“There’s A Contract At The Finish Line”

Muslim women across the US are learning how to defend themselves against hijab grabs.

Reblog if you're on team "don't touch me without my permission but if you have my permission please never stop touching me"

hey why does Dwayne the Rock Johnson keep asking his daughter what kind of pancakes she wants over instagram??

Like ???

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

good job everyone

If you call yourself a Pristin stan but you fat shame Kyla then you don’t have the right to call yourself a fan. If you refuse to support Kyla because she’s “too fat to be an idol” then you can take your disgusting, ugly asses home and leave Pristin and Kyla alone because they deserve fans who love them wholeheartedly instead of fuckfaces who are too caught up giving shits about things that don’t need to be given shits about.

“Pilot whales have big brains. They can certainly experience emotions. Judging from the behaviour of the adults, the loss of the infant has affected the entire family. Unless the flow of plastics and industrial pollution into the world’s oceans is reduced, marine life will be poisoned by them for many centuries to come.” - BBC’s Blue Planet II

More animal facts.

That time Zhou f*cking Rui woke Cai Xukun up by playing his own song  ♬ 

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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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