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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Kleptocracy: Kuwait Changes Event From Four Seasons To Dumbass Trump DC Hotel

Kleptocracy: Kuwait Changes Event From Four Seasons To Trump DC Hotel

They were pressured to do so by unnamed people inside Dumbass Trump's cabal.

The Nazis and Hitler himself studied American race laws for inspiration

Why the Nazis and Hitler himself studied American race laws for inspiration

Meet the Identitarians

Meet the Identitarians: Europe’s version of the so-called alt-right

They are the Identitäre Bewegung, which translates into English as the “identitarian movement.” “German patriots” is what they call themselves. And they are part of a broader “new right” emerging in European politics.

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Just call them what they are - NAZIS!

Wingnut Confirms It: Die And Die Quickly

GOP Rep. Confirms It: Die And Die Quickly

Huizenga (R-Dystopia) doesn't think we need to rush to the doctor and if we do, we should pay for it.

A Michigan wingnut who wants to repeal Obamacare urged families to save on medical care by waiting overnight for treatment instead of visiting the emergency room

Make kids sleep on broken arms to avoid costly ER visits

Idaho teen football player walks free after sodomizing black disabled teammate with wire hanger

In Aftermath of Dumbass Trump’s 'Win', We Are Witnessing More Than 1,000 Hate Crimes in a Month

In Aftermath of Dumbass Trump’s 'Win', We Are Witnessing More Than 1,000 Hate Crimes in a Month

Pro-Dumbass Trump ‘Pizzagate’ troll smears humorist with more phony ‘child sex ring’ charges

Pro-Dumbass Trump ‘Pizzagate’ troll smears humorist with more phony ‘child sex ring’ charges

A vile notorious “alt-right” online troll is trying to smear a liberal humorist and producer with phony pedophilia charges in an online feud that has begun to have real-world consequences.

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Invariably it is the wingnuts themselves who are guilty of what they accuse others of ... so ... if there is any 'child sex ring' you know this troll is part of it.

Totten Melting

The largest glacier in Antarctica is melting

Molten iron jet stream in Earth's outer core discovered

Molten iron jet stream in Earth's outer core discovered

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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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Today in History

69		Vespians’s supporters enter Rome and discover Vitellius in hiding. He is dragged through the streets before being brutally murdered.
1355		Stephen Urosh IV of Serbia dies while marching to attack Constantinople.
1802		The United States buys the Louisiana territory from France.
1860		South Carolina secedes from the Union.
1861		English transports loaded with 8,000 troops set sail for Canada so that troops are available if the “Trent Affair” is not settled without war.
1924		Adolf Hitler is released from prison after serving less than one year of a five year sentence for treason.
1930		Thousands of Spaniards sign a revolutionary manifesto.
1933		The German government announces 400,000 citizens are to be sterilized because of hereditary defects.
1938		First electronic television system is patented.
1941		The Flying Tigers, American pilots in China, enter combat against the Japanese over Kunming.
1943		Soviet forces halt a German army trying to relieve the besieged city of Stalingrad.
1946		Viet Minh and French forces fight fiercely in Annamite section of Hanoi.
1948		U.S. Supreme Court announces that it has no jurisdiction to hear the appeals of Japanese war criminals sentenced by the International Military Tribunal.
1960		National Liberation Front is formed by guerrillas fighting the Diem regime in South Vietnam.
1962		In its first free election in 38 years, the Dominican Republic chooses leftist Juan Bosch Gavino as president.
1963		Four thousand cross the Berlin Wall to visit relatives under a 17-day Christmas accord.
1989		U.S. troops invade Panama to oust General Manuel Noriega and replace him with Guillermo Endara.
1995		NATO begins peacekeeping operation in Bosnia.
1996		NeXT merges with Apple Computer, leading to the development of groundbreaking Mac OS X.
2007		Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch in the history of the UK; previously, that honor belonged to Queen Victoria.

