No, the Ancient Greeks Didn't Have Laptops

No, the Ancient Greeks Didn't Have Laptops

It's a shallow chest, not an ancient laptop depicted in that ancient Greek carving.

Human culture, not smarts, may have overwhelmed Neanderthals

Human culture, not smarts, may have overwhelmed Neanderthals

What happened to the Neanderthals? They left their African homes and migrated into Europe 350,000 to 600,000 years ago, well ahead of modern humans, who showed up only about 45,000 years ago. But within about 5,000 years of our arrival, the indigenous Neanderthals had...

Climate Chamge News

Managed Forests Accelerate Climate Change

Replacing broad-leaved forests with evergreen trees is contributing to climate change, even when tree coverage increases.

Climate Change Is Leaving Native Plants Behind

Animals and weeds are bounding up California's warming hills, while native plants are stuck in place.

The US Southwest May Already Be Drying Up

The US Southwest May Already Be Drying Up

The weather patterns that normally bring rain to the Southwest have been disappearing and climate change could be the cause.

Meteorite Kills Man in India

Meteorite Kills Man in India, Authorities Say

If proven, it would be the first such death in recorded history.

More Gravitational Wave Rumors

More Gravitational Wave Rumors: Colliding Black Holes?

More gravitational wave discovery rumors are flying, but this time they've taken a specific -- and, possibly, really exciting -- new twist.

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Editor's Note: They have been proven. So the "rumors" are true. Einstein was correct.

Earth-like planets have Earth-like interiors

Earth-like planets have Earth-like interiors

Every school kid learns the basic structure of the Earth: a thin outer crust, a thick mantle, and a Mars-sized core. But is this structure universal? Will rocky exoplanets orbiting other stars have the same three layers? New research suggests that the answer is yes...

Wolf species have ‘howling dialects’

Wolf species have ‘howling dialects’

The largest ever study of howling in the ‘canid’ family of species — which includes wolves, jackals and domestic dogs — has shown that the various species and subspecies have distinguishing repertoires of howling, or “vocal...

Rainforest Now Safe for 'Spirit Bear'

Rainforest Now Safe for 'Spirit Bear'

An immense portion of the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia has just gained new protections.

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Today in History

1294		Kublai Khan, the conqueror of Asia, dies at the age of 80.
1554		Lady Jane Grey, the Queen of England for thirteen days, is beheaded on Tower Hill. She was barely 17 years old.
1709		Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish seaman whose adventures inspired the creation of Daniel Dafoe’s Robinson Crusoe, is taken off Juan Fernandez Island after more than four years of living there alone.
1793		The first fugitive slave law, requiring the return of escaped slaves, is passed.
1818		Chile gains independence from Spain.
1836		Mexican General Santa Anna crosses the Rio Grande en route to the Alamo.
1909		The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is formed.
1912		China becomes a republic following the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty.
1921		Winston Churchill of London is appointed colonial secretary.
1924		George Gershwin’s groundbreaking symphonic jazz composition Rhapsody in Blue premieres with Gershwin himself playing the piano with Paul Whiteman’s orchestra.
1929		Charles Lindbergh announces his engagement to Anne Morrow.
1931		Japan makes its first television broadcast–a baseball game.
1935		The Macon, the last U.S. Navy dirigible, crashes off the coast of California, killing two people.
1938		Japan refuses to reveal naval data requested by the U.S. and Britain.
1940		The Soviet Union signs a trade treaty with Germany to aid against the British blockade.
1944		Wendell Wilkie enters the American presidential race against Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1949		Moslem Brotherhood chief Hassan el Banna is shot to death in Cairo.
1953		The Soviets break off diplomatic relations with Israel after the bombing of Soviet legation.
1966		The South Vietnamese win two big battles in the Mekong Delta.
1972		Senator Edward Kennedy advocates amnesty for Vietnam draft resisters.
1974		The Symbionese Liberation Army asks the Hearst family for $230 million in food for the poor.
1980		The Lake Placid Winter Olympics open in New York.
1987		A Court in Texas upholds $8.5 billion of a fine imposed on Texaco for the illegal takeover of Getty Oil.
1999		The U.S. Senate fails to pass two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton. He had been accused of perjury and obstruction of justice by the House of Representatives.

