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them: if you don’t like a corporation just don’t buy from them me:

me: I could go on if you want me to

Don’t do tippy toes again, though.

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Computer scientist Karen Liu creates tech to help people get up the stairs more easily

Karen Liu, a computer scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, worries stairs could become a real issue for her 70-year-old mother.

So when Liu heard about an exoskeleton that stores energy to make walking easier, she wondered if there was a way to do it for stairs.

She wanted to design something inside the steps themselves, rather than a device someone would have to put on their body.

Liu enlisted two engineering colleagues and set to work creating a prototype, which they describe in a paper published Wednesday in PLoS ONE. They designed a system of springs and magnetic locks that holds a movable stair tread. Read more (7/12/17)

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96 line were actually born in 2012

Men have often given their female offspring more opportunities than their female partners, perhaps seeing their children as extensions of themselves. Even today, many men find themselves newly appalled at sexism after having a girl, a reaction apparently not stoked by being born of a woman, married to a woman or simply seeing women as human. In our reluctantly feminist America, one question […] is whether we’ve evolved enough to value women as individuals instead of assessing them relationally, as an attractive wife supporting her husband or as a high-achieving daughter reflecting a flattering light back on her parents.

Jill Filipovic (via feministsagainstviolence)

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