Fun Interesting Pertinent Information Dissemination
Top Picks
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Forget the jog slog and fit in a sprint for maximum weight loss results
Sprint training for 60 minutes a week burns the same amount of body fat in men as jogging for seven hours a week, Sydney scientists report.
Secret Cash for Climate Denial
It investigated the anonymously funded Donor’s Trust and Donor’s Capital Fund which together have given over $100 million dollars to climate change denial groups in the United States over the past decade.
You’d Need 76 Work Days to Read All Your Privacy Policies Each Year
Anti-government extremist groups reach record levels, say experts
Here Come the Market Manipulators | The Scott Adams Blog (If you think the financial industry is rigged, you will like this.)
Market Manipulators - Clarification | The Scott Adams Blog
Rob's boss sent Rob home with a note for Rob's wife
Politics and Business
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tax Cuts Don't Lead to Economic Growth, a New 65-Year Study Finds
Silicon Valley Is High on Innovation. And Pot
Freedom of the Press Foundation
The Freedom of the Press Foundation is dedicated to helping promote and fund aggressive, public-interest journalism focused on exposing mismanagement, corruption, and law-breaking in government. We accept tax-deductible donations to a variety of journalism organizations that push for government transparency and accountability.
Parasite in your brain (video and story)
Brain Plasticity: Can Eyes See Outside of the Head?
But for our next trick, we’re going to need a bucket of tadpoles with eyes on their butts and some good old-fashioned alternating current. In other words, things are about to get all kinds of weird.
Fun, Interesting, Disturbing and Offbeat
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sprint training for 60 minutes a week burns the same amount of body fat in men as jogging for seven hours a week, Sydney scientists report.
Secret Cash for Climate Denial
It investigated the anonymously funded Donor’s Trust and Donor’s Capital Fund which together have given over $100 million dollars to climate change denial groups in the United States over the past decade.
You’d Need 76 Work Days to Read All Your Privacy Policies Each Year
Anti-government extremist groups reach record levels, say experts
Here Come the Market Manipulators | The Scott Adams Blog (If you think the financial industry is rigged, you will like this.)
Market Manipulators - Clarification | The Scott Adams Blog
Watch the Rubik's Cube
Politics and Business
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tax Cuts Don't Lead to Economic Growth, a New 65-Year Study Finds
Silicon Valley Is High on Innovation. And Pot
Freedom of the Press Foundation
The Freedom of the Press Foundation is dedicated to helping promote and fund aggressive, public-interest journalism focused on exposing mismanagement, corruption, and law-breaking in government. We accept tax-deductible donations to a variety of journalism organizations that push for government transparency and accountability.
Don’t Blink, or You’ll Miss Another Bailout
Not only do the filings show the New York Fed helping to thwart another institution’s fraud case against the bank, they also reveal that the New York Fed agreed to give away what may be billions of dollars in potential legal claims.
Unpatentable Drugs and the Standards of Patentability
This gap in the patent system for drugs has created a pervasive problem in the pharmaceutical industry, causing firms to regularly screen through their drugs in R&D and discard ones with weak patent protection. The potential harm to the public from the loss of these drugs is likely significant. Congress can easily avoid this problem by ensuring that the successful completion of the FDA's rigorous clinical trial process is rewarded with a lengthy exclusivity period enforced by the FDA.
The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people
On Bastoy prison island in Norway, the prisoners, some of whom are murderers and rapists, live in conditions that critics brand 'cushy' and 'luxurious'. Yet it has by far the lowest reoffending rate in Europe.
Dismissed: State trooper beats citations in fatal crash
The car barreled down a county road at more than 100 mph before it slammed into a Mitsubishi Galant, killing one woman, seriously injuring another and hurtling a child through the windshield. At the wheel of the speeding vehicle: an on-duty Florida Highway Patrol trooper.
Starbucks CEO: "We spend more on health care than coffee"
Why Are Walmart Billionaires Bankrolling Phony School ‘Reform’ In LA?