Salma Hayek Didn't Plan On Wearing This Embarrassing And Suggestive Shirt To The ER

by Kimberly Ricci

Mom always said to wear clean underwear for a good reason, right? That way, no one lands in the hospital while wearing a mortified expression in addition to howling in unbearable pain. Never mind that anyone in the hospital has greater concerns than underwear pride, but the warning gets nonetheless repeated across generations. Moms, so embarrassing.
Salma Hayek learned the meaning of the word “embarrassing” when she endured an on-set injury. Hayek never revealed the movie she’s filming, but she’s still sort of working on a film called Sausage Party. Nahh, that movie is actually an animated children’s film starring Seth Rogen and James Franco. Those two would delight in such a movie title, but Hayek must be up to something else.

Whatever the case, Hayek suffered what she described as “a minor head injury.” She rushed to the emergency room without changing shirts, but her noggin was a-okay. So, she felt well enough to pose with some doctors who looked thrilled in this Instagram picture. Boy, I wonder if their expressions have anything to do with Hayek’s wardrobe shirt?

Because It Is 2016, British Airways Finally Agrees Female Employees May Wear Pants To Work

A union spokesperson said the airline is “joining the 21st century."

Authorities ban 'silent discos' over noise concerns

Authorities in Lausanne, Switzerland, have quashed a proposal for outdoor “silent disco” events in the city center because of concerns they would be too noisy. Organizers of the events, where participants dance to music listened to on wireless headphones, had wanted to hold them on the terrace and rooftop of bistros in the Flon neighborhood on June 12th and September 4th. The events were to run until 5am.
Similar events have been held in the nearby municipality of Pully, run by Olivier Meylan, the director of the unfortunately named For Noise Festival. Meylan submitted an application with the support of Mobimo, the owner of the property where the bistros are located, and a recommendation from the municipality of Pully. However, the city’s business regulation department turned down the proposal, a decision that cannot be appealed.
“Since 2014 numerous complaints from neighbors have been lodged,” Florence Nicollier, head of the department said. “They involve noise problems caused by musical events and other activities taking place on terraces of establishments in the Flon neighborhood and the Place de l’Europe, in particular those on rooftops,” Nicollier said. Apparently, the concern with “silent discos” is that they are not that silent, since participants often sing along to the music.
“During silent discos, the noise caused by the clientele is not negligible,” Nicollier said. As a result, the city has decided to ban such events. Event organizer Meylan did not hide his disappointment. “Given our experience in the neighboring municipality of Pully, we should have been able to at least try a test in the center of Lausanne and take stock afterward, but no,” he said. “There is now a lack of original events in this city that are, however, popular with young adults.”

Businessman sells fresh British air to the Chinese for £80 a bottle

A British businessman is making thousands of pounds out of selling bottled British air to the Chinese for £80 a bottle. The smog-plagued elite of Beijing and Shanghai are snapping up the decanters from Leo De Watts who 'farms' fresh-air from the British countryside. His team of workers put bottles in adapted fishing nets and hold them aloft as they stride through a muddy field to 'harvest' the product. They then leave it open for up to 10 minutes to capture the area's aroma, but also ensure no grass or bugs get into the 'organic' product.
In just a few weeks of launching the venture, Aethaer, which is from the ancient Greek word for pure fresh air, Mr De Watts, 27, has sold 180 580ml containers of breeze from Dorset, Somerset, Wales, Wiltshire and Yorkshire. Once unbottled, the 'experience' of inhaling the fresh-air for the consumer lasts just a few seconds. Mr De Watts, who is from Gillingham but now lives in Hong Kong, asks friends and family members to go out on land that is as far away from pollution as possible to bottle the air. Mr De Watts describes British breeze as the 'Louis Vuitton or Gucci' of fresh-air and said each area has its own unique aroma. He said: "I would say on the whole that Dorset air seems to pick up a few more scents of the ocean, as the breeze flows up the Jurassic Coast and over the lush pastures.
"Whereas air from the Yorkshire dales tends to filter it's way through much more flora, so the scent captures the subtle tones of the surrounding fields, giving different qualities to the collection. We go up to a hill top, for example, and collect all the products there which are all packaged and bottled up, sent to Dorset and then directly to China. Our customers all have high disposal incomes and want to buy gifts for someone or someone wants to use it. There is a serious point to this though as Beijing, Zhuhai, and Shanghai are the major places where pollution is quite bad, whether it is the fault of the rest of the world or its China's responsibility, we have a case of people living in smog."

YouTube link. There are more videos here.

