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Cue freak-out by the eco-Nazis.

Thousands of types of bacteria may live on plants; only dozens or maybe hundreds live inside. But the very fact that bacteria live inside plants is surprising. “It catches almost everybody off guard,” says Indigo CEO David Perry. And these bacteria that plants allow inside their roots, leaves, and stems can be beneficial, allowing them to, for example, capture nutrients from the air. Plants even pass along their endophytes via seeds, packaging their beneficial bacteria up into a convenient packet for their offspring. Because fewer bacteria live inside the plant than outside, endophytes also face less competition, meaning they’re more likely to be effective as a product for farmers.

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This will tell you what to avoid to escape these twits.

I figure that tattoos and a man-bun figure prominently, but I don’t care that much to actually find out.

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Scientists working at Queensland’s Griffith University have developed what they claim is the world’s first long term effective Malaria vaccine. If this new, cheap vaccine lives up to its promise, it will save millions of poor people who cannot afford Malaria drugs.

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Atsushi Shimizu is the inventor of the world’s first typhoon turbine—an extremely durable, eggbeater-shaped device that can not only withstand the awesome forces generated by a typhoon, it can convert all that power into useable energy. Shimizu’s calculations show that a sufficiently large array of his turbines could capture enough energy from a single typhoon to power Japan for 50 years.

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

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Funny, it doesn’t look Jewish.

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The mainstream media’s obsession with Fox News continues, as the New York Times sends intrepid reporters John Koblin and Nick Corasaniti into the fierce jungle-land of right-wing television to watch an entire day of it. They have escaped back with this dispatch from the front lines: “One Nation, Under Fox: 18 Hours With a Network That Shapes America — Fox News is a singular force, crafting a searing narrative about what’s happening in the world for millions of viewers, including President Trump.”

It wasn’t that awful a report, although one can’t picture the Times undertaking such an expedition during the Obama years, going on a brave quest into the left-wing fever swamps of MSNBC (and CNN, and ABC…).

The horror! The horror!

On the other hand, I wouldn’t mind a job that required me to watch TV news all day and then write an article about it for the New York Times (at New York Prices).

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And guess what! He’s a Person of Color! (Not that you’d know that from reading any of the news reports.) What are the odds?

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These people are really obsessed with race. Yet it’s other people who are racist. Go figure.

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‘Rallies Turn Violent’ is NewSpeak for ‘Trump Supporters Get Attacked’.

Wright also mentioned that a pro-Trump march planned in Philadelphia was called off after fears over safety arisen. “The two sides squared off and sounded off at each other. Police caught in the middle,” he bemoaned. But he failed to mention those anti-Trump protesters were the ones causing the chaos. “A mostly-masked protest group marched around the Mall, at times igniting flares and smoke, burning things on the road,” as reported by the local ABC affiliate.

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In July 2015, William Merideth, 47, was at home in Hillview, Kentucky, America, when his daughter came in from sunbathing in the garden to say there was a drone buzzing overhead. As a firm believer in his Second Amendment rights, Merideth loaded up his shotgun with bird shot, waited until the camera-fitted quadcopter came over his home, and then took it down with a single shot – which bought the drone’s operators running.

“They asked me, ‘Are you the S-O-B that shot my drone?’ and I said, ‘Yes I am’,” he told journalists. “I had my Glock on me and they started toward me and I told them, ‘If you cross my sidewalk, there’s gonna be another shooting’.”

Heh.

The police were called and they arrested Merideth – not for shooting down the drone per se, but for discharging a firearm within city limits. In October, a judge agreed with Merideth (now known as the Drone Slayer) that he was within his rights to take down the trespassing drone. The dad was cleared of all charges.

And rightly so.

David Boggs, the drone’s owner, was not a happy chap. He sued Merideth for the $1,500 it had cost to replace his toy, insisting that only the US Federal Aviation Administration has the right to control airspace, so his aircraft couldn’t have been trespassing.

Chop2Pot Foldable Cutting Board.

Ollie collapsible chair.

Foldable Step Stool.

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Perhaps they’re witches trying to curse Trump. I’ve heard that happens.

Or it could be part of the Democrat filibuster of Goresuch. You never really know.

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

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Gee, I wonder why?

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The city is run by Democrats. Of course it’s corrupt.

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Perhaps because they actually believe what they read in the Koran?

