What’s faster than Insane? Ludicrous

For some time, the fastest 4-door sedan in the world has been the P85D version of the Tesla Model S in “Insane” mode — capable of accelerating from 0-60 mph in 3.1 seconds.

But, no more.

Now, the fastest 4-door sedan in the world is the P90D version of the Tesla Model S in “Ludicrous” mode — capable of accelerating from 0-60 mph in 2.8 seconds. 1.1 Gs.

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/teslas-new-ludicrous-mode-makes-model-s-supercar/

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/teslas-model-s-gets-ludicrous-mode-will-do-0-60-in-2-8-seconds/#.u6givh:k8k1 / Tesla Model S LiIon battery cell lithium ion charge recharge Supercharger station charge Elon Musk 85 kWh killo Watt hour /

Colorado bear drops by the pie shop

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Didn’t pay his bill, but did leave a favourable review on Yelp. His verdict: try the apple or the cherry — skip the strawberry & rhubarb.


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http://boingboing.net/2015/07/17/colorado-bear-with-munchies-br.html?utm_source=moreatbb&utm_medium=nextpost&utm_campaign=nextpostthumbnails

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/16/bear-pies-colorado-bakery / Outside store trail of sugar clump of cherries report Denver, CO TV news station hungry bear Colorado broke into a local pie shop ate every last pie in the place except for one flavor Kristi Lehnert owns owner Colorado Cherry Company bear climbed into her store through a window Tuesday morning feast bear ate 24 cherry pies 14 apple pies bear did not like strawberry rhubarb pie bear area go grab some pies yourself Colorado Cherry Yelp listing gets pretty good reviews black bear brown bear /

Keezel: easy-to-use privacy & security for every online device, everywhere (video)

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Public WiFi networks are far from secure. Even browsing from your own home could benefit from a security upgrade. Oppressive regimes attempt to prevent their citizens from accessing social networks & other Internet content. And then there is region-locked content. All of these problems can be ameliorate by use of a virtual private network (VPN).

Keezel is VPN in a box.

Compared to other VPN solutions, keezel has the following advantages:
● no software to load onto any of your devices
● single button operation
● contains a large capacity battery (“almost three times the capacity of your iPhone 6” i.e. almost 3 * 1810 = 5430 mAh^1,2) which can be used as an external battery to charge you phone, tablet or similar device



Keezel is available for as little as $US79 on IndieGoGo:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keezel-online-freedom-for-every-device-everywhere/x/9010251#/story
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Baby incubators, now a staple of premature infant care, were pioneered where?

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Take the quiz here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/baby-incubators-now-a-staple-of-premature-infant-care-were-pioneered-where/

Very surprising answer, but demonstrates a few things:
1. conservatism of the medical profession
2. conservatism which is understandable in a profession charged with responsibility for so many human lives
3. conservatism which is understandable in a profession with such high malpractice insurance expenses (Saw a story somewhere about a medico who entered medical practice in the first half of the 20th century. Initially, he was paying $70 per year for malpractice insurance. By the time he retired, this had climbed to $70,000 per year!)
4. if you have a new medical idea, be prepared for a long, hard slog to get it accepted — witness the discoverers of glycemic index & the value of insulin for treating diabetes
5. everything is obvious once you know the answer

http://io9.com/5885939/babies-in-incubators-were-once-an-attraction-at-coney-island / incubators staple of premature infant care millions of premature at-risk babies kept stable temperatures tucked safely inside glass plastic enclosures delicate bodies were ready to handle full exposure the outside world intuitively protect premature babies doctor created championed incubator Dr. Martin Couney wasn’t taken seriously medical establishment incubators failure of the establishment value of the incubators how critical keeping premature babies alive Couney unconventional approach incubators Coney Island Coney Island New York island famously amusement parks hot dogs clever incubators created approached owners Luna Park prominent amusement park on Coney Island set up a sideshow filled with incubators house premature babies charge admission admission fee cover the expenses of staffing exhibit caretakers nurses families premature babies care without expense put premature babies on display sideshow act amusement park saved the lives of thousands upon thousands of children decades Couney parents of premature babies nothing that can be done frantic parents New York City hail cabs rush their frail children Coney Island Dr. Couney innovative incubators curiosity of the public help babies establishment finally came babies Coney Island project had saved incubators became a staple fixture neonatal care wards across the country /

Mountains of Pluto

Credit: NASA/Corbis/The Guardian

Ice mountains — 11,000 feet (3350 metres) tall in the image above — rising above plains of frozen methane & nitrogen in the most detailed images so far, from NASA’s New Horizons.

No impact craters in any of the photographs so far seen. This indicates a surface which has recently been formed — & a geologically active planet.

