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Men who are anxious about their masculinity are more likely to support aggressive politics and to have voted for Trump
Masculine insecurity predicts endorsement of aggressive politics and support for Donald Trump, according to research published in the Personality and ...
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It turns out that I may be a genius after all!
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Science reveals benefits to 'sounding like a sailor'
Science shows using foul language may be beneficial. People who curse are seen as more honest, found to have a more fluent vocabulary and withstand more pain when using such words.
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Woman says an attacker tried to bite her eye out after she rejected his offer at Harlem liquor store
'That's an animal. That's not a person'
A woman is speaking out after she was brutally beaten and received disturbing injuries after she simply rejected an offer from a man at a liquor store.
The unsettling incident unfolded Monday evening in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
The unidentified woman spoke to WBCS-TV about the incident and said that she had stopped at the liquor store after work to buy a bottle of wine.
The 31-year-old mother said that two men stepped into the store after her and one man in a red parka offered to buy her wine for her.
"I politely declined, and I said, 'No thank you, but thank you, I can pay for it myself,'" she recalled. "And I got ready to walk out. Before I walk out he basically said that he felt like I thought I was better than them."
She said the men followed her outside and kept harassing her.
"I just asked him, I said, 'You're seriously trying to fight me? I'm trying to go about my business,'" she said.
She said they began punching and kicking her as she tried to run away. One man bit her on her eyebrow and left a deep gash. She told WBCS that he was trying to bite out her eye.
"To bite me, and do that – maul me the way that he did – with me screaming, and saying I'm just trying to get my daughter. That – that's an animal. That's not a person," she added.
She said during the attack that she dropped her iPhone and one of the attackers grabbed it out of her hand.
Witnesses told WBCS that people called 911 during the attack. The woman, who has not been able to open one eye, said that people in the neighborhood told her to leave because the attacker had done this once before and could return.
The woman was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals Harlem for medical treatment.
Surveillance released to WBCS shows multiple angles of the altercation.
WANTED-ROBBERY: On 1/18/21 approx. 5:52 PM, inside 303 W 128 St @NYPD32PCT Manhattan. After an argument with a 31… https://t.co/bKfsni904i
— NYPD Crime Stoppers (@NYPD Crime Stoppers)1611117395.0
Police are asking for help from the public in identifying the suspects, and there is a reward of up $2,500.
Here's the interview with the victim:
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Anyone who has ever hit their own thumb with a hammer knows that profanity has anesthetic properties.It turns out that I may be a genius after all!
Science reveals benefits to 'sounding like a sailor'
Science shows using foul language may be beneficial. People who curse are seen as more honest, found to have a more fluent vocabulary and withstand more pain when using such words.
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A single cubic wombat dropping positioned by researchers on top of a rock
Yang et al. 2021
How do wombats poop cubes? Scientists get to the bottom of the mystery
By Tess JoosseJan. 27, 2021 , 6:05 PM
Humans may be fascinated by cubes, but only one animal poops them: the bare-nosed wombat. This furry Australian marsupial squeezes out nearly 100 six-sided turds every day—an ability that has long mystified scientists. Now, researchers say they have uncovered how the wombat intestine creates this exceptional excrement.
“This study is really good,” says Sunghwan Jung, a biophysicist at Cornell University who studies the mechanics of animal movements and was not involved with the research. It shows, he says, that the guts of these animals “are very special.”
The bare-nosed wombat (Vombatus ursinus), which weighs up to 35 kilograms, lives in the grassy plains and eucalyptus forests of Australia, where it spends its nights grazing on plants and its days in underground tunnels. It’s a territorial animal, leaving its unusual droppings as a calling card. But how does such sharp-sided scat come from a round anus?
A female wombat with her joey
Yang et al. 2021
To get to the bottom of the mystery, scientists dissected a wombat that had died after being hit by a car. They examined the intestines and found that they contain two grooves where the guts are more elastic, which the team first reported in 2018.
In the new study, the researchers dissected two further wombats and tested the guts’ layers of muscle and tissue, finding regions of varied thickness and stiffness. They then created a 2D mathematical model to simulate how the regions expand and contract with the rhythms of digestion. The intestinal sections contract over several days, squeezing the poop as the gut pulls nutrients and water out of the feces, the team reports today in the aptly titled journal Soft Matter.
The stiffer portions are “like a stiff rubber band—[they’re] going to contract faster than the soft regions,” says David Hu, a biomechanics researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology and author on the study. Softer intestinal regions squeeze slowly and mold the final corners of the cube, the team found. In other mammals, the wavelike peristalsis of the intestinal muscles are consistent in all directions. But in the wombat, the grooved tissue and the irregular contractions over many cycles shape firm, flat-sided cubes.
That just leaves one mystery: why wombats evolved cubic poop in the first place. Hu speculates that because the animals climb up on rocks and logs to mark their territory, the flat-sided feces aren’t as likely to roll off from these high perches.
As for what the world is supposed to do with this new information, Hu admits that it’s “not going to replace the way we manufacture plastic.” But the wombat’s strategy could help engineers design better ways to shape valuable or sensitive materials, he says.
In the meantime, Hu also thinks this knowledge could help researchers raising wombats in captivity. “Sometimes their feces aren’t as cubic as the [wild] ones,” he says. The squarer the poop, the healthier the wombat.
