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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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Funny, I don’t see a flamethrower here….

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Will the Usual Suspects stop complaining? No, they will not.

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I sure would like to put Maxine Waters on ice. She could use some serious cooling down.

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Incredibly useful stuff.

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Don’t know about you, but this creeps me out.

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Tell the truth:We’ve all wanted to do that.

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If you shoot things for fun, these are invaluable.

If you get shot at, of course, and shoot back, you rarely get the opportunity to use earmuffs. Not many people appreciate that.

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Yet another reason I refuse to fly. Pay money to be locked in a steel tube with crazy people? No thanks.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

I have a vision of something like a large ostrich with one of those ridiculous ‘We’re No. 1!’ foam fingers over its head.

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Women and minorities hardest hit, etc.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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What’s French for ‘fed up’?

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Just in case Democrats actually succeed in destroying civilization.

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This school district is starting competency-based education (CBE). The U.S. Department of Education described this education as “allowing students to demonstrate mastery of academic content regardless of time.” Students will have a chance to do more job shadows and internships, according to hechingerreport.org.

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Not something you see every day.

Check it out.

On cue, the fridge’s door slowly swung open, spreading a fan of milky light across the linoleum floor. From where one expected to see racks and crispers, two wide-eyed teenagers emerged. Behind them, down the refrigerated rabbit hole, a glowing white corridor plunged into the unknown.

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Why not? We’ve already got the Borg wandering among us.

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No worries, cobber.

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Now here is the mildly — let’s call it annoying — news: The publication date is March 5, 2019. So you are going to have to wait to get your hands on the tome (which, VDH tells Yours Truly, is going to be a sizeable work), counting the days while reminding yourself that all good things come to those who wait….

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Traditionally, elastic fei chang fen noodles are made of sweet-potato starch reserved in a steaming-hot broth with pig intestines. The resulting noodle soup is then garnished with bean sprouts, scallions, peanuts, chili oil, and vinegar.

It is the unique preparation, however, by which the street vendor creates his noodles that caught our attention. By combining starch and liquid, he creates a non-Newtonian fluid: a liquid that does not flow with constant viscosity but with a viscosity that changes in response to shear forces, which are forces that push in opposite directions along two distinct parallel lines. Simply put, non-Newtonian fluids can behave as both a liquid and solid. When you apply shear forces to non-Newtonian fluids, you’re met with resistance—try punching such mixtures, and you might come away with a bruise or two. In contrast, Newtonian fluids (like water) have a relatively constant viscosity, despite shear forces and flow rates, which allow them to flow in predictable ways.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Her first opponent will no doubt be Brett Kavanaugh.

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Cartoons suggest that rabbits can happily survive on a diet of carrots alone. But in the wild, rabbits don’t eat root vegetables—they’d much rather munch on greens like weeds, grasses, and clovers. That doesn’t mean you can’t give your pet some carrots as a snack from time to time, but don’t overdo it: Carrots are high in sugar and contribute to tooth decay in 11 percent of pet bunnies.

No wonder Bugs was so hyper.

All of my illusions, shattered.

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Some things don’t quite add up about hedge fund manager Seth Klarman’s interview with the New York Times in which he discloses that he will spend between $18 million and $20 million this election cycle on helping Democrats “because I think democracy is at stake.”

Democrats: Party of the Rich. You heard it here first.

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You know, as you do.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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It was the second time a Japanese ship armed with the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system was able to intercept a ballistic missile, the first being in February 2017. A second test in June of last year failed, but the Navy blamed sailor error for that miss after the interceptor blew up in flight.

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If you’re really into knots, there’s a cellphone app called Knots 3D that will walk you through any knot you want via animation.

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Everything you know is wrong.

Hausmann’s study drew several conclusions about body temperature: for example, women have higher temperatures than men, and it is natural for an individual’s body temperature to increase throughout the day, according to Wired.

And science is sexist.

