Monday, May 13, 2013

FIPID - 05/13/13

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Too Big to Jail?

Jon Stewart's 11 Most Epic CNN Rants

Perfect Moment | The Scott Adams the Dilbert creator
I also remember what it took to get to this place. I think of all the days in my youth when I worked on my uncle's dairy farm doing back-breaking labor under the boiling sun. I think of all the mornings I got up before dawn so I could shovel snow or mow lawns to earn money for college. I think of the four jobs I held during college. I think of the three years I worked my day job while going to school at night to get my MBA. I think of the six years I worked full-time at Pacific Bell while creating Dilbert morning, nights, and weekends. I think of the ten years I worked without taking a day off.

Pew Study: Many Muslims Believe In Mixing Mosque And State (Too many facts to post. Just read it.)

Want to know how to get all ripped and muscular? This guy gives you lots of details of his plan. (Use at your own risk. Check with your doctor before trying this routine.)
20 week Competition Style Cut

The Furtive Tax

At $70,000 total income, the worker pays almost $20,000 in federal taxes, roughly half in payroll tax and half in income tax. The investor with $70,000 in capital gains pays less than a fifth of that. This is not just an abstract discussion; it means that the 25-year-old trust funder is paying less in tax than his counterpart who fixes computers for a living.

Why it’s time to rein in CEO pay

The United States has become one of the most unequal countries in the world. Just 1 percent of Americans own about 40 percent of our wealth, gaining all of the nation’s income growth from 2009-2011. The income of the average middle class family is lower today, in real dollars, than it was 17 years ago. And 46 million people live in poverty, including about one in five children by some estimates.

Steven Pinker: The surprising decline in violence (video)

Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

Obama and Bush, distinct men with policy overlaps

'Taggants' In Gunpowder Might Have Helped Identify Bombers

You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

Fear of Terror Makes People Stupid
As I’ve repeatedly noted, FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, constitutional law expert professor Jonathan Turley, Time Magazine, and the Washington Post have all said that U.S. government officials “were trying to create an atmosphere of fear in which the American people would give them more power”.

BP should take BP's advice

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The Texas fertilizer plant explosion cannot be forgotten
The plant had 1,350 times the legally allowed amount of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, yet hadn’t informed the Department of Homeland Security of the danger. Likewise, the fertilizer plant did not have sprinklers, shut-off valves, fire alarms or legally required blast walls, all of which could have prevented the catastrophic damage done. And there was little chance that regulators would learn about the problems without the company reporting them: Not only had the Occupational Safety and Health Administration not inspected the plant since 1985 but also, because of underfunding, OSHA can inspect plants like the one in West on average only once every 129 years.

Pentagon requesting $395.9 million to buy Israel more Iron Dome batteries
If the funding is approved, it will add to the $486 million the United States has already provided for Iron Dome missile defense systems protecting Israel.

NH legislator sorry for calling women 'vaginas'

After Boston: Don't Get Fooled Again by the 'War on Terror' Hawks

Apple Would Rather Go Into Debt Than Bring Home $100 Billion In Offshore Cash

Richest Man Slim Cited for Profiting From Phones for Poor

Officials: Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit hiding place

Reversal of Fortune: A Prosecutor on Trial
Ken Anderson defends himself at a Court of Inquiry investigation in Georgetown, Texas, on Feb. 8, 2013. Anderson, a Texas prosecutor who abused his authority to help send an innocent man to prison for decades, now faces 10 years behind bars for his misconduct.

Hurricane Sandy and the Myth of the Big Government-vs.-Small-Government Debate

In the abstract, most Americans want a smaller and less intrusive government. In reality, what Americans really want is a government that spends less money on other people.

William Koch Must Face False Imprisonment Suit

Obama poised to name former cable, wireless lobbyist to chair FCC

Missouri Oil Spill: Exxon Pegasus Pipeline Leaks Again, One Month After Mayflower, Arkansas Rupture

I Am A Republican… Can We Talk About A Single Payer System?

I am a Republican. For those who know me that is not a surprise. I live in a red state. I have never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. I can field strip, clean and reassemble a Remington 12-gauge pump blindfolded. And on top of it, I think we should talk about having a single payer national health care plan.

