Friday, May 12, 2017
30 Interesting Facts about the Ocean
If
you're feeling hot, maybe you can take a dip into the ocean with us!
John Green has a ton of interesting tidbits about the waters that cover
most of our planet. Who was the first to cross the ocean in a hot air
balloon? Who named the Pacific Ocean? How far south do Arctic icebergs
get? Can we live under the water? Find out in the latest episode of the
Mental Floss List Show.
Pet dogs help kids feel less stressed
Pet
dogs provide valuable social support for kids when they’re stressed,
according to a study by researchers from the University of Florida, who
were among the first to document stress-buffering effects of pets for
children. … Read more
Thursday, May 11, 2017
The Daily Drift
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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
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
The bad news: It hasn't happened yet.
The good news: It hasn't happened yet.
The good news: It hasn't happened yet.
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
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.
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
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 is now taking the swamp water he promised to drain and is putting it in charge of destroying the environment.
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.Read about the latest research on Homo naledi at National Geographic News.
“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.”
Why Sci-Fi Alien Planets Look The Same
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
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.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
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Today in History
| 1285 | Philip III of Spain is succeeded by Philip IV (“the Fair”). | |
| 1503 | Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands. | |
| 1676 | Bacon’s Rebellion begins in the New World. | |
| 1773 | To keep the troubled East India Company afloat, Parliament passes the Tea Act, taxing all tea in the American colonies. | |
| 1774 | Louis XVI succeeds his father Louis XV as King of France. | |
| 1775 | American troops capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British. | |
| 1794 | Elizabeth, the sister of King Louis XVI, is beheaded. | |
| 1796 | Napoleon Bonaparte wins a brilliant victory against the Austrians at Lodi bridge in Italy. | |
| 1840 | Mormon leader Joseph Smith moves his band of followers to Illinois to escape the hostilities they experienced in Missouri. | |
| 1857 | The Bengal Army in India revolts against the British. | |
| 1863 | General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson succumbs to illness and wounds received during the Battle of Chancellorsville. | |
| 1865 | Union cavalry troops capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis near Irvinville, Georgia. | |
| 1869 | The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah. | |
| 1859 | French emperor Napoleon III leaves Paris to join his troops preparing to battle the Austrian army in Northern Italy. | |
| 1872 | Victoria Woodhull becomes first the woman nominated for U.S. president. | |
| 1917 | Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic. | |
| 1924 | J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | |
| 1928 | WGY-TV in Schenectady, New York, begins regular television programming. | |
| 1933 | Nazis begin burning books by “unGerman” writers such as Heinrich Mann and Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front. | |
| 1940 | German forces begin a blitzkrieg of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, skirting France’s “impenetrable” Maginot Line. | |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister. | |
| 1941 | England’s House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz: 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs. | |
| 1960 | The USS Nautilus completes the first circumnavigation of the globe underwater. | |
| 1994 | Nelson Mandela is sworn in as South Africa’s first black president. |
American Travel Destinations to Add to Your Bucket List
The 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2017
The quiet town’s legacy has been shaped in no small part by its most famous residents: the Ingalls. As this year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder, it’s a great time to pay this quirky town a visit.In Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (pop. 293), you can catch the sesquicentennial of the first integrated school in America in October. In Bell Buckle, Tennessee (pop 512), you can attend the RC and Moon Pie Festival in June. Or you can go surfing in isolated Hana, Hawaii (pop. 1235). See the entire list at Smithsonian.
Wilder first came to De Smet as an adolescent and set the final five books in the Little House series there. Today, the family’s 157-acre homestead, “By the Shores of Silver Lake” where they put down roots in 1879 is still intact, and you can go on a guided tour of it and all things Ingalls with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society year round. If you can, though, come to De Smet in the summertime to catch the beloved Laura Ingalls Wilder Pageant, which this year will reenact “The Little Town on the Prairie,” picking up Wilder’s story following the winter of 1880-81. Coinciding with the festival, the town will also throw big, birthday bash for Wilder on July 14-16, which will feature a who’s who of “Little House on the Prairie” aficionados.
What Happens When You Get Shot And How To Survive It
Which
is why people are scared stiff about getting shot, but far too few
people understand what happens when we get shot and what we can to to
increase our chances of survival.
First, the bullet itself isn't what causes most of the damage- it's the momentum behind the bullet:
First, the bullet itself isn't what causes most of the damage- it's the momentum behind the bullet:
...when a bullet enters your body, your flesh absorbs a great deal of the momentum the bullet was carrying.Second, the main killer of those who have been shot is blood loss:
All that momentum has to go somewhere, so the bullet transfers it to your body, causing it to expand and create a large cavity, then falling back in on itself. That tremor can cause serious damage to your organs and tissues, even if the bullet doesn’t actually hit them.
Connor Narciso, former combat medic and Army Green Beret who served in Afghanistan, says don’t let movies and TV fool you. A single gunshot in the arm or leg is more than enough to kill you if you’re unlucky.Why? Blood loss, which Narciso asserts is the number one preventable cause of death on the battlefield (about 90% of those preventable deaths are due to blood loss). If that bullet hits a brachial artery in your arm, one of the bilateral inguinal arteries in your groin, or the subclavian arteries beneath each of your clavicles, you’re looking at massive hemorrhaging.Third, the best thing to do when somebody has been shot is call 911 and try to stop the bleeding or, in the case of chest wounds, stop air from entering the chest cavity:
...look for swelling, skin discoloration, and other signs of hemorrhaging, then try to control it by applying manual pressure on the wound, or by fastening a tourniquet high and tight on the limb where the wound is located.
If there’s an open bullet wound in the chest cavity, it’s important that you try to prevent any air getting sucked into it. Otherwise, you or the victim may suffer tension pneumothorax, or a collapsed lung, cutting breathing capability in half. The best way to plug the hole is with some form of occlusive dressing. This can be petrolatum, gauze from a first aid kit, or something improvised, like tape or plastic. Whatever you use, it needs to provide a total seal, so absorbent materials like standard gauze pads will not work.
Black first-class passenger says American Airlines sent her to the back of the plane
Rane Baldwin, who is black, said she had her
first-class ticket demoted due to supposed overbooking while her white
friend’s ticket was not.
The Evolution Of Douchebag Style
This spoof of the "100 Years Of Beauty" series was created by Circa Laughs to show us how the d-bags of the past looked, and to remind us that there's plenty more d-baggery to come!
11 Wedding Superstitions From Around the World
1. IN GREECE, THE BRIDE AND GROOM GO NUTS WITH SNACKS.Read about ten more wedding superstitions at Mental Floss.
The Mediterranean country is home to a sweet tradition. The happy couple hand out sugar-coated almonds, called koufeta, to their guests. As one Greek Orthodox bride explained to Manhattan Bride magazine, the white of the almond symbolizes purity, the egg shape is a sign of fertility, the hardness represents the endurance of marriage, and the sugar is meant to show the sweetness of married life. Together, they’re meant to wish the newly married duo "happiness, health, wealth, children, and a long life." And should a single girl take one of the blessed snacks and sleep with it under her pillow for three nights, tradition states she’ll somehow see her future husband!
Hobby Horse Championship
(YouTube link)
From the Washington Post:
Hobby-horsing has gained momentum outside Finland because of this year’s release of the documentary “Hobbyhorse Revolution” by the Finnish Oscar-nominated director Selma Vilhunen. Over a year, she followed young hobbyhorse enthusiasts and their preparations for a competition.
Some actual horse riders may look down on hobby-horsing as childlike past-time not suitable for anyone aged over 10, but Fred Sundwall, the secretary general of the Equestrian Federation of Finland, disagrees.
“We think it’s simply wonderful that hobby-horsing has become a phenomenon and so popular,” Sundwall said. “It gives a chance to those children and teens who don’t own horses to interact with them also outside stables and riding schools.”
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