FIPID - 8/24/12

Fun Interesting Pertinent Information Dissemination

Top Picks
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How Trillion-Dollar Deficits Were Created

All Kids are born scientists,but are crushed by society itself - Michio Kaku

Arnold Schwarzenegger - "Who do YOU want to be in life?"

He lost his legs but not the ability to do push-ups

Science Fair Project: Can she taste the roofies?

'Let's Get Ready to Rumble' Worth $400M

Professor Eric Laithwaite gives a demonstration of a large gyro wheel (video)

Heard of the "Call me maybe" song? It could be used as a jingle for...
Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? (Harvard Business Review)

A Christian Nation?

Raped, pregnant and ordeal not over
"...in the vast majority of states -- 31 -- men who father through rape are able to assert the same custody and visitation rights to their children that other fathers enjoy. When no law prohibits a rapist from exercising these rights, a woman may feel forced to bargain away her legal rights to a criminal trial in exchange for the rapist dropping the bid to have access to her child."

NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases

The need for more monitoring of domestic terrorism (But, we have to talk about them all.  "The FBI divides domestic extremists into four broad categories, including left-wing, right-wing, single issue groups, and homegrown Islamic.") 

"since coming under Republican control in 2010, the House Homeland Security Committee has held five hearings on Muslim radicalisation, and none on right-wing threats. Yet America’s right-wing extremists commit a vastly greater number of murderous attacks (though leading to fewer deaths) than Muslims do. According to the Extremist Crime Database (ECDB), published by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, between 1990 and 2010 right-wing extremists carried out 145 murderous attacks, resulting in 348 deaths, 168 of which resulted from the Oklahoma City bombing. During that same time period Muslim extremists committed around 25 attacks, which killed over 3,000 people; but 9/11 accounted for 2,977 of these."

Bad Opinion Generator

Tyler Bradt Highest waterfall in a kayak 189ft

Health Experts Dismiss Assertions on Rape
"The idea that during rape, “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” to prevent pregnancy"...“There are no words for this — it is just nuts,” said Dr. Michael Greene, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. David Grimes, a clinical professor in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina, said, that “to suggest that there’s some biological reason why women couldn’t get pregnant during a rape is absurd.”

Camera shutter speed synchronized with helicopter blade frequency (video)

When Does Consciousness Arise in Human Babies?


Politics and Business
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Obama to media: Romney’s whole campaign is based on lies
(Good article.  Despite the title, it is critical of both Obama and Romney.)

Mitt Romney’s Republican convention bounce: How high will it go?

The Onion has a field day with Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" comment (profanity)

Missouri Republican official: ‘God chose to bless’ women with pregnancies from rape

The RIAA appears to be dying, tax records show

Phoenix Woman Ordered to Not Give Out Water in 112 Degree Heat Because She Lacked a Permit

NBC/WSJ poll: Heading into conventions, Obama has four-point lead

"Looking inside the numbers, Obama continues to lead Romney among key parts of his political base, including African Americans (94 percent to 0 percent), Latinos (by a 2-to-1 margin), voters under 35-years-old (52 percent to 41 percent) and women (51 percent to 41 percent).

Romney is ahead with whites (53 percent to 40 percent), rural voters (47 percent to 38 percent) and seniors (49 percent to 41 percent)."

Why the GOP Is Scared of Ron Paul and 4 Reasons He Might Still Get the 2012 Republican Nomination
(Opinion piece but if you like Ron Paul or Gary Johnson, you might like it.)

Mitt Romney: Church State Separation Taken Too Far By Some
"Romney said the Founders didn't intend for "the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God, 'and in God, we do indeed trust."
(I hope Mr. Romney understands that "in God we trust" wasn't the motto of the USA until 1956.)

Don't tear down that wall! - Roger Ebert's Journal
"Certainly it was clear to Thomas Jefferson, who wrote, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.""

Rep. Steve King on the Campaign Trail
"Right now, Medicaid also covers abortions for victims of statutory rape or incest - for example, a 12 year old who gets pregnant.

Congressman King says he's not aware of any young victims like that." 