"Fix the Debt" CEOs Enjoy Taxpayer-Subsidized Pay

A new report by IPS and Campaign for America's Future shows that America’s top CEOs are pocketing massive taxpayer subsidies at the same time they’re pushing austerity cutbacks in government programs that benefit ordinary citizens.

Principal fires security guards to hire art teachers — and transforms elementary school

Mark Ciavarella Jr., Judge, Gets 28 Years In 'Kids For Cash' Case

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What Boston Showed about Human Nature
It is in these reactions that I see beauty. In the initial movements of the helpers—the first responders, the blood donators, the countless men and women who rushed in to do anything and everything they could to fix the gaping hole left by those Monday afternoon explosions—I see an extreme example of the human capacity for selflessness. I see evidence that people tend to intuitively, instinctively, and perhaps automatically reach out to others in times of need. I see that extreme situations can cause people to transcend us-vs-them thinking, uniting diverse peoples into the “us” of humankind.

NFL draft is less art, more science: A how-to guide

Stunning Video: 3 Years Of The Sun In 3 Minutes

The Myth About Homework
Both books cite studies, surveys, statistics, along with some hair-raising anecdotes, on how a rising tide of dull, useless assignments is oppressing families and making kids hate learning.

World's smallest stop-motion film made with individual atoms (video)

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Mother Teresa Humanitarian Image A 'Myth,' New Study Says
A new study by Canadian academics says Mother Teresa was a product of hype who housed the poor and sick in shoddy conditions, despite her access to a fortune.

From BBQ ribs to pulled pork, which grill to buy?
Meathead has some advice for you.

Michael Pollan wants you to cook
As cooking shows become more popular, we're paradoxically seeing a decrease in home cooking.
Since 1977, it's fallen by half...
"All the money in the food industry is in processing," he says. "It's very hard to make money selling simple ingredients."

Controversy Brews Over Church's Hallucinogenic Tea Ritual
Some reach for fruit and Altoids to kill the bitter taste. A few head to the bathroom to vomit. They settle into their chairs, position pillows and blankets to get comfortable, and then the four-hour ceremony of the Church of the Union of Plants commences with all the excitement of watching a roomful of people fall asleep in front of a TV.

Scholars Find Cannibalism at Jamestown Settlement

Gunfire and moments of fear as a rural Oregon school tests its readiness

Two masked men wearing hoodies and wielding handguns burst into the Pine Eagle Charter School in this tiny rural community on Friday. Students were at home for an in-service day, so the gunmen headed into a meeting room full of teachers and opened fire. Someone figured out in a few seconds that the bullets were not drawing blood because they were blanks and the exercise was a drill, designed to test Pine Eagle's preparation for an assault by "active shooters" who were, in reality, members of the school staff.

Judge Doubles Down On Double Entendres In Strip Club Case

5-year-old Kentucky boy fatally shoots 2-year-old sister with the rifle he got for his birthday

Humans Are Animals: 8-Year-Old vs. Misinformed Substitute Teacher
My friend’s 8-year-old son had an interesting day at school recently. During science class, the teacher—who, it should be noted, was a substitute—asked the third graders to name the habitat of an animal of their choice: the sea for sharks, trees for squirrels, etc. My friend’s son picked a house because, as he explained to the teacher, human beings are animals too. The teacher corrected him. Humans, she said, are not animals. “Yeah, they are,” the boy replied. “No, they’re not,” she told him, as he recalled later in an interview.

Phoenix Mom Who Said She Killed Her Baby Because She "Had Too Many Kids" Belongs to "Church" That's Not Big on Birth Control

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No kisses

7 year old steals car to escape church

Almost Died

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Sushi art

Beijing in the smog

Charles Mask Lewis Ferrari Crash Pictures

Wrap and burn car wreck

Leaf Blower Potraits

Saturday, April 6, 2013

FIPID - 04/06/13

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Naughty dog wall of shame

Children should be allowed to get bored, expert says

Overfished and under-protected: Oceans on the brink of catastrophic collapse

IMF: Gas Prices Don't Reflect True Costs (They suggest the end of subsidies and raising prices. Good story.)
The IMF says that price of gasoline in the U.S. covers the cost of producing and distribution gasoline but it doesn't reflect the costs that gasoline consumption imposes on society.