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This isn't clickbait, this is a top-tier article.Link
A single cubic wombat dropping positioned by researchers on top of a rock
Yang et al. 2021
How do wombats poop cubes? Scientists get to the bottom of the mystery
By Tess JoosseJan. 27, 2021 , 6:05 PM
Humans may be fascinated by cubes, but only one animal poops them: the bare-nosed wombat. This furry Australian marsupial squeezes out nearly 100 six-sided turds every day—an ability that has long mystified scientists. Now, researchers say they have uncovered how the wombat intestine creates this exceptional excrement.
“This study is really good,” says Sunghwan Jung, a biophysicist at Cornell University who studies the mechanics of animal movements and was not involved with the research. It shows, he says, that the guts of these animals “are very special.”
The bare-nosed wombat (Vombatus ursinus), which weighs up to 35 kilograms, lives in the grassy plains and eucalyptus forests of Australia, where it spends its nights grazing on plants and its days in underground tunnels. It’s a territorial animal, leaving its unusual droppings as a calling card. But how does such sharp-sided scat come from a round anus?
A female wombat with her joey
Yang et al. 2021
To get to the bottom of the mystery, scientists dissected a wombat that had died after being hit by a car. They examined the intestines and found that they contain two grooves where the guts are more elastic, which the team first reported in 2018.
In the new study, the researchers dissected two further wombats and tested the guts’ layers of muscle and tissue, finding regions of varied thickness and stiffness. They then created a 2D mathematical model to simulate how the regions expand and contract with the rhythms of digestion. The intestinal sections contract over several days, squeezing the poop as the gut pulls nutrients and water out of the feces, the team reports today in the aptly titled journal Soft Matter.
The stiffer portions are “like a stiff rubber band—[they’re] going to contract faster than the soft regions,” says David Hu, a biomechanics researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology and author on the study. Softer intestinal regions squeeze slowly and mold the final corners of the cube, the team found. In other mammals, the wavelike peristalsis of the intestinal muscles are consistent in all directions. But in the wombat, the grooved tissue and the irregular contractions over many cycles shape firm, flat-sided cubes.
That just leaves one mystery: why wombats evolved cubic poop in the first place. Hu speculates that because the animals climb up on rocks and logs to mark their territory, the flat-sided feces aren’t as likely to roll off from these high perches.
As for what the world is supposed to do with this new information, Hu admits that it’s “not going to replace the way we manufacture plastic.” But the wombat’s strategy could help engineers design better ways to shape valuable or sensitive materials, he says.
In the meantime, Hu also thinks this knowledge could help researchers raising wombats in captivity. “Sometimes their feces aren’t as cubic as the [wild] ones,” he says. The squarer the poop, the healthier the wombat.
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MSNBC Guests Suggests Trump’s Election Remarks Warrant Drone Strike
Watts, also a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent and advocate of the 2016 Russia collusion narrative, made the violent suggestion on an MSNBC panel alongside Nicole Wallace, Miles Taylor, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs.
“If you took what President Trump said, and instead put it in Anwar Awlaki’s mouth, we would be talking about a drone strike overseas,” Watts said.
Awlaki was a U.S.-born citizen and suspected al-Qaeda leader killed in Yemen by an Obama-era drone strike and has been responsible for radicalizing a host of radical Islamic terrorists.
MSNBC Guests Suggests Trump's Election Remarks Warrant Drone Strike - The National Pulse
Watts, also a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent and advocate of the 2016 Russia collusion narrative, made the violent suggestion on an MSNBC
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MSNBC Guests Suggests Trump’s Election Remarks Warrant Drone Strike
Watts, also a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent and advocate of the 2016 Russia collusion narrative, made the violent suggestion on an MSNBC panel alongside Nicole Wallace, Miles Taylor, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs.
“If you took what President Trump said, and instead put it in Anwar Awlaki’s mouth, we would be talking about a drone strike overseas,” Watts said.
Awlaki was a U.S.-born citizen and suspected al-Qaeda leader killed in Yemen by an Obama-era drone strike and has been responsible for radicalizing a host of radical Islamic terrorists.
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MSNBC Guests Suggests Trump's Election Remarks Warrant Drone Strike - The National Pulse
Watts, also a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent and advocate of the 2016 Russia collusion narrative, made the violent suggestion on an MSNBC
more pearl clutching from a NYC based news network that has been on the receiving end of having ties with the Chinese Communist Party’s media
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Least you'll know which doorsteps to put the flaming bags of poop on.
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Hi! I'm important! I'm special! I a fucking somebody! Burn my house first! (In Minecraft)
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Almost reminds me of the Ministry of Truth for some reason
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Now you can sit on dead black people:
Activism Meets Home in This Series From Architect Michael Ford & Furniture Brand Herman Miller
The tldr: some designer made a mockery of the Eames chair by adding the names of dead people to it in order to spur “conversations”.
Activism Meets Home in This Series From Architect Michael Ford & Furniture Brand Herman Miller
The tldr: some designer made a mockery of the Eames chair by adding the names of dead people to it in order to spur “conversations”.
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fortunately this is postmodern art, and in postmodernism there is no distinction between art and reality... i think
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"Four-year-old girl discovers dinosaur footprint on beach in Wales"
www.thejournal.ie
- "The footprint is 220 million years old."
- "It is impossible to tell which dinosaur made the print, but as it is 10cm long it is believed to be from a type that stood 75cm tall and 2.5m long. It would have been slender and walked on two hind feet, hunting small animals and insects."
Four-year-old girl discovers dinosaur footprint on beach in Wales
The footprint is 220 million years old.
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I wish I could make millions writing a schizo word salad on a wall in blood
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Me either and these old vlogs from Paul Joseph Watson about postmodern art had aged well.
Meanwhile, Kneon of ClownfishTV vlogged about Youtubers vs. journalists.
