"I am just going outside and may be some time" Lawrence Oates, leaving his tent to die on Scott's return from his doomed South Pole expedition.
A recent study found that kids who were physically or psychologically bullied by siblings suffered comparable or even worse mental health outcomes than if they were bullied by neighbors or classmates. The Federal response to this information should be interesting.
In the last several years over 5 million pages of investigative information on the Kennedy assassination have been released.
In the last several years over 5 million pages of investigative information on the Kennedy assassination have been released.
Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor who resigned in 2008 following a prostitution scandal, says he made the decision to re-enter politics over the Fourth of July weekend, and that he will run for New York City comptroller. He calls politics "a contact sport" as if there is the possibility of unnecessary roughness with regard to his prostitution seeking behavior. He will be running in the same election as Weiner. One wonders if we as voters will soon be unable to apply any criteria to political candidates.
mumpsimus: (MUMP-suh-muhs) noun: 1. A view stubbornly held in spite of clear evidence that it's wrong. 2. A person who holds such a view. etymology: According to an old story, a priest used the nonsense word mumpsimus (instead of Latin sumpsimus) in the Mass. Even when told it was incorrect, he insisted that he had been saying it for 40 years and wouldn't change it. The expression is "quod in ore sumpsimus" ('which we have taken into the mouth'). Earliest documented use: 1530.
The Greek military javelineer in 300BC could throw a javelin as tall as a man over two hundred yards with a sling, fifty yards with accuracy to two feet. Closer he could fire it through a board two inches thick.
mumpsimus: (MUMP-suh-muhs) noun: 1. A view stubbornly held in spite of clear evidence that it's wrong. 2. A person who holds such a view. etymology: According to an old story, a priest used the nonsense word mumpsimus (instead of Latin sumpsimus) in the Mass. Even when told it was incorrect, he insisted that he had been saying it for 40 years and wouldn't change it. The expression is "quod in ore sumpsimus" ('which we have taken into the mouth'). Earliest documented use: 1530.
The Greek military javelineer in 300BC could throw a javelin as tall as a man over two hundred yards with a sling, fifty yards with accuracy to two feet. Closer he could fire it through a board two inches thick.
"He dresses in bohemian fashion both at his office and in his leisure hours."--from an MI5 report on George Orwell. Serving and protecting.
News from the home of the upcoming World Cup and Olympics: One man has been arrested in northern Brazil after a referee who fatally stabbed an amateur player over his refusal to leave the field was decapitated by a mob, police said on Saturday. 12 Brazilian cities host the 2014 soccer World Cup and Rio de Janeiro hosts the Olympic Games in 2016.
News from the home of the upcoming World Cup and Olympics: One man has been arrested in northern Brazil after a referee who fatally stabbed an amateur player over his refusal to leave the field was decapitated by a mob, police said on Saturday. 12 Brazilian cities host the 2014 soccer World Cup and Rio de Janeiro hosts the Olympic Games in 2016.
Who was.... Gene Cernan?
In the tradition of the Heroes of Beslan, Islamic militants attacked a Nigerian boarding school before dawn Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. At least 30 people were killed in the deadliest attack yet on schools in Nigeria's embattled northeast. Apparently there was no nunnery available.
In the tradition of the Heroes of Beslan, Islamic militants attacked a Nigerian boarding school before dawn Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. At least 30 people were killed in the deadliest attack yet on schools in Nigeria's embattled northeast. Apparently there was no nunnery available.
Question: You are given two ropes and a lighter. Each of the two ropes has the following property: if you light one end of the rope, it will take exactly one hour to burn to the other end. It doesn’t necessarily burn at a uniform rate. How can you measure a period of 45 minutes? Answer below.
A recent PEW survey found "climate change" twenty -first and last of the top twenty-one concerns of Americans. Yet this topic was the focus if his recent policy speech, the only policy aside from posturing he has made recently. His plan is to wipe out domestic coal plants and the industries and workers that support them. U.S. CO2 production has been dropping rapidly over the years--far and away more than any other industrialized nation. One new coal plant is built every week in the emerging economies so the climate impact he hopes to make is obscure.
A study published in the scholarly journal Neurology says that, although there is no cure for dementia, "reading, writing, and playing games" can slow the disease's progress.
"Where 99.3% of women report having been sexually harassed & rape is epidemic — Egypt — [it's] natural to inquire: what's the predominant religion?" Novelist Joyce Carol Oates wrote this after a discussion on the sexual harassment reports during the Egyptian riots. She drew some criticizing fire and qualified her position as follows: "Blaming religion(s) for cruel behavior of believers may be a way of not wishing to acknowledge they'd be just as cruel if secular." Apparently bright people have difficulty with causation vs. association. Confusion of the two has another name: prejudice.
Golden Oldie:
Melatonin promotes sleep. The pineal gland in the brain releases melatonin throughout the body after it has been dark for a certain number of hours. Studies of teenagers around the globe have found a significant disparity between adult and adolescent melatonin production. Adults perk up from around 9am until 2pm, then again from around 6pm until 10pm, a pattern that is partly influenced by melatonin release. However, during puberty, this shifts by several hours so adolescent brains do not start releasing melatonin until around eleven o'clock at night and keep producing the hormone well past sunrise. Adults, meanwhile, have little-to-no melatonin in their bodies when they wake up. With all that melatonin surging through their bloodstream, teenagers who are forced to be awake before eight in the morning are often barely alert and want nothing more than to give in to their body's demands and fall back asleep. Because of the shift in their circadian rhythm, the culture is asking the teenager to live with jet lag all the time.
President Richard Nixon had speechwriter William Safire prepare a condolence speech for delivery in the event that Armstrong and Aldrin became marooned on the Moon's surface and could not be rescued.
Answer: Light both ends of rope A and one end of rope B. After 30 minutes, rope A will be completely burned up and there will be 30 minutes of rope B left. Light the other end of rope B; it will burn up in 15 minutes. Total time elapsed since starting the ropes on fire: 45 minutes.
AAAAaaaaannnnnnnddddd.....a picture:
View from a landing craft, D-Day
View from a landing craft, D-Day
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