Cairo explosion kills at least one person as Hosni Mubarak is released from prison

Khalid Masood: Met says attacker’s birth name was Adrian Russell Ajao as confusion remains over aliases

Breaking News: Rasmieh Odeh Reportedly Accepts Plea Deal

Isis claiming responsibility for London attack to mask huge losses in Iraq and Syria, say terror experts

Taliban seizes key Helmand district from Afghanistan army

Russia may be supplying Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, says Nato Supreme Commander

Where homegrown terrorism is concerned, there’s something to be said for letting British jihadis go to Syria

Hamas Seeks “Moderate” Image As Leader Calls for Israel’s Demise

Somali Burns Down Asylum Center in Mönchengladbach

Turkey warns Russia following sniper fire from Syria

Syrian troops besiege Islamic State group stronghold

Taliban take Sangin in Afghanistan; 9 killed in north

Taliban Steadily Reclaims Territory Marines Died To Defend

Columbia’s Muslim Students Demand Advisor And Prayer Space

London Attacker Finally Named: Khalid Masood

Brussels Mayor: Salafists Have Complete Control Of Our Mosques

Tillerson Orders New Screenings For Visa Applicants Ever Present In ISIS Territory

Man Arrested After Driving Toward Crowd ‘At High Speed’ In Belgium  Perhaps he wished to ask for directions. To Mecca.

Visiting Imam At Montreal Mosque Preaches About Muslims Killing Jews  You know, as they do.

Tillerson Calls for Destruction of ISIS As Terror Comes To London

British Lawmaker: London Terrorist’s Religion Is ‘Utterly And Completely’ Irrelevant  He was just Muslim because it was randomly assigned to him when he was rolling up his character.

ISIS Claims Responsibility For London Terror Attack  Of course they do.

In Iran’s Women’s Prisons, Injustice and Atrocity

Liwa al-Mukhtar al-Thiqfi: Syrian IRGC Militia

Australia refuses entry to 500 Syrian refugees ‘on security grounds’

Muslim teen denied entry into US despite being a citizen

World leaders gather to discuss ‘secret plan’ to defeat Isis after laptop terror threat prompts flight ban  But that trick never works.

It is President Erdogan’s Turkey, not humane Germany, that is guilty of ‘Nazi practices’

Germany to deport Isis supporters that were born in country in unprecedented move

#NotAllMuslims Attack British Parliament

Is the Vehicle Assault the New Signature Terror Attack?

Russia Is Covering Up Just How Frequently ISIS Is Killing Its Troops

Women-only ‘pink taxis’ to hit streets of Pakistan

Terror, shipwreck and guns – 24 hours in a Karachi ambulance

Isis defeat in Mosul could spark ‘genocide’, leading cleric warns

Cadbury forced to explain why its chocolate is halal after being accused of ‘Muslim appeasement’

Turkey’s Erdogan warns Europeans ‘will not walk safely on the streets’ if diplomatic row continues

Turkish Deputy PM says ‘footsteps of neo-Nazism and extreme racism’ being heard in Europe

Antifas vs. “Islamophobes” on Parliament Hill

More on the Halal-Murder in Kiel

Iran’s Hard-Liners Poised To Take Over In Next Election

At least 1,000 women ‘flee Saudi Arabia every year because of sexism’

Afghanistan scraps plans for new ultra-conservative girls’ school uniform

You Take Pork on Your Pizza? Prepare to Die!

World Shrugs as Hizballah Prepares Massive Civilian Deaths

‘Islamophobia’ Motion Approaching Approval In Canada

Iran’s Supreme Leader claims gender equality is ‘Zionist plot’ aiming to corrupt role of women in society

Culture-Enrichers Who Pushed Man in Front of a Train Released From Custody

University Hospital of St. Pölten Hosts ISIS Meetings

Hungary Opens Military Base Along Border To Stop Migrants

Al-Qaida steps up violence against Syrian government

Raising Crosses in Erfurt to Protest the Building of a Mosque

U.S. and coalition airstrikes against ISIS spike as Mosul, Raqqa offensives heat up

What Do Jihadis Want? The Caliphate

Watch #NotAllMuslims Take French Soldier Hostage ‘For Allah’

Iran’s Supreme Leader: ‘Gender Equality’ Is A ‘Zionist Plot’  Who knew?

Report: Brussels Neighborhood Is Home To 51 Terror-Linked Groups

Islam v Free Speech —The Political Show Trial of Tim Burton

Looking for Ahmad Alkhald

Culture-Enriching Knife Attack in Frankenthal

Culture-Enriching Knife Attack in Dessau

Erdogan vows to reinstate death penalty as referendum opponents face ‘attacks and imprisonment’

Afghan Soldier Opens Fire On US Troops, Wounding Three

Israel threatens to destroy Syria’s air defence systems ‘without the slightest hesitation’

Saudi-led coalition blamed after helicopter gunship massacres Somali refugees

Paris airport attack suspect told soldiers he was there ‘to die for Allah,’ prosecutor says

Evolution, Not a New Revolution, in Iran

‘Radicalized Man’ Shot Dead After Stealing Soldier’s Gun At Paris Airport

After six years of war, Syria’s rebels reflect on whether revolution has been worth it

The Pentagon’s ‘reassure and deter’ mission in Syria looks a lot like mission creep