Although a Canadian company is already sending bottled Rocky Mountain air to China, Mr De Watts is leading the British charge. He said: "I saw a few reports of people importing bottles of air and thought it was a bit ridiculous myself, and then I thought about it. When someone bottled water everyone thought it was ridiculous, now you have Evian and Volvic - why not bottle air? We are priced as is a luxury item it is not for every day customers, if they want something that is cheaper they can buy it. Think of us as being the equivalent of Louis Vuitton or Gucci, so we are not likely to appeal to a mass market. It is really a cottage industry at the moment we have got a few people around the country who go out and bottle it. It doesn't require that many people and you can collect quite a lot in one go and you don't have to pay for it."

Having the First Name 'Isis' Has Become a Massive Burden for Lots of People

Having the First Name 'Isis' Has Become a Massive Burden for Lots of People

Western Warmongers Create One Disaster After Another in the Mideast

Why Western Warmongers Create One Disaster After Another in the Mideast

Your Emotions Could Be Making You Sick

How Your Emotions Could Be Making You Sick

Enjoy your sneeze

Enjoy your sneeze: It may mean you won’t get brain cancer

If allergy season has you sneezing, wheezing or itching, is your risk of developing a deadly form of brain cancer less? No one can say for sure, but researchers found an inverse association between allergies, asthma and eczema and a brain cancer called glioma, meaning...

Does Nutrition Play a Role in ADHD?

Does Nutrition Play a Role in ADHD?

McDonald’s Ridiculous New Kale Salad Is An Excellent Argument For Obamacare

McDonald’s Ridiculous New Kale Salad Is An Excellent Argument For Obamacare

Contracts between cities and police unions guarantee complaints against cops will be kept secret

Revealed: Contracts between cities and police unions guarantee complaints against cops will be kept secret

Another Flint Atrocity: City's Jail Inmates — Including Pregnant Women — Had No Choice but to Drink Poisoned Water

Another Flint Atrocity: City's Jail Inmates — Including Pregnant Women — Had No Choice but to Drink Poisoned Water

Michigan Wingnuts On Flint Water Crisis: It’s Obama’s Fault

The Michigan Republican cabal is portraying Snyder (R) as the man at the helm who has been busy trying to heal the city of Flint while the Evil Obama administration has only stood in the way.

Yeah, Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!

Wisconsin man bought gun and practiced before killing co-worker who spurned his advances

Wisconsin man bought gun and practiced before killing co-worker who spurned his advances: ‘It was easy’

Fox News "guest": 'By every metric men have it worse -- we're more likely to get raped'

Fox News "guest": 'By every metric men have it worse -- we're more likely to get raped'

By EVERY metric?!

OK, granted each "classification" can have it "worse" than another "classification" on any given metric at any given time, but all of them, all the time, nah, ain't gonna happen.

Judge grants injunction barring distribution of bogus Planned Parenthood 'sting' videos

Judge grants injunction barring distribution of bogus Planned Parenthood 'sting' videos

Anti-Abortion Cabals Argue That Restrictive Texas Law 'Prevents Discrimination' Against Women

In an amicus brief filed at the Supreme Court yesterday, the anti-abortion-rights cabals Susan B. Anthony List and Concerned Women for America argue that a restrictive Texas law that threatens to shut almost all of the state’s abortion clinics is actually meant to prevent discrimination against women ... MORE

Say, What!?!

Anti-gay parents compare LGBT student group at rural Tennessee high school to ISIL and drunk drivers

Anti-gay parents compare LGBT student group at rural Tennessee high school to ISIL and drunk drivers

Anti-gay parents at a Tennessee high school are planning a rally Monday against a school club for LGBT students and their straight allies.

Michigan Wingnuts Pass Bill That Would Put Gay AND Straight Couples In Prison

Michigan Wingnuts Pass Bill That Would Put Gay AND Straight Couples In Prison

Wingnuts are far too obsessed with how people have sex. In defiance of the Supreme Court, Michigan Republicans have passed a bill that makes..

Legal rape agitator now on the receiving end of harassment after anti-woman meetings collapse

Legal rape agitator now on the receiving end of harassment after anti-woman meetings collapse

The online vigilante group Anonymous circulated Roosh’s address and phone number, and the Daily Mail published photos of him in the doorway of a house in the Washington DC area , where the supposed globetrotting Lothario apparently lives with his mother.

Couple charged after argument over broken Lego structure turned physical

A man and his common law partner were involved in an argument when she threw a Lego structure he had been building.

As a result, the structure broke.
Police said the argument then turned physical, with both parties assaulting each other.
A 28-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman, both from Brandon in Manitoba, Canada, were charged and released.

