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(via Robots at Work and Play - In Focus - The Atlantic)

2013 in robots.

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(via Airships - In Focus - The Atlantic)

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Why, ultimately, does experience argue almost always in favour of publication? Because a secret once lost by government, even if important, cannot be "returned". It can fly across the globe in an instant and even if momentarily suppressed, it must inform all those who have learned it as they in turn inform others. Even more persuasive is the reality that neither officials nor journalists can ever be sure of the consequences of publication: facts once distributed, like seeds in a garden, acquire a life of their own with consequences that can be salutary, malignant, both, or neither. So while intelligence agents perceive a professional duty to cloak all their deeds and knowledge, it is a newspaper's duty to publish what it learns without presuming to predict a good or ill result. The tension thus created is probably the only tolerable way to proceed.

'What the Guardian is doing is important for democracy' | World news | The Guardian

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(via Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space, whereas the Soviet Cosmonauts Used a Pencil: Scientific American)

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Early 70’s behind the scenes of Sesame Street with the Muppets.

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i like how “hte" has become popular simply by nature of being a misspelling of “the" that isn’t “teh"

there was a need and the need was fulfilled

now what happens when “hte" becomes associated with outdated meme culture

there’s only so many possibilities

het, eth, and eht will be the only 3 remaining

this is not a sustainable resource

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Someone photoshopped Aziz Ansari’s face onto these classic rap albums and it’s absolutely glorious.

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Yaaaay!

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The best present

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Loving this page of Maus

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It’s a trap

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Taking this whole silly socks fad to its logical conclusion - non-matching silly socks #almostliterallyshoegazing

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The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.

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(via Iron Man: A Terrible Privilege « Under the Mask)

Does Tony Stark have PTSD?