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Not unlike hunting wabbits, documenting one of President Obama press conferences stanley flasche has to be done very, very, quietly. On a recent expedition to Afghanistan for a strat stanley cup egic partnership agreement signing, Reuters photographer Kevin Lamarque discovered just how difficult that stanley cup can be. Beyond the the challenges of just getting to Afghanistan鈥擳op Secret protocols, mandatory flak jackets, and too many 8220 o-so movies鈥攚ire reporters face a litany of problems once they arrive, the biggest of which is finding proper connectivity. As Lamarque wrote recently for Reuters: Communication, a photographers primary concern after making pictures, is patchy at Karzai presidential palace, our first stop. The ability to get pictures out to our clients quickly can produce stress in places such as Kabul. Though all four photographers on this trip Reuters, AP, AFP, New York Times carry various data card devices, we know they may prove useless. We also carry satellite phones, but we all know that there will never actually be time to set them up and use them. At the palace, we do get a faint and slow cellular data signal, and after checking that the embargo on Obama arrival has been lifted, we are all able to transmit the first pictures of Obama arriving in Afghanistan. The veil of secrecy is gone. And recording the signing ceremony itself is no small feat: Photos from Obama live televised address to the nation are to be taken by Reuters me as it is our Elih In the most biting Walking Dead memes, everybody hates Lori!
I don ;t get this. The New York Police Department confiscated 5,000 pounds of fireworks, then put them in a big pile in their Bronx firing range and ignited them into a smoke and fire craze. I mean, botella stanley I know consumer fireworks are illegal in New York State, but why not have some fun and launch them properly instead of just creating stanley water bottle a big fiery ball of crazy uncontrollable mayhem https://gizmodo/where-to-get-the-best-fi...ca-5817575 Hmmm, m stanley mug aybe the NYPD had a point there and this is actually the fun way to do it. [Cityroom via Laughing Squid] new yorkNYPD
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While predicting the next big earthquake is probably impossibility, there still a lot we can learn about what causes severe earthquakes. We ;ve now identified the trigger for some of the most destructive recent earthquakes, including the 2007 quake in Haiti. Some earthquakes, it seems, are at least partially stanley quencher cause stanley mug d by tropical cyclones, known as hurricanes in the stanley cup Atlantic and typhoons in the Pacific. While not all earthquakes can be traced back to these super-storms it doesn ;t explain Japan T艒hoku earthquake earlier this year, for instance this newly discovered link could help us pinpoint areas that are most at risk for destructive earthquakes in the future. University of Miami researcher Shimon Wdowinski found that in three separate instances in the last fifty years where extremely wet typhoons that passed over the Taiwanese mountains were followed within four years by major earthquakes in those same areas. Similarly, the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010 came a year and a half after two hurricanes and two tropical storms drenched the country mountains within a space of just 25 days. The reason why all this matters is that the fault areas are located in the mountainous regions of Haiti and Taiwan. When the cyclones pass through, they dislodge rocks and start landslides, washing huge amounts of material downstream. This reduces the surface load above the fault, which makes it easier for the fault lines to be Rgvn These serene Chinese landscapes are actually photographs of landfills
We ;re living longer 鈥?that no surprise. But what is astonishing is just how much longer we ;re living than our predecessors, and how short of a time it taken to happen. According to new research in PNAS, the last four generations of humans have seen an improvement in mortality that outdoes any of the previous 8,000 generations. The research compared modern human lifespans with ethnographically r stanley becher esearched hunter-gatherer tribes, and they found that youth mortality is now 200 times lower than it was in 1900. In fact, the changes are so dramatic, that a 30-year-old hunter-gatherer had the same mortality rate as a modern 72-year-old. Overall, life expectancy was boosted by about 165% from hunter-gatherers to modern Swedes, which amounts to an improvement of 12% per