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Sometimes, everything goes wrong. The river might be especially deep or strong at that point. The opposite bank could be slippery or steep. The herd might be too big. Aggressive tourists can push them to more dangerous crossing points. “If there’s anything that keeps them from getting out on the other side, they’ll start to pile up. And even as they’re drowning on one side of the river, there are still wildebeest following them in.”

The result is an annual mass drowning. “We’ve seen up to 300 carcasses wedged into the river bank in some places,” says Subalusky. “It’s quite a sensory experience. The smell is potent for a quarter mile, and lasts for weeks. There’s a ranger station nearby and they really hate it when the drownings happen.”

Start your day a little bit better.

I don’t suppose anybody ever thought of building a big fargin bridge there.

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We have the technology.

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Cue enviro-Nazi outrage and PETA hand-wringing.

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When Google Glass was launched in 2013, it was supposed to be the future: lightweight AR glasses that could take photographs and give directions from the bridge of your nose. As you know — now that we’re in the future — it didn’t quite pan out. But calling it a total flop would seem unfair, too, given that in 2019, six years after the first prototype first appeared, Google Glass fans still haunt the internet — particularly on Reddit, where r/googleglass continues to see updates years after its namesake’s heyday has passed. Yes, there are still “glassholes.” And honestly? They’re pretty nice.

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An encouraging trend.

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Amazon’s purchase of the .book generic top-level domain has prompted speculation about how the e-tailer plans to use it. Amazon bought the TLD for a reported $10 million last week, allowing it to sell domain names with the .book suffix.

Amazon declined to comment on its plans for the TLD, but Raymond King, CEO of Top Level Design, owner of the generic TLD .ink, said he expects Amazon to offer .book domain names for sale to the public as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) intended, as well as using the TLD for its own business purposes. “Why would they close it off?” King asked, in response to speculation that Amazon might keep the domain name solely for its own use. “You don’t want to limit your TLD. Amazon is known for being a visionary company, and it’s in their interest to make .book available to all authors.”

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It has always puzzled me why dresses don’t have pockets.

(And holsters! Yeah, that’s the ticket….)

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Almost four years after the nation’s first “food freedom” law was enacted, hundreds of new local businesses have sprouted across three states, and without a single outbreak of a foodborne illness. Completely exempt from any licensing, permitting, or inspection requirements, residents operating under their state’s food freedom act can create and sell almost any homemade dish imaginable, except those that contain meat.

Homemade food businesses are also free to sell at farmers’ markets, roadside stands, and from farms, ranches, and homes, so long as they sell their goods directly to an “informed end consumer,” i.e. someone who knows they’re buying something not regulated by the government. Selling food freedom products across state lines or through grocery stores, restaurants, or wholesalers does remain verboten.

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The tiny gribble?—?less than an inch long?—?lives in coastal marine environments and feasts upon wood. It gobbles up sticks and logs that wash into the sea from river estuaries, performing an important ecological function. But it also can be a damaging nuisance, eating the wood from boats and piers, causing considerable damage.

Unlike other wood-eating creatures, such as termites, that require thousands of microbes for digestion, the gribble’s gut needs no such help. Its digestive system is sterile, meaning it’s free of the complex microbial communities that inhabit other intestines, including ours. Scientists say that understanding how the gribble breaks down wood could help them develop better methods for turning timber into fuel. Currently, wood that is burned to generate energy must first be broken down in costly and energy-intensive processes. Gribbles may hold the key to a cheaper and energy-efficient means of unlocking the energy in wood.

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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I haven’t tried using these but they look as if they would be useful.

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Don’t laugh. It might come in handy during the post-socialism apocalypse.

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hey hitchhike across Europe, instantly recognizable in the wide-bottomed, corduroy trousers, white shirts and colored jackets that identify them as bricklayers, bakers, carpenters, stonemasons and roofers.

They are “Wandergesellen,” or journeymen — a vestige of the Middle Ages in modern Europe — young men, and these days women, too, who have finished their required training in any number of trades and are traveling to gather experience. Most are from German-speaking countries.

In the past, journeymen traveled under the auspices of a trade association, and today many still do. But many also take up the practice freely, though still adhering to the strict, often arcane, rules handed down largely through word of mouth to preserve the tradition.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Can’t say that I blame him.

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A U.S. District Court judge allowed a forestry company’s defamation lawsuit against Greenpeace and affiliated groups to proceed Tuesday, but dismissed racketeering claims leveled against the environmentalists.

It’s the latest development in a multi-year legal battle between Resolute Forest Products and Greenpeace.

“Although the Judge did not allow all of Resolute’s claims to proceed, we are pleased the proceedings will now move forward on our defamation and unfair competition claims against Greenpeace,” Seth Kursman, spokesman for Resolute, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Now researchers at the University of Washington have genetically modified a common houseplant — pothos ivy — to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it. The modified plants express a protein, called 2E1, that transforms these compounds into molecules that the plants can then use to support their own growth. The team published its findings Dec. 19 in Environmental Science & Technology.

“People haven’t really been talking about these hazardous organic compounds in homes, and I think that’s because we couldn’t do anything about them,” said senior author Stuart Strand, who is a research professor in the UW’s civil and environmental engineering department. “Now we’ve engineered houseplants to remove these pollutants for us.”

