More than 2 million electric vehicles may be on the world’s roads by the end of 2016, wrote the Guardian, citing data of the electric vehicle world database EV Volumes. That should be good news for electric carmaker Tesla. It is not. A closer look at the data shows that most of the growth comes from Tesla competitors, and from regions where Tesla is weak. It is a stereotype “that the U.S. market is further ahead in deploying the zero-emission technology thanks to cars such as the Tesla Model S,”  writes Automotive News. As far as Tesla is concerned, electric vehicle sales explode in all the wrong places.

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An antimatter propulsion drive probe could be the first human-made spacecraft to orbit the newly-discovered extrasolar earthlike planet Proxima b.

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It’s been less than a week and 34-year-old undecided voter and presidential debate audience member Kenneth Bone has already gone from “America’s sweetheart” to the symbol of everything wrong with today’s American voter.  For a meme to rise and fall this fast, this hard, is unusual, and absolutely symptomatic of how awful this election cycle has been, but should any media outlet and/or business still feel the need to capitalize on the already-peaked online phenomenon that is Ken Bone, let me remind everyone that memetic events like Ken Bone happen every single election cycle. Oh, and more importantly? Ken Bone is an actual human being. So please treat him as such (and stop the harassment).

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