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How A Tesla Model S Is Made

Wired went down to the Tesla fabrication factory to see just how a completely electric car is built!

The entire process to create a Tesla motor vehicle is beautiful and fascinating to watch! The car and nearly all of it’s parts are fabricated in house, meaning there’s little to no outsourcing when the vehicle is created.

The coolest thing is some of the robots who can change out their heads while building the car, meaning less bots and pollution from running them going into the atmosphere.

Nation

Do you think you’ll ever own a Tesla? Why or why not? Let us know in the comments down below!

“I wanna begin saying a story about my son. I have a four-year old son who loves superheroes from Spider-Man to Iron Man to Batman. He’s got all the costumes. One day he looks at me and says ‘Dad, I want to be light-skinned so I could be Spider-Man. Spider-Man has light skin.’ That was sort of a shock. This is why I am excited to be a part of the Marvel Universe, so I could be hopefully provide that diversity in the role of the superhero.”

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Djimon Hounsou on his role in Guardians of the Galaxy (via stankface)

i’m actually fucking crying right now

people really don’t understand what a lack of representation can do to people

(via alienswithankhs) breaks my heart (via boygeorgemichaelbluth)

But tell me again why representation is unimportant? 

(via nudiemuse)

thedailywhat:

Lifehack of the Day: 10 Tips & Tricks You Need To Know For Summer!

YouTube’s lifehack blogger Grant Thompson shares ten things you can do to make your life in the summertime a little easier and impress your friends while at it.

Some of these are kind of dumb. I mean who uses a straw when drinking coke from a can?

thedailywhat:

Yeah, Science of the Day: First Taste Test of Cultured Meat

Yesterday, Professor Mark Post of the Netherlands’ Maastricht University held a public tasting of the world’s first burger made from lab-created In vitro meat. Funded by Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin and completed to perfection over the past two years, each fat-free, five-ounce burger pattie is made from nearly 20,000 strips of muscle fiber cultured from a cow’s shoulder muscular stem cells. Upon sample tasting, testers said that it tasted like “an animal-protein cake” but had the normal texture of any other burger.

Photo credit: New York Times

I really want to try some.

Omg. I want solidarity biscuits!

stfuconservatives:

sandandglass:

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“That red line is corporate profits since 1970. The blue line is labor’s share of income. As you can see, corporate profits are skyrocketing while labor’s share of those profits is falling. This is a big part of the reason that median wages are stagnating even as the economy grows and the wealthy become ever more fabulously rich."

John Oliver’s segment about this was fantastic.

thebeautyofmoonlight:

THAT HAIRBALL IS MY SON

AND YOUR FUTURE KING

This is going to get real fucking awkward if somebody brings up antelope.

jtotheizzoe:

Destin from SmarterEveryDay shoots an AK-47 underwater at 27,450 frames per second … for science.

Behold the best lesson on cavitation since that one really tense scene in The Hunt For Red October. It gets really awesome around 4:30.

SO. MANY. BUBBLES.

This is way cooler than it has any right to be.

popculturebrain:

New Clip: ‘Gravity’ - Oct 4 

This is part of the footage screened at Comic-Con. It appears Cuaron and co. will be releasing two more clips/trailers today as well.

Joss Whedon's Firefly Returns As An Online Game | Bleeding Cool:

Huh.

publicshaming:

Last night was the 2013 MLB All-Star game. Ah, America’s pastime! Who doesn’t love a good baseball game? And what better way to open up America’s game then with a heartfelt rendition of ‘God Bless America’?

And…wait, a minute. Who is this guy coming out to sing God Bless AMERICA?

wow! Who is this unAmerican Spanish Mexican spic illegal foreigner terrorist singing ‘God Bless AMERICA’ at a game of baseball, our AMERICAN pastime?

Why, it’s New York born, United States citizen of Puerto Rican descent, Marc Anthony!

Look at this 100% American grammy award winning recording artist sing ‘God Bless AMERICA’ at the All-Star game. Absolutely disgusting. And the All-Star game was at Citi Field in NYC borough of Queens too! We can’t let this happen in Queens, the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world!

Spanish people!? Heartbreaking! We cannot let America become some sort of melting pot!

Yeah! Shouldn’t you be FROM America!? Like, sorry, New York City just doesn’t cut it.

Yeah, America! CLEAN. IT. UP. And “it" being anyone who LOOKS foreign!

But, Marc Anthony IS an American artist…

haha. Silly me. That doesn’t matter. HE MAKES A LIVING SINGING SONGS IN SPANISH. The devil’s language! And making a living from such a thing? A crime in the good ole’ U.S. of A!

And why get someone who makes money off of singing in some foreign language when you can get a true patriotic American…like Ke$ha!

Yeah! Mexicans, Castro, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Marc Anthony…they’re all the same anyway!

"Marc Anthony? Unamerican! Marc Anthony is Spanish!"

And there lies the real issue. The fact that Marc Anthony is an American citizen born in the United States does not matter. The point here is someone who is “NOT LIKE US" (white males) can not be a REAL American!

