U.S. Adults Consume an Entire Hour More of Media Per Day Than They Did Just Last Year

U.S. Adults Consume an Entire Hour More of Media Per Day Than They Did Just Last Year :

It indeed is a sea change.. Who could have predicted this about 10 years ago.. or heck even five years ago:

U.S. adults spent 10 hours, 39 minutes a day consuming media in the first quarter of 2016. That’s up a full hour from the first quarter of 2015, and it’s thanks to a substantial increase in smartphone and tablet usage, according to Nielsen’s Q1 2016 Total Audience Report.

But for all of these changes, all of this ‘progress,’ are we smarter? More informed? Better off?

You can decide that one.

We just know this: TEEVEEis dead .. long live TEE VEE

Reading this amazing book about autism allied NEOTRIBES by Steve...

Reading this amazing book about autism allied NEOTRIBES by Steve Silberman.. This is my favorite page his far.. I have family with autism who exemplify the descriptions to a tee ..

Sounds like a fun weekend.

Sounds like a fun weekend.

What Particle X would mean for physics

What Particle X would mean for physics:

For those who care or understand, there may soon be an announcement that shreds the old world of information and replaces it with a new one..

“This is by far the most exciting thing that has happened in particle physics over the last three decades. If this hint of new physics is confirmed - something that could happen within just a few weeks, or possibly even within days - it is difficult to state the importance of such a discovery. It would be bigger than the detection of the Higgs boson, which was just confirmation of what was already known.
"If the bump is real, we are about to start writing a whole new chapter in the history of fundamental physics. It is impossible to imagine where this could lead.”

The biggest since Higgs? The biggest since Einstein? The biggest ever?

The future is waiting.
We are finally catching up.

The latest solar image is completely spotless for the second...

The latest solar image is completely spotless for the second time this month..

Something perhaps even scarier than giant CMEs…a sign without a spot.

Despite hype, doom and gloom, the maximum hasn’t been that much of a max..

And the minimum set for 2019 may just come a bit early..

Does President Barack Obama support basic income?

Does President Barack Obama support basic income?:

Love the idea or hate the idea.. We have been talking about it as a future shock possibility for years. A time when robotics have taken over the manufacturing and service economies..

I have a strange and silly notion that the wage floor could actually be quite a positive thing. Maybe that’s the part of me that actually does see glasses half full from time to time..

Imagine a future where your safety net is there.. Where you can produce things you want to? Work where you to? Be who you want to be..
All with a set wage floor.

And where the absence of such a floor wild lead to a revolution, panic on streets, and mass violence and chaos due to an ever changing economic platform that leaves millions (if not more) without work..?

A wage floor vs the ….the possibility ..
Which would you prefer?

A much needed homage to Knoebels.

The park is in my back yard, almost literally..We get there as many times a year as we can. This year, with my son Ayden being 5 and going on 25 in his intelligence, he has finally opened his world up to more there.. The rides. The kfun. The kfanstasy. The kfood? Well he is still a bit picky..

But seriously.. let me just say: Knoebels may be the single happiest, best, and most amazing place on earth.

The little secret 90 years young, tucked away in the mountains of the coal region, is quite possibly the only place on earth where I forget troubles for a bit… where life as it is – out there – is on hold.

You can ride rides. If you want. Play golf. Maybe. Eat food. Whichever.. get soaking wet.. or just drive a slow train into the woods …

Whatever. The floor is yours.

I sort of am half and half… I want to tell the world how amazing Knoebels is. But also , sometimes, just keep it a secret …

But the secret is out.

Knoebels.
IT’S THE PLACE TO BE IN THE NEW CENTURY.

The party’s are over.

The party’s are over.

East Coast states want to tax drivers’ travel, not their gas

East Coast states want to tax drivers’ travel, not their gas :

How kind. How thoughtful..

People like me–those driving horrendous distances to and from work–will “reap the benefits” of the new plan.

But the privacy!?

