Monday, May 15, 2017
‘They expected better from Dumbass Trump’
For reactionaries, “anti-war” is a branding campaign for white nationalism
Dumbass Trump White House staffers ‘better damn well’ get attorneys
“If they have information that indicates
contact with Russians or attempts to interfere they better damn well,”
the bureau veteran warned.
The Tale of the Toad and the Bearded Female Saint
In the medieval world, toads were charter members of the cabal of slimy, devilish creatures imbued with powers and beloved of witches—tormentors of the sinful mind. In one medieval cult sculpture motif, the femme aux serpents, the embodiment of sinful lust, toads sometimes sub in for the snakes that writhe around a woman’s body and occasionally bite her breasts. But toads weren’t as purely evil as snakes; they could be humorous, too. In one German story, a woman loses her vagina and it “is mistaken for a toad as it roams the streets,” writes Blumenfeld-Kosinski. (Eventually, the woman gets her detachable vagina back.) Toads were also thought to have the power of spontaneous generation and resurrection.Even weirder is the association of the toad votives with toad votive, who is more of a legend than a saint. Read how a miracle saved Wilgefortis from an unwanted marriage at Atlas Obscura. That she became a patron saint of the marital bed is just more weirdness.
The Best-Preserved Fossil of Its Kind
In
March of 2011, miners using heavy equipment in Alberta found a
dinosaur. But this was not just any fossil. A nodosaur had been swept
out to sea millions years ago and was preserved better than any other
nodosaur before. The front half of the animal was recovered in a state
that doesn't even have to be reconstructed. Its soft tissue, armor, and
even individual scales of its skin were fossilized as well as its bones.
Removing such a large intact specimen was no easy task, and the fossil broke in half as it was removed from the rock around it. But six years later, we are able to see the nodosaur, and further research may reveal what color it was and even what it ate for its last meal. Read the story, and see lots of pictures at National Geographic.The remarkable fossil is a newfound species (and genus) of nodosaur, a type of ankylosaur often overshadowed by its cereal box–famous cousins in the subgroup Ankylosauridae. Unlike ankylosaurs, nodosaurs had no shin-splitting tail clubs, but they too wielded thorny armor to deter predators. As it lumbered across the landscape between 110 million and 112 million years ago, almost midway through the Cretaceous period, the 18-foot-long, nearly 3,000-pound behemoth was the rhinoceros of its day, a grumpy herbivore that largely kept to itself. And if something did come calling—perhaps the fearsome Acrocanthosaurus—the nodosaur had just the trick: two 20-inch-long spikes jutting out of its shoulders like a misplaced pair of bull’s horns.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
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Today in History
| 1264 | King Henry III is captured by his brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, at the Battle of Lewes. | |
| 1509 | At the Battle of Agnadello, the French defeat the Venitians in Northern Italy. | |
| 1610 | French King Henri IV (Henri de Navarre) is assassinated by François Ravaillac, a fanatical monk. | |
| 1796 | English physician Edward Jenner gives the first successful smallpox vaccination. | |
| 1804 | Explorer William Clark sets off from St. Louis, Missouri. | |
| 1853 | Gail Borden applies for a patent for condensed milk. | |
| 1863 | Union General Nathanial Banks heads towards Port Hudson along the Mississippi River. | |
| 1897 | Guglielmo Marconi sends the first communication by wireless telegraph. | |
| 1897 | “Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Phillip Sousa is performed for the first time in Philadelphia. | |
| 1935 | A plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies an independence agreement. | |
| 1940 | Holland surrenders to Germany. | |
| 1942 | The British Army, in retreat from Burma, reaches India. | |
| 1948 | Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion establishes the State of Israel. | |
| 1961 | A bus carrying black and white civil rights activists is bombed and burned in Alabama. | |
| 1969 | Three companies of the 101st Airborne Division fail to push North Vietnamese forces off Hill 937 in South Vietnam. | |
| 1973 | The U.S. space station Skylab is launched. | |
| 1991 | In South Africa, Winnie Mandela is sentenced to six years in prison for her part in the kidnapping and beating of three black youths and the death of a fourth. |
Free porn ruins men’s sex lives, but not women’s
by Jessica Firger
The presentation was based on two surveys. In one, researchers administered self-reported questionnaires to women aged 20 to 40 who were patients at a military urology clinic. A majority of the women who took part in the survey were white, married, heterosexual and on active military duty. Roughly 40 percent of women who participated claimed to use pornography at least occasionally, with a quarter reporting to use it less than once weekly.
The findings of the accompanying study on men raised more concern. Through surveys administered to 312 male patients of the same age group (also mostly white, married and heterosexual), the researchers found a close correlation between excessive pornography use and sexual dysfunction. Roughly 20 percent of men reported using porn three to five times weekly. Nearly 4 percent of men reported they preferred masturbating to pornography over having sexual intercourse with a partner. The researchers also recognized a correlation between men who used pornography frequently and those who reported lack of sexual desire and intercourse satisfaction, as well as erectile dysfunction.
The two surveys also shed light on how both men and women are choosing to consume pornography online. In both surveys, more than half of study participants (55 percent of women and 62 percent of men) said they viewed porn on their smartphone.
Study Finds Link Between Brain Damage and Religious Fundamentalism
A massive, unidentified sea monster is decomposing off the coast of Indonesia
Saturday, May 13, 2017
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Today in History
| 1607 | English colonists land near the James River in Virginia. | |
| 1648 | Margaret Jones of Plymouth is found guilty of witchcraft and is sentenced to be hanged. | |
| 1779 | The War of Bavarian Succession ends. | |
| 1846 | The United States declares war on Mexico after fighting has already begun. | |
| 1861 | Britain declares its neutrality in the American Civil War. | |
| 1864 | The Battle of Resaca commences as Union General William T. Sherman fights towards Atlanta. | |
| 1888 | Slavery is abolished in Brazil. | |
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| 1913 | Igor Sikorsky flies the first four-engine aircraft. | |
| 1944 | Allied forces in Italy break through the German Gustav Line into the Liri Valley. | |
| 1958 | French troops take control of Algiers. | |
| 1968 | Peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam begin in Paris. | |
| 1981 | Pope John Paul II survives an assassination attempt. |
14 things you probably shouldn’t do if ‘flying while Muslim’
One passenger was removed after asking for a
glass of water, another for reading a book. Harpers compiled a list and
it's shocking.
Goldie Hawn Says 'Monogamy Is A Tough Order' For Any Relationship
Plus, how she maintains a healthy, happy bond with her partner Kurt Russell.
What Women Really Think About During Masturbation
Should you ever worry about her solo sex secrets?
Porn Stars Reveal If They've Hooked Up With Fans
Watch this video of porn stars answering the question: "Have you had sex with a fan?"
Dick Pic Sender Believes Threesome Invitation At Buckingham Palace Is For Real
Here's what can happen when someone doesn't take too kindly to your unwanted sexting
'Christian' sex advice websites offer a peek into evangelical politics
And the demented minds of evangelicals.
Dumbass Trump Kentucky campaign chair faces 100 years in prison for sex trafficking
Teabagger and Dumbasss Trump campaign
chair Nolan was arraigned on charges of rape, human trafficking of a
minor, human trafficking of five adults, witness tampering and
prostitution.
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