Sunday, February 19, 2017
Nine people flee US border patrol to seek asylum in Canada
‘He’ll NEVER measure up’
Dumbass Trump Thinks Lush Dimbulb Is Real News
Lush Dimbulb praised Dumbass Trump’s insanely embarrassing press conference, so now he is referring to Dimbulb as real news.
Dinosaurs fought gladiator battles against humans and giants
Saturday, February 18, 2017
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The Planet Pluto ... !
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Today in History
| 1478 | George, the Duke of Clarence, who had opposed his brother Edward IV, is murdered in the Tower of London. | |
| 1688 | Quakers in Germantown, Pa. adopt the first formal antislavery resolution in America. | |
| 1813 | Czar Alexander enters Warsaw at the head of his Army. | |
| 1861 | Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first King of Italy. | |
| 1861 | Jefferson F. Davis is inaugurated as the Confederacy‘s provisional president at a ceremony held in Montgomery, Ala. | |
| 1865 | Union troops force the Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson, N.C. | |
| 1878 | The bitter and bloody Lincoln County War begins with the murder of Billy the Kid‘s mentor, Englishman rancher John Tunstall. | |
| 1885 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, is published in New York. | |
| 1907 | 600,000 tons of grain are sent to Russia to relieve the famine there. | |
| 1920 | Vuillemin and Chalus complete their first flight over the Sahara Desert. | |
| 1932 | Manchurian independence is formally declared. | |
| 1935 | Rome reports sending troops to Italian Somalia. | |
| 1939 | The Golden Gate Exposition opens in San Francisco. | |
| 1943 | German General Erwin Rommel takes three towns in Tunisia, North Africa. | |
| 1944 | The U.S. Army and Marines invade Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. | |
| 1945 | U.S. Marines storm ashore at Iwo Jima. | |
| 1954 | East and West Berlin drop thousands of propaganda leaflets on each other after the end of a month long truce. | |
| 1962 | Robert F. Kennedy says that U.S. troops will stay in Vietnam until Communism is defeated. | |
| 1964 | The United States cuts military aid to five nations in reprisal for having trade relations with Cuba. | |
| 1967 | The National Art Gallery in Washington agrees to buy a Da Vinci for a record $5 million. | |
| 1968 | Three U.S. pilots that were held by the Vietnamese arrive in Washington. | |
| 1972 | The California Supreme Court voids the death penalty. | |
| 1974 | Randolph Hearst is to give $2 million in free food for the poor in order to open talks for his daughter Patty. | |
| 1982 | Mexico devalues the peso by 30 percent to fight an economic slide. |
The Messy History of the Pie Fight
So as Kubrick later said, ‘It was a disaster of Homeric proportions.’” Because the scene was so expensive to shoot and clean up from, the studio only gave them one chance to film it. But since the actors were clearly smiling throughout filming, the footage was unusable. The scene has since become one of the most famous unseen pieces of celluloid in cinematic history. Apparently, pie fights make up a majority of that list.Read the history of pie fights in the movies, with plenty of videos, at Hopes and Fears.
What's The Difference Between Tylenol, Advil, Aspirin And Aleve?
Others have
reported a similar lack of brand name usage, with aspirin being the most
universally used name for pain relievers, but is there really much of a
difference between the brands?
Turns out there really is quite a difference- Tylenol is acetaminophen, which is best for headaches and not so good for joint pain.
Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) can
help with light pain but also helps lower the risk of heart attack and
stroke when a small dose is taken every day. It's also murder on your
guts, liver and kidneys.
For heavy pain you want either Advil, Motrin or Aleve- Advil and Motrin are ibuprofen, which is good for hangovers, menstrual cramps, earaches, toothaches and sore or injured muscles but not so good for a headache.
Aleve is naproxen, which takes a while to kick in but works great for people with moderate to severe chronic pain, such as a lasting headache or pain associated with arthritis.
Read more about What's The Difference Between Tylenol, Aspirin, Advil and Aleve at mental_floss
Turns out there really is quite a difference- Tylenol is acetaminophen, which is best for headaches and not so good for joint pain.
Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) can
help with light pain but also helps lower the risk of heart attack and
stroke when a small dose is taken every day. It's also murder on your
guts, liver and kidneys.For heavy pain you want either Advil, Motrin or Aleve- Advil and Motrin are ibuprofen, which is good for hangovers, menstrual cramps, earaches, toothaches and sore or injured muscles but not so good for a headache.
Aleve is naproxen, which takes a while to kick in but works great for people with moderate to severe chronic pain, such as a lasting headache or pain associated with arthritis.
Read more about What's The Difference Between Tylenol, Aspirin, Advil and Aleve at mental_floss
The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of FDR's Floating White House
The biggest change was to install a spacious, shaded aft deck, where Roosevelt could work or entertain while enjoying river or ocean breezes. “When the ship was a Coast Guard cutter, this deck did not exist,” Dropkin says, as we walk across its teak surface, “but it was a favorite area of the president.” That’s probably because the seating on the deck was designed with the wheelchair-bound Roosevelt in mind. Dropkin points to an upholstered settee that follows the curve of the ship’s stern. “It’s about 4 feet deep in the middle,” he says, “to support the president’s legs, something for him to stretch out on. You can almost imagine him sitting there, drink in hand.After Roosevelt's death, the Potomac went on many other adventures, such as the ill-fated trip to the World's Fair, a purchase by Elvis Presley, drug-running, and a sinking. But the Potomac is getting ready for a new life as a landmark. Read the entire story of the USS Potomac at Collectors Weekly.
“Roosevelt was a martini guy,” Dropkin continues. “A good cocktail was very important to him. He had started having cocktail hour when he was governor of New York, and brought the practice with him to the White House. His wife, Eleanor, wasn’t crazy about that, but they were different people."
Other changes to the Electra that were more particular to Roosevelt included the removal of the floor coamings designed to contain water that might be sloshing on deck. For example, the low barrier was removed between the main dining room and the presidential bedroom, so that Roosevelt could get himself between the two spaces in his wheelchair. Even more dramatic was the conversion of one of the ship’s two smokestacks into an elevator, allowing the president to move freely between to ship’s two main decks. “An elevator was built into what had been the rear smokestack,” Dropkin says. “It’s an electric elevator now, but when the president used it, it was literally just a platform roped to a pulley. He would pull himself up, or let himself down, arm over arm. Roosevelt was very strong, and always wanted to do things for himself.”
US appeals court strikes down Florida law in 'Docs vs. Glocks' case
FBI arrests white supremacist who planned attack on synagogue
The FBI has arrested a white supremacist who
allegedly planned to carry out a Dylann Roof-style massacre against a
South Carolina synagogue.
Animals With the Strangest Hearts
For
example, did you know cuttlefish have three hearts and blue blood? Or
that while diving, the hearts of emperor penguins slows down and blood
flow cuts off to all but the most important organs so they can dive
without getting the bends? Perhaps most shockingly, the wood frog can
stop its heart from beating entirely during the winter when almost all
of the water in their bodies freezes solid?Learn more about these fascinating animals and their hearts over on Atlas Obscura.
Friday, February 17, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Human Spirit ... !
