Stephen Inoue

Stephen Inoue

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Californians are voting on a one time 5% billionaire tax. Wealth inequality is at historic highs and the number of homeless is at record highs. We have 231 billionaires worth $2 trillion. We have 187,000 homeless people with nothing. #Prop40

Petroleum Science: The age of oil is coming to an end, but breakthroughs in refining are still happening. South Korea’s KAIST and Georgia Tech developed a new membrane that significantly reduces oil refining costs by 36%. scitechdaily.com/scientists-t... #BigOil #FossilFuels

scitechdaily.comScientists Turn Major Crude Oil Problem Into an Unexpected Energy BreakthroughA simple membrane uses crude oil’s own deposits to separate lighter components at room temperature, with simulations suggesting nearly one-third less energy use when paired with distillation.

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It's all ugly.

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President Trump, never one to pinch pennies on anything shiny and new, has spent millions of taxpayer dollars on pet construction projects around Washington, D.C. They’re not going well.

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TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. https://whenweallvote.org/

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The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Rant: Gardening and crouching with my phone in my front pocket results in massive audio volume changes more often than I want to admit! 🪏 🪴 🧝🔉🔊❗️‼️⚠️ Apple really needs to make a volume lock setting or have the buttons detect skin or not. #Deaf

The price of fertility: Freezing sperm runs $750 vs eggs at $18k. LA startup #CoFertility (women founders) stalks young bright woman with the offer of “free” egg banking in exchange for the company selling 1/2 the eggs to fertility clinics. 🥚 🧬 👶 apple.news/nowPlaying/A...

apple.newsListen to: She Got a Great Deal on Egg Freezing. Then She Spiraled — WIREDA new startup called Cofertility lets young women freeze their eggs—for free. But is anything ever truly free?