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'One such example of those studies is the National Science Foundation’s awarding of a $548,459 grant to the University of Michigan to look at “Microaggressions in Engineering Student Teams: Effects on Learning, Performance, and Persistence.” The thesis is that evil urinal users make women so uncomfortable that they are literally chasing them out of the field of engineering.'

'“In developing countries food allergy is not nearly the problem that it is in industrialized countries.”1 While the peanut is revolutionizing famine relief and saving lives, it’s being banned in schools across the United States as if it were a weapon of mass destruction. Is there something uniquely unhealthy or deficient about the biological makeup of children in the richest country on the planet?'

Something I'm learning as I study different cultures and our vast global timeline: What handwringing liberals never seem to understand is that no culture has a monopoly on genocide and cruelty. Whether you're a Nazi, an Israeli, a Palestinian, a 'toxic white male', a Viking or a soyboy carrying out gay-ops for Antifa, the capacity for atrocity on the national stage is always lurking.

“Is something wrong?” I asked. I held a stack of papers in my hand. And in the waiting room a crowd of refugees were waiting to be interviewed. But something was amiss here. “Yes,” she sobbed. “I don’t know where to turn. They tell you to leave immediately but they won’t help you get out.”

"No more single issue candidates. You don't have to elect a candidate just because he's against the public funding of abortion. You can just vote on the individual issue, the line item in the budget. It reminds me of The United Way. You can check off where you want your money to go."

'Weeks before his death, he insisted, “Today, I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration.… I assume full political responsibility. If anyone should ask for forgiveness, it was the Marxists, communists.”

He's not entirely wrong.

“We practically wiped this nation clean of Marxists.” – Pinochet

But were they all legitimate Marxists?

“The armed forces have acted today solely from the patriotic inspiration of saving the country from the tremendous chaos into which it was being plunged by the Marxist government of Salvador Allende.…" - Pinochet being truthful before inevitable corruption of power warped his mind.

‘The famine conditions in this province are heartrending... Dogs feasting on human flesh. Skeletons in thousands to be seen everywhere. As we journeyed over the road, overand over again our chairbearers had to carry us over dead bodies of people who had died on the road. One very sad sight was a poor victim kneeling before an idol shrine – dead.’

Why the hell would you admit to having chairbearers?

'Fidel’s passion for bovine genetics is a well-established historical fact. In the 1980s, this crackpot passion turned into an obsession. In 1982, Fidel made Ubre Blanca into a celebrity, using her as propaganda tool. The whole of Cuba watched on television as she set a world record, producing 109.5 liters (about 29 gallons) of milk in a single day, irrefutable proof of the Comandante’s agronomic genius!'

“There are thousands of applicants registered before your husband. He has at least eight years to wait.” The expression on the woman’s face showed that she did not believe Joe’s words. “But you will just have to do something,” she insisted. “He will die there. If war comes, they will never let him out of that place.” Joe shook his head slowly. The little woman began to cry as she gathered up the letters.'

'In 1967, my family was split up in a way experienced by many other Cubans. My uncle and my grandmother, disappointed by the Revolution, managed to settle in the United States. I did not see the people who had brought me up for another forty years.'

'Sensory evaluations have proven the supremacy of marbling time and again. American meat scientists believe in marbling the way American physicists believe in atoms and American biologists believe in cells. It’s at the leading edge of research where things get more interesting, where beneath the refreshingly hard-and-fast truths like marbling awaits a world of intrigue and complexity.'

'In Scandinavia, battles that erupt between cloudberry harvesters in Finland, Sweden and Norway have caused foreign affairs ministries to set up departments for “cloudberry diplomacy.”'

'Both Israelis and Palestinians see the cactus pear as a symbol of their people. For Israelis, it represents their own prickly exteriors and sweet interiors. Palestinians see it as a symbol of patience, the patience it takes to peel and prepare the fruit, as well as the patience needed to cope with their ongoing challenges.'

'Within the tens of thousands of edible plant species, there are thousands of varieties—and new ones are continually evolving. Magic beans, sundrops, cannonballs, delicious monsters, zombi apples, gingerbread plums, swan egg pears, candle fruits, bastard cherries, bignays,bilimbis and biribas. As Hamlet might’ve said: “There are more fruits in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”'

'Although a select few species dominate international trade, our whole planet is brimming with fruits that are inaccessible, ignored and even forbidden. There are mangoes that taste like piña coladas. Orange cloudberries. White blueberries. Blue apricots. Red lemons. Golden raspberries. Pink cherimoyas. Willy Wonka’s got nothing on Mother Nature.'

'She knew, too, that at night some of her neighbours went into the fields to cut the flesh from the corpses and eat it. She pointed to a neighbouring village, another collection of huts across the fields, where a woman had killed her own baby. She and her husband had eaten it. Afterwards she went mad and the secret came out. That winter, said Mrs Liu, human beings turned into wolves.'