America's Most Obvious Tax Reform Idea: Kill the Oil and Gas Subsidies

Online Music Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Sales, European Commission Finds

Expose A Blatant Security Hole In AT&T's Servers, Get 3.5 Years In Jail

Supreme Court OKs Discounted Resale Of 'Gray Market' Goods
The 6-3 decision — likely worth billions, even trillions of dollars — could have repercussions that extend from U.S. trade policy to local yard sales.

Hedy Lamarr: Movie star, inventor of WiFi (Not Hedley Lamarr)

Godwin's law
It states given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis.

Lots of Sand sculpture pics

Former NBA Player Adrian Dantley Now a School Crossing Guard

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Sen. Paul: Obama, Bush ‘lucky’ they weren’t arrested for smoking pot as kids

What Makes A Good Tax Haven? (The US is a great tax haven for foreigners.)

States plagued by fiscal woes rethink their stance on the death penalty
Studies show that administering the death penalty is even more expensive than keeping someone in prison for life. The intensive jury selection, trials and appeals required in capital cases can take over a decade and run up a huge tab for the state. Death row, where prisoners facing execution are kept in separate cells under intense observation, is also immensely costly.

Cost of the Iraq war? 6 Trillion
Since we borrowed to pay for much of the war, we're facing nearing $4 trillion in cumulative interest between now and 2053, according to the 30 researchers who worked on the Costs of War report for Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.

U.S. Probes Abuse Allegations Under Worker Visa Program

Unfit for Work

In the past three decades, the number of Americans who are on disability has skyrocketed. The rise has come even as medical advances have allowed many more people to remain on the job, and new laws have banned workplace discrimination against the disabled. Every month, 14 million people now get a disability check from the government.

The federal government spends more money each year on cash payments for disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined. Yet people relying on disability payments are often overlooked in discussions of the social safety net. People on federal disability do not work. Yet because they are not technically part of the labor force, they are not counted among the unemployed.

Bills Would Mandate Warrant for GPS Tracking, Cellphone Location Data

When A Famous Hospital Didn't Want An Expensive New Drug
Zaltrap costs about $11,000 per month — about twice as much as Avastin, Saltz said....After the op-ed ran, Sanofi, the company that co-markets the drug, started offering hospitals a discount of 50 percent on Zaltrap.

Parent of Sandy Hook victim at a hearing
"I don't care if you named it 'James' law,' I don't want (another law)," he said during the first of a series of meetings set up by a legislative task force assigned to review the state's gun laws.

"I think there's much more promise for a solution in identifying, researching and creating solutions along the lines of mental health."

Post analysis of Dow 30 firms shows declining tax burden as a share of profits

'Stop the bull#$%&' in wireless pricing says T-Mobile CEO John Legere

Income Growth For Bottom 90 Percent Of Americans Averaged Just $59 Over 4 Decades: Analysis

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There are zombies among us (Parasitic mind control. Cooool.)

To Control Asthma, Start With The Home Instead Of The Child

Synesthetes Really Can Taste The Rainbow
These people have synesthesia – a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sense (e.g. taste) produces experiences in a totally different sense (e.g. sight).

‘Salt Sugar Fat,’ by Michael Moss
But there is a much larger segment of America whose members heedlessly eat processed foods that make them overweight and unwell. Michael Moss, a dogged investigative reporter who neither scolds nor proselytizes, is here for them.

Sugary drinks linked to 180,000 deaths worldwide

Why A Hoosier State Scientist Is Stuck On Oysters (What if science could make a glue that sets in a watery environment? Science is cool.)

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Ohio School Shooter TJ Lane Laughs, Gives Finger at His Sentencing
Ohio school shooter TJ Lane spewed vile and unprintable words today at the families of three students he killed, gave them the finger and then laughed and smiled as they described him as an animal and a monster.
...Lane arrived at his sentencing hearing today wearing a blue button down shirt. After he sat down, he unbuttoned the shirt to reveal a white T-shirt with the word "killer" emblazoned across the front in black marker.

