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Daily reassurance

1990 is to 2017 as 1963 was to 1990

@twiggyabbi made a cool mineral collage! Looks like a planet with acceptance and love ❤️ 🌏 🌈/////

instagram.com/twiggyabbi

mineraliety.com

Angemon and Takeru from Digimon eason 1 Fanart! (´v `)b I loved doing this.

I never burn bridges; I just fail to maintain them, and let them structurally degrade over time.

i don’t even get what’s wrong with this gif

i mean she pours the soda perfectly why do they all shit their pants

Accurate.

math & cats! Will probably offer this as a coffee tumbler/art print soon!

http://racheljcorey.storenvy.com/

Browsing reddit is like walking really fast through a huge party with a bunch of weirdos and idiots and some cool people and hearing little bits of all their conversations.

Squad Goals.

~early birthday present for @clashandworth

(( SU!Zelda AU ))

Of course I had to visit the only major brewery in Singapore. Tiger Brewery did not disappoint. This plant pumps out large quantities of the national beer and is also the site of SE Asia's production of Heineken and Guinness, among others! #brewery #brewlife #tigerbeer #tigerbrewery #watermalthopsyeast #singapore #professionaldevelopment (at Tiger Brewery Tour)

Yup.

What industry will be most disrupted by technology in the next decade?

I think the easy answer is the right one on this: transportation.

Self-driving cars are gonna seriously shake things up. For one, it’s gonna put a buttload of people out of work. I mean, there are a LOT of drivers in the USA: Truckers, Taxis, Bus drivers, School bus drivers, and more. The American Trucking Association estimated there were 3 million truck drivers in the USA in 2010. That’s 1% of the total US population. And that’s just for trucks. At the same time, it has the potential to lower costs for goods (unless companies just decide to keep those savings, but I’m guessing that wouldn’t last long in our arms-race driven online-market.)

But it’s not only that it’ll put a lot of people out of work (there’s a lot of tech poised to do that), it’ll re-shape entire industries and society itself. For one, the automotive industry is already suffering bc millenials aren’t buying cars like generations before had. Part of that is due to the ease of on-demand services, like Uber or Lyft. Once cars are self-driving, they’re only gonna get cheaper, safer, faster, and without the sometimes off-putting drivers. In other words, it’ll accelerate that trend. We may see a drastic fall in car ownership altogether, and with it, entire industries are gonna struggle to survive. But transportation costs for the average person will be a lot more effective.

If we consider the shift toward sustainable transportation, electric cars are also poised to make a huge change, putting a big dent in Big Oil’s business. And simultaneously helping to spur growth for sustainable technology. (e.g. Look at Tesla’s recent bid to buy SolarCity.)

In terms of safety, self-driving cars will be much better, and so the amount of traffic collisions and deaths will plummet. That will also effect the amount of money and time spent treating those injured, repairing environments, and paying outrageous insurance claims (and yes, the auto-insurance business is going to have to evolve dramatically). It may even allow for highways where self-driven cars can speed up to 120 mph without worry. Or even busy intersections without lights (or seeming order), where cars rush past others in all directions.

There are a lot of other industries on the cusp of making great changes (e.g. VR/AR, Quantum Computing, genetic modification), but in terms of real big effects we’ll see in the next decade, self-driving cars are ready to hit the road and shake things up bc of industry pressures for cost-savings and safety, and due to trends in millenial driving habits. And, to my mind, that change will really signify the next generation of change coming by mixing our digital and irl worlds.

Thanks for the ask =]

This makes me want a UV camera.

The Application of Sunblock in Visible and UV Light. 

(lifepixel)

Too cool.

PBS NewsHour has a new science video series called ScienceScope - and their first episode is all about smells!

Scientists, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the White House Brain Initiative, are trying to understand how smells travel, and how we detect them. They simulate the turbulent wafting of an order with dye in water. The hope is that this research will lead to smell-detecting robots that could replace search dogs. 

Images courtesy of PBS NewsHour/Brian Gill/Nsikan Akpan

Until just now I didn’t know that “Slang” is short for “Short Language”

Back when the World was new…

That feeling with you finally nail an indicator equilibrium point. And in a 95% ethanol solution, to boot! #buffer #neutral #ph #zen #chemistry #titration

That poor Caterpie never stood a chance.

Still more to discover! Excelsior sciencia!

Look, Ma! No Mitochondria

Scientists have found the first eukaryotic organism that functions fine without mitochondria, the "powerhouses" that make energy for the cells of yeast, humans and other animals.

Through happenstance at work, I got the chance to go on a sunrise hot air ballon ride over Napa Valley. Do recommend. Gorgeous. (at Napa Valley)

Cat takes offence. [video]

Take a look at this rare glass defect that our QC folks caught on the bottling line! It's a washer from the forge imbedded in the bottle wall. Normally, the difference in thermal expansion coefficients between the metal and glass would cause the bottle to weaken and break as it cooled. That it survived and was filled is astounding. #foodscience #enology #wineindustry #packaging #glassblowing #latergram #thermodynamics #allthewine