This is America, Now: The Dow Hits a Record High With Household Income at a Decade Low
Not only do the filings show the New York Fed helping to thwart another institution’s fraud case against the bank, they also reveal that the New York Fed agreed to give away what may be billions of dollars in potential legal claims.
Unpatentable Drugs and the Standards of Patentability
This gap in the patent system for drugs has created a pervasive problem in the pharmaceutical industry, causing firms to regularly screen through their drugs in R&D and discard ones with weak patent protection. The potential harm to the public from the loss of these drugs is likely significant. Congress can easily avoid this problem by ensuring that the successful completion of the FDA's rigorous clinical trial process is rewarded with a lengthy exclusivity period enforced by the FDA.
The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people
On Bastoy prison island in Norway, the prisoners, some of whom are murderers and rapists, live in conditions that critics brand 'cushy' and 'luxurious'. Yet it has by far the lowest reoffending rate in Europe.
Dismissed: State trooper beats citations in fatal crash
The car barreled down a county road at more than 100 mph before it slammed into a Mitsubishi Galant, killing one woman, seriously injuring another and hurtling a child through the windshield. At the wheel of the speeding vehicle: an on-duty Florida Highway Patrol trooper.
Starbucks CEO: "We spend more on health care than coffee"
Why Are Walmart Billionaires Bankrolling Phony School ‘Reform’ In LA?
This is America, Now: The Dow Hits a Record High With Household Income at a Decade Low
Science and Technology
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wanna Play? Computer Gamers Help Push Frontier Of Brain Research
(You can play games to help science.)
Ancient Chompers Were Healthier Than Ours
"Hunter-gatherers had really good teeth," says Alan Cooper, director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA. "[But] as soon as you get to farming populations, you see this massive change. Huge amounts of gum disease. And cavities start cropping up."
Artificial sweeteners tied to obesity, Type 2 diabetes
Diet pop and other artificially sweetened products may cause us to eat and drink even more calories and increase our risk for obesity and Type 2 diabetes, researchers are learning.
Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brain
In this study, male cells were found in the brains of women and had been living there, in some cases, for several decades.
Moray eels attack with second pair of 'Alien-style' jaws
Video of eel eating
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wanna Play? Computer Gamers Help Push Frontier Of Brain Research
(You can play games to help science.)
Ancient Chompers Were Healthier Than Ours
"Hunter-gatherers had really good teeth," says Alan Cooper, director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA. "[But] as soon as you get to farming populations, you see this massive change. Huge amounts of gum disease. And cavities start cropping up."
Artificial sweeteners tied to obesity, Type 2 diabetes
Diet pop and other artificially sweetened products may cause us to eat and drink even more calories and increase our risk for obesity and Type 2 diabetes, researchers are learning.
Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brain
In this study, male cells were found in the brains of women and had been living there, in some cases, for several decades.
Moray eels attack with second pair of 'Alien-style' jaws
Video of eel eating
Parasite in your brain (video and story)
Brain Plasticity: Can Eyes See Outside of the Head?
But for our next trick, we’re going to need a bucket of tadpoles with eyes on their butts and some good old-fashioned alternating current. In other words, things are about to get all kinds of weird.
Fun, Interesting, Disturbing and Offbeat
Homemade Samoas Recipe
Why is the Arab world so easily offended?
How to defuse a land mine
As a child soldier in Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge army Aki Ra laid many landmines. He now clears these deadly bombs with a stick and a pocketknife, more than 10,000 to date. It is very dangerous. No one pays him to do it.
Now That's A Playset: Woman Spends A Year Building 400,000 Piece LEGO Replica Of Hogwarts
(Lots of pics)
Texas cop fired for shooting 41 times at suspect, killing him
'A concentration camp for little boys': Dark secrets unearthed in KKK county
Videos
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Warning: stupid in action with LOUD Profanities)
Pics
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Turkey Cake
Group roller coaster costume
Not his best pic
