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snowden-is-dead:

whitecourtkellyrhea:

Our local animal rehab center just posted pics of this owl who got rescued

And I really can’t with him

oh my god

What even

They tried to make me go to rehab

I said no, no, no

mialayla:

mialayla:

I love my job

I lost my job

Será que compartilharei meus Hot Wheels com meus filhos?

Didn't catch all of the references in Guillermo Del Toro's amazingly comprehensive Treehouse of Horror intro for The Simpsons? These folks think they did. (Though there are a few more in the comments.)

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Photos by Austin Hodges

Photo by Meredith Edlow 

Photo by Austin Hodges

Photo by Meredith Edlow

Photo by Austin Hodges

Photo by Meredith Edlow

Images courtesy Meredith Edlow and Austin Hodges. They can be found on Instragram at @medlowminus  and @austinxc04

H/T Streets Dept

A OCP Cyberdine Boston Dynamics é uma daquelas empresas que está trabalhando a sério para garantir o Apocalipse Robótico. O mais engraçado é que mesmo sabendo disso, mesmo sendo mais que escolados nas consequências de escravizar máquinas que eventualmente se tornarão inteligentes, continuamos achando um barato.

Confesso, há uma esperança de que façamos a coisa certa e mantenhamos o nível de inteligência de nossas máquinas equivalente ao de animais espongiformes e comentaristas de YouTube, assim elas serão úteis mas não ameaçadoras. Só que, sendo realista, o uso primário será militar, e soldados burros só são úteis em discurso pacifista de hippies liberais.

Uma das demonstrações de inteligência é saber se adaptar ao ambiente, e a Boston Dynamics está fazendo isso direitinho. Um dos últimos robôs deles, o WildCat, consegue correr a 40 km/h, e quando cai, levanta e continua. Imagine um bicho desses atrás de você. Com lasers.

O Cheetah só correu em laboratório. É um robô que atingiu 60 km/h. Aquele tigre dos transformers não parece tão ficção assim, né?

O robô mais avançado, o Atlas, aprendeu a andar em terreno irregular, cheio de pedras. Se esconder nas colinas não adiantará mais. Pior: como fica claro no minuto final do vídeo, o Atlas está aprendendo a lutar Karatê. Estamos mortos.

A cereja do bolo apocalíptico é o Petman, o robô anterior ao Atlas, aqui visto usando roupas. A humanidade de seus movimentos é perturbadora. Você eu não sei mas se minha vizinha se chamasse Sarah Connor eu me mudaria na hora.

Fonte: SH.

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lonelygrey:

explosivemarbles:

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW SATISFYING THIS GIF IS TO ME

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Artist Peter Dean has created a poster inviting time travelers to a special reception being held by professor Stephen Hawking at The University of Cambridge. Naturally, the reception takes place in the past on June 28th, 2009.

Professor Hawking devised an ingeniously simple experiment to prove whether time travel to the past was possible. He held a reception for time travellers, but didn’t publicise it until after it had happened. This way, only those who could travel back in time would be able to attend.

The clever poster is available to purchase online at Kite. Previously, we posted about Dean’s recreation of an antique circus posters that inspired John Lennon’s “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!”

image via Kite

submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

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Scientists have struggled for years to pinpoint the cause of the global crash in bee populations, an affliction known as Colony Collapse Disorder. Everything from pesticides to poor nutrition to automotive exhaust has been blamed for the apian apocalypse. But if British scientists are right, bees that pollinate much of the world’s crops are dying because they’re stressed out.

A ground-breaking new study by researchers at the Royal Holloway University of London investigated the impact of non-lethal doses of agricultural pesticides on the social organization of bumble bee colonies. If correct, the findings go a long way to explaining why exposure to pesticides can prove fatal to beehives if not to individual bees.

“Social bee colonies depend on the efficient cooperative performance of multiple individual workers so that essential tasks like foraging, thermoregulation and brood care, sustain and enhance overall colony function,” they wrote. “They have many workers and are able to buffer some effects of stress. However, if too many bees become behaviorally impaired, irrespective of the reason, the colony reaches a tipping point and is set on a path to failure through moderate, but chronic, levels of stress.”