Man and his girlfriend jailed on drug charges

A southwestern Minnesota couple are in jail on drug charges after authorities raided their apartment in Pipestone.
Forty-two-year-old Benjamin Walker is charged with possession of methamphetamine near a park zone and possession of firearms or ammunition by a felon. His girlfriend, 34-year-old Jennifer Underwood is charged with methamphetamine possession.
The drug charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Agents with the Buffalo Ridge Drug Task Force and Pipestone County Deputies searched the couple's apartment on Thursday morning, and found meth, cut pen straws, glass pipes, and a spoon.
In another room they found propane torches and a box containing .38-calibre ammunition. Walker has a felony burglary conviction which prohibits him from owning a firearm or ammunition.

Wife faces up to six years in jail for poor management of the household chores

A man from Lazio, Italy, is taking his wife to court for “mistreatment of the family” because she did not cook or clean enough.

The 40-year-old woman from the town of Sonnino has been charged with "mistreatment of the family" due to what her husband describes as “poor management of the household chores”.
The charge could result in a jail sentence of up to six years. In his statement, the husband, who is seven years his wife's senior, claimed he had been "insulted" for over two years by his wife's negligence.
He said that on occasion his wife has kicked him out of their bedroom and that he has been “forced to live in conditions with poor hygiene”. The husband also said that the food he bought ended up in the bin as his wife rarely cooked. The trial has been fixed for October 12th this year.

Man who fell into and became locked in his car's trunk charged with possession of marijuana

A Florida man who said he fell into his car's trunk and got locked in after a walk on the beach was rescued on Wednesday by a Monroe County Sheriff's deputy who heard him knocking for help. The incident began at about 9:30pm when Monroe County Sheriff's Deputy Seth Hopp answered a call about a report of a suspicious vehicle parked near Sombrereo Beach.

There, Hopp said he found a 1997 Lincoln Continental with all four doors open but no one in sight. Drawing closer, Hopp said, "I then began to hear a knocking coming from the closed trunk." "Come out", Hopp ordered after announcing himself as "Sheriff's Office." "I can't", answered a voice that turned out to belong to be 32-year-old Rob Moore of Marathon.
"I opened the trunk and a ... male emerged," said Hopp. And the male had an unusual explanation for his predicament. After going for a walk on the beach, Moore told the deputy, "he was looking for the keys to the vehicle and had accidentally fallen in the trunk while searching for the keys. The trunk then closed on top of him." What happened to Moore's keys remains unknown.
The deputy may have opened the trunk using an in-car release, said Monroe County Sheriff's spokeswoman Becky Herrin. During his interview with Hopp, Moore told the deputy he had in the car a pill bottle containing marijuana. Moore was charged marijuana possession, a first degree misdemeanor. Moore's mother arrived and drove him home in the Lincoln, Hopp said. "Certainly these are unusual circumstances," said Herrin. "But we have no reason to believe it happened in any way other than what he described."

Primal Linkage

The Oxford Words blog explains the origin of the phrase "currying favor" in a brief video.  "The original form of this phrase was actually ‘to curry Favel’, which probably sounds rather puzzling. Favel was the name of a chestnut horse in a 14th-century French tale who was renowned for his cunning and duplicity."
NPR reports that "The Onion" has been sold to Univision. (honest)
The largest known prime number has been discovered.  The number is 2^74,207,281-1.  It has 22,338,618 digits.  Perhaps some reader can leave a comment on this post as to why this is important or relevant to real life.
A "life pro tip" - "when paying a friend cash, ask them to double check it so they don't feel awkward counting it in front of you."
Trail running in the Scottish Highlands.  A five-minute video best enjoyed by clicking the full-screen icon.
The pronunciation of poinsettia is explained at Language Log.  "The journalist also wondered whether the "poinsetta" pronunciation is a mistake, and whether people who use it should be corrected. My response was that there are lots of similar cases of variants with a phoneme or two missing — february, surprise, etc. — and the fact that such variants are listed in dictionaries is a good reason not to correct people who prefer them. And there are other cases where pronouncing the lost phonemes is actually a mistake — wednesday (at least in the U.S.), worcester, etc."
How to run out of a steep hole.
Secret doors and hiding places in homes.

Freak Storms and Butterfly Die-Offs

Welcome to the Future We've Been Warning You About

Russian lawyer accuses unlikely animal friends of 'gay propaganda'

Russian prosecutors have begun considering whether media coverage of the unexpected friendship between a male tiger and goat at a safari park in the country’s far east counts as gay propaganda.