You see. Marc Anthony is from New York…but he doesn’t LOOK like it. I assume the last time Josh here has been to New York was about 100 years ago. But, what is the world coming to now-a-days!

And you can see here again. Being of Puerto Rican descent means you’re not a TRUE American. I mean, what do you think? It isn’t like Puerto Rico’s a part of the United States or something!

But hey, at least there’s one racist out there who sees the irony in this all…

God Bless Spain Mexico Puerto Rico AMERICA! Let’s play ball!

Absolutely crazy. The only time I’ve been annoyed about was when, if I remember correctly, Pat Morita flubbed the lyrics of the National Anthem at a Giants game in the early 2000s. But that was because he flubbed the lyrics not for any hogwash shit like this.

havingchanged:

YESSSS!!

I pretty much want a Dungeons and Dragons TV show. I’d see it as a three line, some waiting show: the framing device and A plot would be the players playing the game, the B plot would be in-universe with the characters in a fantasy realm, and the C plot would be the lives of the players outside the game. Each episode shows how A, B, & C affect each other.

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jtotheizzoe:

The Pitch Drops

The wind up … the wind up … the wind up  … the wiiiiiiiiiiiind uuuuuuuup … and finally the pitch!

After 69 years of trying, Trinity College Dublin has recorded a falling drop of pitch on camera! The big moment happened around 5 PM on July 11. Pitch is a resin-like substance that is essentially asphalt as made by plants. At room temperature, it’s indistinguishable from a solid. It will even shatter if struck with a hammer. 

But it’s not a solid. It’s more like a very, very, very slow liquid. The technical term for it is “viscoelastic polymer" and it’s about 20 billion times more viscous than water. Allow gravity to act on it for years and years, and sure enough it will flow and drip!

The problem is that no one has ever seen it drip, until now. An older, more famous version of this experiment is ongoing at University of Queensland (including a nap-inducing live cam of the drop that is allegedly going to drop some time in 2013). Now, Trinity College has captured the blobby moment!

They’ll be picking apart the video for some time, analyzing the forces at play, but I bet they’re just celebrating in Dublin today. Ain’t no party like a pitch drop party cuz a pitch drop party don’t stop.

Learn more about this sort of slow science from Radiolab.

(video via NatureNews)

Let the pitch, mmmmmmmmmm, drop!

Yay for the pitch drop!

theatlantic:

In Focus: Hot Summer Days

In some parts of the northern hemisphere, the hottest days of summer have already set records this year, in others, the highest temperatures are yet to come. The sunshine brings people outdoors, to cool off at the beach, on a high mountain peak, or in a park fountain. Gathered here are a handful of images of Summer 2013, from Alaska to Ukraine, Egypt, Death Valley, and more.

Read more.

Is that Vladimir Putin in a personal submarine? Is he basically just a Bond villain now?

Without comment, from C-Section Comics:Discuss.

Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

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deezyville:

Hey you, with the Android phone…

Do me a solid and go to the Google Play Store and flag the shit out of this as inappropriate (link is at the very bottom). Make sure to give it a 1 star rating while you’re at it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.AngryTravon

What the ever living fuck?

We’re celebrating the end of the year with our most popular posts from 2013, plus a few of our favorites tossed in.  Enjoy!

Like many people, I’ve been following news about the crash landing in San Francisco. It’s a frightening reminder of the risks that come with air travel, but an uplifting one thanks to the small number of casualties.  The Mayor of San Francisco was quoted saying: “We’re lucky we have this many survivors.”  And the Chief of the San Francisco Fire Department said that it was “nothing short of a miracle…”  At CNN, after mentioning the two confirmed fatalities, the reporter writes, “Somehow, 305 others survived.” Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, wrote that it was a “serious moment to give thanks.”  But to whom?

There’s a kind of person who is trained to maximize survival in the case of a plane crash: the flight attendant.  Airlines don’t advertise the intense training their flight attendants receive because it reminds potential passengers that air travel is risky.  As a result, most people seriously underestimate the skills flight attendants bring on board and the dedication they have to the safety of their passengers.

Flight attendants have to learn hundreds of regulations and know the safety features of all of the aircraft in their airline’s fleet. They must know how to evacuate the plane on land or sea within 90 seconds; fight fires 35,000 feet in the air; keep a heart attack or stroke victim alive; calm an anxious, aggressive, or mentally ill passenger; respond to hijackings and terrorist attacks; and ensure group survival in the jungle, sea, desert, or arctic.

It isn’t just book learning; they train in “live fire pits” and “ditching pools.”As one flight attendant once said:

I don’t think of myself as a sex symbol or a servant. I think of myself as somebody who knows how to open the door of a 747 in the dark, upside down and in the water (source).