Over 42 days, the scientists fed eight bumblebee colonies neonicotinoids, a class of agricultural pesticide linked to bee deaths, in sub-lethal doses that bees would typically be exposed to as they collect pollen. Eight other colonies were fed non-contaminated pollen as a control. Researchers monitored the growth of the colonies, counting bee deaths and larvae hatching. They fed that data into an algorithm that predicted the impact on the colony’s growth of bees that became stressed.

After the first three weeks of the 42-day study, only control colonies continued growing, while treatment colonies began to shrink, according to the scientists. They concluded that the delayed decrease in colony size suggested that low pesticide exposure affected colony function rather than mortality.

In other words, as the pesticide stresses individual bees, they become sluggish and unable to perform their tasks in the beehive. As those bees turn into zombies, they affect healthy bees’ ability to do their jobs and keep the colony functioning.

While the scientists only tested the pesticide’s impact on bees, they noted that other factors—from poor nutrition due to a dearth of wildflowers to bad weather—could result in accumulated stress on individual bees that push a colony to collapse.  “This can explain why finding the link between colony failures and a single specific stress factor has so far proved elusive,” they wrote.

An angel!

crescendudes:

this is basically all you  need to know about the government shut down. 

pocketaimee:

By request!

Superman is basically a superpowered Mr. Rogers.

karenhurley:

An absolutely shocking campaign that is truly brilliant. These images are of actual human rights abuse victims taken by traveling journalists form a variety of countries that have been placed into Switzerland’s surroundings. The shock of seeing these individuals right in front of the public eye certainly shed new light on the issue and caused a global stir. 

Watch the video

Campaign: Not here, but now 
Agency: Walker, Switzerland Via

Lasers não são novidade. De ficção científica para realidade e um Nobel da Física em 1960, hoje são encontrados em chaveiros e canetas, mas nunca saíram do imaginário popular. Todo garoto que cresceu vendo desenhos animados quer uma arma laser.

Mesmo para fins mais caretas, os lasers ainda são legais, dada sua capacidade de cortar e furar qualquer coisa. Como ferramentas de precisão, fazem cortes milimétricos em chapas de aço, mas também servem para fins construtivamente destrutivos, como descomissionamento de equipamentos nucleares.

Quanto é preciso sucatear material usado em usinas, reatores e armas nucleares, robôs não são úteis, leva-se muito tempo pra programar os cortes. Um sujeito com uma serra é mais eficiente. Então, que tal partir logo para uma arma elegante, para um tempo mais civilizado?

Foi o que a TWI fez. Transformaram um laser de 5 kW em um instrumento portátil (ok, manipulável), o operador é muito mais ágil e versátil que qualquer robô. Acompanhe:

Não sei você, mas eu acho que deve ser divertido pra caramba. Não resistiria a fazer “PEW PEW PEW” baixinho.

P.S.: note que quando ele corta a caixa de aço, o raio atravessa, ele corta as placas da frente e de trás ao mesmo tempo.

Fonte: PS.

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Sim, isso vai acontecer. Não é piada, não é paródia. Já foi criado e produzido um remake em espanhol para “Breaking Bad”.

Walter Blanco é o protagonista do seriado que se chamará “Metastasis”, uma produção do Canal Sony da Colômbia. A história é a mesma. Um professor de química que descobre ter câncer e decide fazer metanfetamina. Só que tudo direcionado para o público latino, falado em espanhol, com atores latino-americanos.

Olha o trailer que saiu hoje:

Parece piada, mas não é. Até os nomes são traduzidos literalmente. Walter White vira Walter Blanco, Jesse fica Jose, a Skyler vira Cielo e o Hank será Henry Navarrro. Vamos conhecer os atores?

Walter White vira Walter Blanco, interpretado pelo ator Diego Trujillo (neste print do trailer)

Jesse será José, interpretado pelo Roberto Urbina (em print do trailer)

Skyler será Cielo, interpretada pela atriz Sandra Reyes (em foto que a gente achou na internet)

Hank vira Henry Navarro na pele do ator Julian Arango (nessa foto que a gente achou no IMDB)

Viram o trailer? Não parece paródia? A gente achou isso bem pior que a versão latina para “Gossip Girl”, lembra?

