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thebyrchentwigges:

On the set of Mad Max: Fury Road, the stunt actor for Furiosa and one of the stunt actors for Max fell in love. 

“We’ve said it before and it’s quite cheesy, but it really was love at first sight. While we were punching each other we were falling for each other – quite rapidly.”

A torch was passed today, as Netflix’s stock market value surpassed Yahoo’s in intraday trading.

The shift highlights Netflix’s strong year so far, in which the company (current market capitalization: $39.21 billion) has been trouncing the S&P 500 and taking down old media stalwarts.

It also cements Netflix’s status as one of the great American internet giants of its age, thus creating an apt comparison with Yahoo (current market capitalization: $39.12 billion), whose strategy has evolved in order to play catch-up. The former has made a name for itself as a studio with attention-getting series like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black. The latter has recently boosted its investment in original video, including a revival of NBC cult hit Community and as part of an 18-series slate of original programming.

“I’m not suggesting at all we’re going to be Netflix,” said Yahoo CFO Kenneth Goldman on an earnings call in March “But we do see video more and more in a way we think about how we’re going to grow our business.”

micdotcom:

Watch: ‘The Daily Show’ brilliantly points out the tragic silver lining about the McKinney pool party 

(STScI and Mark Showalter, SETI Institute)

It was only in the past decade that scientists discovered Pluto has at least five moons. Now they're discovering those moons are even stranger than we expected.

In a new study published Wednesday in Nature, Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute and Douglas Hamilton of the University of Maryland found that some of Pluto's moons are tumbling chaotically through space. Instead of spinning smoothly, like Earth, the tiny football-shaped moon Nix wobbles wildly back and forth, like a boat caught in a swale.

As a result, if you lived on Nix, "you would literally not know if the sun was coming up tomorrow," Showalter said during a press conference announcing the findings, which were made using data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope. The researchers found that the moon Hydra has a similarly chaotic rotation, and that Styx and Kerberos likely do as well.

Most large moons in the solar system (including our moon) are tidally locked, meaning that they rotate so the same side always faces their planets as they orbit them. But Pluto's four small moons appear to rotate chaotically due to the competing gravitational pull of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

These two large bodies orbit each other at the center of the system, which is why some have suggested that we call them a double-planet system. As a result, the smaller moons are caught in a wildly fluctuating gravitational field, leading to rotational tumult. The only other object we've seen with this sort of chaotic rotation is Saturn's irregularly shaped moon Hyperion.

Why Pluto's moons are fascinating for scientists

(STScI and Mark Showalter, SETI Institute)

What's more, Hamilton and Showalter found that three of the moons orbit Pluto nearly in sync together, a characteristic called orbital resonance. Over time, this likely prevented them from crashing in to one another — and, Hamilton said, "is one reason why tiny Pluto is able to have so many moons."

The researchers also found that most of the moons are shaped more like footballs than perfect spheres. Two of them (Nix and Hydra) are much smaller and brighter than previously thought, while Kerberos is extremely dark, reflecting back just 4 percent of the light hitting it.

All these findings are especially interesting because many scientists consider Pluto to be a sort of scaled-down model of a solar system. Showalter and Hamilton speculate that the chaos of Pluto's moons, for instance, might be a characteristic present in binary star systems, where two stars orbit each other much like Pluto and Charon. We can't collect this sort of data on distant star systems' planets yet, so studying Pluto is an effective substitute.

(NASA/STScI/Showalter)

We're sure to learn a lot more about Pluto and its moons as NASA's New Horizons probe approaches it for a flyby in July. Already, the probe has sent back the best photos we've ever taken of Pluto, and it's going to provide unprecedented data on the dwarf planet's atmosphere and composition.

New Horizons might even spot a few more moons — as four of its moons were discovered in just the last decade, and simulations suggest Pluto might be orbited by as many as 10 tiny moons in total.

marshmellowtea:

high-metafive:

so i made and account on tv tropes and it asked for my relationship status

i went over and was about to put in “single” or “it’s complicated” and, well..

i can’t deal anymore

this is beautiful

Fotografía (cc) Girl receiving oral polio vaccine

Un niño de 6 años con difteria está ingresado en estado crítico en el Hospital de la Vall d'Hebron. Se trata del primer caso de difteria en España en 28 años, tal y como se puede leer en En estado crítico el niño de Olot ingresado por difteria.

