Ubisoft has donated  €500,000 to the reconstuction efforts of Notre Dame and have made Assassin’s Creed Unity free for a week ( April 17th at 10:00 am to April 25th at 03:00 am your local time ) 

My shitty laptop cant handle it but hopefully yours can!

ainaraoftime:

sanctferum:

suchandsuchplussome:

gunsandfireandshit:

paxamericana:

The National Park Service was storing three buckets full of highly radioactive uranium in the visitor area of its Grand Canyon museum for nearly two decades, according to the park safety manager.

The 5-gallon buckets were located near the taxidermy exhibit, and one was so full of uranium ore that it couldn’t be sealed, according to Elston “Swede” Stephenson, a manager who sent a rogue email to all Park Service employees earlier this month, AZ Central reports.

Tour groups, often including children, sometimes spent 30 minutes or more near the taxidermy exhibit for demonstrations. Using standards set by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Stephenson calculated that children could have been exposed to doses of radiation above federal safety standards within three seconds. Adults could have been exposed to dangerous doses in under 30 seconds.

For unknown reasons, the three buckets full of uranium were moved from a basement in Grand Canyon park headquarters to the Grand Canyon museum when it opened in 2000, according to Stephenson. The buckets were discovered by accident in March 2018 when the hobbyist teenage son of a park employee brought a Geiger counter into the taxidermy-collection room.

Workers moved the buckets to another part of the museum after the discovery, but they remained on site until June 18, 2018, a few days after Stephenson was made aware of the buckets and reported them to Park Service officials. Technicians wearing dishwashing gloves used a mop handle to move them into a truck and drive them offsite, he told AZ Central.

LMAO - Uranium is naturally occurring: it’s been around as long as the Earth has been around, which means even your outer layer of skin is a good protector against any radiation. So unless you were handling the ore directly for the past 5 years it may have just as well been a pile of ordinary rocks.

the statement “your outer layer of skin is a good protector against any radiation” could not be more wrong i love this fucking site

thetyrannosaur:

theprisonindustrialcomplex:

concentrated-sunshine:

tyrantitar:

tiwaztyrsfist:

I’d just like to say, this is the kind of shit I’ve been expecting since Bitcoin first emerged.

Pseudo-Banking/Pseudo-Stock exchange with NO oversight, NO controls, and NO regulations.

So, this “Not A Bank” crypto exchange holds roughly $190 Million in various Cryptocurrencies.

It’s in ‘cold storage’ which seems to mean in a block-chain wallet.

The head of the exchange dies.  He’s the ONLY guy who has the password.  There is no redundancy or backup plan.  There is no-one to appeal to.  There is no one for the BANK sorry Not-A-Bank to appeal to.

Crypto, such a GREAT idea…

I gotta double check it but

Lol

Crypto be like that….

Must be nice

install stylish for google chrome to fix the oversaturated shit theme. 

this one is p good u can just edit the background color back to 36465D

lookatthisbabybird:

eartharchives:

The world’s oldest known wild bird is a Laysan albatross named Wisdom. Since wildlife experts first banded her in 1956, Wisdom has raised as many as 35 chicks. And at the ripe old age of 68, she has laid yet another egg.

She’s done it again, lads

lezzyharpy:

rutilism:

pressxtodavid:

Holy shit

“I can’t speak for everyone, but this sounds like it is extremely my fuckin’ speed! In the literal sense that it travels closer to my walking speed than to the speed of an efficient high-speed rail system, and transports only slightly more people than I can carry on my back.”

terrible-tentacle-theatre:

the-real-seebs:

the-pie-initiative:

kristoffbjorgman:

kawuli:

kawuli:

kawuli:

1. Doctor finds anecdotal evidence that people are passing kidney stones after riding on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World

2. Doctor makes 3-D model of kidney, complete with stones and urine (his own), takes it on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad 60 times

3. “The stones passed 63.89 percent of the time while the kidneys were in the back of the car. When they were in the front, the passage rate was only 16.67 percent. That’s based on only 60 rides on a single coaster, and Wartinger guards his excitement in the journal article: ‘Preliminary study findings support the anecdotal evidence that a ride on a moderate-intensity roller coaster could benefit some patients with small kidney stones.’”

4. “Some rides are going to be more advantageous for some patients than other rides. So I wouldn’t say that the only ride that helps you pass stones is Big Thunder Mountain. That’s grossly inaccurate.”

5. “His advice for now: If you know you have a stone that’s smaller than five millimeters, riding a series of roller coasters could help you pass that stone before it gets to an obstructive size and either causes debilitating colic or requires a $10,000 procedure to try and break it up. And even once a stone is broken up using shock waves, tiny fragments and “dust” remain that need to be passed. The coaster could help with that, too.”

SCIENCE: IT WORKS

Update: 

“In all, we used 174 kidney stones of varying shapes, sizes and weights to see if each model worked on the same ride and on two other roller coasters,” Wartinger said. “Big Thunder Mountain was the only one that worked. We tried Space Mountain and Aerosmith’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and both failed.”Wartinger went on to explain that these other rides are too fast and too violent with a G-force that pins the stone into the kidney and doesn’t allow it to pass.“The ideal coaster is rough and quick with some twists and turns, but no upside down or inverted movements,” he said.

MSU Today

I just love this because it’s HILARIOUS and yet also a perfect archetypal example of The Scientific Method:

1. Hypothesis

2. Experiment

3. Results

4. Discussion 

5. Conclusions

6. GOTO 1 (the scientific method is iterative, don’t forget that part)

was this like… done in cooperation with disney management or did some  random scientist go through bag check with a 3d printed kidney and a bottle of piss and start looking for big thunder mountain fastpasses

He asked first!

Of course, the researchers had to get permission from Disney World before bringing the model kidney onto the rides. “It was a little bit of luck,” Wartinger recalls. “We went to guest services, and we didn’t want them to wonder what was going on—two adult men riding the same ride again and again, carrying a backpack. We told them what our intent was, and it turned out that the manager that day was a guy who recently had a kidney stone. He called the ride manager and said, do whatever you can to help these guys, they’re trying to help people with kidney stones.”

that is beautiful.

I love this

Science makes your look really fucking weird sometimes, but by hell you’re helping

astraltailwags:

ultra-frog:

poule-malchanceuse:

followthebluebell:

good job, guys, we’re killing the shitty pet food industry this time.  it can’t POSSIBLY be that we just recognized Gravy Train or Kibbles and Bits for being piss poor food choices; no, we’re just treating our pets too nicely. 

Best news I’ve heard yet

God damn millenials and their-

*shuffles deck*

feeding their animals high quality food

Damn straight! Hopefully the next industry we kill will be fish bowls