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The discussion revolves around sharing unusual and funny news stories. One highlighted case involves artist Peter Doig, who is being sued for $5 million by a man claiming a painting is his, despite Doig's insistence that he did not create it. Another story features inmates in Texas who broke out of their cell to save an unconscious guard, raising questions about their behavior. Additionally, a couple of dogs in the UK were caught damaging cars, leading to their eventual capture and a search for adoptive homes. The thread showcases a variety of bizarre incidents, emphasizing the oddities found in everyday news.
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BillTre said:
A plan by Himanshu Bansal, an orthopedic surgeon in India, to give around 20 brain-dead people a mix of interventions including injections of mesenchymal stem cells and peptides, and transcranial laser stimulation and median nerve stimulation to revive brain-dead accident victims has been shut down by the Indian Council of Medical Research.
Maybe he should apply for tenure at Herbert West's Miskatonic University. I think his odds are good.
 
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Just found out another strange record:
This is the track length of the world's largest miniature railroad: 15,400 m, planned est. 20,000 m,
but even this won't be the record holder. I've found TIM. His track is est. 27,000 m long!
And the winner is ... once more ... (have a look at TIM's link)
 
  • #108
http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/jailbird/oregon-jailbirds-903821
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"An Oregon man arrested Monday posed for a mug shot with his pet parrot on his shoulder."
 
  • #109
Oscillating language - Waves wherever I look
Researchers analysing several centuries of literature have spotted a strange trend in our language patterns: the words we use tend to fall in and out of favour in a cycle that lasts around 14 years.

Scientists ran computer scripts to track patterns stretching back to the year 1700 through the Google Ngram Viewer database, which monitors language use across more than 4.5 million digitised books. In doing so, they identified a strange oscillation across 5,630 common nouns.

http://www.sciencealert.com/the-words-we-use-change-in-mysterious-14-year-cycles
 
  • #111
This only gets "weird" at the end, I don't wonder why the general public's choices are for the most part ignored.
http://www.ibtimes.com/four-new-super-heavy-elements-have-now-been-officially-christened-2454703

Ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium, and ununoctium - these were the temporary names given to four new super-heavy elements by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) back in December. Now, a year later, these elements have been bestowed official names and have earned their spots in the periodic table.

Over the past five months, the teams that created the elements sent in their suggestions to the IUPAC. During this period, comments were also received from members of the general public, some of whom suggested names like octarine - the "color of magic" from Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels - and Trumpium, after the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
 
  • #112
1oldman2 said:
comments were also received from members of the general public
The UK Science Ministry learned what those comments could lead to... a research ship named Boaty McBoatface!
 
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jtbell said:
The UK Science Ministry learned what those comments could lead to... a research ship named Boaty McBoatface!
Yep, sometimes I'd wish IRL there were mentors like here to remove public nonsense ... (lately more often). Unfortunately this didn't work out well either, which leaves us with Sir Charles Popper: "Democracy is awful, but yet the best we have."
 
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jtbell said:
what those comments could lead to
It was with the greatest of difficulty that I refrained from making a comment on "unstable elements" :wink:
 
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Have a Flaming Scottish Christmas?
 
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A company in London is looking to hire someone who can translate emojis:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-38287908

The role will involve explaining cross-cultural misunderstandings in the use of the mini pictures, and compiling a monthly trends report.

Agency boss Jurga Zilinskiene said emojis were a "potential growth area" as "inconsistencies" had developed in their use.
 
  • #123
fresh_42 said:
Do we know whether the protesters were from France?
Sounds like udder chaos!
 
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  • #124
Evo said:
Sounds like udder chaos!
Probably Chudder Chaos.
 
  • #125
Maybe they'll go after the Gloucester Cheese Rolling contest next.

 
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I'm not sure whether this would have been better posted on Science Jokes ...
http://www.sciencealert.com/new-study-calculates-how-long-humanity-could-survive-a-zombie-apocalypse
Physics students have calculated how long it would take for humans to be wiped out by an infectious zombie apocalypse, and the results are pretty depressing.

The study suggests that after just 100 days - a little over three months - less than 300 humans would be left alive on the entire planet.
And have a look on how seriously they meant it (SIR models and all the stuff):
https://physics.le.ac.uk/journals/index.php/pst/article/view/956/679
https://physics.le.ac.uk/journals/index.php/pst/article/view/965/683

I just saw it's a British url ... (cp. the previous post)
 
  • #127
New plumbing techniques, house of beer:

 
  • #128
More proof that folks here in the South don't know how to handle snow:

Snow Mountain tubing park closed due to -- snow (WSB-TV, Atlanta)

Fortunately, my town received just a light dusting of snow, maybe an inch. Then the sun came out in the afternoon and melted most of it.
 
