Friday, July 19, 2013

FIPID - 07/19/13


Fun Interesting Pertinent Information Dissemination


Top Picks
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Religious leaders help perpetuate male power and female mistreatment, the former president said.

‘America has no functioning democracy’ – Jimmy Carter on NSA

Jimmy Carter: Unchecked campaign contributions are 'legal bribery' (Jimmy is on a role this month)

Your Choice In Utensils Can Change How Food Tastes

PISS TESTING IS A FAILURE | Vice  (Profanity)

'Pernicious' Effects of Economic Inequality

Sinkholes: When the Earth Opens Up (lots of pics)

NASA uses 3-D printing to make a rocket engine injector at 70% reduction in cost and a 66% reduction in manufacturing time.

The Drone That Killed My Grandson
"I LEARNED that my 16-year-old grandson, Abdulrahman — a United States citizen — had been killed by an American drone strike from news reports the morning after he died.  The missile killed him, his teenage cousin and at least five other civilians on Oct. 14, 2011, while the boys were eating dinner at an open-air restaurant in southern Yemen...My grandson was killed by his own government. The Obama administration must answer for its actions and be held accountable."

A Philadelphia School's Big Bet on Nonviolence
In a desperately poor, dangerous part of town, Memphis Street Academy decided to ditch its metal detectors and focus on supporting students. Violence dropped by 90 percent.


Politics and Business
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Schieffer: House farm bill 'like welfare for the wealthy'


Costco CEO: Raise The Minimum Wage To More Than $10 Per Hour


Paid via Card, Workers Feel Sting of Fees (Surprise!  Sneaky companies take advantage of workers.)

Don’t let DOMA fool you — the Supreme Court is restricting your rights

Life without parole? No child deserves that.
...an investigation by the Center for Law and Global Justice found that the United States remains the only nation in the world known to sentence children to life without parole — a sentence to die in prison. 

Law and Justice and George Zimmerman
The exoneration of Travyon Martin's killer is a stark reminder of the limitations of our judicial systems and the choices we make about the laws under which we live.

Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA

Justice Samuel Alito Might Have Quintupled His Net Worth in 2012

Fifty Years of Murder in America, Mapped
Science and Technology
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Why You Have To Scratch That Itch
Things that made a normal mouse scratch like crazy had no effect on mice with no Nppb. But when those mice were injected with the substance, they scratched, too.

Here Be Dragons: The Mythic Bite of the Komodo
The truth, of course, is of little comfort to anyone planning to visit the islands where dragons roam. Don’t worry, you won’t die of sepsis from a Komodo bite. You’ll just die when the gigantic lizard with inch-long serrated teeth dripping with hemorrhagic venom tears your flesh to shreds.

Energy production causes big US earthquakes

Can Caresses Protect the Brain from Stroke?

Neurons cut off by a stroke may have the inherent ability to reroute blood flow and save themselves.

All Charged Up: Engineers Create A Battery Made Of Wood



Fun, Interesting, Disturbing and Offbeat
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From funny to fit; man sheds 155 pounds

Take the Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960

In the Words of the Presidents
Jefferson coined more than 100 new words including pedicure; card-player Harry Truman popularized the phrase fair deal; George Washington added 37 terms to the lexicon, including hatchet man; and Teddy Roosevelt denounced irresponsible journalists as muckrakers.

Ohio Man Rips Off Part Of His Penis After Taking Hallucinogenic Mushrooms: Police

Leah Remini Flees Scientology (The King of Queens actress)

The Ultimate Weight-Loss Incentive: Dubai Will Pay Dieters in Gold

Christman Genipperteinga
He was a German serial killer in the 16th century, who is said to have murdered 964 individuals, from his youth and over a 13-year period, from 1568 until his capture in 1581.

Beer drinking king dies in competition tragedy
"He had drunk six litres of beer, and when he won he lifted the trophy."
"Then he just started to vomit without stopping and he never spoke again,"


Videos
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Talented bear


Now that's a victory dance


Master craftsman makes a hatchet handle


Pics
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Complete Idiocy Makes for Pretty Amazing Fireworks Photos

Can haz halp pleez?














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