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Katashi_itto
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January 11, 2014
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Elsewhere at this site, we predicted that the gates to otherworldly realms would be flung wide, and that all colors and shapes of faiths and non-faiths (which are arguably faith-based) would come clamoring to claim a patch of turf at the Oklahoma state capital upon which to advertise their particular -ism. Our prognostication was freakin’ dead on.
In case you missed it: With the approval and backing of many Oklahoma state lawmakers, a monument with The Ten Commandments was erected on the lawn of the Oklahoma state capital in 2012. Recently, a satanic group from New York (where else?) came forward seeking to have a monument displayed in honor of Beelzebub. Then, a Hindu group announced that they wanted a statue of the Hindu deity, Lord Hanuman on the capital grounds. Thereafter, PETA announced that it wants to hang a banner there that contains religious symbols and promotes a vegan lifestyle.
It couldn’t have ended there, we were sure. There is a cosmic party going on, and everyone wants in. Now, The Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, and The Church of the Latter-Day Dude want monuments at the Oklahoma state capital.
It’s Friday, and we’re groggy. We’ll let the Tulsa World explain.
http://cabsurdum.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/the-church-of-the-latter-day-dude-wants-monument-at-oklahoma-capital-man/
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The Church of the Latter-Day Dude Wants Monument at Oklahoma Capital
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Elsewhere at this site, we predicted that the gates to otherworldly realms would be flung wide, and that all colors and shapes of faiths and non-faiths (which are arguably faith-based) would come clamoring to claim a patch of turf at the Oklahoma state capital upon which to advertise their particular -ism. Our prognostication was freakin’ dead on.
In case you missed it: With the approval and backing of many Oklahoma state lawmakers, a monument with The Ten Commandments was erected on the lawn of the Oklahoma state capital in 2012. Recently, a satanic group from New York (where else?) came forward seeking to have a monument displayed in honor of Beelzebub. Then, a Hindu group announced that they wanted a statue of the Hindu deity, Lord Hanuman on the capital grounds. Thereafter, PETA announced that it wants to hang a banner there that contains religious symbols and promotes a vegan lifestyle.
It couldn’t have ended there, we were sure. There is a cosmic party going on, and everyone wants in. Now, The Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, and The Church of the Latter-Day Dude want monuments at the Oklahoma state capital.
It’s Friday, and we’re groggy. We’ll let the Tulsa World explain.
http://cabsurdum.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/the-church-of-the-latter-day-dude-wants-monument-at-oklahoma-capital-man/
Interested in Dudeism?
The Dude and the Zen Master Hardcover
by Jeff Bridges (Author) , Bernie Glassman (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0399161643/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=27177076563&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1832702803800480173&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_5g4yx98le6_b
January 10, 2014
The Most Beautiful Way To Stop A Bully I've Ever Seen
January 10, 2014
In a hearing on the legalization of medical marijuana in the state of Kentucky, Republican state Rep. Robert Benvenuti said that the risks of allowing medical marijuana in the state are too high. He cited Kentucky’s high rate of illegal and prescription drug abuse as reasons why the plant is too dangerous to be sold legally.
Legalization of medical marijuana will inevitably lead to the legalization of recreational marijuana use, said Benvenuti.
“I do not believe in the recreational use of marijuana,” he said, “and I could likewise fill this committee room with first responders, law enforcement officers and parents of dead children based on the effects of marijuana.”
As a protest rose from the assembled crowd that marijuana is not a lethal substance, Benvenuti continued, “In driving intoxicated, in child abuse, we’ve already heard today from folks who talk about intoxicants and its role in child fatality and child abuse.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/10/kentucky-republican-offers-to-fill-this-committee-room-with-people-killed-by-pot/
Kentucky Republican offers to ‘fill this committee room’ with people killed by pot
In a hearing on the legalization of medical marijuana in the state of Kentucky, Republican state Rep. Robert Benvenuti said that the risks of allowing medical marijuana in the state are too high. He cited Kentucky’s high rate of illegal and prescription drug abuse as reasons why the plant is too dangerous to be sold legally.
Legalization of medical marijuana will inevitably lead to the legalization of recreational marijuana use, said Benvenuti.
