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- When Senator Joe McCarthy Defended Nazis
- X-Men Stained Glass Window
- This Bike Is Powered by a Washing Machine Motor
- Poor Plushie
- Giant Anaconda Lunges at Truck
- Parrot Outperforms Harvard Students in Memory Tests
- The Voting Fraud Story Behind Green Onion Chex
- A ‘Viral’ New Bird Song in Canada Is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune
- Hey, That’s Not A Salaryman, That’s A Bird!
- An Unexpected Reel
- Chinese Model Becomes An Internet Sensation With Her Fast Posing Skills
- Bringing Andrology Into The Light
- The Woman Who Made Soap
- Mutant Potatoes Have Taken Over This Flat
| When Senator Joe McCarthy Defended Nazis Posted: 07 Jul 2020 02:45 AM PDT
In December of 1944, a unit of Germany's First SS Panzer Division overwhelmed a group of US troops near the Belgian city of Malmedy. The GIs surrendered, and were rounded up as POWs. The Germans then killed 84 of them, which is a war crime. After the war, the American military tried 75 Germans for murder for the Malmedy massacre and related war crimes, convicted all but one, and sentenced 43 to death. But that didn't happen. In 1949, the Army convened a senate investigation to determine whether US military investigators and prosecutors had tortured, coerced, or otherwise mistreated the German defendants in the name of retribution. The senate investigatory subcommittee officially had three members, but the junior senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, was allowed to sit in and observe.
McCarthy did not sit in and observe. He questioned, accused, and bullied those involved, as if he were trying out an early version of the tactics he later used to smear opponents and galvanize the public against perceived communists. In short, McCarthy dominated the proceedings. Read the story of Joseph McCarthy and the investigation into the Malmedy trials at Smithsonian. (Image source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)  |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2020 06:59 PM PDT
I'm a stained glass artist from Montreal and I just wanted to share my latest piece. I had been wanting to make this window for over a year but other bigger projects kept coming up (which is great!). It's 25" x 16" and made with the Tiffany style copper foil technique. Almost every piece here was carefully painted and went through multiple kiln firings, took about two weeks to complete. Follow me on Instagram to see other stuff I've made! |
| This Bike Is Powered by a Washing Machine Motor Posted: 06 Jul 2020 06:04 PM PDT
Redditor jimmythecraftguy calls his creation the "Spin Cycle." Hack-A-Day describes this remarkable machine that can reach 68 MPH: The drive train of this bicycle starts with a brushless DC motor from a washing machine. It has been slightly modified to run on 48 volts, and is installed inside the triangle of the bike's frame. It has a chain driving the bike's crank, retaining the original chain and gearing setup [...]The crank has also been specially modified to include a freewheel, a necessary feature so that the motor can operate without spinning the pedals. Everything except the motor has been custom fabricated including the mounts and the electronics.
Here's Jimmy riding the Spin Cycle at a leisurely 40 MPH. |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2020 05:08 PM PDT
A Twitter user shared a photo of a plushie hanging from the car, easily stained and drenched from travel. The plushie, a character from the anime series Madoka Magica, looks cute as hell, so for the first time I saw the picture, I asked myself, "why would the owner do that?" Scrolling through the comments, I see some people say that the plushie got what it deserved. Do you think so? image via Twitter |
| Giant Anaconda Lunges at Truck Posted: 06 Jul 2020 05:08 PM PDT
A woman in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil has spotted this particular snake on her farm three times. It's actually the snake's farm and he's raising humans, who are apparently now ripe for harvest. -via Born in Space |
| Parrot Outperforms Harvard Students in Memory Tests Posted: 06 Jul 2020 05:08 PM PDT
Let us grant that Griffin the African grey parrot did not crush his competition (after all, he's just a Texas A&M graduate), but he did as well or better than Harvard University undergraduate students in memory tests. And he did much better than 6-8 year old children. The Harvard Gazette describes the research led by Dr. Irene Pepperberg: It worked like this: Tiny colored pom-poms were covered with cups and then shuffled, so participants had to track which object was under which cup. The experimenter then showed them a pom-pom that matched one of the same color hidden under one of the cups and asked them to point at the cup. (Griffin, of course, used his beak to point.) The participants were tested on tracking two, three, and four different-colored pom-poms. The position of the cups were swapped zero to four times for each of those combinations. Griffin and the students did 120 trials; the children did 36. The game tests the brain's ability to retain memory of items that are no longer in view, and then updating when faced with new information, like a change in location. This cognitive system is known as visual working memory and is the one of the foundations for intelligent behavior. So how did the parrot fare? Griffin outperformed the 6- to 8-year-olds across all levels on average, and he performed either as well as or slightly better than the 21 Harvard undergraduates on 12 of the 14 of trial types. -via Marginal Revolution | Image: Harvard University |
| The Voting Fraud Story Behind Green Onion Chex Posted: 06 Jul 2020 12:08 PM PDT
You may have seen a strange Korean ad that went viral about a week ago promoting Green Onion Chex cereal. The limited edition cereal is the culmination of a story that began 16 years ago. It started when Kellogg's had a great idea for a marketing stunt to promote Chocolate Chex in Korea.
See, they couldn't accept Chaka as the winner, because there was no such product, but the vote manipulation left a bad taste in the public's mouth. Inexplicably, Kellogg's repeated the disaster in Japan in 2012, pitting Chocolate Chex against a wasabi flavored rival. But 16 years later, Green Onion Chex is a reality. They should remove the sugar and release it in the US, where savory Chex Mix is as popular as the cold cereal version. Read more about the promotion that went wrong at the Korea Herald. -via Metafilter |
| A ‘Viral’ New Bird Song in Canada Is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune Posted: 06 Jul 2020 12:08 PM PDT
Wild birds often sing one song their entire lives. It's most likely the same song that other nearby birds of their species sing, although there are geographical variations, as if they had developed a local dialect. But a new song has gone viral over the past couple of decades, and has spread to Canadian white-throated sparrows across the country.