You know.. “they” will know how many miles our cars are traveling!? They will be able to track our every move!? Oh they do already, anyway..

So here comes the dollars… and cents.. and senselessness of highway driving.

Live is an open lane into submission.
Live is a highway. I may not want to drive it all night long.

Centralia Pennsylvania is 150 years old.

Centralia Pennsylvania is 150 years old.

The Brexit massacre

The Brexit massacre:

There may be a large amount of people who proclaim that Trump cannot win in November. But consider, many of those same people said he would not win the primaries.

In Britain, many voices said that Johnson could not win. And that the Brexit vote would not happen.

See a pattern?

Picture a future state dinner with two men from New York leading their respective nations. Picture them both with intensely bad hair.

The world is going through a monumental sea change in 2016.

After Brexit, U.K. Residents Google 'What Is The EU?'

After Brexit, U.K. Residents Google 'What Is The EU?'

God save the queen!!!

The latest from the UK bloodbath

Cameron told the nation he had spoken to Queen Elizabeth Friday morning and will resign..

Cabinet is to meet on Monday to work out next steps forward

Britain to have a new Prime Minister before party conference in October, he said

Final tally released – Leave: 17,410,742 beats Remain: 16,141,241

European markets tumble, pound crashes to its lowest levels in 31 years

Brexit they did

Britain has voted to leave the EU..
Markets are in turmoil..
David Cameron has resigned.
Political high order has been upended..
Developing

Miranda Otto Boards New Line's Horror Movie 'Annabelle 2' (Exclusive) - Hollywood Reporter

Miranda Otto Boards New Line's Horror Movie 'Annabelle 2' (Exclusive) - Hollywood Reporter:

James Wan and Peter Safran are producing the ‘Conjuring" spinoff.
Miranda Otto has boarded Annabelle 2, New Line’s sequel to its 2014 horror hit.

David Sandberg is directing the spinoff to New Line’s Conjuring franchise that has stewards James Wan and Peter Safran producing.

The script by Gary Dauberman tells of a dollmaker and his wife who, 20 years after the tragic death of their little girl, welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home. Soon, however, the nun and the girls become the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle.

Demons and sequels never die in the modern world.

More SCOTUS rulings.. This on immigration

More SCOTUS rulings.. This on immigration:

The Supreme Court deadlocked Thursday on President Barack Obama’s immigration plan that sought to shield millions living in the U.S. illegally from deportation, effectively killing the plan for the rest of his presidency.

4-4 deadlock..

And. Now an election will decide.

he Supreme Court on Thursday placed new limits on state laws that make it a crime for motorists suspected of drunken driving to refuse alcohol tests. The justices ruled that police must obtain a search warrant before requiring drivers to take blood alcohol tests, but not breath tests, which the court considers less intrusive.

he Supreme Court on Thursday placed new limits on state laws that make it a crime for motorists suspected of drunken driving to refuse alcohol tests. The justices ruled that police must obtain a search warrant before requiring drivers to take blood alcohol tests, but not breath tests, which the court considers less intrusive.

Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the van in which Freddie Gray was fatally injured, was found not guilty Thursday on all charges, including the most serious count of second-degree depraved-heart murder.

Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the van in which Freddie Gray was fatally injured, was found not guilty Thursday on all charges, including the most serious count of second-degree depraved-heart murder.

Armed man opens fire in German cinema complex, up to 50 hurt: media

Armed man opens fire in German cinema complex, up to 50 hurt: media:

BERLIN (Reuters) - A masked man with a gun and ammunition belt opened fire in a cinema complex in the small western German town of Viernheim, near Frankfurt, injuring between 20 and 50 people and barricaded himself inside, German media reported on Thursday.
Bild daily and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that elite police were on their way to the scene.

Polls open for Britain's EU Referendum vote as latest polls show the Remain camp leads

Polls open for Britain's EU Referendum vote as latest polls show the Remain camp leads :

The world is watching!!
The lands are flooding!
Will Brexit happen?
Or no changes coming..