CAROLINA NATURALLY: May 29, 2017

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Today in History

1453		Constantinople falls to Muhammad II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1660		Charles II is restored to the English throne, succeeding the short-lived Commonwealth.
1721		South Carolina is formally incorporated as a royal colony of England.
1790		Rhode Island becomes the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the Constitution.
1848		Wisconsin becomes the thirtieth state.
1849		A patent for lifting vessels is granted to Abraham Lincoln.
1862		Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard retreats to Tupelo, Mississippi.
1911		The Indianapolis 500 is run for the first time.
1913		The premier of the ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) in Paris causes rioting in the theater.
1916		U.S. forces invade the Dominican Republic.
1922		Ecuador becomes independent.
1922		The U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport not subject to antitrust laws.
1942		The German Army completes its encirclement of the Kharkov region of the Soviet Union.
1951		C. F. Blair becomes the first man to fly over the North Pole in single-engine plane.
1953		Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.
1974		Nixon agrees to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
1990		Boris Yeltsin is elected the president of Russia.

How would engineers build the Golden Gate Bridge today?

Ever since the Golden Gate Bridge opened to traffic on May 27, 1937, it’s been an iconic symbol on the American landscape.

By 1870, people had realized the necessity of building a bridge spanning the Golden Gate Strait to connect the city of San Francisco with Marin County. However, it was another half-century before structural engineer Joseph Strauss submitted his bridge proposal. The plans evolved, and the final project was approved as a suspension bridge that ended up taking over four years to build.
When the Golden Gate Bridge went up, it was the longest suspended bridge span in the world – cables hold up the roadway between two towers, with no intermediate supports. And the setting had a number of inherent challenges. It cost about US$37 million at the time; building the same structure today would cost about a billion dollars. So how has the design held up over the past 80 years – and would we do things differently if we were starting from scratch today?

How would engineers build the Golden Gate Bridge today?

Are Millennials lazy workers?

Are Millennials lazy workers?

Yes

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Your pool may make you sick this summer

Before you go swimming in a public pool this summer, health officials want to offer one piece of advice: Don’t drink the water! If for some reason you end up swallowing some (even just a mouthful), don’t be surprised if you end up sick for weeks with unpleasant symptoms such as watery poop and vomiting.

Here is why your pool may make you sick this summer

80% of Urban Areas Have Unhealthy Amounts of Air Pollution

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Drunk you is still you

Drunk alter egos are a foe many drinkers claim to have come face-to-face with, but although you may think that alcohol has the ability to drastically change your personality, a new study suggests that this shift is far more subtle. Research published online in Clinical Psychological Science has found significant differences between what individuals report and what those around them report, when it comes to personality changes caused by intoxication.

Drunk you is still you -- just slightly more intoxicated

Activating this area of your brain could cause food binges

Scientists have discovered how a group of neurons in a specific area of the brain could be contributing to late-night pizza binges. The zona incerta area is not largely studied but receives input from many parts of the brain. The team found that mice who received deep brain stimulation in this area actually portrayed binge eating characteristics.

Activating this area of your brain could cause food binges

Reasons You Should Grow Your Own Pot Plants

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Could the Philippines become an ISIL stronghold?

The Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in the southern island of Mindanao, after a group of militants affiliated to the Islamic State militant group (ISIL) stormed the island’s capital city. After Philippine troops raided a hideout in search of Isnilon Hapilon, who is reportedly the Islamic State leader in Southeast Asia, fighters from the Maute group attacked the city of Marawi. Residents were urged to stay indoors as violence broke out between the militants and security forces. As of Saturday, the city remains under rebel control.
Duterte has declared martial law—the suspension of ordinary law and implementation of military rule, for the entire island of Mindanao—and suspended habeas corpus there, giving authorities the right to detain prisoners without trial. The second largest island in the Philippines, it is home to a number of militant groups, including Abu Sayyaf and MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front). Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said: “This is possible on the grounds of existence of rebellion because of what is happening in Mindanao.”
Martial law can last up to 60 days, and Duterte has long promised to impose it in Mindanao, which is known for its militancy and associations with Islamism. The Philippines is a Christian majority country, but since 2016, there have been concerns that the southern Philippines could become a de facto “wilayat or Islamic State province.

Could the Philippines become an ISIL stronghold?

Suspect in stabbing that left two dead after anti-Muslim rant in Portland is a well-known white supremacist

Suspect in stabbing that left two dead after anti-Muslim rant in Portland is a well-known white supremacist

Christian is no stranger to authorities and on April 29 was stopped by police after he showed up at a lunatic fringe wingnut "March for Free Speech" with a baseball bat and attempted to assault Progressive and normal protesters.