Scientists have been tracking the prevalence of the new song with help from birdwatchers who share birdsong on an online database. Read about the research, and hear the song, at Gizmodo. |
| Hey, That’s Not A Salaryman, That’s A Bird! Posted: 06 Jul 2020 07:49 AM PDT
An odd-looking bird was standing outside Shinjuku Station, catching the attention of passersby and train passengers. The biped stood at the entrance of the station, looking like a shaggy half-bird, half-salaryman. Twitter user @rukikikikiki photographed the bird and posted the photo on the Internet, asking if people knew what type of bird it was, as SoraNews24 details: Avian enthusiasts were quick to identify the bird as "mizogoi" in Japanese. In English, mizogoi is commonly known as the Japanese night heron, a species found in East Asia which breeds in Japan — although it's also been spotted in in Korea and eastern Russia — and spends its winters in Indonesia and the Philippines. The bird is rarely seen in downtown Tokyo, if at all, as it prefers to live in a dense, damp, forest-like habitat. Furthermore, the Japanese night heron is listed as an endangered species, making the reason for its appearance outside Shinjuku Station even more of a mystery. image via SoraNews24 |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2020 07:49 AM PDT
Lari Tammivuori and Viljami Juutilainen were only expecting to get bottle caps and nails while they were magnetic fishing. What they got was an usual object: an old hand grenade! The boys brought it to Juutilainen's mother, Maarit, to examine the item, as UPI details: "It was old-fashioned looking and pretty rusty. I said it could be a grenade. His aunt is a police officer so I sent her a few pictures [of the grenade]. We were given clear instructions to step away from it and wait for police to arrive," Maarit Juutilainen said. Police cordoned off the area and a Defense Forces team was summoned to take the object away. Officials confirmed it was an explosive device, but did not disclose how old the object was or whether it still was live. image via yle |
| Chinese Model Becomes An Internet Sensation With Her Fast Posing Skills Posted: 06 Jul 2020 05:59 AM PDT
Man, I wish I could pose as fast as she does and have my photos look as equally great! This model from eastern China can strike two poses a second. She also models a whopping 485 outfits a day. Now that's skill! |
| Bringing Andrology Into The Light Posted: 06 Jul 2020 05:35 AM PDT
Perhaps one of the most depressing things that can happen to a man who is looking forward to being a father is finding out that he is infertile. That's what Adam Glogau felt after he and his wife tried for years to have a child, to no avail, and he fell into a downward spiral. Glogau cuts a dynamic figure with glowing blue eyes and rimless glasses. Now 39, he is an eloquent speaker and a youth pastor at the Grace Downtown church in Winchester, Virginia, which is known for providing support to victims of the opioid epidemic. Six years ago, however, Glogau's life was coming apart. He and his wife had fostered two children, but the arrangement ended badly, with the children going to another family. Then Glogau lost the job he'd held for seven years. "I felt like I was a failed father, I was a failed husband, and now I'm a failed man because I can't keep a job," he says. "It was whammy after whammy after whammy." Although men are just as likely as women to have fertility problems, ads for fertility treatment typically feature women holding giggling babies in the air or intimately touching a child's face. Yet research suggests that reproductive issues have a profound emotional impact on men, too. Across the globe, masculinity is marked, in part, by the ability to have children — a demonstration "that you're a fertile, virile man," says Esmée Hanna, a sociologist at De Montfort University in the United Kingdom. In her research on men experiencing infertility, Hanna has documented feelings of loss, anger, frustration, and guilt. With this rather woman-centric approach to the problem, many men suffer from infertility in silence. Shadowed by taboo and embarrassment, the emotional experience of male infertility has been tucked away and ignored by the medical industry and often by men themselves. Compared with women, men are less likely to want to talk about their struggles, says Kelly Da Silva, a support coordinator at Care Fertility in the U.K. But men are now starting to speak out, and innovative practitioners are figuring out how to meet their needs. "You have to do it their way," says California-based urologist Paul Turek. "You have to do it anonymously, quietly, and it has to be valuable for them.". And so maybe it is time to bring this medical field into the light and out of the darkness. Know more about this topic, as well as the history of andrology, over at Undark. (Image Credit: Bobjgalindo/ WIkimedia Commons) |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2020 05:35 AM PDT
Leonarda Cianciulli was a shopkeeper and a part-time fortuneteller in Corregio, Italy. She had lived a tragic life, including giving birth to seventeen children, thirteen of whom died in infancy or childhood. Cianciulli cooked, she made soap, she dabbled in matchmaking, and she was fiercely superstitious. And eventually she became a serial killer.
The killings were pretty gruesome. Cianciulli made cakes out of the blood of her first victim, and turned at least one into soap. Read the story of the "Soap Maker of Corregio" at Providentia. -via Nag on the Lake |
| Mutant Potatoes Have Taken Over This Flat Posted: 06 Jul 2020 05:33 AM PDT
Donna Porée left her apartment to spend the quarantine with her boyfriend on the other side of town. When she came back to her apartment three months later, she discovered an odd plant growing all over her apartment. Turns out she left behind a bag of potatoes before leaving her apartment, and in the span of three months, the potatoes have grown metre-long pink stalks that spread all over her flat! image via Mirror UK |
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