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Which is, of course, important to us all.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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I didn’t even know that there was a ‘Dyson award’.

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Babies born with LCA have poor eyesight and are extra sensitive to light. In most cases, people with the “rare genetic eye disorder” go completely blind by age 40, according to a press release from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

LCA is caused by a mutated gene. The scientists figured out a way to transfer a corrected version of the gene to patients via innocuous viruses. They received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s first approval of a gene therapy for a congenital disorder in December 2017, according to the press release.

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The team demonstrated the system’s potential by searching around 1,000 reactions using combinations of 18 different starting chemicals.

After exploring only around 100 of the possible reactions, the robot was able to predict with over 80 per cent accuracy which combinations of starting chemicals should be explored to create new reactions and molecules.

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Except in California, of course, which will have eliminated plastic waste by then.

I’m sure in San Francisco they’re working on methane generation based on human waste.

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News of Kim Jong-Nam’s death was quickly picked up in Japan not by one of the country’s giant media conglomerates, but by a small startup. JX Press Corp., a news technology venture founded in 2008 by Katsuhiro Yoneshige while he was still a freshman in college, reported the incident more than half an hour faster than the big names, according to one observer. It did so even though it has no journalists, let alone any international bureaus.

“NewsDigest got the scoop at 19:52, and TV stations had it about 20:30,” sociologist Noritoshi Furuichi wrote on Twitter after reports of Kim’s death. “Television has succumbed to being a slow media.”

JX Press’s secret, it turns out, is a combination of social media and artificial intelligence. Yoneshige and his team have developed a tool, using machine learning, for finding breaking news in social media posts and writing it up as news reports. Essentially, it’s a newsroom staffed by engineers.

And, I suspect, it didn’t have the proglodyte slant so pervasive at major news outlets.

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The newest neuron has been named the “rosehip neuron,” thanks to its bushy appearance. The brain cell, with its unique gene expressions, distinctive shape and diverse connections with other neurons, has not been described before and, what’s more, it isn’t present in neuroscientists’ favorite subject: mice.

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Whaddaya know, the E.U. may actually be good for something.

Of course, this is the Guardian, so you’ll want to confirm that from a reliable source.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Everything bad is good for you.

It’s all a matter of finding the scientists who will claim that what you want to do is good for you.

That doesn’t appear to be as hard as one might think.

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I’m in.

Got a Costco-sized box of Snickers in my fridge.

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Sold as Belviq in the US since 2013, lorcaserin is the first weight-loss medicine to successfully pass a long-term safety study now required by regulators to stay on the market.

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Taken twice a day, the drug is an appetite suppressant that works by stimulating brain chemicals to induce a feeling of fullness.

Appetite suppressants only work to lose weight for people who only eat when they are actually hungry. Most people eat three times a day out of habit, and eat beyond the full point because they were trained by their parents to eat everything in front of them. (Remember the ‘Clean Plate Club’? I do.)

The key to weight control is to stop eating when you stop being hungry, no matter how much food is still uneaten. Yes, you wind up wasting food at first, but you soon adjust your portions to your appetite.

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Cue Eco-Nazi protests and lawsuits.

You’ll know that they’ve got a serious product when Antifa demonstrators show up.

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Wong and his team set out to “miniaturize,” the process of harvesting atmospheric water using electrospun polymers.

Electrospinning can produce polymers as small as a few tens of nanometers across, which means that a huge surface area can be packed into a really small space. That makes the nanoscale-polymers super-efficient at collecting water, even in arid environments. The device, which could be powered by a lithium-ion battery, would also be able to filter water because the surface of the material would slough off any microbes or bacteria present in the water vapor.

While that may seem complicated, Wong said it’s not much different than how people in the Andes, and Namib beetles collect water — it’s just at a much smaller scale.

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Never say we don’t have useful stuff here.

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Some people just can’t take a hint.

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He ought to try Maxine Waters’ district. They have suitably low standards.

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If they ever have babies, those babies will be really really weird.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.