Here is my shrine of fan art/ photoshops of our brad for all the internet to keep
starting off with one from me ^_^
Now im not going to be waving my nationalist flag here, im just genuinely seeking American opinion on what the president said
- Barrack Obama“We don’t have a stronger friend and stronger ally than Nicolas Sarkozy, and the French people.”
Anyone around here who shares a scholarly interest in Islamic extremism often wonder if they can possibly see anything more shocking than their last encounter. This video at least, reminded me there are always new lows.
This is a video taken from a recent talk by the author David Horowitz at the University of California, San Diego.
pretty goddamn awesome if i do say so myself
Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov won it on tuesday for their work with graphene
from the nobel website
A thin flake of ordinary carbon, just one atom thick, lies behind this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov have shown that carbon in such a flat form has exceptional properties that originate from the remarkable world of quantum physics.
Graphene is a form of carbon. As a material it is completely new – not only the thinnest ever but also the strongest. As a conductor of electricity it performs as well as copper. As a conductor of heat it outperforms all other known materials. It is almost completely transparent, yet so dense that not even helium, the smallest gas atom, can pass through it. Carbon, the basis of all known life on earth, has surprised us once again.
Geim and Novoselov extracted the graphene from a piece of graphite such as is found in ordinary pencils. Using regular adhesive tape they managed to obtain a flake of carbon with a thickness of just one atom. This at a time when many believed it was impossible for such thin crystalline materials to be stable.
However, with graphene, physicists can now study a new class of two-dimensional materials with unique properties. Graphene makes experiments possible that give new twists to the phenomena in quantum physics. Also a vast variety of practical applications now appear possible including the creation of new materials and the manufacture of innovative electronics. Graphene transistors are predicted to be substantially faster than today’s silicon transistors and result in more efficient computers.
Since it is practically transparent and a good conductor, graphene is suitable for producing transparent touch screens, light panels, and maybe even solar cells.
When mixed into plastics, graphene can turn them into conductors of electricity while making them more heat resistant and mechanically robust. This resilience can be utilised in new super strong materials, which are also thin, elastic and lightweight. In the future, satellites, airplanes, and cars could be manufactured out of the new composite materials.
This year’s Laureates have been working together for a long time now. Konstantin Novoselov, 36, first worked with Andre Geim, 51, as a PhD-student in the Netherlands. He subsequently followed Geim to the United Kingdom. Both of them originally studied and began their careers as physicists in Russia. Now they are both professors at the University of Manchester.
Playfulness is one of their hallmarks, one always learns something in the process and, who knows, you may even hit the jackpot. Like now when they, with graphene, write themselves into the annals of science.
Its that time again!
This blog is in tribute to Phelps "Catfish" Collins, Garry "Starchild" Snider and Marvin Isley, all of whom passed away this year.
It could just be my own experience in the game, but having played practice league through, all my placements and managed to get into gold for 3v3 and made my way up a bit ive noticed something
a good chunk of protoss players see to think that the best strategy to use is to turtle in their base,building no units other than harvesters, then spam voids.
Now with good scouting (which i always do) this is very very easily stoppable by hitting them early, so when i fight this its never a problem
however when theyre on my side its a good bit less ingratiating, having to draw spread your troops out to protect some dolt who is doing the strat is getting on my nerves
is anyone else having this problem? id hoped such strats wouldnt exist in higher tiers but clearly they do
First off, what a ride that was! I played it through on normal having imported my ME1 character, wasnt satisfied so decided to dive right in. First up my stats:
Soldier , imported at 30
chose the widow sniper rifle
toyed with reave for a while, eventually settled for warp ammo
Amazing experience, not like the call of duty or bad company games difficulty level, where it feels cheap and youre just hopping from save to save, insanity made it so the tactical side to combat was far more important than just hittin em up
Grunt got a lot of use, found him as an overall gun platform as invaluable, and on levels where there are tons of them ghoul things coming at you his charge attack (melee) one hits them. some seriously intense gameplay was coaxed out of me, the disabled collector ship was damn near impossible but it just felt so satisfying to finish it. By the time i had got all/most the upgrades the slack was let up (slightly!!) and i found myself having to reload very rarely.
Also i banged miranda
hell yesssssssssssssss
i also managed to haul everyones sorry asses outta the collector base
found it easier than when i did it on normal
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