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View image | gettyimages.com That’s a Tesla superfan (which apparently is a thing) posing in front of the company’s new Powerwall battery, which Elon Musk unveiled today. Meant for homes and businesses, the battery will allow users to store energy from their solar panels, windmills, or whatever else they’re using to charge up their cars […]

View image | gettyimages.com That’s Chris Davis of the Baltimore Orioles, hitting a home run in today’s game against the Chicago White Sox before an empty Camden Yards. The game was held as scheduled, but fans were barred from watching it because of fears that rioters would storm the stadium and massacre everyone inside, or […]

View image | gettyimages.com Baltimore police preparing for more protests in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death.

View image | gettyimages.com View from Puerto Varas, southern Chile, of a high column of ash and lava spewing from the Calbuco volcano, on April 22, 2015. Chile’s Calbuco volcano erupted on Wednesday, spewing a giant funnel of ash high into the sky near the southern port city of Puerto Montt and triggering a red […]

View image | gettyimages.com This is a Central Japan Railway maglev train returning to the station after setting a new speed record of 603 kilometers per hour, or 374 mph. And you pay extra to get on a pokey Acela just to get to New York 15 minutes faster.

View image | gettyimages.com A bunch of politicians at a press conference, you say? Nay, this is something far more momentous. This is Democrats and Republicans at a ceremony signing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, better known as the “doc fix” bill, or more properly, the bill that ends the annual […]

View image | gettyimages.com I happen to think that most protests of this type range somewhere between useless and counterproductive. But I still love this photo, because it’s so dynamic-the flying paper, the confetti, the movement of European Central Bank president Mario Draghi (that’s him on the left looking like he’s ready to catch a […]

View image | gettyimages.com The cherry blossoms are blooming here in Washington, which means there’s an intoxicating smell in the air and young people’s hearts turn to thoughts of love. Unfortunately, the Washington spring only lasts about a week and a half, after which we segue into the unspeakably hot and humid summer. Contrary to […]

View image | gettyimages.com These young people in Tokyo are dispassionately assessing the new offerings from the Apple corporation. Will they buy an Apple Watch? Perhaps they will, but only after a long, thoughtful process of consideration in which they are assured that the product will be of sufficient benefit to justify its high price.