There’s something about Wal-Mart that attracts people like this.
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Slug mucus glue that stops internal bleeding created
Baby Elephant Throws Tantrum In Middle Of Road, Parents Know Just What To Do
According to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust this tantrum throwing behavior is pretty typical:
"Elephants also display many of the attributes of humans as well as some of the failings. They share with us a strong sense of family and death and they feel many of the same emotions. Each one is, of course, like us, a unique individual with its own unique personality.They can be happy or sad, volatile or placid. They display envy, jealousy, throw tantrums and are fiercely competitive, and they can develop hang-ups which are reflected in behaviour."
Why It Sucks To Be A Male Hyena
A life of hunting zebras and raising young on the savanna isn’t half bad for a female hyena. Sadly, the same can’t be said for their male counterparts. As MinuteEarth explains, things take a downturn for the males of the species once they hit adolescence. No female in their pack will mate with them, a behavior scientists believe evolved to avoid inbreeding, so they head off in search of a different group to join. After dealing with vicious hazing from their new clan, they file in at the bottom of the rank and wait for other males above them to die so that they can slowly gain status.Looks like life got the last laugh Mr. Hyena! Here's that video by MinuteEarth to explain more:
Even after rising through the hierarchy, the most a male hyena can aspire to is being second place to the lowest-ranking female. Thanks to their bulky build and aggressive behavior, female hyenas enjoy a dominant position that’s rare in the animal kingdom.
Friday, July 28, 2017
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Today in Hstory
| 1540 | Henry VIII of England marries Catherine Howard; Thomas Cromwell is beheaded on Tower Hill in England. | |
| 1615 | French explorer Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Huron on his seventh voyage to the New World. | |
| 1794 | Robespierre is beheaded in France. | |
| 1808 | Sultan Mustafa of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and his cousin Mahmud II gains the throne. | |
| 1835 | King Louis-Philippe of France survives an assassination attempt. | |
| 1863 | Confederate John Mosby begins a series of attacks against General George Meade‘s Army of the Potomac. | |
| 1868 | The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees citizenship to all those born or naturalized in the United States, is adopted. | |
| 1898 | Spain, through the offices of the French embassy in Washington, D.C., requests peace terms in its war with the United States. | |
| 1914 | Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I. | |
| 1920 | Pancho Villa surrenders to the Mexican government. | |
| 1932 | The Bonus Army of impoverished World War I veterans is violently pushed out of Washington, D.C. | |
| 1941 | A Japanese army lands on the coast of Cochin, China (modern day Vietnam). | |
| 1945 | A B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 13 people. | |
| 1965 | President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 50,000 troops to South Vietnam. | |
| 1988 | Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for the first time in 21 years. | |
| 1990 | A fire at an electrical substation causes a blackout in Chicago. Some 40,000 people were without power for up to three days. | |
| 1996 | Discovery of remains of a prehistoric man near Kennewick, Washington, casts doubts on accepted beliefs of when, how and where the Americas were populated. | |
| 2005 | The Irish Republican Army (IRA) announces an end to its 30-year armed campaign in Northern Ireland. | |
| 2005 | Britain experiences its most costly tornado to date, causing 40 million Sterling Pounds of damage to Birmingham in just four minutes. There were no fatalities. |
Who The Hell Is Marilyn Monroe?
The photographers who
shot Marilyn had the eye and Marilyn had the everything else, and
together they created the Marilyn Monroe image that made her the
Hollywood It Girl every director wanted in their films.
But
before the fame came those "who the hell is this girl?" moments, like
the time in 1950 when LIFE photographer Ed Clark photographed Marilyn
"at the suggestion of a friend of 20th Century Fox telling of the new
hiring of the studios":
“I sent several rolls to LIFE in New York, but they wired back, ‘Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe?” – Ed Clark.
Harvard Magazine Personal Advertisements’ Many Synonyms For “Rich” or “Thin”
One actual person wrote “ENJOYS BUSINESS-CLASS TRAVEL” as a descriptor, which I think is one of the purest things I have ever read. And the further you get into the weeds of the personals, the more frenzied the synonyms get, because everyone is concerned with making ABSOLUTELY SURE that you are picking up what they are putting down, but they are also (belatedly and barely) concerned about seeming judgmental or close-minded, so they try to speak in the world’s most breakable code.What follows is a list of examples (that we suspect are enhanced composites) at The Toast. Yes, a year after the site ceased publication, The Toast is back, sadly, for one day only.
