Heat makes us angry

This clever researcher analyzed language and emoticons in billions of tweets and correlated it with ambient temperature. 

He also found we feel blue on Mondays. 

http://patrickbaylis.com/files/Baylis_JMP.pdf

Reminds me of a New York Times story where rising heat was linked to murder crimes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/nyregion/19murder.html

The Jazz of Physics

Very uplifting and interesting TED talk of a career inspired by a high school teacher that bridged jazz music and astrophysics.

The Ooze: a documentary on the Alberta tar sands

Incredible political and environmental blunders.

http://youtu.be/-07sfg0m9io

Dinan Rebuilt Turbos for BMW E82 1M 135i (N54)

Dinan replacement turbos for BMW 135
Expensive! And all because of an original part that wasn't substantial enough:
"heavy duty wastegate pivot unlike the wear-prone stock wastegate pivot that commonly resulted in wastegate rattle."

http://www.dinancars.com/product/rebuilt-turbos-n54-e82-1m-135i/

Apparently there's an extended warranty covering this up to 80000 mi, but only if nothing has been modified anywhere near the turbo or air intake.
http://www.e90post.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=733570&d=1344705341

What is the underlying problem? "Usual it's not the turbo itself that fails...but the actuator arms for the wastegates fail.  They will not hold open and just dump the extra boost trying to be built up. They will rattle like crazy is a usual sign of them starting to go. Luckily each turbo is now only about 800 for the manifold and turbo assembled from BMW."
http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=375357

Building the world's largest ship

Massive. 


Time-lapse

Yesong Sophie Lee, 12, USA

Amazing young violinist

http://youtu.be/srcXVi9yyxI

Inside the World's First $1 Million Drone Race

Yet another expensive pastime for guys. Very cool, but looks very easy to ruin your drone.

http://youtu.be/pZ0viMxYDA4

How millennials can get rich slowly

https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf

Avalanche transceivers

A friend and colleague who skis in remote areas was telling me about recent advances in avalanche transceivers. These are handheld devices that can transmit a person's location if they have been buried by an avalanche. 

They all transmit on the same wavelength. Each transmitter cycles through a succession of slow to fast beeps, so that a receiver can distinguish different transmitters all broadcasting on the same frequency by the pattern of beeps. 

The long telescopic probe that is used to find victims under the snow now has an emitter on the end that can silence a transponder once a victim had been located by probe, so that other victim's signals can be more easily located. 

Fascinating technology. 

Avalanche transceivers - see the section on types of beacons to see how they are able to indicate the  direction of multiple transmitters. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_transceiver

Avy Snacks: Avalanche Beacons from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo.

How to Remove Scratches from Car

Well made instructional video

http://youtu.be/2nYF46P7B2c

A truck 64 times bigger than normal

http://youtu.be/e8GdadQzMeo

If you can get past the swearing and the teenspeak ("That's totally baller, man!") you can see the rainbow sheik and his massive car collection.

Listen to records with your teeth.

Hilarious. I had no idea you could do this 

http://www.popsci.com/listen-to-records-with-your-teeth?image=4

The First Makerspace In A Hospital | Popular Science

Facilitating better jerry-rigging and repurposing of medical devices. 

http://www.popsci.com/first-makerspace-in-hospital

http://www.makerhealth.co/

Quadcopter drone

Have you seen what these personal flying cameras can do? Quadcopter drones can orbit around you, follow you as you go, or navigate around obstacles autonomously. 

Simple to use

http://youtu.be/JJPSSqMQajA

Here's video of Iceland taken with a drone. Pretty incredible. 

Here's NYC 

http://youtu.be/pbNEeAAiIKk

In sports 

http://youtu.be/30eAEx4ESIM

Environmental Factoids

• Waste Prevention
• Recycling
• Recycled Products
• General Links

WasteWise has collected the following environmental factoids to help you understand the impacts of waste prevention and recycling.

Aluminum

• Aluminum can be recycled using less than 5 percent of the energy used to make the original product.
• Recycling one aluminum beverage can save enough energy to run a 14 watt CFL bulb (60 watt incandescent equivalent) for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours, or a TV for 2 hours.

Plastic

• Producing new plastic from recycled material uses only two-thirds of the energy required to manufacture it from raw materials.
• Plastics require 100 to 400 years to break down at the landfill.
• Five 2-liter recycled PET bottles produce enough fiberfill to make a ski jacket.

Glass

• Producing glass from virgin materials requires 30 percent more energy than producing it from crushed, used glass.
• The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will operate a 100-watt light bulb for four hours.
• It takes approximately 1 million years for a glass bottle to break down at the landfill.

Steel

• Tin cans contain 99 percent steel.
• Recycling steel and tin cans saves between 60 and 74 percent of the energy used to produce them from raw materials.
• According to the Steel Recycling Institute, steel recycling in the United States saves the energy equivalent to electrical power for about one-fifth of American households for one year.
• One ton of recycled steel saves the energy equivalent of 3.6 barrels of oil and 1.49 tons of iron ore over the production of new steel.

Paper

• Producing recycled paper requires about 60 percent of the energy used to make paper from virgin wood pulp.
• Manufacturing one ton of office and computer paper with recycled paper stock can save between 3,000 and 4,000 kilowatt hours over the same ton of paper made with virgin wood products.
• Preventing 1 ton of paper waste saves between 15 and 17 mature trees.

https://archive.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/smm/wastewise/web/html/factoid.html

Movie recommendation

Cool, funny, engaging. 

It's not often I feel a movie is worth recommending, but this one you might miss because it gets very average reviews, and would appear to be a generic action flick but it's not. 

American Ultra (http://m.imdb.com/title/tt3316948/) is a takeoff on the Bourne series, with a man who has no idea that he has been programmed with skills by the CIA. 

It is well-acted, has an unusual and cool vibe, it has heart, and a story that draws you in. Being an action movie, it is full of foul language of course, so not a good movie for the kids. 

Tesla Unveils Model 3

Model 3, under $35000, 215 mile range, autopilot in base model, front and rear trunks, and by time of unveiling had 115,000 orders placed already.
If you can't stand all the talk, you can skip to the big unveiling at 18 minutes into video.

http://youtu.be/Q4VGQPk2Dl8