contraflow

where traffic temporarily travels in the opposite direction to normal

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*Hottest summer ever recorded

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Strange shapes at night #night

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Log detail

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Casts a long shadow #shadow #tree

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#vscocam #lunapark #sydney #blueskies

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Bowling while waiting to bowl

[wilwheaton]

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Jared and me

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On the way to work 3

[new-aesthetic]

The International Space Station releases three nanosatellites—similar to those deployed by Planet Labs—on November 19, 2013. (NASA)

(via Silicon Valley’s New Spy Satellites - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic)

[kadrey-deactivated20181203]

Lego Just Got Told Off By A 7-Year-Old Girl

“

Dear Lego company:

My name is Charlotte. I am 7 years old and I love legos but I don’t like that there are more Lego boy people and barely any Lego girls.

Today I went to a store and saw legos in two sections the girls pink and the boys blue. All the girls did was sit at home, go to the beach, and shop, and they had no jobs but the boys went on adventures, worked, saved people, and had jobs, even swam with sharks.

I want you to make more Lego girl people and let them go on adventures and have fun ok!?!

Thank you.

From Charlotte.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tabathaleggett/lego-just-got-told-off-by-a-7-year-old-girl

[wilwheaton]

#TeamCharlotte

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Reprogramming Young mind under guard. I imagine that there will be a reverse situation in the future. To make sure recalcitrants plug  themselves  in.

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Foodini 3D food printer customizes and automates your kitchen prep Heidi Hoopes, gizmag.com

If you don’t regularly prepare your own food, is it because of the time involved? Would you make homemade pizza more often if you could “print”’ it? Barcelona-based Natural Machines aims to automate many kitchen tasks, but its Foodini food printer…

Yum

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via Geek System

Hacker Creates Flying Zombie Drones

Kamkar has created what he calls SkyJack, which allows his Parrot AR.Drone to autonomously fly around using a small Raspberry Pi computer to search for other drones. When it finds one, it spreads its zombie plague by automatically disconnecting the control device and causing the drone to fly around on its own as directed by the hacker drone’s on board hive-mind. Then the search for its next victim begins.

Zombie. Drones. Nuf said.

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ON LEARNING

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

  Photo by John Fink: Students having classes in a destroyed school, Angola, 1997

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Testify!

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Cicero’s Twitter: Tom Standage on the forgotten history of social media

Sounds interesting and yet not.  The social media condition really. Samey - same but tech makes it go faster,  further. Romans seem to be mentioned abit but I have to ask,  what have the Romans ever done for us?

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via Kurzweil

Mechanism behind blood stem cells’ longevity discovered

A study from the University of Pennsylvania has uncovered one of the mechanisms that allow blood stem cells to keep dividing in perpetuity.