Erdogan calls for Turkish fifth column inside Europe to wage demographic war on Christendom

Turkish newspaper depicts Angela Merkel as Hitler amid diplomatic crisis

India bans Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation to ‘safeguard national security’

In-House Hizballah Missile Factories Could Add to Massive Arms Buildup

Suicide bombers target Afghan troops, local official in Afghanistan

Admitted Al-Qaida fighter convicted in N.Y. terror case

Syria fires three missiles at Israeli jets in most serious military incident since outbreak of civil war

More than 30 refugees killed in helicopter attack on boat in Yemen while trying to flee civil war

US likely to deploy ‘up to 1,000 more ground troops’ to Syria to defeat Isis in Raqqa

When the Turkish foreign minister says ‘holy wars will soon begin in Europe’, he has a point

Recep Tayyip Erdogan: EU ruling on headscarf bans starts ‘clash between Islam and Christianity’

Turkish Minister Says Europe Is Headed For ‘Wars Of Religions’

Condemned To Repeat History

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With the sensational success of the Wymyn’s march a few days after Trump’s inauguration on everyone’s mind (/sarc), the science community decided that it needs a march of its own, because as everyone knows Trump hates science, and as we also know there was no science at all before federal funding.

The March for Science is scheduled for April 22, which is Earth Day (also Lenin’s birthday by “coincidence”). And like the Wymnyn’s March, there is a lot of gnashing of teeth at the intersection of intersectionality. (Among other things, apparently the “diversity policy” for the march as been re-written four times.)

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I am not making this up.

You probably remember Dolezal as the former white female NAACP chapter president who identifies as black.  Well, she’s back and boy, does she have some things to say.

Such an arduous task of reading horrendous garbage like In Full Color is likely illegal in most enlightened European countries. After finishing Dolezal’s 280-page “journey to self-identification,” I’ve decided to become a Marxist revolutionary so I can help spare any future generations from such unjust working conditions.

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In Full Color ends with an epilogue describing how Dolezal still walks around faking it as a black woman. Her goal “is to provide comfort to those who are not struggling with their identities and assure them that they’re not alone, that they’re not freaks, and that they don’t deserve to be ridiculed or shunned by their friends, families, and communities.” On the contrary, Dolezal stretches the definition of identity beyond absurdity and merely serves as a distraction from real issues facing the black community.  The theme of her book is clearly validation, but the only thing she really needs is professional help.

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Trees that were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples still dominate the forests of the Amazon Basin. The findings put a dent in the notion that the vast rainforests were untouched by human hands before the arrival of the Spanish explorers in South America. In an article published in Science, an international team including Florian Wittmann from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, the scientists report their findings.

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And about time, too.

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I am not making this up.

It all started in California, of course, where deep relationships with oneself are de rigeur, and everybody is looking for a way to monetize. (If California asks to secede, I’m good with it.)

Next time you see a chick with a nose ring, you’ll know what it means.

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He certainly seems able to divide us from Shia LaBeouf and his political posturing.

I call that a win.

They may have won all the battles;
But we had all the good songs!

– Tom Lerer

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And we’re coming for you. There ARE no ‘safe spaces’.

Seth Lipsky (in the New York Post) doesn’t hold back.

What a charade. The Senate confirmation hearing for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is liable to drive Americans nuts. There ought to be a way to suspend the senators’ pay for every hour one of them talks.

Or wheezes. I mean, I’m pushing 71 and it takes me an hour to answer the phone. But I’ve got nothing on Sen. Patrick Leahy. In Vermont they’ve got a horse-drawn plow that talks faster than he does.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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The “March for Science” is being ripped apart by organizers who want to make gender and racial diversity the center of a march initially formed to push back against the Trump administration’s allegedly “anti-science” stance.

Tensions over the march’s stance on diversity has caused some organizers to quit and many scientists to pledge not to attend as the focus shifts from science to overtly left-wing causes, according to an in-depth report by STAT.

I guess it wasn’t really about science after all.

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I’ve know children who would have that effect.

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“It is still our belief – which continues to be borne out by our investigation – that this attacker acted alone and was inspired by international terrorism,” said Mark Rowley, Scotland Yard’s acting deputy commissioner, according to BBC. “To be explicit, at this stage we have no specific information about further threats to the public.”

That’s the point. One never knows when some random Muslim will decide that killing random people is what God wants him to do.

Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed the suspect is a British citizen who’s been investigated by Britain’s domestic security agency MI5 for his ties to violent extremism. He was considered a “peripheral” figure on the current intelligence picture.

Oh, that’s a comfort. Funny how these ‘lone wolves’ are always people who have ‘been investigated’ and then dismissed by the ‘domestic security agency’.

“We are not afraid and our resolve will never waiver in the face of terrorism,” May told the parliament. “He was not part of the current intelligence picture.”