What Your Beard Says About Your Relationship Status

What Your Beard Says About Your Relationship Status

Ancient Chinese malaria remedy fights TB

A centuries-old herbal medicine, discovered by Chinese scientists and used to effectively treat malaria, has been found to potentially aid in the treatment of tuberculosis and may slow the evolution of drug resistance. In a … Read more

New biomarker predicts Alzheimer’s Disease and link to diabetes

An enzyme found in the fluid around the brain and spine is giving researchers a snapshot of what happens inside the minds of Alzheimer’s patients and how that relates to cognitive decline. Iowa State University … Read more

Irish Weather Forecaster 'Killed' by Lightning on Live TV

Irish Weather Forecaster 'Killed' by Lightning on Live TV

Fascinating Videos About the Powerful Psychedelic Ayahuasca

8 of the Most Fascinating Videos About the Powerful Psychedelic Ayahuasca

The Corporate Food Industry Has Created a Diet That Is Literally Killing Us

The Corporate Food Industry Has Created a Diet That Is Literally Killing Us

Fake News and Online Harassment Are More Than Social Media Byproducts

Fake News and Online Harassment Are More Than Social Media Byproducts—They're Powerful Profit Drivers

'No Homo' No More

'No Homo' No More: Bromosexual Friendships Emerge as the New Way for Dudes to Share Advice

Fox 'News' Tries To Blame Obamacare For A Drop In Life Expectancy

Only on Fox 'News' would the finding that Americans’ life expectancy has fallen cause a host to speculate that maybe Americans are getting too much health care.

Texas Begins $350 Million Cut In Medicaid Services

Texas Begins $350 Million Cut In Medicaid Services That Will Devastate Disabled Children

The state of Texas this week reportedly began implementing $350 million in Medicaid cuts, which federal agencies have warned will be "devastating" to services provided to disabled children.

Cop charged with sexually assaulting 16-year-old boy in Burger King bathroom

Charlotte City Council Betrays LGBT Community In Exchange For Hearing On HB 2 Repeal

North Carolina is stuck in the past and the city of Charlotte just sold out to join the rest of the state.

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Thune Touts Rolling Back Overtime Rules As A Way To 'Get Wages Back Up'

We all know whose wages they're concerned about raising, and it's not your average working American.

SNL Calls Dumbass Trump A ‘Monkey’ So Racist Wingnuts Whine That They Can’t Call President Obama One

SNL Calls Dumbass Trump A ‘Monkey’ So Racist Wingnuts Whine That They Can’t Call President Obama One

‘Not-racist’ wingnuts are furious that they can’t call President Obama a ‘monkey.’

Fox Panel Pretends Wingnuts Never Treated The Obama Family Like Shit

Fox Panel Pretends Wingnuts Never Treated The Obama Family Like Shit

Anybody who says wingnuts always treated the Obama family with dignity and respect deserve to be smacked HARD to jog their memory.

White supremacists target Montana town’s Jewish population for ‘trolling’ and harassment

A white nationalist website aligned with the neo-Nazi “alt-right” National Policy Institute (NPI) has urged its followers to “troll” and harass the Jewish population of Whitefish, Montana as a reprisal for imagined slights against Sherry Spencer, the mother of the NPI's Richard Spencer.

Florida Woman Aims Gun's Laser Sights At Black McDonald's Customer While Yelling Racial Slurs

A Florida woman was arrested for allegedly pointing a gun at people inside a McDonald's restaurant.

