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Invented by EPFL postdoctoral researcher Xiao-Sheng Zhang, the only oddball component not found around every household is teflon tape used to seal plumbing threadscommonly found in many toolboxes.
"When teflon tape comes into repeated contact it generates two effects--triboelectrification and electrostatic induction,"
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It’s time to take a serious look at Martin O’Malley
The good news is that this doesnt require adding services and programs, only smarter choices about the things that governments already do and will always need to do. One can have a dramatic impact on the distribution of opportunity without increasing governments footprint. One just needs to use the existing levers differently.
This, it turns out, is just what OMalley, the former governor of Maryland, wants to do.
the rest By Danielle Allen at:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ts-time-to-take-a-serious-look-at-martin-omalley/2016/01/27/1cf1f040-c465-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html
Netflix recently added Don Hertzfeldt's animated short, "World of Tommorrow (2015)"
It is only 17 min long, but very powerful. A young girl is visited by a clone of herself from her future.
Highly recommend. It was nominated for an Oscar and won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance last year.
PS, Netflix also has his longer work, "It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)" about dealing with a brain disorder. Also highly recommend.
If you try the Ben & Jerry's Bernie Sanders ice cream flavor and don't like it, his supporters will
accuse you of being a corporate tool." - Frank Conniff
Tom the Dancing Bugs Presents: Toddler Menace!
"If anybody thought 2016 wasn't going to be as stupid as 2015, those Oregon armed militia dipshits
put an end to that notion quickly enough." - Frank Conniff
Also
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"I'd like to say that Donald Trump is the most outrageous and unqualified person ever to run for
President but really that's not fair to Ted Cruz." - Martin O'Malley, January 6, MSNBC, The Last Word
(Thanks, Elleng)
ROFL: Walt Handelsman on the Press and Donald Trump
"With over 7,000 signatures, I'll officially be on the ballot in VA. Thank you to all the volunteers
- O'Malley from his twitter feed.
Thanks Raine and everyone else.
"Trump's statement was so outrageous and offensive that his polls numbers went up 20 points. I wish
that was a joke. Some bad news for Donald Trump though, Senator Ted Cruz has jumped ahead of him in the latest Iowa poll. The poll was called, Who is Crazier? They're neck and neck. It's not who you want to be President any more, it's who is f'ing crazier."
- Conan O'Brien
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