Also For Ballroom! It’s Fine For Collegiate Comps, But I’d Love To Compete At Other Ones As Well

Brief comment on Gender Parity in TES games

So, apparently saying that there should be more female and non-binary characters in TES franchise is a big offense to some players. Some people don’t think there’s anything wrong by having male characters as a clear majority in all games, some people “just want to enjoy their fantasy game” and don’t have patience to face even a little bit of seriousness in their lives without having to express how “graphs” “spoil the fun”.

Well, we just wanted to say this: if you don’t think there should be more space for women and non-binary characters in TES games (and in all games and stories in general) than there is now, we won’t miss you if you unfollow us.

Happy holidays to you all,

@theelderscrollslore

I second wanting prints of these

Alejandro Guijarro photographs the chalkboards of some of the brightest minds in quantum physics for his continuing series Momentum. He went to research facilities like CERN and many of the top universities in the world to find them.

Samara ( New Designstudio at Airbnb ! ). Yoshino Cedar House. Yoshino. Japan. photos: Edward Caruso & Airbnb 

Conceived as part of  Kenya Hara’s House Vision exhibition in Tokyo, Japan. Co-created with Tokyo-based architect Go Hasegawa. Samara looked beyond a traditional model of home sharing, keeping in mind an entire community rather than an individual host. (more: Samara )

US government plans to use drones to fire vaccine-laced M&Ms at ferrets

The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has a plan to save the endangered black-footed ferret, and it involves candy. The agency has proposed delivering vaccines to a ferret colony in Montana...

We promise we did not use Mad-Libs to write this headline.

This awesome plane-train hybrid could revolutionize transportation, but not for another 50 years    

Imagine a future where a plane lands at an airfield that doubles as a rail yard. The cabin — one of three that cling to the underbelly of the aircraft like a baby possum to its mother — detaches, is seamlessly transferred to a nearby train, and then continues its journey toward the city center. Your multi-seat trip (taxi-to-subway-to-airtrain) from home to hotel suddenly becomes a one-seat, hassle-free ride. That’s the aim of a consortium of Swiss researchers with the conceptual Clip-Air, a bold-looking plane-train hybrid that despite its high-minded possibilities, will probably never get made.

New on my Skyrim to do list...

Gotta love that Bethesda programming.

Samantha Payne’s startup Open Bionics allows anyone in the world to download and 3D print their own bionic limbs. 

Tilly was just 15 months old when she had to have her hand amputated after contracting meningitis septicaemia. Now, with a bionic arm from Open Bionics, Tilly can move all of her fingers and perform more complex movements. EMG sensors on her arm detect muscle movement, telling her bionic arm how quickly or firmly to squeeze its fingers.

I dance the Waltz to look refined. I dance Salsa to look exotic. I dance the Tango to look sexy. I dance Blues to look sexual. I dance West Coast Swing to look smooth. And I dance Lindy Hop so I can stop worrying what I look like and just have fun bouncing and swirling like a deranged yo-yo.

If This Isn’t From a Book, It Should Be (via gaircyrch)

I’d argue that Westie looks like what ever you want it to be (I dance it because I love how free I feel)

Biomimicry in action to aid robots in walking

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZBD2tcKOU4)