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Monday, December 19, 2016

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Today in History

1154		Henry II is crowned king of England.
1562		The French Wars of Religion between the Huguenots and the Catholics begins with the Battle of Dreux.
1793		French troops recapture Toulon from the British.
1862		Confederate General Nathan B. Forrest begins tearing up the railroads in Union generals Grant and Rosecrans rear, causing considerable delays in the movement of Union supplies.
1900		The French Parliament votes amnesty for everyone involved in the Dreyfus Affair.
1909		American socialist women denounce suffrage as a movement of the middle class.
1941		Japanese land on Hong Kong and clash with British troops.
1941		Adolf Hitler assumes the position of commander in chief of the German army.
1942		The British advance 40 miles into Burma in a drive to oust the Japanese from the colony.
1944		During the Battle of the Bulge, American troops begin pulling back from the twin Belgian cities of Krinkelt and Rocherath in front of the advancing German Army.
1945		Congress confirms Eleanor Roosevelt as U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
1950		The North Atlantic Council names General Dwight D. Eisenhower as supreme commander of Western European defense forces.
1959		Reputed to be the last civil war veteran, Walter Williams, dies at 117 in Houston.
1974		Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as vice president of the United states after a House of Representatives vote.
1982		Four bombs explode at South Africa’s only nuclear power station in Johannesburg.
1984		British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang sign an agreement that committed Britain to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 in return for terms guaranteeing a 50-year extension of its capitalist system. Hong Kong was leased by China to Great Britain in 1898 for 99 years.
1998		President Bill Clinton is impeached. The House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton was the second president in American history to be impeached.
2001		The highest barometric pressure ever recorded (1085.6 hPa, 32.06 inHg) occurs at Tosontsengel, Khovsgol, Mongolia.
2001		Rioting begins in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the country’s economic crisis.
2012		Park Geun-hye elected President of South Korea, the nation’s first female chief executive.

The 4 People (and One Animal) Who Made the World a Better Place In 2016

The 4 People (and One Animal) Who Made the World a Better Place In 2016

We still found inspiration in this downer of a year

"Person from Porlock" explained

The person from Porlock was an unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797. Coleridge claimed to have perceived the entire course of the poem in a dream (possibly an opium-induced haze), but was interrupted by this visitor from Porlock while in the process of writing it. Kubla Khan, only 54 lines long, was never completed. Thus "Person from Porlock", "Man from Porlock", or just "Porlock" are literary allusions to unwanted intruders who disrupt inspired creativity. Posted because I encountered the term while reading Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in which "the title character saves the world, in part by time-travelling from the present day to distract Coleridge from properly remembering his dream; if Coleridge had completed the poem an alien ghost would have 'encoded' certain information within the completed work that would have allowed him to make repairs to his spaceship in the past at the cost of wiping out all life on Earth."

You Might Be Breaking the Law Every Time You Warm Up Your Car

You Might Be Breaking the Law Every Time You Warm Up Your Car

The choice is yours: Commit a misdemeanor offense or become a human popsicle

Hooking Up with Another Woman for the First Time

7 Things No One Tells You About Hooking Up with Another Woman for the First Time

Consider this your crash course.

This Elderly Couple's Nude Photoshoot Is #RelationshipGoals

This Elderly Couple's Nude Photoshoot Is #RelationshipGoals

They’ve been together for more than 20 years.

Defy Age Using a 3,600-Year-Old Face Cream Recipe With a Deadly Ingredient

Stanley Jacobs is a plastic surgeon whose hobby is Egyptology. He's studied many an ancient document, but one called the Edwin Smith Papyrus spoke to him in particular. It's 5,000 years old, and describes the surgical procedures of Egypt at the time.

A plastic surgeon himself, he found that most of the cases were about “really good reconstruction after traumatic injury, of the nose, the neck, the spinal cord,” and that its techniques were surprisingly well thought out for a millennia-old book. What really intrigued him, though, was a recipe at the back of the book, titled “Transforming an Old Man Into a Youth.”

This section of the papyrus is a long and complicated set of instructions for making what is, essentially, a face cream. The original translator of the papyrus, the Egyptologist James Breasted, hadn’t been much impressed by it, writing that the recipe “proves to be nothing more than a face paste believed to be efficacious in removing wrinkles.”

As a doctor who spends a lot of time thinking about skin, beauty, and age, though, Jacobs wasn’t so quick to discount it. “I realized that if they’re that serious about their surgical treatments, they’re probably serious about this,” he says.

