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Thursday, May 11, 2017

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Today in History

  912 Alexander III becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 
1573 Henry of Anjou becomes the first elected king of Poland.
1689 French and English navies battle at Bantry Bay.
1690 In the first major engagement of King William’s War, British troops from Massachusetts seize Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) from the French.
1745 French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army at Fontenoy.
1792 The Columbia River is discovered by Captain Robert Gray.
1812 British Prime Minster Spencer Perceval is shot by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of Commons.
1857 Indian mutineers seize Delhi.
1858 Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi lands at Marsala, Sicily.
1862 Confederates scuttle the CSS Virginia off Norfolk, Virginia.
1864 Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern.
1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
1967 The Siege of Khe Sanh ends with the base is still in American hands.

21 Rules Of Thumb Every Adult Should Know

The readers of Cracked have come up with a useful collection of rules that you probably did not learn from your parents, because most of them solve problems no one had twenty or thirty years ago. Oh, sure, you learned etiquette from your mom, but you didn't learn about swiping photographs on someone else's smartphone.
Or how to gauge the best time to jump on a new piece of software. There are also rules about dressing, taking care of cats, planning an outing, and other rules of thumb that make perfect sense. Check them all out at Cracked. http://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-691-21-rules-thumb-every-adult-should-know/

This Is the Age When You Have The Best Sex of Your Life

age of best sex ever
This Is the Age When You Have The Best Sex of Your Life
The bad news: It hasn't happened yet.
The good news: It hasn't happened yet.

This is your brain on humor

Converting pollutants to energy

​Man Explains Why He Slept Next to His Dead Wife For Six Days

man slept next to dead wife for days
​Man Explains Why He Slept Next to His Dead Wife For Six Days
​‘Til death do them part—plus or minus a few days

Strippers sue Colorado nightclub in labor dispute

And before you say anything we know the illustration is of a belly-dancer and that belly-dancers are not (as a rule) strippers but our self imposed guidelines for this blog preclude illustrations of actual strippers.

ACLU Issues Warning: It’s Not Safe To Travel In Texas

ACLU Issues Shocking Warning: It’s Not Safe To Travel In Texas
Because fuck your constitutional rights.

Russia Testimony Heats Up; Dumbass Trump CLEANS HOUSE On Key Investigators

Russia Testimony Heats Up; Dumbass Trump CLEANS HOUSE On Key Investigators
Here’s your next step in Dumbass Trump’s authoritarian coup, America.
See a lot more on this matter at The Truth Be Told.

Pastor Caught Dumbass Trump’s Spiritual 'Advisor' Stealing From Her Own Cult Collection Plate

Pastor Caught Dumbass Trump’s Spiritual 'Advisor' Stealing From Her Own Cult Collection Plate
Dumbass Trump surrounds himself with the ‘very best people.’

Dumbass Trump’s EPA Just Fired Five Scientists To Make Room For Industry Insiders

Dumbass Trump’s EPA Just Fired Five Scientists To Make Room For Industry Insiders
Dumbass Trump is now taking the swamp water he promised to drain and is putting it in charge of destroying the environment.

Yes, Americans die earlier without health insurance

Reporter arrested for ‘trying to ask Tom Price questions’ about wingnuts’ Obamacare repeal

Reporter arrested for ‘trying to ask Tom Price questions’ about wingnuts’ Obamacare repeal

Newark Airport customs agents under investigation for assaulting fellow employees on a ‘rape table’

According to NBC4 New York, the Department of Homeland Security is investigating U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency officers at the Newark Airport for assaulting victims — their own colleagues — in a secure room in Terminal C.

Did This Mysterious Ape-Human Once Live Alongside Our Ancestors?

Homo naledi was very different from archaic humans that lived around the same time. Left: Kabwe skull from Zambia, an archaic human. Right: ''Neo'' skull of Homo naledi.
In 2013, researchers in South Africa found the remains of a previously-undiscovered human species. In 2015, they introduced Homo naledi, a human with a tiny brain, ape-like shoulders, but other features that were more human. Where would this species fit in the homo family tree? A big step would be to date the fossils. Using several different methods, a team from the University of Witwatersrand led by paleoanthropologist Lee Berger has determined Homo naledi to be between 236,000 and 335,000 years old, much younger than such a primitive human should be -even younger than Homo erectus.
If these dates hold, it could mean that while our own species was evolving from other, large-brained ancestors, a little-brained shadow lineage was lingering on from a much earlier period, perhaps two million years ago or more. The proposed age range for the fossils also overlaps with the early Middle Stone Age, fueling a provocative, though unproven, possibility: that the stone-tool record in South Africa from that time wasn’t just the handiwork of anatomically modern humans.
“How do you know that these sites that are called [examples of] the rise of modern human behavior aren’t being made by Homo naledi?” says Berger, who is also a National Geographic explorer-in-residence. “You can imagine how disruptive that could be.”   
Read about the latest research on Homo naledi at National Geographic News.

Why Sci-Fi Alien Planets Look The Same

Tom Scott is in the United States, telling us about odd places again. He's explaining why so many movie location backgrounds look the same -it's money, of course. This is Hollywood's Thirty-Mile Zone. 
Now I won't be able to watch a movie without trying to peg the background of other movies I've seen. Thanks, Scott.

Bear Joins Bike Ride

These guys were just having a great time biking through the Malinô Brdo bike park in Slovakia, when a bear decided to assert his territorial rights.
You know the answer to "How fast can you (run, drive, ride)?" is "It depends on what is chasing me." These cyclists could have set a record if they needed to.

This giant feathered dinosaur had nests the size of monster truck tires

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