Creating the All-Terrain Human
A few years ago Jornet ran the 165-mile Tahoe Rim Trail and stopped just twice to sleep on the ground for a total of about 90 minutes. In the middle of the night he took a wrong turn, which added perhaps six miles to his run. He still finished in 38 hours 32 minutes, beating the record of Tim Twietmeyer, a legend in the world of ultrarunning, by more than seven hours.

Famous Veterans: Mr. T (I pity the tree!)
In July 1976 his platoon sergeant punished him by giving him the detail of chopping down trees during training camp at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, but the sergeant did not specify how many trees that were to be cut down -- so Tureaud single-handedly chopped down over 70 trees in the span of three and a half hours before being relieved of the detail.

Andrew Jackson's Big Block of Cheese
"...four feet in diameter and two feet thick, weighed nearly 1400 pounds" After 2 years since the cheese was given as a gift, Jackson threw a party and let 10,000 people eat from the block of cheese. It was gone in 2 hours, but the smell of 2 years of cheese remained.

Prosecutor: Paterson pastor stalked mistress before stabbing

"A Paterson pastor stalked and terrorized his longtime mistress and colleague before stabbing her 27 times just days before her marriage to another man...She was stabbed in her face, she was stabbed in her neck, she was stabbed in her arm, she was stabbed under her arm, she was stabbed in the chest, she was stabbed in the back, and she was stabbed in the abdomen...[he] insisted it was not a premeditated act and denied he ever wanted to kill Shields.

Frank Szabo, Former New Hampshire Sheriff Candidate, Leaves Country

An admitted Free Stater, Szabo, in an interview with Bedford Patch compared abortion to slavery and said he'd condone the use of deadly force in extreme circumstances pertaining to abortion.

‘Quarantine her!’ Top Tunisian Islamist says topless girl needs stoning
A Tunisian Salafi preacher has called for a 19-year old girl who posted her topless pictures on Facebook to be “quarantined” and stoned to death before she starts “an epidemic.”

Why Grain Storage Bin Rescues Are Risky And Complex
It can 200 rescuers and helps hours to save a person.

High school teacher under investigation for saying “vagina” during anatomy lesson
High school science teacher Tim McDaniel is being investigated by Idaho’s professional standards commission because he allegedly used the word “vagina” while teaching a 10th grade biology lesson on reproduction and anatomy.

Survey: Adults text more than teens while driving

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The First Honest Cable Company (Profanity)

Woman gives accurate description of hail storm!! KAPOOOYA!!

Good Russian Parenting

This firefighter can climb a ladder faster than you can fall off of one

Eagleman sells you car insurance

This dog has mad skilz

France: world's first car backflip. Guerlain Chicherit flips a Mini Countryman

Two guys in their 90s racing the 100 meter dash!

MAD tv - Bon Qui Qui at King Burger

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718 lb boar in Turkey

Wyoming

Homemade Pencil Case

Fried mice in your fried rice

A dog ate a whole bottle of gorilla glue, this is what we removed from his stomach.

Monday, March 18, 2013

FIPID - 03/18/13

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Costco's Profit Soars To $537 Million Just Days After CEO Endorses Minimum Wage Increase

Elizabeth Warren: Why Isn’t Min Wage Keeping Up With Productivity? Should Be $22 p/h (check out the video in this article)

Boehner Agrees With Obama: "We Do Not Have An Immediate Debt Crisis"

It’s time to tax financial transactions
...a light tax on all financial transactions — three pennies on every $100 traded.

The good news is that it’s a tax so small it could be mistaken for a rounding error. It’s so small, Wall Street could easily afford it and the average E-Trade investor would barely notice it. If this were a tax on coffee, it would cost you $1 for every 800 cups you bought at Starbucks.

But there’s even better news. This insignificant tax raises a significant amount of revenue — $352 billion over the next 10 years, or enough to refund about one-third of what the sequester will slash from the federal budget. It’s also enough to put many air traffic controllers back to work, Head Start teachers back in preschools, and crucial government programs back in business.