Según la Asociación Española de Pediatría:

La difteria es una enfermedad respiratoria contagiosa, con frecuencia mortal, debida a la infección por una bacteria, el bacilo diftérico (Corynebacterium diphtheriae), que provoca una afectación muy grave de las vías respiratorias altas (garganta y nariz), llegando a producir la asfixia en quien la padece. Este germen produce también una toxina que ataca el corazón y el cerebro y que ha sido la base para el desarrollo de una vacuna eficaz.

Por supuesto la AEP recomienda vacunar a todos los niños; de cumplirse con el calendario de vacunación, al llegar a la adolescencia habrán recibido seis dosis de vacuna contra la difteria.

¿Y cómo es posible que este niño haya contraído la difteria?

No está claro dónde se ha podido contagiar, pero está claro que ha enfermado porque sus padres decidieron no vacunarlo.

Así que una vez más: las vacunas funcionan y salvan vidas, y salvo casos muy específicos, y siempre bajo consejo médico, no hay ningún motivo que recomiende no vacunar a los niños.

Además, no se trata de que unos padres puedan decidir no vacunar a sus hijos en virtud de no sé que supuesta libertad de elección: cuantos menos personas vacunadas haya más baja la inmunidad de grupo, lo que facilita que se puedan contagiar niños no vacunados porque son aún demasiado jóvenes u otros motivos.

Enhorabuena, antivacunas.

(Vía Círculo Escéptico).

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Aaron Clarey isn’t really a Mad Max fan.

This is pretty clear already given that his viral rant about Fury Road doesn’t betray much knowledge of the franchise at all—he doesn’t seem aware that “the director of Fury Road” he reviles is, in fact, George Miller, the director of the entire Mad Max franchise. He calls one of the most iconic Australian cultural exports of all time a “piece of American culture.” He boldly states “No one barks orders to Max!” when, in fact, all three previous Mad Max films feature Max taking orders from someone (Roger Ward’s Captain Fifi in Mad Max, Michael Preston’s Papagallo in The Road Warrior, Tina Turner’s Auntie Entity in Beyond Thunderdome).

But the single biggest sign Clarey doesn’t know the first damn thing about what George Miller or Mad Max is his triumphalist line: “When the shit hits the fan, it will be men like Mad Max who will be in charge.”

Mad Max isn’t in charge of anything throughout the Mad Max film franchise. Max is emphatically not the archetype of the badass hero who gets the girl, gets the crown, and rules as a patriarch over society as is his due. He’s a fucked-up loner who isn’t fit to live among civilized people; who begins each film alone, wounded, broken, and who ends each film in the same state or worse.
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All the Mad Max films have had tragic endings, and if you don’t grasp that this is the tragedy at the heart of Mad Max (and the gritty Westerns and samurai films Mad Max emulates) then you don’t get Mad Max. If you think Max has an awesome life and we’re supposed to wish we were him, you really don’t get Mad Max.

mattjosephdiaz:

mrstark1:

thetenderpassion:

The internet is magic

Too fucking awesome!

I’ve been closely involved in this for a while, and I was lucky enough to be at the Avalon for the event, and to get close to Sean, Cassandra and all the wonderful people involved.

And I can tell you for a fact, after spending days with him, that Sean O’Brien, the “dancing man” himself? He’s one of the kindest and most wonderful souls I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting.

I love the Dance Free Movement, everyone involved, and I’m so proud to be a part of it.

If you want to learn more about his story and stories like his, go to DanceFreeMovement.org

Toaster eggs are an example of a product that didn’t catch on with the public.

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mallemerok:

just-shower-thoughts:

In Japan, radiation creates monsters (Godzilla) and in America radiation creates superheroes

Shockingly, it’s almost like Japan and America have very different narratives surrounding nuclear fallout. Now, if we all think very very hard, maybe someone could think of why this might be.