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There used to be a People Eating Tasty Animals website to make fun of PETA.
 
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This is probably the first time in history that a billionaire will move into public housing vacated by a black family.
 
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nsaspook said:
This is probably the first time in history that a billionaire will move into public housing vacated by a black family.
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Here's a lovely satire on the topic:
Queen Offers to Restore British Rule Over United States
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/boro...rs-to-restore-british-rule-over-united-states
 
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nsaspook said:
This is probably the first time in history that a billionaire will move into public housing vacated by a black family.
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That's awesome. :oldlaugh:
 
nsaspook said:
This is probably the first time in history that a billionaire will move into public housing vacated by a black family.
It's also the first time - I think - that a 90 minutes crash tutorial led to a 24 hour CNN coverage.
 
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.
 
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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)
 
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
 
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.
 
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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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.