GOP Will Tout 'We Built This' In Arena Built With Public Funds 

Dee Snider rips Paul Ryan's use of Twisted Sister hit 'We're Not Gonna Take It'

"I emphatically denounce Paul Ryan's use of my band Twisted Sister's song, 'We're Not Gonna Take It,' in any capacity," Snider said. "There is almost nothing he stands for that I agree with except the use of the P90X."

Science and Technology
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Penn State Scientists Participate in the Construction of the Largest Three-Dimensional Map of the Universe (includes video)

7 shocking shark facts: A slideshow
Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists

Google's public policy director says at an Aspen conference that "these patent wars are not helpful to consumers."

Bonobo genius makes stone tools like early humans did (story and video)

Genetically modified organism could turn carbon dioxide or waste products into a gasoline-compatible transportation fuel.

 How Hollywood Is Encouraging Online Piracy

Ever wondered why cashews are so expensive?


Fun, Interesting and Offbeat
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What’s causing all these Hasidic Jews to flee their community? Smartphones.

Aug. 6 fire at Chevron's Richmond refinery that sent more than 9,000 residents to the hospital with respiratory irritation and other health issues

Plastic Surgeon Prefers War to Cocktail Parties
"Enrique Steiger's day job is performing breast operations and facelifts on celebrities. But when he's not doing cosmetic surgery or attending glamorous cocktail parties, the Swiss doctor is saving lives in makeshift Red Cross hospitals on the battlefield."

Prince Harry To Face Military Reprimand Over Nude Pics Scandal


Food
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No-Bake Blueberry Cheesecake Shots

Jalapeno Popper Wonton Cups

Nutella No Bake Cookie Recipe


Videos
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The 20 most-watched TED Talks to date

John Deere H414 harvester head

How to fold a shirt the long and complicated but cool way.

Train horn on a scooter

Why Men and Women Cant be friends

Mongol Rally 2012 - Team 134k and Harry (Something unexpected)

How to make a spray bottle that works in any orientation

This is How Hot it is in Iraq (profanity)

One String Willy

Man's home is being robbed. He steals getaway car. 911 operator tells him to stop because he can be charged.

Alexander Polli, Tracksuit, Wingsuit Flying: Reality Of Human Flight

The 100 Greatest Movie Threats of All Time (manly clip with lots of profanity)


Pics
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Glasswing Butterfly

Hibachi grill food art
  Arr2-D2

Weird news photo quiz - 8/1/12

Balloon Dragon

Father compared to Son

Improvised blender

Milky Way over Australia

I love riding in the car!

Massive Japanese Wisteria

Leaf insect in Laos

Life cycle of a penny

High schooler with cancer dresses as Professor Quirrel

FIPID - 8/19/12

Fun Interesting Pertinent Information Dissemination

Top Picks
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Samsung: Whether or not we ripped off Apple’s tech, Apple stole it to begin with

Checker Shadow Illusion

47 Mind-Blowing Psychological Facts You Should Know About Yourself

Philosophy Experiments

Anybody see a problem here?

Here Comes the Sun
Astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan had wanted the song to be included on the Voyager Golden Record, copies of which were attached to both spacecraft of the Voyager program to provide any entity that recovered them a representative sample of human civilization. Although The Beatles favoured the idea, EMI refused to release the rights and when the probes were launched in 1977 the song was not included.

Mark Twain quote

Yoga for dogs or maybe, stupid for dogs


Politics and Business
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Federal worker, caught campaigning for Obama illegally, is suspended
(From personal experience, I can tell you that the government sends out e-mails to employees every election telling people what is appropriate in the workplace with regards to political activities.)

Rage Against the Machine guitarist rages against fan Rep. Ryan
"Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades," band guitarist Tom Morello wrote in an op-ed for Rolling Stone.

Romney Flip-flop Collection
These are small clips taken out of context but it is still Mitt Romeny.  Are they too out of context?  Did he change his mind or did he flip-flop?  Does he use absolutes which make him look like a liar if he changes his mind? 

STUDY: COMPANIES PAID MORE TO CEOS THAN IN US TAX

Your Election is being Bought by 47 Billionaires

US Public Interest Research Group (Government watchdog)

Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It
"He makes about $39,000 a year and wants you to know that he does not need any help from the federal government... Yet this year, as in each of the past three years, Mr. Gulbranson, 57, is counting on a payment of several thousand dollars from the federal government, a subsidy for working families called the earned-income tax credit. He has signed up his three school-age children to eat free breakfast and lunch at federal expense. And Medicare paid for his mother, 88, to have hip surgery twice."