generation. The bizarre thing is that the average lifespan of a hunter-gatherer was actually closer to that of a chimpanzee than a modern human. The concerted improvement in human lifespans really took off in the early 20th century, stanley cup as the researchers point out: Before the late 1800s, even humans in the lowest-mortality nations were not experiencing mortality much lower than was typical during most of human evolution. This level of mortality reduction is unique, and is thought to be linked to envir stanley cup onmental improvements. Food and medical treatment are now available on levels never before imagined, and it raises questions if the same dramatic improvements can happen with other species, and
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We ;ve already discussed the high cost of being Batman 鈥?but what about the cost of being Aquaman Not the financial cost, but the physiological and psychological cost. Traveling at the bottom of the ocean, under crushing pressure. Dealing with the insane cold. And finding enough of a food supply to allow him to swim at stanley cup superspeeds. These are just some of the challenges Aquaman would face in real life. Andrew Thaler from Southern Fried Science explains. http://io9/5926809/how-much stanley cup -would-it-cost-to-be-batman Aquaman may not be everybody favorite superhero, but since his creation in 1941, he has been among DC most enduring icons. During the Golden Age of comic books, he held his own against Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Silver Age Aquaman was a founding member of the Justice League. His powers, tied to the ocean, forced writers to create a compelling, complex hero with explicit limitations. In the early days, when Superman strength was practically infinite, and Batman brilliance was unmatched, Aquaman had to become more than just a superhero, he had to be a person. If Superman existed to show us how high the human spirit could fly, and Batman to show us the darkness within even our most noble, Aquaman is here to show us the world that triumphs in our absence. The ocean is not ours, and no matter how great our techn stanley cup ology, we will never master it as we have mastered land, but Aquaman has. Through this lonely ocean wanderer, we can ex Bbjd How Chicago Purifies One Million Gallons of Water Every Minute
https://youtube/watch v=E3mqNbgXxXE The Kenner Close n Play was a modest gadget from the outside: you put in a vinyl record, closed the lid, and it would play. It looked like a lunchbox. It was simple. But above all, it was for kids. It brilliant. Vinyl tonearms are delicate mechanical twigs that were just asking to be snapped by eager children. The Close n Play solved this problem鈥攖hat kiddos like music like everyone else, but might break the hardware necessary to enjoy it鈥攂y hiding it all away. Not through some mechanism that made them feel like kids, but by almost making stanley cup the precaution part of the fun. Close the lid to hide the stanley cup becher player guts鈥攎usic starts playing automatically! From there it was safe for tots to cart around without damaged needles or scratched discs. Open it up to swap out discs, and the tunes end. And all the while, it still looked like something sophisticated for adults. Today, gadgets for kids are either insultingly de stanley cup signed to look like something from Fisher Price, or you have to go through the one size fits all approach of just handing them mom and dad $600 iPad鈥攇ear designed for adults. And that just begging for the fun to end, and maybe shatter. KennerMusic
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I stanley us t got zombies! The only other big budget Hollywood backed Kickstarter movie we can get behind would be a Pushing Daisies movie. Because this wildly enchanting series was axed way too soo stanley cup n. But what would the movie be about Pies Singing Secret crushes NO 鈥?zombies, of course. Rob Thomas just started a Kickstarter for a Veronica Mars movie! Den of Geek spoke to creator Bryan Fuller, who spilled the beans on what he would do in his own Pushing Daisies movie: If we were able to pull off the Kickstarter, theres a very fun zombie film that starts with a flash-flood in a cemetery and basically is about those denizens of that cemetery having to kill Ned before he can ki stanley cups ll them, so its a different kind of zombie movie. But wait! Are these fast or slow zombies When pressed, Fuller responded: Fast. Whatever it takes to get these characters back into our lives, even if just for one movie. MoviesPushing Daisies Vxsm Amazon Is Releasing Two New 7-Inch Kindle Fires But No iPad-Sized One