Aaron Paul being confused by fashion

The Guardian has released new documents from Edward Snowden showing how the U.S. National Security Agency targets internet anonymity tool Tor to gather intelligence. One of the documents, a presentation titled "Tor Stinks," bluntly acknowledges how effective the tool is: "We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time. With manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users, however, no success de-anonymizing a user in response to a TOPI request/on demand." (Other documents: presentation 1, presentation 2.) The NSA is able to extract information sometimes, though, and Bruce Schneier details what we know of that process in an article of his own. "The NSA creates 'fingerprints' that detect http requests from the Tor network to particular servers. These fingerprints are loaded into NSA database systems like XKeyscore, a bespoke collection and analysis tool which NSA boasts allows its analysts to see "almost everything" a target does on the internet. ... After identifying an individual Tor user on the internet, the NSA uses its network of secret internet servers to redirect those users to another set of secret internet servers, with the codename FoxAcid, to infect the user's computer. FoxAcid is an NSA system designed to act as a matchmaker between potential targets and attacks developed by the NSA, giving the agency opportunity to launch prepared attacks against their systems." Schneier explains in a related article why it's important that we figure out exactly what the NSA is doing. "Given how inept the NSA was at protecting its own secrets, it's extremely unlikely that Edward Snowden was the first sysadmin contractor to walk out the door with a boatload of them. And the previous leakers could have easily been working for a foreign government."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Photographs of Earth from the ESA Archive Title: Walt Whitman The icy waters of the Baltic Sea surrounding Germany’s largest island, Rügen, JAXA/ESA A phytoplankton bloom swirls a figure-of-8 in the South Atlantic Ocean about 600 km east of the Falkland Islands. Different types and quantities of phytoplankton exhibit different colours, such as the blues and greens in this image, ESA The landscape of the Tanezrouft Basin, one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara desert, in south-central Algeria. The region is known as ‘land of terror’ because of its lack of water and vegetation, JAXA/ESA The southern Atacama Desert, with the border of Chile (west) and Argentina (east) running down the middle. The Atacama is believed to be the driest desert in the world, and the lack of cloud cover in this image highlights the dry climate, ESA Beijing, NASA/ESA Clearwater Lakes, located to the east of the Hudson Bay, what appears to be two separate lakes is actually a single body of water that fills two depressions. The depressions were created by two meteorite impacts, believed to have hit Earth simultaneously up to 290 million years ago, USGS/ESA The northern part of the country of Namibia. Namibia is located on the west coast of southern Africa between Angola and South Africa, ESA Lake Powell, USGS/ESA In this false-color image of the Mississippi River delta, land vegetation appears pink, while the sediment in the surrounding waters are bright blue and green, USGS/ESA The sand seas of the Namib Desert, KARI/ESA The Paraná River cuts through this image of southern Brazil, ESA The northern end of the Persian Gulf, along with the border of Iran and Iraq and the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab river, USGS/ESA Sand and dust blowing northeast from the Arabian Peninsula across the Persian Gulf toward Iran (visible at image top), ESA The foothills of the Andes mountains near the southern coast of Peru, KARI/ESA Sand and dust from the Sahara Desert blowing across the Atlantic Ocean along the coasts of Mauritania (top), Senegal (middle) and Guinea Bissau (bottom), ESA North central Siberia, ESA Three of the five Great Lakes of North America. Lakes Huron (left) and Erie (bottom) are partially ice-covered following snow storms in Michigan and Cleveland, while Lake Ontario (right) is completely visible in blue, ESA Running across the image, the Okavango River forms the border between Namibia to the south and Angola to the north, KARI/ESA Rolling hills of farmland in part of the Palouse Region in the northwest United States, KARI/ESA The Tibesti Mountains, located mostly in Chad with the northern slopes extending into Libya, ESA More photographs of Earth Atley

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Legendary street artist Banksy has continued “Better Out Than In” — a month-long art show in the streets of New York City — with a new piece each day. Banksy posted “Westside” on October 2nd, a work that demonstrates a New York accent with creative graffiti. On October 3rd, Banksy used Instagram to unveil “Midtown,” a piece that depicts a dog urinating on a fire hydrant that’s thinking “You complete me…” Previously, we wrote about the first painting in the month-long exhibit, “The Street is in Play.”

image 1 via Banksy, image 2 via Banksy