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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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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

Um, so why *are* American police allowed to turn off their body cameras, anyway?

“Well, you know, I was, um, going to the toilet.”

*pause*

“Then SOMEHOW the dead unarmed black guy, the conveniently-placed drugs and my inconsistent, plot-hole filled story happened in the middle of all this.”

HE. IS. A MONSTER

They all look like white males

Her first Christmas Tree experience!

types of aggressive defense: throw objects at the ghost (4), counterattack (2), snatch ghost’s wig (1), flirt (1).

QUEENS !!!!

Thank you USA GOVERNMENT