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People in Portland don't know how to handle snow:

http://www.kptv.com/clip/13021521/portland-motorist-drives-wrong-way-down-i-5-during-snowstorm
 
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nsaspook said:
People in Portland don't know how to handle snow:

http://www.kptv.com/clip/13021521/portland-motorist-drives-wrong-way-down-i-5-during-snowstorm
Which snow? Kids would have trouble to gather enough for a snowman.
 
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fresh_42 said:
Which snow? Kids would have trouble to gather enough for a snowman.

You're right, my kids just made this instead. The Oregon snow chicken.
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I just got back from Portland.
They have some lousy snow drivers.
A major bridge was completely blocked by two spun-out cars (at a time when the snow was easy to drive on (cakey, not slippery)).
 
  • #133
I knew this from the southern part of US, but Oregon should be used to snow, shouldn't it?
 
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BillTre said:
Too many Hipsters?
Regret the legalization already?
 
  • #137
fresh_42 said:
I knew this from the southern part of US, but Oregon should be used to snow, shouldn't it?
Not really. We haven't had any significant snow since December of 2008.
I realized this last month when I couldn't figure out why when I put my chains on, they were inside out.
I had purchased my truck in 2009 and have never had to put them on.
It turns out, the image on the instructions was printed backwards.
I fixed the image with a sharpie, as I'm sure I'll have forgotten all this, when it snows again, in the year 2025.
 
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OmCheeto said:
Not really. We haven't had any significant snow since December of 2008.

Most people don't realize that Oregon snow is different because it's 100% pure organic fresh from Hawaii. No added chemicals or compounds are found in the snow here unlike snow that falls in places like Detroit or Cleveland. This makes 1 inch of Oregon snow equivalent to 2 feet of fly-over country snow so this last snow storm is the local equivalent of an ice-age.



 
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  • #139
nsaspook said:
You're right, my kids just made this instead. The Oregon snow chicken.
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Are you going to let 'Couverittes outdo your kids?

2017.01.12.pdx.metro.somewhat.taller.snowman.jpg


Get them a ladder!

ps. PF legal disclaimer: This is a dangerous (aka, someone is going to die) activity, and OmCheeto does not actually encourage this.
 
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The Hall of Presidents and First Ladies in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania has closed, and all the wax figures will be auctioned off tomorrow.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/enterta...x-figures-to-be-auctioned-20161205-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/gettysburg-presidential-memorabilia-.html

I wonder how much Millard Fillmore will go for. :-p

However, you'll still be able to get a similar historical experience at the Presidents Hall of Fame on US 27 in Clermont, Florida. My wife and I drove past it many times on our way to visit my parents in Fort Lauderdale, but we never stopped there.
 
  • #142
Wyoming proposal would require utilities to use fossil fuels
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/...tilities-fossil-fuels-185233028--finance.html
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A group of Wyoming lawmakers is bucking the U.S. trend of supporting renewable energy with a plan to do the opposite: Fine utilities if they provide energy produced by wind or the sun.

Blustery Wyoming ranks among the top states for wind-energy potential, but the coal, oil and natural gas industries are the backbone of the state's economy.
So what happened to the free-market philosophy? I thought the idea was to let businesses decide how best to run their business, and not have government dictate how a business should run itself.
 
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Astronuc said:
So what happened to the free-market philosophy? I thought the idea was to let businesses decide how best to run their business, and not have government dictate how a business should run itself.
Unless your politicians are funded by particular industries.
 
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https://www.theguardian.com/science...asel-display-rotterdam-natural-history-museum
The stone marten is the latest dead animal to go on display at the museum. It joins a sparrow that was shot after it sabotaged a world record attempt by knocking over 23,000 dominoes; a hedgehog that got fatally stuck in a McDonalds McFlurry pot, and a catfish that fell victim to a group of men in the Netherlands who developed a tradition for drinking vast amounts of beer and swallowing fish from their aquarium. The catfish turned out to be armoured, and on being swallowed raised its spines. The defence did not save the fish, but it put the 28-year-old man who tried to swallow it in intensive care for a week.
 
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Man's pacemaker data leads to arson and insurance fraud charges
Compton told the police that when he saw his house burning on September 19th last year, he packed his suitcases, threw them out his bedroom window and carried them to his car. However, since has a serious heart condition and other medical issues that would have made it extremely difficult for him to do all those, the cops were able to secure a search warrant for his pacemaker data.
 
  • #150
EnumaElish said:
That picture is like an earworm. It keeps playing in my head.
You mean earsnake?
 

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