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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.”

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Zhou Rui wakes everyone up

people: wrinkles ugly :/

me, a connesiur of the arts:

Don’t do tippy toes again, though.

me when grown men make anything involving teenage girls:

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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Lena Dunham: “I’m the Zodiac!”

hmmm

Gillian Oliver (b. 1943) is an expert in cancer nursing and palliative care. Throughout her career as a cancer nurse, she developed a number of vital services, policies and strategies implemented in her home country of UK and beyond.

She began training at Middlesex Hospital, and has served as UK Director of Service Development for Macmillan Cancer Relief. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, and has been made a Dame of the British Empire for her services.