“I do not believe in the recreational use of marijuana,” he said, “and I could likewise fill this committee room with first responders, law enforcement officers and parents of dead children based on the effects of marijuana.”
As a protest rose from the assembled crowd that marijuana is not a lethal substance, Benvenuti continued, “In driving intoxicated, in child abuse, we’ve already heard today from folks who talk about intoxicants and its role in child fatality and child abuse.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/10/kentucky-republican-offers-to-fill-this-committee-room-with-people-killed-by-pot/
January 10, 2014
Australia’s national science agency has issued a rare apology to a seven-year-old girl for not being able to make her a fire-breathing dragon, blaming a lack of research into the mythical creatures.
The youngster, Sophie, wrote to a “Lovely Scientist” at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), politely asking whether they could make her a winged pet of her own.
“I would call it Toothless if it was a girl and if it is a boy I would name it Stuart,” she wrote in her letter, promising to feed it raw fish and play with it when she wasn’t at school.
Toothless is the name of a dragon befriended by a Viking teenager in the How to Train Your Dragon series of children’s books. The pair also feature in a popular film franchise. Stuart is her father’s name.
ophie’s request prompted an unusual apology from the 87-year-old institution, which admitted “we’ve missed something”.
“There are no dragons,” it said in a blog reply posted on its website this week.
“Over the past 87 odd years we have not been able to create a dragon or dragon eggs,” it said, adding that its scientists had observed dragonflies and even measured the body temperatures of the lizard known as a mallee dragon.
“But our work has never ventured into dragons of the mythical, fire breathing variety. And for this Australia, we are sorry.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/10/australias-national-science-agency-apologises-to-girl-for-failing-to-create-fire-breathing-dragon/
Australia’s national science agency apologizes to girl for failing to create fire-breathing dragon
Australia’s national science agency has issued a rare apology to a seven-year-old girl for not being able to make her a fire-breathing dragon, blaming a lack of research into the mythical creatures.
The youngster, Sophie, wrote to a “Lovely Scientist” at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), politely asking whether they could make her a winged pet of her own.
“I would call it Toothless if it was a girl and if it is a boy I would name it Stuart,” she wrote in her letter, promising to feed it raw fish and play with it when she wasn’t at school.
Toothless is the name of a dragon befriended by a Viking teenager in the How to Train Your Dragon series of children’s books. The pair also feature in a popular film franchise. Stuart is her father’s name.
ophie’s request prompted an unusual apology from the 87-year-old institution, which admitted “we’ve missed something”.
“There are no dragons,” it said in a blog reply posted on its website this week.
“Over the past 87 odd years we have not been able to create a dragon or dragon eggs,” it said, adding that its scientists had observed dragonflies and even measured the body temperatures of the lizard known as a mallee dragon.
“But our work has never ventured into dragons of the mythical, fire breathing variety. And for this Australia, we are sorry.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/10/australias-national-science-agency-apologises-to-girl-for-failing-to-create-fire-breathing-dragon/
January 10, 2014
Cheese is known for its stinky odor. But, cheeses at one exhibit at the Science Gallery Dublin in Trinity College Dublin come from an especially smelly source -- human toe, armpit, belly button and mouth bacteria.
Selfmade, which is part of the Grow Your Own…Life After Nature exhibition, features different “microbial sketches” of cheeses created with bacteria samples from various people. Each cheese supposedly smells similar to the donor’s body odor.
The team took different microbial strains from the subjects. Next, they identified microbes that made up that person’s specific scent using a method known as headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis, which can find volatile organic compounds in a sample.
Then, the cheese making process began. Milk was added to the microbe sample, and spoiled with a bacteria called Lactobacillus. When the sample curdled, the team separated the clumps and aged them with yeast to make different varieties of cheese.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-create-toe-belly-button-cheese-from-human-bacteria/
Scientists create toe, belly button cheese from human bacteria
Cheese is known for its stinky odor. But, cheeses at one exhibit at the Science Gallery Dublin in Trinity College Dublin come from an especially smelly source -- human toe, armpit, belly button and mouth bacteria.
Selfmade, which is part of the Grow Your Own…Life After Nature exhibition, features different “microbial sketches” of cheeses created with bacteria samples from various people. Each cheese supposedly smells similar to the donor’s body odor.