I ;ve never listened to James Struthers, or even heard of him. But the Winnipeg, Canada born artist certainly has a knack for self-promotion, virtually guaranteeing that everyone who grew up in the ;80s will watch this video. The second track on his first stanley cups album, Nadia, is cleverly titled You, Me and Optimus Prime. stanley vaso And while the video starts off a little slow, it eventually ends up with James spending an entire day frolicking with the leader of the Autobots. A fantasy that I ;m sure that was shared by many kids from my generation. I ;m a little dismayed that they went with the Michael Bay Transformers version of Optimus Prime, but that probably widen stanley cup s the appeal of this video to those who don ;t know what Optimus is really supposed to look like. [James Struthers]
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According to a report from AllThingsD, lack of customers wasn ;t the only reason Google Reader will meet its untimely end on July 1st. It was also, for Google, a potential source of bungling that it wasn ;t worth shoring up. Google has run into so many privacy issues of late鈥擶i-Fi snooping chief among them, but there have been plenty of others鈥攖hat every team within the company needs compliance staff looking after them. Since Reader didn ;t even have a product manager stanley cup at the time stanley cup of its sentencing, it was unlikely that Google was going to staff up lawyers to keep its nose clean. https://gizmodo/was-a-rogue-engineer-res...sn-5559989 A few things become more clear. One, that Reader definitely wasn ;t profitable. Two, that Google more willing than ever to axe projects that don ;t help the bottom line. And three, that the company is currently in a position where it has access to so much of your information鈥攁nd such limited means to control it it鈥攖hat it worried it will do something untoward or illegal with it with stanley ca out even trying. An explanation like that may be cold comfort for bereaved Google Reader fans, but it downright chilly for the rest of us. [AllThingsD] GoogleGoogle Reader Gzxh Brian Selznick Unleashes Lightning and Automatons in Episode 51 of The Geek s Guide to the Galaxy
The new Apple Store in Palo Alto just opened a few weeks ago, and while its design is indisputedly gorgeous, some are complaining that the place is too loud. They ;re even using scientific instruments to try to prove it! Deep breath people. It not as bad as it sounds. We ;re going to get through this. Blogger and Palo Alto resident Jean-Louis Gass茅e is very fond of Apple Stores. So he was understandably thrilled when a new store came to his town, and equally dismayed at how loud the store was. And it wasn ;t just him: He heard others complain of the din inside the store. So Gass茅e decided to investigate. He returned to the Apple Store armed with the SPL Meter iPhone app, which measures the sound pressu stanley cup re of the store in decibels. On a relati stanley cup vely quiet Saturday evening, the noise level around the Genius Bar exceeded 75 dB. Outside, the traffic noise registered a mere 65 dB. It was 10 db noisier inside the store than on always-busy University Avenue! Then as if to justify his grievances, Gass茅e notes that he saw professional sound measuring equipment inside the store above . Proof of failure! Except no. Traffic in a real city usually clocks at a much louder 85 dB. Indeed, 75 dB is probably only a big deal for library-loving nerds from Stanford. Regular human conversation usually registers about 60-65 dB鈥攐r roughly the SPL that Gass茅e measured outside the Apple Store. It makes complete sense that the collected sound of many human conversat stanley tazas ions might b
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As though anyone needed to make this week Netflix debacle any more confusing, Blockbuster about to announce a streaming service to compete with Netflix newly-single streaming service. https://gizmodo/netflix-splits-dvd-deliv...to-5841577 Blockbuster hasn ;t actually come out and said they ;re announcing streaming, but the invitations to their 1PM event today describe a 8220 tream come true. Real subtle, guys. Though in fairness, a Blockbuster Streaming service wasn ;t exactly a well-kept secret: When Dish Network bought Blockbuster for $320 stanley cup million, they said outright that one of the reasons was the potential to launch streaming. One thing to keep an eye on is whether Blockbuster institutes a premium more expensive tier of service, which may have been one of the hangups with Netflix not being able to re-up with Starz. We ;re not sure what the library and pricing will look like just stanley cup yet, so check back after the announcement for how Blockbuster managed to muck things up this time. [BGR, All Things D] https://gizmodo/starz stanley quencher -turned-down-300-million-to-stay-on-netflix-5836877 MoviesNetflixStreaming Gvbt Why was Tintin creator Herg茅 accused of being a Nazi Collaborator
