the temperature of the water remained very stable at over 50 °C (122 °F). This allowed crystals to form and grow to immense sizes.

This quick video demonstrates how to use a long elastic string anchored at the horizon of a canvas to sketch a drawing with two point perspective. With as many art and drawing classes I’ve taken, I’ve never seen this method used before. A more traditional and accurate method would involve a ruler and maybe a drafting table if you’re super fancy, but this seems like a great method for mocking up something quickly. The video posted on Facebook is uncredited and apparently came from Instagram. Anyone know the artist/designer? (via Reddit, The Awesomer)

A video posted by reza asgaripour (@architectdrw) on Sep 21, 2016 at 12:49pm PDT

Update: The individual demonstrating this technique is architect Reza Asgaripour.

The Pentagon allegedly spent more than half a billion dollars on various forms of propaganda in Iraq, according to a report by a British investigative journalism organization.

by Manuel

(via Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life [HQ] - YouTube)

pigeonbits:

Here’s the full 24 hour comic I drew yesterday, called “The Fish Wife”.  Thank you to everybody who followed along on twitter and cheered me on

The program could cost between $2.4 million and $8.4 million a year.

lunarsolareclipse:

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nativenews:

[TWEET: @ryan_marsh: Can confirm. As a combat vet this is maddening. #BlackLivesMatter]

appetitusinvictus: “I was in Iraq and even in an actual theater of war, unless you were immediately fired on, we had several steps to go through before kill shots. We had rules of engagement and escalation of force cards my command made us carry on us at all times with those regulations.

Even when a car possibly carrying explosives was barreling down on us, we were taught to exhaust several steps of warnings before killing: hand signals, flags, pop smoke/flares, warning shots to the sides, disabling shots THEN kill shots.

So for the life of me I can’t figure out why on the streets in the United States of America, police officers go immediately to murder and people are just like ‘Well, in the heat of the moment…’”

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When I was doing security work in the military, our escalation of force rules went:

1. Warnings by voice/hand signal
   
2. Hand to hand submission/joint manipulation
3. Handcuffs
4. OC spray
5. Baton
6. Firearm

Notice that “firearm” is nowhere near the top of that list.

For our rules of engagement it is

Shout
Shout again
Shove back
Point weapon
Warning shot
Disabling shot
Fatal shot

leiabenna:

SLAY EM

This rolling Panda made me smile. Happy Friday everyone!

(via emilNYC)

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