Interesting reads
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Video Games Are Better Than Real Life
Many Americans have replaced work hours with game play — and ended up happier. Which wouldn’t surprise most gamers.
Gaming is better than real life
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I heard about this guy and I wondered why yanks were unaware of the humble mince and cheese
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10716170
Well wonder no more
http://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mince-pie-the-real-american-pie/Content?oid=1267308
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Welcome to the Future Range of the Woolly Mammoth
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with extinct creatures.
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@jegga Not sold on bringing back sabre-toothed tigers...
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@antipodean quite keen on direwolves though. I reckon they'll probably fund this with hunting safaris on old bull mammoths.
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@antipodean quite keen on direwolves though. I reckon they'll probably fund this with hunting safaris on old bull mammoths.
Didn't realise they hung on till 2000 bcThere's always some great stat I can never remember re the Pyramids were 1000 years old when the last Mammoths died
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Probably more a 'must read' for non-Vaxers as it is probably the clearest explanation of why they should vax their children i have seen. Spells things out in terms even morons should understand.
Yes, we’re going there: Should you vaccinate your child?
It's always a good time to talk about vaccination, but with the topic back in the news thanks the major measles outbreak in Auckland, we're resharing Dr Jess Berentson-Shaw's deep dive into the issue from March 2017.
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
I heard about this guy and I wondered why yanks were unaware of the humble mince and cheese
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10716170
Well wonder no more
http://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mince-pie-the-real-american-pie/Content?oid=1267308
Visited a pie shop in East Boston last year.
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This is interesting, salmon farms here have been called "piggeries in the ocean" for the amount of waste they create and in Norway and Canada the farms have caused outbreaks of lice and diseases that have caused wild salmon to die off. Also if you read up on how prawns and shrimp are farmed in Thailand and India you'd probably never eat them again , particularly as unlike in the states we don't test for Rotonene which is known to cause cancer.
The bizarre and inspiring story of Iowa's fish farmers
Can farmers in Iowa help save the world's seafood supply?
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Date: May 31, 1889
Location: South Fork, East Conemaugh, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Deaths: 2,209
Property damage: US$17 millionBefore hitting the main part of Johnstown, the flood surge hit the Cambria Iron Works at the town of Woodvale, sweeping up railroad cars and barbed wire in its moil. Of Woodvale's 1,100 residents, 314 died in the flood. Boilers exploded when the flood hit the Gautier Wire Works, causing black smoke seen by the Johnstown residents. Miles of its barbed wire became entangled in the debris in the flood waters.
Some 57 minutes after the South Fork Dam collapsed, the flood hit Johnstown. The residents were caught by surprise as the wall of water and debris bore down, traveling at 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) and reaching a height of 60 feet (18 m) in places. Some people, realizing the danger, tried to escape by running towards high ground but most people were hit by the surging floodwater. Many people were crushed by pieces of debris, and others became caught in barbed wire from the wire factory upstream and/or drowned. Those who reached attics, or managed to stay afloat on pieces of floating debris, waited hours for help to arrive.
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@Frye said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
I heard about this guy and I wondered why yanks were unaware of the humble mince and cheese
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10716170
Well wonder no more
http://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mince-pie-the-real-american-pie/Content?oid=1267308
Visited a pie shop in East Boston last year.
Pretty good pies actually! Very popular with the locals too.I've been there too. Great pies and sausage rolls.
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http://www.macleans.ca/society/why-americans-have-come-to-worship-their-own-ignorance/
Its about Americans, but it applies world over
We’ve also internalized the idea that everybody needs to go to college, which ended up diluting what colleges can offer. it’s now a mass experience, and college is taking the place of high school, including things like remedial English and math. When it comes to established knowledge, people who have gained a higher education no longer really know that much more than the average citizen. They’ve just stayed in school a little longer than a high school graduate, but they are not necessarily any better-informed or smarter. Forty or 50 years ago, the difference in education and level of awareness about important issues was distinctly different between college- and non-college-educated people. That’s one of the reasons why—this is a hypothesis on my part—the distinction that pollsters normally make between college-educated and non-college-educated respondents isn’t as strong an indicator of differences in voting as it used to be.
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@nzzp said in Interesting reads:
This was a far better flood
It killed someone, but that's the price you pay for beer
I see your flood and raise you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood Six times the size!
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