Or you could use a Molekule.

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Recently, Calhoun’s inquiry piqued the interest of researchers in the United Kingdom, who wondered if it was possible to identify an author from his or her punctuation alone.

For decades, linguists have been able to use the quirks of written texts to pinpoint the author. The process, called stylometric analysis or stylometry, has dozens of legal and academic applications, helping researchers authenticate anonymous works of literature and even nab criminals like the Unabomber. But it usually focuses on an author’s word choices and grammar or the length of his or her sentences. Until now, punctuation has been largely ignored.

But according to a recent paper led by Alexandra N. M. Darmon of the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, an author’s use of punctuation can be extremely revealing. Darmon’s team assembled nearly 15,000 documents from 651 different authors and “de-worded” each text. “Is it possible to distinguish literary genres based on their punctuation sequences?” the researchers asked. “Do the punctuation styles of authors evolve over time?”

Apparently, yes.

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If’, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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Well, for one thing, I don’t think they spend much time reading diet books or government nutrition guidelines.

That may be the real secret.

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The next time you hop on a ferry, take a look at the captain’s bridge. There may not be a human at the helm much longer. Ships around the world are beginning a transformation into autonomous machines, leveraging the same advances in artificial intelligence that are shaking up the automotive world.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

As long as AlGore is around, this could be a useful skill.

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Fascinating. I didn’t know that Hawaiians had pizza. Huh. Learn something new every day.

I was at a Shakey’s in Virginia Beach in the halcyon days of my youth that had a banana pizza, but I think that was a special case.

I will say that the best pizza I’ve ever eaten has been made by Greeks. Take that for what it’s worth.

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No doubt most are accompanied by minor children and report a credible fear of oppression in their home countries.

Cue U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Bark if you need funding.

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The Embroidered Computer is an exploration into using historic gold embroidery materials and knowledge to craft a programmable 8 bit computer.

Solely built from a variety of metal threads, magnetic, glas and metal beads, and being inspired by traditional crafting routines and patterns, the piece questions the appearance of current digital and electronic technologies surrounding us, as well as our interaction with them.

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Except in her socialist soul.

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Well, it’s not as close as the headline appears to promise, but a lot of good progress is being made.

Once we have practical fusion power, oil and natural gas will be recognized as transitional technologies, like coal, and the world will get a lot cleaner. (Plus a lot of activists will have nothing more to complain about — although I’m sure they’ll think of something.)

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I’m sure there are people who would want it. Good luck getting it past the EnviroNazis, though.

Funny how some ‘progressives’ turn out to be the most reactionary people around.

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The XtraVue Trailer is a standard caravan that “causes a trailer or caravan to appear invisible in the rearview mirror of the vehicle towing it,” according to a press release from the company. The system uses cameras placed on the rear bumpers of both the vehicle and the trailer to produce a single homogeneous image, which is fed to a small display placed in front of the driver. This theoretically allows drivers to see what’s happening behind the caravan, giving them a better idea of what’s also on the road.

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I suppose this will be aimed at commercial use to start — laundromats and commercial laundry processing sites — but the $1000 price is well within household reach for the Usual Suspects. I don’t find folding laundry to be much of a burden (six years in the Navy will do that for you) but for genetically untidy people (you know who you are) this could be a great life-improver.

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… which is why people vote for ‘far-right’ candidates in the first place.

Trump, eat your heart out.

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I haven’t tested whether this would work on Democrats but I suspect that it would.

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Perhaps she thinks that there are too many Dicks in the Senate.

Can’t say she’s wrong.

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I agree. In fact, I think that the Democrats ought to bar from their nomination process anybody who has a net worth of more than a million dollars.

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Also: Florida man filmed attacking McDonald’s employee in argument over plastic straws

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Immigration experts tell The Daily Caller that President Donald Trump’s vision for a border barrier is informed directly by the requests of Border Patrol agents.

I’ve always thought that guard dogs and machine guns were an essential component but apparently not.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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And I, for one, am happy to leave it there.

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The effort to transform Khashoggi from the political operative he was into a journalist and martyr for freedom was an information operation waged largely in the United States. It targeted a diverse audience spanning from “echo chamber” commentators and media figures to politicians, who would then be moved to act based on the new attitude and information the campaign had inserted into the discussion. This operational aspect is of primary importance; as information operations always work to advance policy interests, in order to succeed, these perceptions must affect policymakers and cause them to alter policy.

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Let’s see whether that works.

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Slow news day.

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Ace of Spades reads the tea leaves for you.

Surely she must know as well as anyone that the Democrats can no longer run white people for President.

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Just in case there is a testosterone poisoning in your life.

Number 4, ‘Pain is weakness leaving the body’, is universal among special forces units everywhere.

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And about time, too. Nuclear does everything they want, and only the persistent reactionary fantasies of the EnviroNazis keep them from it.

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Deviationists! Deviationists everywhere!

I can think of a number of things Senator McCaskill could be accused of doing for the GOP, but ‘covering’ isn’t one of them.

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Just in case you were wondering. I wasn’t.

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‘Nancy, you ignorant slut …’ Just kidding.

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Soon to be a major motion picture, I have no doubt.

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I certainly hope so.

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Well, that’s a relief.