Comedian Matt Fisher Claims Sister’s Progressive Insurance Paid for Her Killer’s Lawyers

Why Have So Many Cities and Towns Given Away So Much Money to Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's?
"An exhaustive investigation conducted by the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity found that the two competing firms together have received or are promised more than $2.2 billion from American taxpayers over the past 15 years."

Is a $5,000 salary too much for Medicaid?

Romney surrogate to CNN host: ‘Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead’
“I’m telling you what Factcheck.com tells you, I’m telling you what the CBO tells you, I’m telling you what CNN’s independent analysis says,” the CNN host explained.
“Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead when you do this!” the frustrated surrogate shot back.

"You know, let me tell you something. There is independent analysis that details what this is about. ... And name calling to me and somehow acting as if by you repeating a number of $716 billion, that you can make that stick with that figure as being 'stolen' from Medicare, that's not true. You can't just repeat it and make it true, sir."

Reagan's director of OMB - Paul Ryan’s Fairy-Tale Budget Plan
"Mr. Ryan’s sonorous campaign rhetoric about shrinking Big Government and giving tax cuts to “job creators” (read: the top 2 percent) will do nothing to reverse the nation’s economic decline and arrest its fiscal collapse."

"We Haven't Run The Numbers": The Startling Paul Ryan Admission Getting Little Attention

A Kalashnikov Factory in Russia Survives on Sales to U.S. Gun Owners - NYTimes.com

Isn't It High Time We Legalize Marijuana?
"American governments at all levels have been fighting the war on drugs for over four decades now, and it’s overwhelmingly clear that it’s time to cut our losses, admit that the whole thing was a mistake, and work toward restoring the lives that have been destroyed by the drug war."  

Wozniak: Web crackdown coming, freedom failing (video)



Science and Technology
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CERN physicists create record-breaking subatomic soup

Fusion reactors by 2040

Tooth Decay Prevention
"A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 1,677 children compared a standard fluoride toothpaste with a similar toothpaste that also contained 10% xylitol. ⁸ Over the 3-year study period, children given the xylitol-enriched toothpaste developed significantly fewer cavities than those in the fluoride-only group. Studies in adults and children have shown similar results for xylitol gum and candy."

The Invisible Bicycle Helmet (video)

...an international team of scientists has proven that addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, while at the same time increasing pain relief.

Triclosan, A Chemical Used in Antibacterial Soaps, is Found to Impair Muscle Function

7 Absolutely Insane Animal Defense Mechanisms

Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation Awards Grant To CU-Boulder To Build Waterless, Solar-Powered Toilet (PHOTOS and Video)

Florida's Biggest Python So Far Measured 17 Feet, 7 Inches; Had 87 Eggs


Fun, Interesting and Offbeat
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Pocket urinals hit the streets of Cologne

300-pound Texas 12-year-old ruled too big to play Pee Wee football

Food
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Jalapeno Popper Grilled Cheese

2-Minute Chocolate Chip Cookie For One


Videos
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How Bad Do You Want It

GHOST TITS (feat. Olivia Munn)   (Parody movie preview.  This will scare many men.)

Bodyguard and Dancing Cheerleader

Riding on top of a climbing wall

Don't make a Dutchman mad by messing up his Facebook profile. He will take revenge. (profanity)


Pics
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What a coincidence! In an airport in Montana. The Dude.

Obama buying a big beer and beer for the next ten people in line  (Exchanging beer for votes?)

A falcon brought lunch to the office

Iconic Sculptures made from phone books, maps…

Cool caterpillar

All Olympic logos! (1896-2016)

Trampoline by the pool

Chia Keyboard
"This is the keyboard of my co-worker. A little bit disgusting, the admins refuse to use this keyboard. He is on vacation for 4 weeks. Something had to be done."

Snake Cake

Gaza Kindergarten Graduation

Seventy Years of Batman Evolution

Ms. Olympia: 1980 vs 2011

Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland

It was this big!

How would you like to have this for a softball field?