Starry night at the Waterville Plateau, Washington
On his way home on one amazing night, a silver moon was waxing in the sky. The eerie still of the night was all the more enticing for this fabulous shot which was featured as a POD on National Geographic’s Nature and Weather Photos.
(Image by Rhys Logan)
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The rapper Drake (age 25) and the Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens (age 84) apparently had this exchange on Twitter. The oddest thing about this exchange might be that T. Boone Pickens is following Drake on Twitter. via Gizmodo
"I grew up riding. Riding is freedom and an outlet for my aggression. Racing is adrenaline, racing is speed, and with speed comes danger and the satisfaction of pain. That feeling of absolute f*ckedness, you can get high off that."
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Dan Martin on cycling. (via bhard)
The satisfaction of pain
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Add this to some hyper-accurate servo arm and watch how easily you can start to organize organic matter from genetically modified bacteria into different configurations and patterns. Capabilities for accumulation and organization could be revolutionized at the micro-scale.
Microbots Made of Bubbles That Are Powered by Lasers
We’re used to thinking of robots as mechanical entities, but at very small scales, it sometimes becomes easier to use existing structures (like microorganisms that respond to magnetic fields or even swarms of bacteria) instead of trying to design and construct one (or lots) of teeny tiny artificial machines. Aaron Ohta’s lab at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has come up with a novel new way of creating non-mechanical microbots quite literally out of thin air, using robots made of bubbles with engines made of lasers. […]
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This reminds me so much of our perch from our last Joshua Tree trip.
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Mr. Genachowski said tiered pricing, will “increase consumer choice and competition” and yield in “lower prices for people who consume less broadband.” Although, as Electronista notes, “he did not clarify what mechanism would drive prices down.”
Public interest groups have decried the potential impact broadband data caps will have on the market and innovation, not to mention the biases baked in the plans. Comcast, for example, counts Netflix video into its data plan, but lets its own XFinity service stream away.
…“increase consumer choice and competition”… yeah, that’s exactly what will happen. I mean, except for how that’s not what’s going to happen, at all.
yep welcome to the end of the free internet.
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