The face cream recipe was difficult to translate, because one ingredient was called by a word nobody seemed to know. But Jacobs keep looking, and the answers he got led to other questions, which led to a possible new/old way to care for skin. Read the story of Jacobs and the ancient face cream at Atlas Obscura.

One Freakish Event That Led to You and Ewe and Yew

Life arose on earth over three billion years ago, and for a long time, there were only one-celled organisms. These prokaryotes diverged and evolved in many ways, but making the leap from one cell to many cells (eukaryotes) was a paradigm shift that led to every living thing on earth that's big enough for us to see -including us. How did that happen? Before we could sequence genes, the prevailing theory was a gradual development as cells mutated, diverged, and evolved. However, recent genetic research has led credence to the idea that the first two-celled organism was a merger that only happened once.

The alternative—let’s call it the “sudden-origin” camp—is very different. It dispenses with slow, Darwinian progress and says that eukaryotes were born through the abrupt and dramatic union of two prokaryotes. One was a bacterium. The other was part of the other great lineage of prokaryotes: the archaea. (More about them later.) These two microbes look superficially alike, but they are as different in their biochemistry as PCs and Macs are in their operating systems. By merging, they created, in effect, the starting point for the first eukaryotes.

Bill Martin and Miklós Müller put forward one of the earliest versions of this idea in 1998. They called it the hydrogen hypothesis. It involved an ancient archaeon that, like many modern members, drew energy by bonding hydrogen and carbon dioxide to make methane. It partnered with a bacterium that produced hydrogen and carbon dioxide, which the archaeon could then use. Over time, they became inseparable, and the bacterium became a mitochondrion.

There are many variants of this hypothesis, which differ in the reasons for the merger and the exact identities of the archaeon and the bacterium that were involved. But they are all united by one critical feature setting them apart from the gradual-origin ideas: They all say that the host cell was still a bona fide prokaryote. It was an archaeon, through and through. It had not started to grow in size. It did not have a nucleus. It was not on the path to becoming a eukaryote; it set off down that path because it merged with a bacterium. As Martin puts it, “The inventions came later.”

The theory that an archaeon and a bacterium merged to make eukaryotes would give us a new tree of life that doesn't always fork. I couldn't help but picture this comic when reading about a singular event that changed everything. Ed Yong explains the developments that led to this idea at Nautilus.

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5 ways you can help the homeless survive the 2016 polar vortex

Here are 5 ways you can help the homeless survive the 2016 polar vortex

When 'Slacktivism' Actually Works: 'Small Changes' DO Matter

'Small Changes' DO Matter

You can change the world with the right kind of online petition.

84% of Americans Oppose Civil Asset Forfeiture

84% of Americans Oppose Civil Asset Forfeiture—But Only Once They're Told What It Is

Link Dump

Fake Dentist Made House Calls

5 of Alan Thicke’s most memorable theme songs

New Features Coming to Windows 10 in 2017

Package Thief Gets a Big Surprise #2!

Netflix’s Secret Categories That You Don’t Know About

KitchenAid recalls 20 years of Food Processors

The Birthday Problem

Tricky Ways To Sneak In Your Favorite Beverages

Dead drunk wakes up and goes back to the pub

The most anticipated tech of 2017

WOW: Cyclone Vardah topples over cars

Nitrous oxide shortage affecting whipped cream supply

St. Louis Is the Second Most Sinful City in the U.S. Guess we’re not trying hard enough!

Academic Witch Hunt Project Gets an F for Accuracy

Academic Witch Hunt Project Gets an F for Accuracy

Simple Thinking is a Recipe for Disaster

Simple Thinking in a Complex World Is a Recipe for Disaster

Bad people are disgusting, bad actions are angering

A person’s character, more so than their actions, determines whether we find immoral acts to be ‘disgusting,’ according to new research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “We wanted to … Read more
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