Geographic Markers That Are Totally Inaccurate
Have
you ever been to a place that had a marker denoting a geographic
wonder, such as the equator, the Continental Divide, or the geographic
center of some land mass? The chances are good that it's not quite
accurate. Sometimes markers were put in a convenient location somewhat
near the actual spot. Sometimes they are monuments to the difficulty of
geographic mapping, and turns out to be a mistake. And some were pretty
accurate in their time, but the world has a way of changing. All these
reasons are represented in this list. Europos Park in Lithuania is an
example.
And then there are those that are inaccurate and we really don't know why. Read about eleven such markers at Atlas Obscura.In the early 1990s the people of Lithuania got very excited when calculations identified a spot outside the capital city, Vilnius, as the dead center of Europe. A big sculpture park dubbed Europos Park was erected at the spot. But French scientists who had proposed the spot for the center in the first place sent news that they accidentally missed the exact target by 8 miles (14 kilometers). The correct center, which is still contested, is now marked with a square and a small museum.
One dead, five critically hurt after thrown from ride at Ohio State Fair
The accident at the fair, which opened on Wednesday in Columbus, occurred when a section of open-air seating snapped off a “Fireball” ride, TV station WCMH said.
The seats are in a circular configuration and at the end of an arm that lifts riders as they are being spun.
The person killed was an 18-year-old man, the station reported.
The man who died was thrown into the air and landed about 50 feet (15 m) from the ride, the Columbus Dispatch reported a fire official as saying. Names of the person killed and those injured have not been released.
GE, Invenergy build wind farm in Oklahoma, biggest in the U.S.
Transgender troops serving US military since Civil War
As ISIL is defeated, Al-Qaeda grows more powerful
Cliven Bundy follower gets 68 years for role in armed Nevada standoff
One of two men convicted in the first of
several trials stemming from a 2014 standoff led by renegade rancher
Cliven Bundy against federal authorities in Nevada was sentenced on
Wednesday to 68 years in prison for his role in the armed confrontation.
The most explosive, energetic events in the universe
Gamma ray bursts, or GRBs, come from newly formed black holes, regions of space that spew jets of ionized matter at nearly the speed of light. The power of these jets produces brief but extremely intense flashes—GRBs.
Half of Milky Way's matter comes from distant galaxies
LA man accused of smuggling king cobras in potato chip cans
United Airlines sued by owners of giant rabbit found dead after flight
Thursday, July 27, 2017
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Today in History
| 1214 | At the Battle of Bouvines in France, Philip Augustus of France defeats John of England. | |
| 1245 | Frederick II is deposed by a council at Lyons, which found him guilty of sacrilege. | |
| 1586 | Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England from Virginia. | |
| 1663 | The British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports. | |
| 1689 | The Scottish Jacobites experience a victory over government-supporting clans at the Battle of Killiecrankie. | |
| 1777 | The Marquis of Lafayette arrives in New England to help fight the British. | |
| 1778 | British and French fleets fight to a standoff in the first Battle of Ushant. | |
| 1793 | Robespierre becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety. | |
| 1861 | Lincoln replaces General Irwin McDowell with General George B. McClellen as head of the Army of the Potomac. | |
| 1905 | The International Workers of the World found their labor organization in Chicago. | |
| 1909 | Orville Wright sets a world record for staying aloft in an airplane–one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds. | |
| 1914 | British troops invade the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and begin to disarm Irish rebels. | |
| 1921 | Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto. | |
| 1944 | U.S. troops complete the liberation of Guam. | |
| 1953 | Representatives of the United Nations, Korea and China sign an armistice at Panmunjom, Korea. | |
| 1964 | President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam. | |
| 1980 | Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran dies in Cairo, Egypt. | |
| 1981 | William Wyler, director of Ben Hur, dies. | |
| 1993 | Israeli guns and aircraft pound southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas. | |
| 2002 | The largest air show disaster in history occurs when a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine, killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others. |
Why we haven’t found life anywhere else in the universe
Our solar system is full of huge, recently discovered comets
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