This is why I’m surprised to see almost no discussion of the flight attendants’ role in this “miracle.” Consider the top five news stories on Google at the time I’m writing: CNN, Fox, CBS, the Chicago Tribune, and USA Today.  These articles use passive language to describe the evacuation: ”slides had deployed”; all passengers “managed to get off.”  When the cabin crew are mentioned, they appear alongside and equivalent to the passengers: the crash forced “dozens of frightened passengers and crew to scamper from the heavily damaged aircraft”; ”passengers and crew were being treated” at local hospitals.

Only one of these five stories, at Fox, acknowledges that the 16 cabin crew members worked through the crash and its aftermath.  The story mentions that, while passengers who could were fleeing the plane, crew remained behind to help people who were trapped, slashing seat belts with knives supplied by police officers on the ground.  The plane was going up in flames; they risked their lives to save others.

I don’t know what the flight attendants on this plane did or didn’t do to minimize injuries or save lives, but I would like to know.  Instead, they are invisible in these news stories as workers, allowing readers and future passengers to remain ignorant of the skills and dedication they bring to their work.

Cross-posted at Jezebel, PolicyMic, Huffington Post, and BlogHer.

Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

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“Gordon’s in Superposition!”

- Brian Blessed, Infinite Monkey Cage “Space Tourism"

shoemadeforthecity:

feurety:

stfuconservatives:

soychorizo:

“She was the daughter of a single woman, she was a teenage mother herself….It is just unfortunate that she hasn’t learned from her own example.” -Rick Perry. (full quote here)

He really said that today.

She was the daughter of a single mom. She was a teenage mother. She is now a TEXAS STATE SENATOR. I think she has learned plenty, don’t you?

I cannot believe that Rick Perry has the nerve to lecture a woman on learning from her own life. What a piece of shit. Like, just. Such outrage.

Like the GOP State Senators dinged Sen. Davis when she spoke about Planned Parenthood and RU-486 (which are relevant to the topic of regulating abortion) on germaneness grounds. How is it relevant at all that Wendy Davis was a single mother? At best it’s in the same ballpark as reproduction; but Planned Parenthood’s funding and RU-486 are pretty close to home plate there — Gov. Perry’s comment is in the nosebleed seats. In left field. Behind the foul pole so you can’t even see the field.

Berlusconi verdict sends shockwaves:

Mr Berlusconi was convicted on both the charges he faced, sentenced to seven years in jail and banned from holding public office ever again.

It’s going to be an amazing Bugle this weekend I think…

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furtho:

George Mayerle’s eye chart featuring characters in English, Chinese, Japanese and Russian, as well as symbols for children or illiterate adults, 1907 (via The Verge)

“Across the bottom, boxes test for color vision, a feature intended especially (according to one advertisement) for those working on railroads and steamboats.” Read all about it.

It’s a pretty cool chart but it has some weird choices. Why test someone’s ability to read gothic latin letters? Why test Japanese kana when you could just as easily test Kanji in the Chinese language diagram? Why test Hebrew, which is only spoken by a comparatively small number of people, when you could test Arabic or Devangari both of whom are used by a dramatically higher number of people? I’m just saying that it seems like to get the biggest bang for your buck one would have made very different choices.

This looks infinitely better than any variety of pizza roll.

smashalash:

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS CAT BEFORE

HER NAME IS TAMA
AND SHE’S THE STATIONMASTER AT A TRAIN STATION IN JAPAN
SHE GREETS ALL THE PASSENGERS
AND SHE HAS HER OWN OFFICE
AND SHE’S PAID IN CAT FOOD
AND SHE IS A FUCKING EXECUTIVE OF A FUCKING RAILROAD STATION 

AND LOOK AT HER

the trains are decorated with cartoon versions of her since she’s their mascot as well

MAN YOU GOTTA TALK ABOUT THE TRAIN MORE TOO THOUGH!!

FOR ONE THERES A LITTLE LIBRARY INSIDE WITH CHILDREN’S BOOKS!!

AND TAMA THEMED COUCHES AND BACKBOARDS!!!

AND THE FRONT HAS WHISKERS!!!

TAMA IS SO POPULAR THAT TOURISM FROM TAMA BASICALLY BROUGHT THE ENTIRE TOWN BACK FROM THE BRINK AND SAVED THE RAIL LINE!!!

I MEAN CHECK THIS OUT!!

A TAMA CAFE!! AN ENTIRE TAMA GIFTSHOP!! TAMA NOTEBOOKS TAMA BAGS TAMA EARRINGS MORE TAMA STUFF I NEVER GOT PICTURES OF!! THERE IS SO MUCH TAMA !! THIS GODDAMN CAT!!

That’s pretty fucking weird.

I know the hip thing is bulgogi tacos but I think there was an obvious step in korean fusion food that was missed.

improvesubway:

56. Safe Inter-Car Passage

An idea taken from articulated buses, a safe intercar passage, with an actual floor and walls would help solve the problem of people falling off the train or through the passage in between trains.

Many thanks to  Reddit user dspeyer for their opinion on this subject.

I love the idea of open gangways and desperately want them on the metro here in DC and the BART system back home in the SF Bay Area. See this picture of the Toronto Subway System: