Which is why I appreciated and enjoyed reading this article revealing 5 Things Only Poor People Understand About Poverty by Cracked's John Cheese, a guy who understands there's broke and then there's BROKE.
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Things Only Poor Teens Understand About Poverty
Which is why I appreciated and enjoyed reading this article revealing 5 Things Only Poor People Understand About Poverty by Cracked's John Cheese, a guy who understands there's broke and then there's BROKE.
The Case for Prescription Heroin
Crosstown represents an international move toward providing a full spectrum of care for people who are addicted to drugs. It isn’t a first-line defense against opioid addiction, and it’s not going to solve the crisis by itself. But for a fraction of opioid users suffering from addiction (maybe about 10 to 15 percent), other treatments won’t produce good results, almost certainly leading users to relapse — and possibly overdose and die.Read about Vancouver's heroin program at Vox
To combat this cycle, Crosstown offers these opioid users medical-grade heroin (called “diacetylmorphine”). Under supervision, nurses are at the ready with the overdose antidote naloxone and oxygen tanks in case of an emergency. These patients are the people for whom other treatments have failed. It’s a last resort. And it works.
Since 2011, the clinic has seen about 200 patients. None of them, MacDonald said, have died under the clinic’s supervision. In fact, as far as he can tell, no one has died at any prescription heroin facility due to an overdose — not in Canada, Switzerland, Germany, or the Netherlands.
Delta Airlines let drunk ‘roam freely’ while he exposed himself and groped woman on flight
A Michigan woman is suing Delta Airlines for
allegedly allowing a fellow passenger who sexually assaulted her and
masturbated next to her to “roam freely” on a flight despite staff’s
knowledge of the man’s misconduct.
NUTJOB Missouri Wingnut Beheads Live Chicken On Facebook
Hopefully, the backlash from this stunt will make Mr. Moon realize
that women deserve access to healthcare, regardless of what he likes to
do to chicken in the privacy of his own home.
Coral reefs show signs of climate stress, but there's still hope
They show signs of stress, but also resilience.
Fox Gets a New Tunnel
Watch Riot play tag and peek-a-boo and hide and seek! See more of Riot and his animals friends at Instagram.
4 facts about ghost sharks
It’s also known as a chimaera or ratfish.
Scientists released video of the marine animal some months ago, which had been shot a few years earlier, and it was believed to mark the first time candid footage of the creature alive in the wild had been documented.
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
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Today in History
| 1381 | The Peasants’ Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxes when rebels plunder and burn the Tower of London and kill the Archbishop of Canterbury. | |
| 1642 | Massachusetts passes the first compulsory education law in the colonies. | |
| 1645 | Oliver Cromwell‘s army routs the king’s army at Naseby. | |
| 1775 | The U.S. Army is founded when the Continental Congress authorizes the muster of troops. | |
| 1777 | The Continental Congress authorizes the “stars and stripes” flag for the new United States. | |
| 1789 | Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrives in Timor in a small boat. He had been forced to leave his ship when his crew mutinied. | |
| 1846 | A group of settlers declare California to be a republic. | |
| 1864 | At the Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia, Confederate General Leonidas Polk is killed by a Union shell. | |
| 1893 | The city of Philadelphia observes the first Flag Day. | |
| 1907 | Women in Norway win the right to vote. | |
| 1919 | John William Alcott and Arthur Whitten Brown take off from St. John’s, Newfoundland, for Clifden, Ireland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. | |
| 1922 | President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to speak on the radio. | |
| 1927 | Nicaraguan President Porfirio Diaz signs a treaty with the U.S. allowing American intervention in his country. | |
| 1932 | Representative Edward Eslick dies on the floor of the House of Representatives while pleading for the passage of the bonus bill. | |
| 1940 | German forces occupy Paris. | |
| 1942 | The Supreme Court rules that requiring students to salute the American flag is unconstitutional. | |
| 1944 | Boeing B-29 bombers conduct their first raid against mainland Japan. | |
| 1945 | Burma is liberated by the British. | |
| 1949 | The State of Vietnam is formed. | |
| 1951 | UNIVAC, the first computer built for commercial purposes, is demonstrated in Philadelphia by Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr. | |
| 1954 | Americans take part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack. | |
| 1965 | A military triumvirate takes control in Saigon, South Vietnam. | |
| 1982 | Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom ending the Falkland Islands War. | |
| 1985 | Gunmen hijack a passenger jet over the Middle East. | |
| 1989 | Congressman William Gray, an African American, is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives. | |
| 1995 | Chechen rebels take 2,000 people hostage in a hospital in Russia. |
United States records highest obesity percentage in the world
In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, it has been determined that more than two billion adults and children of the world are now obese and run the risk of diseases due to carrying excess weight. Out of them, 710 million were classified as obese, with 5 percent of all children and 12 percent of adults fitting into this category.
Are jokesters screwing up data on gay teenagers?
Surveys can help researchers better understand the lives of teens, but skeptics argue that youth are often dishonest and that the results cannot be trusted.
This idea led into a study published a few years ago, which called into question over a decade of research on the health and well-being of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth.
In a new study, we challenged this idea with our own search for jokesters in this data. We discovered that more than 98 percent of youth told the truth on self-report surveys. We also found that LGB youth were not any more likely than heterosexual youth to provide mischievous responses.
Medic dragged woman’s half-naked, lifeless body through crowded American Airlines flight
The woman suffered a medical emergency
Monday while in the bathroom of an American Airlines Boeing 737 flying
from Dallas to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Dumbass Trump sycophant back in jail
Terri Rote, an Iowa Dumbass Trump sycophant who was
caught last year trying to vote twice for the president, is back in jail
after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct.
But then again it is what they do - they rant and rave about that they are guilty of claiming everyone else are the guilty ones.
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It is amazing that every case of voter fraud is a wingnut perpetrating it.But then again it is what they do - they rant and rave about that they are guilty of claiming everyone else are the guilty ones.
'Christian' FB Page Threatens To Ban People Who Use Rainbow Emoji, Instantly Backfires
The internet’s response may make you beam with pride.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
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Today in History
| 1777 | The Marquis de Lafayette arrives in the American colonies to help in their rebellion against Britain. | |
| 1863 | Confederate forces on their way to Gettysburg clash with Union troops at the Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia. | |
| 1920 | The U.S. Post Office Department rules that children may not be sent by parcel post. | |
| 1923 | The French set a trade barrier between occupied Ruhr and the rest of Germany. | |
| 1940 | Paris is evacuated as the Germans advance on the city. | |
| 1943 | German spies land on Long Island, New York, and are soon captured. | |
| 1944 | The first German V-1 buzz-bomb hits London. | |
| 1949 | Installed by the French, Bao Dai enters Saigon to rule Vietnam. | |
| 1971 | The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers. | |
| 1978 | Israelis withdraw the last of their invading forces from Lebanon. | |
| 1979 | Sioux Indians are awarded $105 million in compensation for the 1877 U.S. seizure of the Black Hills in South Dakota. | |
| 1983 | Pioneer 10, already in space for 11 years, leaves the solar system. |
Woman strips naked at the Western Wall
The Times of Israel reported the woman, who is from the Jerusalem area, was stopped by security guards who covered her and and then detained her, a police statement said.
The streaker prompted shouts and screams from people praying at the Western Wall, the most sacred site in Judaism. “People started to scream and cry and when she started moving toward the men’s section, she was stopped by force,” one witness told Israel’s Channel 2.
Eventually the woman was escorted from the Western Wall’s open plaza and questioned. According to witnesses, she entered the area in clothed and then got undressed in the women’s section. The woman appeared to have come determined to “cause a provocation,” one onlooker claimed.
In a YouTube video of the incident that has subsequently been removed, the woman is filmed from behind slowly walking towards the men’s section. Entrances and areas of prayer are segregated at the Western Wall, as is common in Orthodox Jewish synagogues.
One woman can be seen trying to cover the naked woman with a shawl, but she is pushed away by the naked woman who then makes a dash for the men’s section. She made it as far as the entrance to the male section before she is stopped.Two men are seen carrying her to a nearby bathroom area, not far from a small police station.
The detained woman’s family said she has suffered psychological issues, according to Channel 2.
The Western Wall, one of last remaining structures that formed part of the outer wall of Jerusalem’s Second Temple, is the closest point to where the temple itself stood, and is the holiest place for prayer in Judaism.
It lies in Jerusalem’s Old City, which was captured with the rest of east Jerusalem by Israeli forces during the Six Day War in 1967.
Two Polyglots Have A Casual Chat In 21 Different Languages
I've
always preferred the honorific "multilingual speaker" to "polyglot"
since it sounds a whole lot nicer, but according to definition if a
person "learns multiple languages as an avocation" they're a polyglot. And when a polyglot comes across another language enthusiast in the wild their conversation sounds like a trip around the world.
In this video Dutch artist and polyglot Wouter Corduwener chats with a Macedonian hyperpolyglot named Zoran Radiceski, who speaks a staggering 35 different languages, in a conversation only a fellow polyglot could follow!
In this video Dutch artist and polyglot Wouter Corduwener chats with a Macedonian hyperpolyglot named Zoran Radiceski, who speaks a staggering 35 different languages, in a conversation only a fellow polyglot could follow!
How Your Mouse Movement Could Be Used to Stop Identity Theft
What the researchers found was that the liars had a distinctive average mouse movement that was more circuitous than the truth tellers. Even when the liars were telling the truth, it seems that their overall dishonesty was infecting their movements and they could accurately be identified as lying. The researchers then repeated their full experiment with 20 German-speaking subjects to test for cultural differences and they arrived at the same conclusions.Read more about the experiment and findings at Gizmodo.
Statehood for Puerto Rico?
Even if Puerto Rico votes “yes,” Congress must still pass a law in order to change the island’s legal status from that of a commonwealth to a state. Congress, however, seems likely to drag its feet. That’s what happened when Hawaii became a state in the 1950s – an experience that offers some interesting and relevant parallels to the Puerto Rican case.
Like Puerto Rico today, Hawaii was a developed place when its residents applied for statehood. This is in contrast with some earlier states like Ohio and Wyoming that were carved out of sparsely populated territories. Hawaii’s population in the 1950s – just under half a million – was greater than that of several other states, something that is true for Puerto Rico today.
As novelist James Michener observed, “Hawaii is by far the most advanced state culturally that has ever been admitted to the Union.” Michener was referring to the high number of firmly established schools, churches, libraries and museums there – something Puerto Rico can also boast about.
Other parallels between the two include a location outside the continental U.S. and a diverse population in terms of race and ethnicity.
Overriding the Urge to Sleep
Group of neurons helps us stay awake when it matters
Caltech
researchers have identified a neural circuit in the brain that controls
wakefulness. The findings have implications for treating insomnia,
oversleeping, and sleep disturbances that accompany other
neuropsychiatric disorders, such as depression. The work was … Read more
Is Binge Watching Bad For You?
My brother does not have cable TV, but he has Netflix. I recommended the erstwhile AMC TV show Hell on Wheels
to him one day, and two days later he mentioned on social media that
he'd seen the whole series. All five seasons in two days! Binge-watching
has become quite popular, but could it be harmful?
The folks at AsapSCIENCE look into that question for us.
The folks at AsapSCIENCE look into that question for us.
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