We hope you're ready to watch some fantastic fireworks! Did you know that the earliest fireworks date back to 7th century China? #TheMoreYouKnowWe don't know about you, but the idea of creating our own ebooks out of .pdfs sounds really freakin' cool. Writers, rejoice! Now you can create your own .epub files and not have to worry about outsourcing it to a tech-savvy 12 year-old.Need to get out of a parking ticket? You could try asking SmarterChild's cousin for some help...It did, after all, help overturn 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York.It turns out Octavia Butler, goddess to us all, may have predicted Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan. Yet Butler presents a slightly different inflection, to say the least: "Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race!...Help us to make America great again."If you're ever feeling stuck, take some inspiration from this hero:[embed]https://www.instagram.com/p/BHZ-EZ2DJph/[/embed]U.S. sponsored weaponized mosquitos? Wow, the Cold War really brought out the crazy in all of us: "In the 1950s, while in South America military-like brigades were hunting down Aedes aegypti [the mosquito that carries the Zika virus] in the United States, [Army scientists at Fort Detrick] were considering how fleas, grasshoppers, and mosquitoes might be deployed against the Communist threat."In the mood for something hilarious and slightly unsettling? Check out this conversation between two chatbots:[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_tvm6Eoa3g[/embed]If you're like us, you think thunder and lightening are super exciting and not so frightening (okay, maybe a bit frightening! but still, very very cool). Check out this awesome world map of lightning and thunder in real time! For extra fun, turn your sound up and listen to the click-click-click each time thunder roars or lightning strikes.Do you have nice handwriting? Ours looks like a 4 year-old doctor's script. But if it were better, we would totally make a font out of it. Imagine typing a document in your handwriting! That would make computerized note-taking a lot more personal, don't you think?However you feel about police, we're sure we can all agree that the last thing we need is a fleet of robotic officers. But, for some reason, in 1924, someone thought that this was a good idea and imagined a "radio-tele-mechanics"-controlled police force made up entirely of automatons. Yikes!:
Have you ever watched someone work with molten glass? It's hypnotic~~[embed]https://www.instagram.com/p/BHT4j-9gD23/[/embed]And as a holiday bonus, this little dude, who we really wish could celebrate the 4th with us. Man, New York really is a crazy town:
