nonu doodles and a concept for his sister

It’s funny because every awful thing Coriolanus does I’m not even shocked by; his character has been so well established as someone so driven and mistrusting that I can’t get mad I just sigh and go, ‘yeah, that’s what I thought you’d do you piece of shit.’

06-07-23 Why Patagonia helped Samsung redesign the washing machine

Samsung is releasing a wash cycle and a new filter, which will dramatically shrink microfiber pollution.

Eight years ago, Patagonia started to study a little-known environmental problem: With every load of laundry, thousands (even millions) of microfibers, each less than 5 millimeters long, wash down the drain. Some are filtered out at water treatment plants, but others end up in the ocean, where fibers from synthetic fabric make up a surprisingly large amount of plastic pollution—35%, by one estimate. Fragments of your favorite sweatshirt might now be floating in the Arctic Ocean. In a collaboration that began two years ago, the company helped inspire Samsung to tackle the problem by rethinking its washing machines. Today, Samsung unveiled its solution: A new filter that can be added to existing washers and used along with a “Less Microfiber” cycle that Samsung also designed. The combination makes it possible to shrink microfiber pollution by as much as 98%.

[…] Patagonia’s team connected Samsung with Ocean Wise, a nonprofit that tests fiber shedding among its mission to protect and restore our oceans. Samsung shipped some of its machines to Ocean Wise’s lab in Vancouver, where researchers started to study how various parameters change the results. Cold water and less agitation helped—but both of those things can also make it harder to get clothing clean. “There are maybe two ways of increasing the performance of your washing machine,” says Moohyung Lee, executive vice president and head of R&D at Samsung, through an interpreter. “Number one is to use heated water. That will obviously increase your energy consumption, which is a problem. The second way to increase the performance of your washing machine is to basically create stronger friction between your clothes . . . and this friction and abrasion of the fibers is what results in the output of microplastics.” Samsung had already developed a technology called “EcoBubble” to improve the performance of cold-water cycles to help save energy, and it tweaked the technology to specifically tackle microfiber pollution. “It helps the detergent dissolve more easily in water so that it foams better, which means that you don’t need to heat up your water as much, and you don’t need as much mechanical friction, but you still have a high level of performance,” Lee says. The new “Less Microfiber” cycle, which anyone with a Samsung washer can download as an update for their machine, can reduce microfiber pollution by as much as 54%. To tackle the remainder, the company designed a filter that can be added to existing washers at the drain pipe, with pores tiny enough to capture fibers. They had to balance two conflicting needs: They wanted to make it as simple as possible to use, so consumers didn’t have to continually empty the filter, but it was also critical that the filter wouldn’t get clogged, potentially making water back up and the machine stop working. The final design compresses the microfibers, so it only has to be emptied once a month, and sends an alert via an app when it needs to be changed. Eventually, in theory, the fibers that are collected could potentially be recycled into new material rather than put in the trash. (Fittingly, the filter itself is also made from recycled plastic.) When OceanWise tested the cycle and filter together, they confirmed that it nearly eliminated microfiber pollution. Now, Samsung’s challenge is to get consumers to use it. The filter, which is designed to be easily installed on existing machines, is launching now in Korea and will launch in the U.S. and Europe later this year. The cost will vary by market, but will be around $150 in the U.S. The cycle, which began to roll out last year, can be automatically installed on WiFi-connected machines.

Arne's older sister, Ellinor!

sometimes i cant help but think about the enemy pokemon u find in mystery dungeons and the in-universe reasons for why theyre Like That. like. i know we have a bunch of examples in each game for pokemon that attack u for various reasons (misunderstandings, guarding something, gone berserk from outside influence, just an asshole, etc) but whats going on with the hundreds of mons that spawn INSIDE the mystery dungeons. like those things are already weird even though theyre well known by most residents and they appear pretty much anywhere but theres tons of pokemon that straight up live in those places. and while some have good reason to wander and attack intruders there, some are just. why. why are there Enemy Pokemon in a Mystery Dungeon next to a School. who are you people.

can we get more positive joshua content on my hands and knees begging out here rn. that’s like a 5 year old be NICE to joshua freeman RIGHT NOW. give me family science team content or give me DEATH

Tadaaaa, meet one of Juliette’s siblings and the family member she’s closest to, François!!

He’s in his late 40s when he meets the lads, he’s an archeologist and very renowned in his field and known as an absolute menace, he hate-watches Indiana Jones, he’s his mama’s son from her first marriage, he wants to kill his father but leaves that honor to his mama, he spents most of his time overseas, he speaks seven languages fluently and many more brokenly and can insult you in all of them, he’s been in the same open relationship for a decade now, he’s an introvert, he has no shame, he keeps an insta account documenting his projects and has a few thousand followers, his biggest regret is not being there when Juliette was adopted and stopping her from going to the military, he loves his family more than anything else, he’s 1.69 m tall and vain as fuck  

Rube is seriously underrated

i hate all USAmericans, even the ones that hate their own country. Because they only hate it for what their government does to THEM and not what it does to the rest of the world.

*through gritted teeth* Things are fine things are good things are beautiful things are fine things are good things are beaut-

i love u math people who explain math in a way that non-math people still interested in math can understand

I am going to be SUCH the bigger person about this I saw a post that not only was wrong and annoying and a little mean spirited, but it was about something I am specifically knowledgeable and passionate about and which affects me directly, AND I kept my damn mouth shut and out of the replies despite the fact that it's killing me to do so

you're telling me we have bacteria that can create crystals. and when these crystals are eaten by insects it causes them to more or less have explosive diarrhea until they DIE. maybe the real magic is the science we found along the way

Brennan does such a good job of painting the world of The Witch, The Wizard and the Wild One because I actually really do empathise a lot with Suvi's POV. Suvi is of course coming from a vast seat of priviledge within the empire, and so of course it's very easy to criticize her for her hard line stance on the Spirits. And it's good to criticize her, it's a flawed stance and I fully love that Ame and Eursolon freed Naram. But man if I was a citizen of Port Tallon and I was watching my world be thrust into chaos by forces more vast and unknowable than I could ever comprehend, AND those forces spoke to me?!! Like demonstrated an ability to communicate with me while they were destroying my world?!

I'd be fucking pissed man. Like I don't think this in an objective stance because it's of course colored by the Spirits we've been introduced to so far but I really would feel some type of way about understanding that forces of nature were perfectly capable of understanding that they could seriously ruin vast swathes of people's lives and in some cases were actively ambivalent about those people getting caught in the cross hairs of their problems.

the river dodder in october

Finally got to watch Prehistoric Planet and here are my highlights:

-single dad T. rex

-monosaurus spa day

-weird neck sacs on sauropods for mating display

-quetzlcautlus being a dirty filthy egg cannibal

-slow mo shot of dung plopping and dissolving in water

-tarbosaurus showing up at the oasis and ruining everyone’s vibe

-mononykus being goddamn adorable with a barn owl face

-time for crab

-make love not war tasteful T. Rex softporn

-seriously giant frog eats a baby dinosaur

-ornithomimus with chad hair

-the hadrosaur baby made it out of the river 😭

-angsty antarctopelta leaves his brothers to claim a bioluminescent cave

-pachyrhinosaurs have porcupine quills for some reason