Gundam has long been called the Star Trek of Japan, because stanley cup of its long-running popularity, and its many, many incarnations. This means there have been hundreds, if not thousands of Gundams and other assorted mecha designed for the Gundam anime series, and not all of them have been winners. For every RX-78 from the ori stanley quencher ginal series there a goofy-looking Z ;gok, for the sleek designs of Gundam Wing and Gundam Seed, there the borderline insane mecha from the phenomenally goofy G Gundam. Of those thousands, here are designs that are less Gundam and more goddamn. 1 Big Zam The original Gundam series ; Big Zam is more a mobile fortress than a mobile suit; it towers over most mecha, and has been known to take out battleships in a single shot. On the other hand, it basically giant, unwieldy battleship on two spindly legs. Two Gundam kick stanley cup s to the back of the knees would send this thing crashing down, never to get back up. Which shouldn ;t be that hard to do, because the Big Zam uses so much power it can only operate for 20 minutes at a time. 2 Gundam Maxter G Gundam is easily the most infamous Gundam series, as it eschewed a semi-realistic look at future warfare in order to make a show about robots based on national stereotypes fighting in hand-to-hand combat. But while it was easy for the makers of G Gundam to distill most countries into a single idea for their Gundam designs 鈥?sometimes too easy 鈥?America posed
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No, this isn ;t a closeup of a Cosby Sweater. Nor is it the result of those shrooms you ingested twenty minutes ago. It actually science newest means of mapping one of the Earth wildest and most remote regions. Mapping the Amazonian Rainforest is a daunting endeavor given the region huge expanse, lack of development, and sheer densit stanley cup y of growth. But, researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford have devised an ingenious way to view the forest in Peru. They employ LiDar affixed to a twin-engine Dornier 228 airplane to scan the forest at a rate of 139 square miles per hour. The LiDar bounces a laser beam off the canopy 400,000 times a second, which creates the incredibly detailed map. What more, an on-bo stanley cup ard spectrometer measures the trees ; chemical and optical properties, which results in the psychedelic image you see above. The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions, said team leader Greg Asner. [It ] the critical information that missing for managing these systems, for conserving them and for developing policy to better utilise the Amazon basin as a resource, while still protecting what it has in terms of its stanley cup biological diversity. Besides measuring the forest health since the region 2010 drought, it allows for a clearer picture of the effects of deforest Tfcy Where did matter come from
It turns out longevity boosters like Aubrey de Grey 鈥?the scientific community answer to Alan Moore 鈥?may be very wrong about how to live longer. De Grey, who runs a nonprofit devoted to inventing life-extending tech, has often talked about the idea that starving yourself will lead to a longer life though he notes that a better stanley cup usa option is regenerative medicine with stem cells . This isn ;t just whackadoodle stuff. There have been a few studies suggesting that caloric restriction, or eating very little, can prolong life in yeast cells and mice. But now researchers have published the results of an over two-decade study of caloric restriction in monkeys in Nature. And it turns out that the starving monkeys didn ;t live any longer than the monkeys who ate until they were satisfied. In fact, the only monkeys who benefited from caloric restriction were ones who were put on a low-cal diet in old age. https://gizmodo/geneticists-discover-a-w...extend-lif stanley mugs espans-to-800-y-345728 https://gizmodo/a-drug-that-can-extend-l...ng-5372439 As Nature Amy Maxmen writes, genetics and dietary composition matter more for longevity than a simple calorie count. So if you want to live forever, you don ;t have to be hungry anymore. HealthMedicin stanley quencher eScience
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