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Sort of makes Detroit and Chicago more understandable.

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And so, the researchers painted six Japanese Black cows with black-and-white stripes, which took just five minutes per cow. They then observed the cows for three days, taking high-resolution images of them at regular intervals to count the insects on the animals and also recording any fly-repelling behaviors like leg stamping, tail flicking, and skin twitching. The same cows were also observed for three days with painted-on black stripes (to see if it was the paint chemicals, not the coloring, that repelled flies) and and with no stripes at all.

The apparent effects of the stripes were remarkable. The number of biting flies observed on zebra-striped cows was less than half the number seen on unpainted cows and far less than cows painted with black stripes. Moreover, zebra-striping reduced fly-repelling behaviors by about 20%, indicating that the cows were less bothered by the insects.

Well, then, all we need do is breed some striped cows.

Scott Adams sums it up.

As Americans watch two different movies, here’s a way to discern what’s happening off the screen.

Scott Johnson at Power Line responds: Dilbert’s  rules of reading

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After capitalizing on her grossly exaggerated Native American ancestry, frontrunner Elizabeth Warren has been caught in another lie, by her own words from twelve years ago. However, you wouldn’t know this if you only watched ABC, NBC and CBS.

Ramesh Ponnuru doesn’t buy it.

If parts of Judge Allison Burroughs’s decision in the Harvard affirmative-action case don’t seem to make sense, it’s not entirely her fault. She was bound by the Supreme Court’s precedents on the subject, and the justices have been refining absurdity ever since they took up the issue in 1978.

The question this time was whether Harvard was unlawfully discriminating against Asian-American applicants. Harvard “testified that race, when considered in admissions, can only help, not hurt, a student’s chances of getting in” – as the New York Times reported with a straight face. Judge Burroughs bought it, writing that race “is never viewed as a negative attribute” by Harvard’s admissions department.

Think about that for a moment. Logically, if a particular racial or ethnic background is a plus, then another background must be a “minus.” Harvard has a finite number of places to offer. Putting a thumb on the scales for certain racial minorities means putting a thumb on the scales against everyone else.

Eight House Democrats holding out against impeachment inquiry after Rep. Ben McAdams flips

David Brooks Conjures Up Imaginary Trump Supporter for Fake Interview

Report:  A second “whistleblower” may be coming forth. Does it matter?

AOC Accuses Trump Of Anti-Semitism Over Attacks On “Lyin’ Shifty Schiff”  I suspect it’s because Bobblehead is a dick, not because he’s a Jew.

New Yorker Journo Who Peddled Discredited Kavanaugh Claims Calls Biden-Ukraine Scandal A “Conspiracy Theory”

ABC Annoyed Senate GOPers Not Prejudging Possible Impeachment Trial

“Conspiracy Propaganda Stuff!” Chuck Todd Shouts Down GOP Senator In Fiery Trump-Ukraine Exchange

Maxine Waters: ‘I Am Disgusted’ With ‘Spineless’ Trump Supporters In Senate  (The Pinch-Faced Scolds Of The Left: Never Happy, Always Angry, And Undoubtedly Unpleasant To Be Around)

Democrats deliberately conceal global energy & CO2 emissions realities from the public

Police use a battering ram to break into Extinction Rebellion warehouse in Kennington, south London

“We need support”: Pacific Islands Demand More Climate Action

Former senior police officers risk arrest as they join Extinction Rebellion protest 

Extinction Rebellion warned protest could alienate the public   They dont’ care. Protest isn’t about convincing the other side, it’s about bonding with your own side and, incidentally, proclaiming your virtue.

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The latest U.S. jobs report tells a complex tale about American workers and the industrial economy. Unemployment, at 3.5%, is the lowest it has been in half a century. At the same time, hiring missed projections and wage gains have cooled off. The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index, a key measure of U.S. manufacturing output, slipped in September to its lowest level since June 2009. The ongoing U.S.-China trade dispute and weakening global economy contributed to a figure so low — 47.8 — it missed every estimate in a Bloomberg survey, which had expected the index to rise from August’s 49.1.

Meanwhile, a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco found that increased adoption of robotics and automation equipment has been a substantial driver of the declining labor share of income for U.S. workers, even during a period of extremely low unemployment. In the last global recession, industrial robot shipments fell significantly but did not stop; the labor-force growth rate for manufacturing, needless to say, went negative. I’m not a macro-economist, and I won’t predict anything about the health of the global economy. Instead, let’s look at something micro with global implications: how the world’s industrial robotics markets have grown and changed in the past decade

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The Graphene Flagship expects short-term applications in the materials sector, with graphene-enabled inks, composites, and coatings, for applications ranging from food packaging to textiles and sports goods. In the mid-term, graphene could be crucial for the energy sector, and market analyses agree on a high potential for graphene-enabled batteries and supercapacitors. With the first graphene-enabled solar farm to be installed in Crete next year, the Graphene Flagship will showcase how graphene can enable more sustainable energy generation, in line with Europe’s commitment to renewable energies.

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Conductive materials change their properties as they are strained or stretched. Typically, electrical conductivity decreases and resistance increases with stretching.

The material recently developed by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) scientists, called Polymerized Liquid Metal Networks, does just the opposite. These liquid metal networks can be strained up to 700%, autonomously respond to that strain to keep the resistance between those two states virtually the same, and still return to their original state. It is all due to the self-organized nanostructure within the material that performs these responses automatically.

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Soon to be a major motion picture….

EPA Puts San Francisco On Notice Over ‘Instances Of Sewage Flowing In The Streets’

Climate Crusader Greta Thunberg Tipped to Win Nobel Peace Prize  And why not? They gave it to Obama for being black, they might as well give it to Greta for being a kid.

