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I’ve been seeing this post on my dash all day and normally I’d let this nonsense pass but I’m sick so my ability to tolerate bullshit is at an all time low. 

This is absolute crap - OP is equating BuzzFeed’s lifestyle section with its news section. Lifestyle focuses on listicles, quizzes and light entertainment. News focuses on exactly that. News. 

How good are they at news you might ask? 

I have a masters in digital journalism - I’ve worked for major news organisations across broadcast, print and digital. I was a producer for a major news show by the age of 24; I’ve been mentored by some of the best journalists in Australia - and do you know who everyone told me I should be paying attention to?

BuzzFeed. 

“If you’re lucky, you’ll land a position at BuzzFeed,” my lecturer who holds MULTIPLE doctorates in media and journalism told my class after she took us to a tour of the BuzzFeed Australia office. 

My expertise is in Australia media so you’ll have to excuse the focus on what I’m about to say. 

BuzzFeed Australia was one of the first digital news organisations to become part of the Parliamentary press gallery.  They were instrumental in shaking up the Australian Parliament, leading to dozens of by-elections and threatening to trigger a Federal election after they discovered a number of politicians were holding office whilst dual citizens - which is illegal in Australia. They have spent months pursuing Minister Michaelia Cash for her role in the death of an 18 year old boy in the controversial Work For The Dole scheme, and for her office tipping off the media ahead of police raids on a union office. Oh, and they were the first news organisation in the country to break the news that a major bank had lost the personal financial details of 12 million clients - every other news outlet lifted the coverage directly from BuzzFeed.

And that was in the last 12 months.  

Oh and that Trump piss tape story that everyone here on Tumblr loves to crap on about? That was a BuzzFeed exclusive. 

There’s a really stupid trend on tumblr to seem ‘edgy’ by mocking things that are popular or successful. Don’t shit on the hard work of dozens of journalists who report on incredibly important news and write it with our generation in mind, and then have nerve to turn around and complain that the mainstream media only focuses on older people. 

You just look sad. 

Credit: Rahul Panat, Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering

The cross-section view shows the silver mesh enabling the charge (Li+ ions) transportation to the current collector and how most of the printed material has been used.

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A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, in collaboration with Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA, have developed a new method of 3D printing battery electrodes that creates a 3D microlattice structure with controlled porosity. Electrodes with porous architectures can lead to higher charge capacities.

The method represents a major advance in printing complex geometries for 3D battery architectures, and an important step toward geometrically optimising 3D configurations for electrochemical energy storage. Researchers estimate that this technology will be ready to translate to industrial applications in around two-to-three years.

The microlattice structure improved battery performance in several ways, such as a fourfold increase in specific capacity and a twofold increase in areal capacity when compared to a solid block electrode. The electrodes also retained their complex 3D lattice structures after 40 electrochemical cycles demonstrating their mechanical robustness.

What if the Smash Bros announcer announced character names that were translated back and forth 30 times?

Tiny darkness learns how to walk

ur right and u should say it

Domestic abuse and violence against women are rightfully condemned, loudly and publicly, as utterly criminal and wrong under any circumstances. However abuse doesn’t stop there. There are countless forms of less obvious, insidious abuse that affects people of both genders, non-physical abuse that most of us are kinda expected to just put up with. Especially men.