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A community group that raised $1.3 million in a six-week online fundraising effort has purchased a laboratory once used by visionary scientist Nikola Tesla.

I had to break my hand punching the wall just to reclaim my manliness.

Animals Trying To Stay Awake Compilation is a post from: The Inquisitr

Tip for all my student readers: if you’re too lazy to use a bibliography creator like NoodleBib or RefWorks, let Google generate your bibliography entries for you. All you have to do is google the article/book title in Google Scholar, click “cite” at the bottom of the search result, and copy either the MLA, APA, or Chicago cite into your word document. 

odditiesoflife:

Long Term Exposure Photos of Fireworks

Photographer David Johnson captures the International Fireworks Show in Ottawa, Canada using an unusual photographic technique of long term exposure. His photos of fireworks look more like bacteria under a microscope. The results are amazing.

tastefullyoffensive:

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Jon Bell:

I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s.

Vor ein paar Wochen fuhr das F.A.T.-Lab als Teil ihrer Gold-Ausstellung mit einem gefakten selbstfahrenden Auto von Google durch New York, jetzt haben sie ein Tutorial auf Instructables online gestellt, mit dem man sich so ein Fake-Auto selber bauen kann. Zumindest den rotierenden Scanner auf’m Dach.

Vimeo Direktfake

LieDar is a fake lidar sensor that you can attach to the top of your car to instantly turn it into a self-driving vehicle. Whereas some companies have spent millions of dollars developing the technology to have conversations about the future of transportation, you can butt in for a mere fraction of the cost. To join the multimillion dollar conversation all you need is a 3D printer, and a little gumption.

When your car sports fashionable technology you can experience first-hand what it is like to be a leader in innovation. Everywhere you go people will stop dead in their tracks in wonder and admiration. Children will look back and remember the day they first encountered a self-driving car — your self-driving car! Overnight you can go from merely being a terrible driver to a well-respected and beloved ambassador of the future.

Impress your neighbors. Meet new people. Become more attractive to members of all sexes.

LieDar (via New Aesthetic)

Grade schon (passenderweise) in meinem Facebook-Dingsbums verbraten, will ich aber auch hier haben: Das Jahrbuch der Lebowski High School von Dudeism. Von Links nach Rechts: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, Sam Elliot, Tara Reid, Ben Gazzara, Philip Seymour Hoffman und Flea.

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Henri the Existential Cat waxes philosophical on the price of literary fame.

 

cesarethector:

YAHO !

On the left, the Emperor Caligula, one of the most famous - and notorious - rulers of ancient Rome. On the right, Jack Gleeson as Joffrey in the Game of Thrones TV series.

It's a cute likeness if the physical likeness is all you see. But Caligula has long held a reputation - one that, to be fair, is being dialled back substantially by modern research - as one of Rome's most debauched public figures, a man renowned for depravity, sexual excess and cruelty.

Just like Joffrey. And yes, before you ask, the bust on the left is real, not a Photoshop job. Here's an alternative angle.

Coincidence?

Caligula and Joffrey look alarmingly similar. [Reddit]

To contact the author of this post, write to plunkett@kotaku.com or find him on Twitter @lukeplunkett

consultingavengersintardis:

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welcometotiffanys:

OMG

this is so whoa on any blog

i think this is what’s going to happen in avengers 2

butcherbilly:

As Seen in Forbes: Sympathy for the Devil #ButcherBilly

Following the recent article at Forbes showing the world The Richest Pastors in Brazil, this series is a take on the depressing reality of that list, depicting the so-called “bishops” mashed with various representations of the devil in pop culture, bringing somehow the true nature of their game.

Click here to check the full project.

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By Lee Sallows: Assign the letters JHMLCNVTURISEYAPO to the integers -8 to 8 and you get:

And a reader points out that ERIS gives 10.

thegeek531:

Cats

lolzpicx:

This is like some indiana jones shit

Humanity Explores the Solar System

The coastline along the city of Santos, some 80 km from Sao Paulo, in Brazil, offers a strange sight. Like dominoes about to topple, the waterfront is lined by a string of high rise apartments that are unmistakably tilted to one side.

The problem lies in Santos’ soil. Below a seven-meter layer of sand is a 30-40 meter deep bed of slippery clay that doesn't cope well with the weight of the structures. Until 1968, the local building code had no restrictions whatsoever on the type of foundation that could be used for multistory buildings. Ideally, the foundations of buildings should reach bedrock, which in the region is about 50 meters deep. But these buildings in Santos’ waterfront has foundations that are only 4 or 5 meters (13 to 16 feet) deep. After the leaning in the first building became visible, there was realization that the practice of placing tall buildings on shallow footings could not continue, and a requirement was added to Santos building code to use deep foundation for tall buildings.

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I was wrong.

One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought it lacked meaning. I thought it was "corrupting my soul."

It's a been a year now since I "surfed the web" or "checked my email" or "liked" anything with a figurative rather than literal thumbs up. I've managed to stay disconnected, just like I planned. I'm internet free.

And now I'm supposed to tell you how it solved all my problems. I'm supposed to be enlightened. I'm supposed to be more "real," now. More perfect.

But instead it's 8PM and I just woke up. I slept all day, woke with eight voicemails on my phone from friends and coworkers. I went to my coffee shop to consume dinner, the Knicks game, my two newspapers, and a copy of...

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Green labeling causes some consumers to shun energy-efficient light bulbs even when they know the choice could save them money, a new study finds.

Ele era o ator mais bem pago da televisão, faturava cerca de R$ 700 mil por episódio, ganhou dois globos de ouro, mas ainda assim, Hugh Laurie, 53, afirmou que os anos em que foi o Dr. House foram um pesadelo em sua vida. O ator disse à revista "Radio Times" que seu grande sucesso o tornou um "prisioneiro", e que chegou até mesmo a fingir um acidente para ter alguns dias de folga. "Entendo que seja difícil de perceber, mas a repetição de uma rotina mês após mês pode ser um pesadelo. Tive que inventar um acidente de carro para não gravar alguns dias." Leia mais (30/04/2013 - 11h02)

Tweet von Bill Gross: „Google’s Self-Driving Car gathers almost 1 GB per SECOND. Here’s what it “sees” making a left turn“. Vor einem Jahr gab’s da schonmal ein paar Visualisierungen in einem Artikel auf Wired, seit damals scheinen sie die „Auflösung“ aber nochmal massiv erhöht zu haben. (via Buzzfeed)