A Century-old Discovery Of A Virus Could Become Our Solution To Antibiotic Resistance 

Whenever authors write about their characters making “vulgar gestures” at people all I can picture is this gif and it totally throws me off my reading game

 I’m so livid about this entire PewDiePie situation.

He’s been given so many chances, and yet he is still making loads of money with people protecting him and not once has he genuinely apologized or seemed sorry about the things he said. It’s always followed up with dubstep music, jumpcuts, and other sarcastic remarks and jokes.

The Firewatch creator also wants to take down Felix playthrough of the game, as well as ban him from buying/playing any other game by them and people are mad about that? Like, any sane god damn person would disassociate themselves with someone throwing the N-word around, as well as spreading anti-semitic bs

And some people will defend him with “Words are just words”, and I’m losing my shit over that. I’ve heard that excuse when using the n-word, the f-word and generally when saying other problematic shit. Words are NOT just fucking words. Words are what got humanity here, words are how we communicate, words are what keeps this fucking shit society moving. If you stand by the mentality of “Words just being words”, then you NEVER get to be emotionally affected by words every again. Because words are just words and hold no meaning or value to them right?

No, they fucking do, and the people who say this shit knows that, but it’s different when its racial slurs and general assholery, because they don’t want to look bad.

Words are not just words. Words hold meaning. Words hold history. 

Words define you. And if you throw them around without thinking twice and you don’t respect history and the people it affected and will affect, then you fucking don’t deserve an audience like the one Felix has.

“But PewDiePie doesn’t mean it! It’s just something he says”, cool, doesn’t make it better. Now he isn’t an ACTUAL™ racist, he is just, you know, normalizing racism

I know many of you are nostalgic about him, because he used to be a somewhat decent person who could apologize and all but y’all gotta realize that it gets to a point, where you can’t defend him anymore, and if the anti-semitic shit didn’t make it for you, then please let this be, because there’s nothing redeemable about this.

i strongly identify with nathan chen being so nervous he accidentally walked into the women’s rest room on-camera

REMINDER THAT QUEER PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS ARE A THING AMD ARE DIFFERENT THAN FRIENDSHIP

I still don’t get this whole “all these mass shootings are faked by the government to take MAH GUNZ” Alex Jones conspiracy thing.

Virginia tech occurred. Nothing happened and gun laws were not changed.  

Aurora occurred:  Nothing happened and gun laws were not changed

Sandy Hook occurred.  Nothing happened and gun laws were not changed.

Orlando Pulse Club occurred  Nothing happened and gun laws were not changed.

Las Vegas…well, who are we kidding?

If this is a top-level government conspiracy to steal your guns, it’s a rather shitty one, frankly.

Computer scientist Karen Liu creates tech to help people get up the stairs more easily

Karen Liu, a computer scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, worries stairs could become a real issue for her 70-year-old mother.

So when Liu heard about an exoskeleton that stores energy to make walking easier, she wondered if there was a way to do it for stairs.

She wanted to design something inside the steps themselves, rather than a device someone would have to put on their body.

Liu enlisted two engineering colleagues and set to work creating a prototype, which they describe in a paper published Wednesday in PLoS ONE. They designed a system of springs and magnetic locks that holds a movable stair tread. Read more (7/12/17)

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Terry Crews Speaks Out About Sexual Assault, Names Alleged Attacker

"I’ve never felt more emasculated, more objectified; I was horrified,” he said.

ctor Terry Crews has publicly called out the Hollywood executive he says sexually assaulted him at a party while courageously recalling the harrowing experience on “Good Morning America” in hopes it will encourage other victims to come forward.

“I was assaulted by Adam Venit,” Crews said on Wednesday’s program, who he noted at the time was “the head of the motion picture department at Williams Morris Endeavor, one of the biggest [talent] agencies in the world, period.”

The “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” cast member filed a police report last week on the incident and first disclosed it on Twitter last month, but did not name his alleged assailant at that time