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Mystery of Emperor Caligula’s Party Ships Could Be Revealed After 2,000 Years

Caligula's luxury boats disappeared long ago, but Italian authorities are searching a lake southeast of Rome for any remains of his "orgy ships."

Italian researchers are about to reveal whether a volcanic lake in central Italy hides one of the legendary “orgy ships” of Roman Emperor Caligula.

If successful, the archaeological feat would produce one of the most extraordinary discoveries of recent times.

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (AD 12 to AD 41), best known by his nickname Caligula (Little Boots), was the third emperor of the Roman Empire.

Although there have been attempts to rehabilitate him, many historians believe he was the most lunatic, sadistic, and tyrannical emperor in Rome’s history. During his brief but wild reign from AD 37 to AD 41, he is said to have committed incest with each of his three sisters, not to mention making his favorite horse Incitatus a consul and proclaiming himself a living god.

One of his capricious whims was to have monumental ships built so that he could indulge his sexual proclivities on the scenic Lake Nemi, some 20 miles outside Rome.

The ships were most likely scuttled in a “damnatio memoriae” (an action aimed at erasing someone from history) 2,000 years ago, after the 28-year-old emperor was murdered in his palace on Rome's Palatine Hill by members of the Praetorian Guard who were enraged by his cruelty and excess.
Read more here.

Ancient mummy wearing "Adidas boots"

'Judging by what was found inside the burial we guess that she was from an ordinary social strata,' said Galbadrakh Enkhbat.This is despite the classy appearance of some of the possessions with which she is buried, which might suggest to the uninformed a higher status.'Various sewing utensils were found with her. This is only our guess, but we think she could have been a seamstress.'..
With her in the grave - found at an altitude of 2,803 meters above sea level - archeologists unearthed 51 items including a 'stunningly beautiful embroidered bag', four costumes, vases, a saddle, her sewing kit and the skull head of a ram.
'The bag was made of felt,' he said. 'Inside was the sewing kit and since the embroidery was on both the bag and the shoes, we can be certain that the embroidery was done by locals.
The women is believed to be of Turkik origin, and the burial is one of the most complete ever found. Experts now believe on the basis of 18 samples taken from the mummy that it does not date from the 6th century AD, as first surmised, but rather from the 10th century, but DNA and radiocarbon testing is still awaited.
Here's the bag:

Ancient Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers Made Love, Not War

When farmers encountered hunter-gatherers around 10,000 years ago, the interaction was more an explosion of love than hate, new DNA evidence suggests.

For much of human history, our ancestors were hunter-gatherers, mostly nomadic people who lived by hunting, fishing and harvesting wild food. Around 10,000 years ago, farming developed in Western Asia and quickly spread across Europe and to other parts of the world. The ancient lifestyle shift begs the question: What happened when the farmers first encountered the hunter-gatherers?
New DNA evidence reported in the journal Current Biology helps to provide the answer by showing that, at least in the area now known as Romania, hunter-gatherers and farmers were living side by side, intermixing with each other, and having children.
It was not necessarily love at first sight, though.
“Farmers arrived very suddenly, as a result of a fast expansion,” co-author Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge said. “It is likely that they lived side by side with local hunter-gatherer populations for a period of time — centuries or even a millennium or two — with increasing contact and mixing among the two communities.”
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This Human Relative May Have Lived Alongside Our Species in Africa

A newly found, small-brained human relative might have shared the African landscape with modern humans and probably other hominids between 226,000 and 335,000 years ago.

When the discovery of Homo naledi was announced two years ago, the news prompted both amazement and incredulity. H. naledi was described as a small-bodied hominid with a brain one third the size of that of Homo sapiens. Its remains were found within the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star Cave system, which is part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site northwest of Johannesburg. Some scientists believed the researchers — who published their finds in the nascent journal eLife and worked under the glare of television cameras — played fast and loose with the truth.
Now the leader of that earlier research, paleontologist Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand (Wits University), and his colleagues have announced via three papers in the same journal more startling finds concerning H. naledi.
They report the discovery of a second chamber within Rising Star with abundant H. naledi fossils, including one of the most complete skeletons of an early human ever found, as well as the remains of at least one child and another adult. They further mention that dating of the site and original H. naledi remains shows these individuals were alive sometime between 236,000–335,000 years ago.
Read More here.