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

Bills Seek End To Farm Animal Abuse Videos

Neil Tyson Pounds The Table, Demanding A Future, Now!

Rotating Snakes Illusion

The original Michelin Man

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Elizabeth Warren Takes On Eric Holder's 'Too Big To Jail' Statement

How to Force Ethics on the Food Industry
Written by a former executive vice president of global corporate affairs for Kraft Foods.

The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'
Declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson's telephone calls provide a fresh insight into his world. Among the revelations - he planned a dramatic entry into the 1968 Democratic Convention to re-join the presidential race. And he caught Richard Nixon sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks... but said nothing.

New evidence: CIA and MI6 were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD

How To Find A Food Desert Near You
Want to know where you can't buy fresh, healthful food? The USDA has the map for you.

Chinese Solar Company Shuts U.S. Factory
The industry has been sagging under a global over-supply problem, and a trade war has made matters worse. Last year, the U.S. International Trade Commission slapped a 36 percent tariff on Chinese solar cell manufacturers, for dumping cheap products on the U.S. market. That drove up the cost of components Suntech imported to Arizona. Meta says it's another reason manufacturing here became too expensive.

From Grief Comes A Mission To Make Estate Planning Less Daunting
Her site — which is a NSFW riff on "get your stuff together" — features a checklist and templates for some key documents, including a will, living will and power of attorney. It also suggests compiling online account usernames and passwords and putting these key documents in a safe or scanning and uploading them to a password-protected site.

Bank of America cuts check for Estates couple in mistaken foreclosure case
When Bank of America tried to foreclose on Warren and Maureen Nyerges' fully-paid, Golden Gate Estates home last year, it was a mistake.

When the couple's attorney arrived at a Bank of America branch Friday morning with deputies, a moving company and a court writ permitting him to seize furniture and cash to recoup fees in the case, it was a last alternative.

The Surprising Reasons Why America Lost Its Ability To Compete

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Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own (good comic)

Graphene antenna could increase wireless speed 100 times (You may have to expand the story)

Labels That Translate Calories into Walking Distance Could Induce People to Eat Less

Scientists prove you really can tell what your dog is feeling by looking at its face

How Do Roosters Know When to Crow?
The birds truly do have an inner circadian rhythm that tells when when to crow.

Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant

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Elephant Poaching Pushes Species To Brink Of Extinction

Man left in solitary confinement for 2 years gets $15.5 million settlement
Slevin's story of inhumane treatment in the Dona Ana County Jail, where he was incarcerated from 2005 to 2007 — which he said included his toenails growing so long that they curled around his foot, and fungus festering on his skin because he was deprived of showers...

Scots fought 'in bright yellow war shirts not Braveheart kilts'
Medieval Scottish soldiers fought wearing bright yellow war shirts dyed in horse urine rather than the tartan plaid depicted in the film Braveheart, according to new research.

Questions to a med students talking to 14 yr olds

Note to a patient who has short-term memory loss (Profanity. Also, different than the one posted on Epoch.)

Police: Oregon panhandlers raking in the green

Trinity students blag way around globe for ‘jailbreak’ charity stunt

The TCD Jailbreak encouraged students to try to get as far away from the college campus without paying a cent – and all within 36 hours. Participants happily rose to the challenge – managing to reach Sydney, Malaysia and Argentina.

The Great Wall of Vagina
Over the past 5 years, 400 women volunteered to have plaster casts made of their vulvae by UK artist Jamie McCartney to help alleviate women's anxiety about their genital appearance.

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Crane Fail

Inflatable concrete tent

The Pain of Electricity (AC versus DC)

Burning Stuff With 2000ºF Solar Power!!

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The dog ate a bee

7ft tall hand-fed pet kangaroo

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

FIPID - 03/05/13

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Jimmy Carter says when he ran against Gerald Ford, he didn't raise any money

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

Watch the Rubik's Cube

Rob's boss sent Rob home with a note for Rob's wife

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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

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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.

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