New Horizons is now more than a million miles past Pluto & moving towards the Kuiper Belt.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2015/jul/15/nasa-pluto-new-horizon-photos-discoveries

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-16/nasa-releases-new--images-of-pluto/6623136 / New Horizons mission Pluto NASA’s most recent revelations the edge of our solar system first ever close-up of Pluto’s surface young icy mountain range ascends 11,000ft evidence water ice no impact craters lead scientist Alan Stern surprising diversity of activity on Pluto first high resolution image of Charon dwarf planet’s largest moon orbital partner active world cliffs run hundreds of miles across canyons four to six miles deep early data planetary activity radioactive heat internal ocean energy stored during formation causes for the activity small distant worlds scientists Plutonian geology researcher John Spencer Pluto has so much diversity Cathy Olkin Stern Spencer Olkin Nasa briefing data New Horizons, now more than a million miles past Pluto and voyaging out into the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system transmit data about Pluto Charon next 16 months atmosphere water ice volatiles category of active chemicals puzzle Dwayne Brown NASA headquarters piles of stuff with grooves on it John Spencer erosion mountain building baffling ice mountain range heart region Tombaugh Reggio small mid-size worlds complex active larger worlds Triton solar system most similar to Pluto Plutonian geology Charon moons of Uranus so much data to investigate data other worlds activity worlds tidal heating Pluto has so much diversity /

Solar Impulse grounded until 2016

Solar Impulse 2 approaches its landing at Kalaeloa Airport in Hawaii
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During the closing stages of its record-breaking trans-pacific flight into Hawaii, the battery pack of Solar Impulse 2 was damaged by overheating. After repairs & testing the round-the-world flight is expected to resume in April 2016.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33538442

http://time.com/3958478/solar-impulse-grounded/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3148669/Success-Solar-Impulse-2-safely-lands-Hawaii-completing-daring-five-day-flight-Pacific-Ocean.html / Solar Impulse round around the world flight solar powered Swiss pilot pilots first ever attempt fly around the world propelled the Sun André Borschberg compatriot Bertrand Piccard take turns piloting single seater seat Solar Impulse 2 21,747 miles 35,000 km kilometre 12 legs including gruelling five- to six-day stints across the Atlantic Pacific oceans entire journey will take five months Borschberg took the controls takeoff take off take-off Al-Bateen executive airport Abu Dhabi early on Monday first destination Muscat in Oman pilots roughly 250 hours each inside narrow cockpit no oxygen temperature control temperatures outside range between -40 degrees C to 40°C degrees Celsius falling asleep flight need constant attention Piccard Borschberg survive 20-minute naps every two to four hours pilots will practise yoga stave off the physical discomfort remaining confined seat for days at a time Borschberg biggest challenge maintaining concentration Piccard psychiatrist team 1999 first circumnavigated globe non-stop balloon taught techniques of self-hypnosis meditation maintain concentration time duration in the present moment the only way is to be present almost a spiritual experience entire journey circumnavigating Earth in a family car aircraft weighs the same as a Volvo sedan comparable speeds SI2 top speed 87m/h 140km/h pilots conserve battery power limiting plane half cockpit only slightly larger average car contain life support systems food oxygen supplies reclining pilot’s seat triples bed chair toilet fly both day and night no fuel powered by 17,000 solar panels set on its wings wider Boeing 747’s fuselage 633kg bank of lithium batteries quarter weight store energy run motors overnight journey early days intercontinental flight enormous speed range jet engines Qantas fly Kangaroo Route Sydney to London hopping Darwin Singapore Kolkata Karachi Cairo Tripoli en route Borschberg success Solar Impulse project first solar-powered plane fly through the night first to fly between two continents primitive step toward zero-carbon jumbo combustion fossil fuels dominated powered flight 19th century dirigible aviation burns the most carbon per passenger per kilometre of any mode of mass-transport and, despite efforts to limit emissions, remains the fastest growing anthropogenic source of greenhouse gases sector climate change toughest major emissions source to decarbonise solar flight seeks remains decades away Wright Brothers Charles Lindbergh deputy editor Aerospace magazine Bill Read solar flight commercial flights solar cells generate power fly Solar Impulse fly using solar power constructed very light weight light-weight lightweight huge wingspan solar cell technology power source aircraft advances project real-world uses today fly Sun day and night build an aircraft extremely energy efficient technologies energy efficiency used in your home your car appliances four motors power aircraft generate heat energy efficiency single cheapest way reduce carbon emissions across the world technologies challenge energy environment pollution natural resources /

New Horizon Pluto fly by

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New Horizons completed its fly-by of Pluto at 7:49 AM US EDT on Tuesday, 14 July 2015. It passed Pluto at 30,800 miles per hour (49,600 kilometers per hour — 14 kilometres per second). After capturing all its data, New horizons began transmitting it back to Earth. Shown above is the best image to-date. More to come. Over the three billion mile distance to Pluto, the data rate is very low. 16 months will be required to transmit all of the data captured during the fly-by.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33531811

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/14/nasas-new-horizons-probe-makes-pluto-flyby-nine-years-after-leaving-earth / fly by completed whale’s tail polygonal feature band of complex patterns New Horizons interplanetary space probe launched NASA's New Frontiers program Applied Physics Laboratory Southwest Research Institute Alan Stern spacecraft launched study Pluto moons Kuiper Belt performing flybys Pluto system Kuiper Belt Objects KBOs New Horizons project Pluto 350 project Alan Stern Fran Bagenal Pluto Underground 1990 lightweight cost-effective spacecraft flyby Pluto construction several delays launch site New Horizons launched January 19, 2006, Cape Canaveral Earth-and-solar-escape trajectory Earth-relative speed 16.26 kilometers per second 58,536 km/h; 36,373 mph record highest launch speed of a human-made object from Earth brief encounter asteroid 132524 APL New Horizons Jupiter closest approach Jupiter flyby gravity assist New Horizons speed velocity general test returning data about its atmosphere moons magnetosphere post-Jupiter voyage hibernation mode preserve on-board systems brief annual checkouts first flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015 /