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Drunken Mall Santa

This following is a guest post by ex-pastor Pat Green, cross-posted with permission from his blog Night Moves: Diary of a Chicago Area Cabbie ex-Preacher Man. Santa is a very busy man, especially in December. Sometimes he has to subcontract for hire Santa’s to make public appearances at malls, department stores and events. Sometimes those Santa’s have parties. In December [Read More...]

The Science Behind ‘Genetically Modified Humans’

The media have been talking about “genetically modified humans” and “designer babies.” But what they’re really talking about is germ-line engineering: a process that could help eliminate heritable diseases. So why do some scientists want to pause the research?

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Humans and the Amazon: A 13,000-Year Coexistence

University of Exeter archaeologist Jose Iriarte talks to freelance journalist Cynthia Graber about his efforts to understand human activity in and influence on the Amazon region for the last 13 millennia.  

 

HAVE SEX LIKE A MAN!

Women are having sex like men!!! What does this mean and HOW DO WE STOP IT?! Andrea Tantaros Has Advice For Women, Stop Having Sex Like Men. Women are only as valuable as their sex, so get back in the kitchen and don’t vote and stuff…

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Fox News host Andrea Tantaros asserted on Wednesday that marriage was in decline because feminism had encouraged women to “freely” have “sex like a man.

Andrea Tantaros: Feminist moms don’t have husbands because they ‘give it up freely’http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/an...

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Crystal with “Forbidden Symmetry” Found in 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite

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High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) image showing that the real space structure consists of a homogeneous, quasiperiodic and ten-fold symmetric pattern / L. Bindi et al., 2015 Scientific Reports

A crystal with an “unorthodox” arrangement of atoms has been discovered inside an ancient meteorite that crashed into a remote area of northeastern Russia thousands of years ago. This is only the second time a natural so-called quasicrystal has been found. The work is published in Scientific Reports this week.

Drone Captures Breathtaking Footage Inside The Worlds Largest Cave

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Vimeo/Ryan Deboodt).

Hang Son Doong in Vietnam is the world’s largest cave. One of its chambers more than 3 miles long, 660 feet high and 490 feet wide. Hang Son Doong is essentially a microclimate; with its own river, jungle and beaches. Due to its sheer size and diversity of nature, Hang Son Doong would be impossible to comprehend from any other angle than the sky - so photographer Ryan Deboodt and his team spent 10 hours wondering around this incredible system of sink holes, sky lights and rivers with a drone. Check out the amazing footage.

 

Maps Have Been Lying To You Your Entire Life

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Strebe / Wikimedia Commons. A Mercator projection map.

The truth is that every map tells a lie, but they don’t all lie about the same thing. For example, Mercator projection maps—one of the most common in use today—exaggerate regions far from the equator. The Goode homolosine projection (pictured below) shows continents that are sized appropriately to one another, but with many interruptions and distortions of distance.

 

DNA Nanobots Set To Seek and Destroy Cancer Cells In Human Trial

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Cell-targeting DNA nano-robots bearing antibody-fragment payloads, from S.M. Douglas et al. 2012 Science / Campbell Strong, Shawn Douglas, & Gaël McGill

This year, researchers hope that tiny robots built entirely of DNA will help save a critically ill leukemia patient. These DNA nanobots are designed to seek out and destroy cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells unscathed. So far, they’ve only been tested in cell cultures and animal studies. 

17-Million-Year-Old Whale Fossil Gives Hints To The Dawn Of Humanity

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A 17-million-year-old whale fossil stranded far inland in Kenya now sheds light on the timing and starting elevation of East Africa's puzzling tectonic uplift / Southern Methodist University

The East African Plateau is at least 1,000 meters (3,280 ft) above sea level, but millions of years ago, the area was underwater. Now, according to researchers examining a prehistoric whale fossil unearthed at these high elevations, the East African Plateau began to rise above sea level about 17 million years ago—around the same time highly variable climate and drier conditions began to drive primate (including human) evolution.

Huge Solar Storm Produces Spectacular Northern Lights

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Jamen Percy/ Shutterstock

Members of the Slooh expedition team have been busy bees this week, setting off to capture a live feed of the Northern Lights on Tuesday and also the total solar eclipse tomorrow from the Faroe Islands. Of course, we’re very grateful to them for bringing us some jaw-dropping footage, and we can’t wait for the big event tomorrow.