The team took different microbial strains from the subjects. Next, they identified microbes that made up that person’s specific scent using a method known as headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis, which can find volatile organic compounds in a sample.
Then, the cheese making process began. Milk was added to the microbe sample, and spoiled with a bacteria called Lactobacillus. When the sample curdled, the team separated the clumps and aged them with yeast to make different varieties of cheese.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-create-toe-belly-button-cheese-from-human-bacteria/
January 9, 2014
ALIEN PLANET (FULL VERSION DOCUMENTARY)
January 8, 2014
IWAS Wheelchair Fencing Grand Prix -- Hong Kong 2013 Thank You & See You Next Year
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January 8, 2014
Recent reports of a mountain lion or cougar stalking the campus of the University of Iowa prompted campus jokesters to tweet their surprise that Michelle Bachman was in town. A cougar, colloquially, is an attractive older woman who seeks out trysts with younger men, and to some, it seems that Bachmann fits the bill. This emphasis on appearance is nothing new for high-profile women who are anything but homely, and feminist scholars are quick to point out its potential detrimental effects on perceptions of female competence.
Of course, we don’t need to consider reactions to political candidates to understand this idea. There is a well-known tension between seeing someone as, and appreciating them for, a body as opposed to a mind. At least, that’s what parents tell their daughters when their school clothes veer too far towards the revealing.
Science has backed parents up on this. A recent study found that showing men pictures of sexualized women evokes less activity in areas of the brain responsible for mental state attribution—that is, the area of the brain that becomes active when we think we are looking at an entity capable of thought and planned action. Other studies have found similar results. When men see body shots of women as compared with face shots, they judge women to be less intelligent, likeable, ambitious and competent.
A new study by Kurt Gray and colleagues in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, however, suggests that this kind of objectification might not cause perceivers to see women as mindless bodies but instead cause a transformation in the kind of minds that they perceive.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-our-brains-turn-women-into-objects
Scientific American: How Our Brains Turn Women Into Objects
Recent reports of a mountain lion or cougar stalking the campus of the University of Iowa prompted campus jokesters to tweet their surprise that Michelle Bachman was in town. A cougar, colloquially, is an attractive older woman who seeks out trysts with younger men, and to some, it seems that Bachmann fits the bill. This emphasis on appearance is nothing new for high-profile women who are anything but homely, and feminist scholars are quick to point out its potential detrimental effects on perceptions of female competence.
Of course, we don’t need to consider reactions to political candidates to understand this idea. There is a well-known tension between seeing someone as, and appreciating them for, a body as opposed to a mind. At least, that’s what parents tell their daughters when their school clothes veer too far towards the revealing.
Science has backed parents up on this. A recent study found that showing men pictures of sexualized women evokes less activity in areas of the brain responsible for mental state attribution—that is, the area of the brain that becomes active when we think we are looking at an entity capable of thought and planned action. Other studies have found similar results. When men see body shots of women as compared with face shots, they judge women to be less intelligent, likeable, ambitious and competent.
A new study by Kurt Gray and colleagues in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, however, suggests that this kind of objectification might not cause perceivers to see women as mindless bodies but instead cause a transformation in the kind of minds that they perceive.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-our-brains-turn-women-into-objects
January 8, 2014
My third week since hip replacement!!!
Pain is down alot, and starting to work on strength training next week I go to outpatient Physical Therapy!
January 8, 2014
French space junkie Florence Porcel ready for one-way trip to Mars
(I've volunteered for the project too.)
A comfortable, middle-class Parisian life may be the envy of many people, but Florence Porcel would give it all up to be among the first Earthlings to settle on Mars — even with no option of return.
“I have always felt a bit cramped on Earth,” the self-confessed space junkie told AFP, delighted to be shortlisted with some 1,000 other aspiring voyagers for Mars One — a private project to colonise the Red Planet from 2024.
“I have always dreamt of exploring other worlds,” the 30-year-old journalist said.
“I am not a pilot, nor a doctor, nor an engineer; I was never going to become an astronaut through the normal channels.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/07/french-space-junkie-florence-porcel-ready-for-one-way-trip-to-mars/
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