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Today in History
| 1454 | At a grand feast, Philip the Good of Burgundy takes the “vow of the pheasant,” by which he swears to fight the Turks. | |
| 1598 | Boris Godunov, the boyar of Tarar origin, is elected czar in succession to his brother-in-law Fydor. | |
| 1720 | Spain signs the Treaty of the Hague with the Quadruple Alliance ending a war that was begun in 1718. | |
| 1801 | The House of Representatives breaks an electoral college tie and chooses Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr. | |
| 1864 | The Confederate submarine Hunley sinks the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. | |
| 1865 | The South Carolina capital city, Columbia, is destroyed by fire as Major General William Tecumseh Sherman marches through. | |
| 1909 | Apache chief Geronimo dies of pneumonia at age 80, while still in captivity at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. | |
| 1919 | Germany signs an armistice giving up territory in Poland. | |
| 1925 | The first issue of Harold Ross’ magazine, The New Yorker, hits the stands, selling for 15 cents a copy. | |
| 1933 | The League of Nations censures Japan in a worldwide broadcast. | |
| 1935 | Thirty-one prisoners escape an Oklahoma prison after murdering a guard. | |
| 1938 | The first color television is demonstrated at the Dominion Theatre in London. | |
| 1944 | U.S forces land on Eniwetok atoll in the South Pacific. | |
| 1945 | Gen. MacArthur’s troops land on Corregidor in the Philippines. | |
| 1951 | Packard introduces its “250” Chassis Convertible. | |
| 1955 | Britain announces its ability to make hydrogen bombs. | |
| 1959 | The United States launches its first weather station in space, Vanguard II. | |
| 1960 | Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in the Alabama bus boycott. | |
| 1963 | Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visits the Berlin Wall. | |
| 1969 | Russia and Peru sign their first trade accord. | |
| 1973 | Nixon names Patrick Gray director of the FBI. | |
| 1975 | Art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gogh, valued at $5 million, is stolen from the Municipal Museum in Milan. | |
| 1979 | China begins a “pedagogical” war against Vietnam. It will last until March. | |
| 1985 | Murray Haydon becomes the third person to receive an artificial heart. |
Why Corny Pickup Lines (Surprisingly) Work
Here are 7 great suggestions, because "Nice eyes" won't cut it
Would You Blast Your Penis With Liquid Nitrogen Vapor?
Some people are freezing their genitals to have better sex
Ancient Amazonian Afgroforestry
It wasn't until the late 1970's that deforestation first revealed the geoglyphs hiding under upland rainforest. Covering more than 5,000 sq. miles in the Brazilian state of Acre, more than 450 large-scale earthworks...
A relatively heavy charcoal layer suggests that the new residents cleared the bamboo forest with fire, letting the fast-growing palm trees spring up to fill the space left behind. Over the long term, one would expect the palms to be overtaken by slower-growing plants, but that’s not what the team found.
Instead palms flourished for three thousand years, likely encouraged by the human newcomers, who could use them for food and building material. Dr. Watling suspects they engaged in practices including planting seeds, transplanting saplings, and weeding out undesirable plant species, as well as light burning and farming. She calls these techniques agroforestry: “[maintaining] the forest but [changing] its species composition to make it a more livable place.”
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Check out the terra preta Wikipedia page.
Stuff in Space
Squirrel Attacks Burglar
He should get a "Beware of Squirrel" sign to warn off any future home invaders. Joey is now regarded as a hero.
This Beetle Pretends to be an Ant's Butt
A newly-discovered species of beetle manages to benefit from army ants by riding around on them. Nymphister kronaueri is a small red beetle that clamps its jaws around the waist of the army ant Eciton burchellii and
tags along, unseen because it looks like the ant's normal backside.
Science writer Ed Yong calls it "A prosthetic posterior. A gluteus
extraneous. A beetlebum." Christoph von Beeren and Daniel Kronauer
discovered the beetle in 2014 in Costa Rica while following the
relentless army ants. Von Beeren and Kronauer were also relentless. They would watch the ants for hours at a time, sitting in fold-up chairs in the pitch-black jungle, and peering at the legions through headlights. One day in the spring of 2014, they realized that some of the ants looked a little odd. “The abdomens reflected the light differently, and the color was a little different,” says von Beeren. “Then, we noticed that they looked like they have two abdomens.”Not much is known yet about the beetle. Does it benefit by hiding in plain sight? Does it eat what the ants eat? Read what we do know about the butt beetle at The Atlantic. -via Metafilter
They collected some of these dual-derriered insects and put them in a vial. Back at camp, Kronauer shook the vial… and the back-up backside fell off. It was a beetle. “And it blew our minds,” says von Beeren. After working with USDA entomologist Alexey Tishechkin, he realized that the bonus-butt beetle was new to science. And he named it Nymphister kronaueri, after his colleague Kronauer, who helped to discover it.
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