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I found Will Self and the rather brilliant José González. picked by Turtle 2 years ago

Few people recall the man who captured and disarmed the gunman (Sirhan Sirhan) who shot Bobby Kennedy. That man was Rosie Grier, an American Football sensation (Super Bowl Champion, 2 time pro-bowler, member of the Ram’s “Fearsome Foursome,” and 5 time All Pro defensive tackle.) On the night of the assassination, Grier was the bodyguard for Kennedy’s pregnant wife. picked by 2manyusernames 1 month ago

It is exceedingly difficult to convey exactly how much we are spending on all these bailouts. Whenever I start talking trillions (versus mere billions), I get puzzled looks from people. Humans have a hard time conceptualizing any number that large. I wanted a graphic way to clearly show how astonishingly ginormous the amounts involved were. picked by bornbad 5 months ago

Israel states that the Jewish people arose in the Land of Israel and was exiled from its homeland. Schoolchildren are taught that this happened during the period of Roman rule, in 70 CE. The nation remained loyal to its land, to which it began to return after two millennia of exile. Wrong, says the historian Shlomo Zand. There never was a Jewish people, only a Jewish religion, and the exile also n... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Fear is a powerful emotion and neuroscientists have for the first time located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain. Fear conditioning is a form of Pavlovian, or associative, learning and is considered to be a model system for understanding human phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety disorders. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

If biking or swimming in the nude is your thing, apparently you are not alone with Nude Recreation Week celebrating its 32nd year this year-- but participants advise not to forget the sunscreen. picked by kakana 4 months ago

Scientists have known for some time that most major groups of complex animals appeared in the fossils record during the Cambrian Explosion, a seemingly rapid evolutionary event that occurred 542 million years ago. Now paleontologists have identified another explosive evolutionary event that occurred about 33 million years earlier among macroscopic life forms unrelated to the Cambrian animals. They... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Notable mushroom clouds that synthetically and naturally occurred in the world. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

THIS IS THE COOLEST THING SINCE THE INVENTION OF THE TV REMOTE CONTROL

Just Point and click! Oh wait Plime needs to be added to it!! picked by chappy 1 year ago