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foxsgallery:

Heads up, it’s started.

For the next 44 hours the entire Alan Wake Collection (Alan Wake, All the DLC, the Collector’s Edition Extras, and American Nightmare) is on sale for $3.99.

Nab it before the first game get’s delisted from the store to ensure a permanent place in your library and unlimited future access regardless of it ever goes back up to sale.   

mindblowingscience:

A newfound alien world is quite Earth-like in some ways, but you wouldn’t want to live there.

The exoplanet, known as OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb, is about as massive as Earth and orbits its star at about the same distance Earth circles the sun. But OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb’s parent star is tiny and dim, meaning the alien planet is likely far too cold to host life, its discoverers said.

OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb is not in Earth’s neck of the cosmic woods; the alien world lies nearly 13,000 light-years away. The astronomers spotted it using a technique called gravitational microlensing, which involves watching what happens when a massive body passes in front of a star. The closer object’s gravity bends and magnifies the background star’s light, acting like a lens.

[…]

“This ‘iceball’ planet is the lowest-mass planet ever found through microlensing,” Yossi Shvartzvald, a NASA postdoctoral fellow based at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, said in a statement. Shvartzvald is lead author of the study announcing the new planet’s existence, which was published online Wednesday (April 26) in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. (You can read the paper for free at the journal’s website.)

The team was also able to determine that OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb’s host star is tiny, containing just 7.8 percent the mass of Earth’s sun.

That’s so small that the parent may not be a proper star at all, researchers said: Its mass is right on the boundary between the “failed stars” known as brown dwarfs and ultracool dwarf stars such as TRAPPIST-1, which hosts seven recently discovered Earth-size planets.

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the-noom-noom:

pudgealicious88:

azspot:

Most parents would consider it a crime to give a child ice cream for breakfast. But they might rethink allowing their kids to have a scoop of the cold, sweet treat first thing in the morning, if they knew it could make them smarter. Although an early morning sugar rush may be parents and teachers worst fears, a new study recently found eating ice cream first thing in the morning can actually be beneficial for the brain. The study, published by Kyorin University professor Yoshihiko Koga, said eating ice cream right after waking up can result in improved instances of alertness and mental performance.

Idc about details i just needed permission to eat ice cream for breakfast. Sold.

^^^^

One side of the country is on fire.. the other is flooding :-/

Well, shit.
I’m always at work when these things happen…
My place should be okay. I hope, lol
(Housemate is home. I’m sure he would have called if something happened)

jasoncanty01:

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dr-archeville:

For a growing number of American kids, porn is their sex ed. 
Now Pornhub is hoping to offer their audience some more formal lessons
in how to be a healthy and happy sexual being.

On Wednesday, the massive adult entertainment destination took the
somewhat surprising step of launching the “Pornhub Sexual Health
Center.”  They’re hoping the free sub-site
will become a go-to resource for some of their 70 million daily users
on all manner of topics, including STIs, sexual safety and how to manage
relationships.

They’ve chosen Dr. Laurie Betito, a renowned sex therapist, to direct
the site and they’ll also be working with a number of doctors,
therapists and other experts to offer advice and answer questions.  Corey
Price, Pornhub’s Vice President, told Mashable, “Our goal is
to provide our visitors with a site that has credible and insightful
information, rather than have them scouring the internet.”

While it’s a database they’ll build up over time, a first look
reveals they’ve started with the fundamentals — with answers to things
like “Babies. Where do they come from?” and “Are there really three
holes?”  These might seems almost laughably basic to adult consumers of
hardcore porn, but there are a lot of young people for whom these are
very real questions.

Price told Mashable they weren’t aiming the content
specifically at beginners.  He said they simply want to appeal to “those
who are looking for trustworthy sex tips and health advice provided by
experts.”  But it seems like they realize this could prove to be an
especially valuable resource for their younger audience, who most likely
isn’t getting comprehensive (much less sex-positive) sex ed in schools.

There are, of course, plenty of online sexual health and education
resources, but for many kids, landing on sites like Pornhub is already
their way into learning about sex.  Porn can obviously teach you plenty
about the basics and mechanics of intercourse, but there’s a whole range
of other things — biology, health, consent, relating to intimate
partners, just to name a few — that you won’t pick up from watching
videos like “Big tits round asses” or “Sloppy throat games.”

So if they can slide their curious audience over to the PSHC while
they’re already on the site, it could function as pretty useful one-stop
shop for filling in the blanks left by spotty sex ed classes and the
birds and bees talks given by often bewildered parents.

Neat!

Porn Hub feels like its becoming more and more like some sort of Sex themed version of Cards against humanity. I like that.

Don’t normally reblog NSFW, but this could be important the way things are going

Very unfortunately true. Its disturbing that a porn site might soon be VERY RELIABLE educational tool for Sex Ed.

scaliefox:

Shit guys, another big milestone is happening.

William Shatner guest starring in MLP and I HOPE they get Discord/DeLancie in the episode and make a Star Trek joke despite them being from different eras.

profeminist:

“She says the decision to come out is in a bid to “help end such abuses”.

The former Vogue model married her husband, fellow model John Swiatek, last year.

“I have reached a point in my life where I feel ready to share this important part of who I am,” Odiele said.

“It is time for intersex people to come out of the shadows, claim our status, let go of shame, and speak out against the unnecessary and harmful surgeries many of us were subjected to as children.

“Intersex children born today are still at risk for these human rights violations.

“I will use my voice and platform to help end such abuses.”

Nearly 2% of the population are born with intersex traits.”

Read the full piece here