Here’s a hint: MAYBE HE OUGHT TO BE. MAY BE YOUR CURRENT INTELLIGENCE PICTURE IS LACKING SOMETHING.

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

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Well. There it is.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Federal prosecutors have indicted Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, a Democrat first elected in 2009, on 23 counts related to allegations of official corruption and fraud. Williams is accused of accepting gifts and bribes in exchange for favors of a professional nature, as well as for stealing more than $20,000 from his mother, who was in a nursing home. According to The Inquirer, Williams rejected a plea deal earlier this week, and is scheduled to surrender to authorities today.

Oh, look … a corrupt Democrat politician who is also a Person of Color. What are the odds?

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Sue! Sue! It’s what we do!

(‘Trans Boy’ is NewSpeak for ‘confused girl’)

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Chelsea Clinton is set to receive a lifetime achievement award from Variety magazine next month, though it is unclear why.

Well, she survived to adulthood with Bill Clinton as her father and Hillary Clinton as her mother. I find that impressive.

Clinton’s other achievements include being born to one of the most skilled politicians in American history, growing up in the White House, landing a $600,000 contract with MSNBC, marrying a hedge fund millionaire, and tweeting constantly about President Trump.

That’s more than I’ve ever achieved. I’m convinced.

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Early Tuesday evening, Curtis Houck at NewsBusters noted that the rape of a 14 year-old girl at a Maryland high school by two older teens (17 and 18) who recently arrived the U.S. was the subject of a question at Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s press conference earlier that day. The Washington Post’s first story on the rape Friday illustrates Houck’s observation that the crime is “an inconvenient story for their liberal narrative” that one must downplay or simply not report negative news about the actions of illegal immigrants.

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

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When you buy something physical—a toaster, a book, or a printer, for example—you expect to be free to use it as you see fit: to adapt it to suit your needs, fix it when it breaks, re-use it, lend it, sell it, or give it away when you’re done with it. Your freedom to do those things is a necessary aspect of your ownership of those objects. If you can’t do them, because the seller or manufacturer has imposed restrictions or limitations on your use of the product, then you don’t really own them. Traditionally, the law safeguards these freedoms by discouraging sellers from imposing certain conditions or restrictions on the sale of goods and property, and limiting the circumstances in which those restrictions may be imposed by contract.

But some companies are relentless in their quest to circumvent and undermine these protections. They want to control what end users of their products can do with the stuff they ostensibly own, by attaching restrictions and conditions on purchasers, locking down their products, and locking you (along with competitors and researchers) out. If they can do that through patent law, rather than ordinary contract, it would mean they could evade legal limits on contracts, and that any one using a product in violation of those restrictions (whether a consumer or competitor) could face harsh penalties for patent infringement.

Our ‘intellectual property’ laws are insane.

Steve Sailer looks behind the scenes.

America used to be able to afford nice things such as freedom of speech, science, and disinterested objectivity. But now we are blessed with diversity, peace be upon it, so we can’t tolerate our Western heritage anymore.

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Boffins poring over data from the Large Hadron Collider’s “Beauty” experiment are blinking in surprise, having turned up five new particles in one hit.

The “hiding in plain sight” articles in data from the “LHCb” are all excited states of the baryon Omega-c-zero, ?_c⁰, and the CERN boffins saw the five new particles from its decay states (?c(3000)0, ?c(3050)0, ?c(3066)0, ?c(3090)0 and ?c(3119)0, with bracketed numbers showing mass measured in mega-electron-volts).

Ever since ?_c⁰ was first observed in 1994, scientists have predicted states like the five now spotted by CERN, but they needed LHCb’s sensitivity to watch their brief life.

No word on when they’ll be available at the local WalMart.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Lion of the Blogosphere has a theory, with which I disagree.

Rich people talk a lot about getting taxes raised, but if you listen closely they’re talking about tax rates on Ordinary Income, wages and such-like, and that’s not where they make their money.

And even if taxes were raised on the forms of income that they get, they still have a comparative advantage over people who make orders of magnitude less than they do. A tax rate of 50% or even 90% is not going to hurt very much when you’re pulling down a hundred mil a year, but if you’re only making a hundred thou, that drops you to poverty level pretty quickly.

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In his 2005 book Blink, he confirms that Pepsi has more of a citrus flavour, while coke is characterised by a raisiny-vanilla tang.

He also states that the sweeter and more citrusy taste behind Pepsi is why it usually wins in taste tests. This gives is a stronger blast of flavour while Coke is a lot smoother.

No, the reason is that Pepsi tastes like something a human being would want to drink, while Coke tastes like something you would want to clean rust off of furniture with. It’s really just that simple.

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Will the planet actually be saved? Stay tuned for the next thousand years.

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There are actually people out there (typically CEOs, who have private offices) who think that ‘open floor plan’ offices have some sort of positive benefit. They don’t.