Novosibirsk lawyer Alexei Krestyanov complained to the prosecutor general last month that information about the animals living together could harm children by provoking “interest in non-traditional sexual relations”. “I think the positive coverage of this topic is nothing less than interference in the personal lives of minors, which is what hidden propaganda is, and public, active imposition of homosexuality,” Krestyanov wrote.
The prosecutor’s office in the Primorsky region, which borders China and North Korea, has said it has begun checking Krestyanov’s allegations. The two animals became minor national celebrities in November when Timur the goat, who was meant to be a live snack for Amur the Siberian tiger, instead took over the enclosure at a safari park near Vladivostok, forcing the tiger to sleep on the roof of his own lean-to.
Video from last November.

YouTube link.

The media was soon full of footage of the two playing together, and Timur’s fans have even begun a campaign to elect him to parliament, arguing that he would be braver and more honest than current MPs. Timur has been in the care of a veterinarian since late January after he tried to headbutt Amur, who took him by the neck with his fangs and gave him a shaking. Although Krestyanov cited a children’s rights law in his complaint, his language echoed that of the law against gay propaganda passed in 2012 amid President Vladimir Putin’s growing emphasis on traditional values.

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Today in History

660 BC		Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.
1531		Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Cult of England.
1805		Sixteen-year-old Sacajawea, the Shoshoni guide for Lewis & Clark, gives birth to a son, with Meriwether Lewis serving as midwife.
1809		Robert Fulton patents the steamboat.
1815		News of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812, finally reaches the United States.
1858		14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, a French miller’s daughter, claims to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes.
1903		Congress passes the Expedition Act, giving antitrust cases priority in the courts.
1904		President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims strict neutrality for the United States in the Russo-Japanese War.
1910		Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Alexander announce their wedding date–June 20, 1910.
1926		The Mexican government nationalizes all church property.
1936		The Reich arrests 150 Catholic youth leaders in Berlin.
1939		The Negrin government returns to Madrid, Spain.
1942		The German battleships Gneisenau, Scharnhorst and Prinz Eugen begin their famed channel dash from the French port of Brest. Their journey takes them through the English Channel on their way back to Germany.
1945		The meeting of the President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Marshal Joseph Stalin in Yalta, adjourns.
1951		U.N. forces push north across the 38th parallel for the second time in the Korean War.
1953		Walt Disney’s film Peter Pan premieres.
1954		A 75,000-watt light bulb is lit at the Rockefeller Center in New York, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s first light bulb.
1955		Nationalist Chinese complete the evacuation of the Tachen Islands.
1959		Iran turns down Soviet aid in favor of a U.S. proposal for aid.
1962		Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London at age 30.
1964		Cambodian Prince Sihanouk blames the United States for a South Vietnamese air raid on a village in his country.
1965		President Lyndon Johnson orders air strikes against targets in North Vietnam, in retaliation for guerrilla attacks on the American military in South Vietnam.
1966		Vice President Hubert Humphrey begins a tour of Vietnam.
1974		Communist-led rebels shower artillery fire into a crowded area of Phnom Pehn, killing 139 and injuring 46 others.
1975		Mrs. Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to lead the British Tory Party.
1990		South African political leader Nelson Mandela is released from prison in Paarl, South Africa, after serving more than 27 years of a life sentence.

The Steagles

How the NFL Responded to World War II

During World War II, almost all able-bodied young men entered military service, either as volunteers or draftees.
So who played professional football?
That became a serious problem for two teams in particular: the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles. These teams lost so many players that they had to merge into one team known as the Steagles.
Problem solved, right? Wrong. Most of the men who served on the Steagles and other World War II-era teams got their jobs because they were physically unfit to serve in the military. These professional football players were often half-deaf, half-blind, or had ulcers or hernias. Zachary Crockett describes their challenges at Priceonomics:

Bill Hewitt, who was excused from military service for a “perforated eardrum” and served as the Steagles’ defensive end during the 1943 season, was so guilt-ridden that he quit the team mid-season, and went to go work in a milk factory.
Other Steagles players faced more pressing medical problems: Tony Bova, the receiver, “was completely blind in one eye and partially blind in the other. Two of his teammate, Ed Michaels and Ray Graves, were entirely deaf in one ear. John Butler, who, as tailback, was required to run dozens of offensive lines per game, had arthritis in his knees. In a wide variety of respects, the Steagles team was riddled with ailments.