Global Cooling Warming Changing Crisis Denier

Marvelously Resilient Coral

Channelling the Malthusian Roots of Climate Extremism

HOW DARE YOU!

Rep. Tlaib: ‘No Joke’: Democrats Want To Arrest Trump Officials, ‘Take Care Of Them’  She may have been born in this country, but she sure wants to import practices from where she came from.

Democrats Supoena White House For Ukraine Documents  But that trick never works….

Ocasio-Cortez Accuses Trump Of Anti-Semitism In Attacks Against Schiff

Rubio’s Unconvincing Defense of Trump’s Call for China to Investigate the Bidens National Review cuck shows which side he’s on.

NBC Ignores Historically Low Unemployment; Boasts Pro-Impeachment Lecture from Todd

Joy Reid Strategy: Flip Trump Aides by Panicking Them with Prison Possibility

Kamala Harris Swings At Trump, Calls Him ‘A Walking Indictment In A Red Tie’  Pretty harsh coming from a fake Negro.

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If they know where you live, then it isn’t survivable.

And, of corse, this has nothing to do with capitalism, however defined, but ‘journalsts’ just throw that in when it deals with people who have more money than journalists. do.

These projects have plenty of skeptics, among them John W. Hoopes, a professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas who spent years studying the myth that the world would end in 2012. He accused doomsday investors of hawking “survival porn,” which he described as a “hypermasculine fantasy” that danger is near and a select few will be able to save themselves and their families — if they are prepared.

For survival, I’d sooner depend on rich paranoids than some random professor.

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Hammer tech.

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An international team of researchers has analyzed remains from 10 archaeological sites in England, France, Germany, Russia and Switzerland to gain insight into the stages of the second plague pandemic (14th-18th centuries) and the genetic diversity of Yersinia pestis during and after the Black Death. In a study published in Nature Communications, the researchers reconstructed 34 Y. pestis genomes, tracing the genetic history of the bacterium, which revealed key insights into the initiation and progression of the second plague pandemic in Europe.

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Researchers have solved the three-dimensional structure of a protein complex involved in vertebrate vision at atomic resolution, a finding that has broad implications for our understanding of biological signaling processes and the design of over a third of the drugs on the market today.

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Mount Sinai researchers have discovered how the enzyme DNA polymerase delta works to duplicate the genome that cells hand down from one generation to the next. In a study published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, the team also reported how certain mutations can modulate the activity of this enzyme, leading to cancers and other diseases.

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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and NuScale Power, two leading companies in the race to build small modular reactors (SMRs) for power generation, have recently announced deals that could result to new plants being constructed in Europe.

@Aoc follower goes berserk in town hall. Claims we “have to eat babies” to survive climate change

Understanding Why The Green New Deal Won’t Really Work

Global Temperature Report: September 2019

Putin Dismisses Climate Messiah Greta Thunberg: “Poorly Informed Teenager”

New Trump impeachment defense already under siege

‘Apology not necessary’: CNN guest gloats after he is proven right about whistleblower contacting Adam Schiff staff

Nets Skip Whistleblower’s Dem Affiliation, CNN Declares It a ‘Nothingburger’

Can Democrats Take Impeachment Seriously?  Peggy Noonan

Tucker And Patel: The Truth About Impeachment

Impeachment Fan Chuck Todd LOSES IT Over Trump; ‘A National Nightmare Is Upon Us!’

‘Democrats Are In A Lose-Lose Situation’: Van Jones Doubts Impeachment Efforts

Washington Post Gives Schiff Four Pinocchios For Whistleblower Claim

Trump Derangement D-Listers Announce Hollywood ‘Impeachment Task Force’  That’s Entertainment!

US Ambassador To The EU Argues Trump Was Clear On His ‘Intentions’: ‘No Quid Pro Quo’s Of Any Kind’

Paul Sperry: Democrat Operative Posing as a “Whistleblower” Was Himself Tasked With Digging Up Ukranian Dirt on Trump and Manafort

MSNBC’s Ruhle Blasts GOP ‘Enablers’ Backing ‘Sociopath’ Trump

Reports: Fake News “Republicans” Mitt “Severely Conservative” Romney, John “Mailboy” Kasich Making Moves to Primary Trump  The main difference between Democrats and ‘Republicans’ is that Democrats never forget which side they’re on.

Rubio Says Trump Was Trolling Media By Calling On China To Investigate Biden  Which he does so well.

Absolute Shock CNN Poll: It’s not the “True Cons” of the Republican Party Who Are NeverTrump, It Is the Moderate/Left Wing of the GOP That Is NeverTrump

MSNBC: Only Liberal Media Watchers Understand ‘Sins of the President’  They see it when they believe it.

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Women’s unemployment currently sits at 3.1%, a number that matches April women’s unemployment numbers. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia said in a statement that September’s women’s unemployment numbers match the lowest numbers during the Trump administration and that these are the lowest number for women’s unemployment since 1953.

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

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

Babylon Bee.

Forgiveness and hugs are among the 36 new entries recently added to a database of hateful gestures used by white supremacists and other far-right extremists.

You knew it had to happen.

UPDATE: CNN’s Sellers: ‘Infuriates Me’ to See Brandt Jean, Judge Hug Amber Guyger

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We all expect people to get more conservative as they grow older, but I never expected it to happen to Justin Bieber.

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Thank God white people no linger run that country, or who knows what sort of helhole it would be.

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Using, as her example, two black Congressmen who look like twins.

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Sounds like a win for the Global Warming/Overpopulation crowd.

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A United Kingdom tribunal ruled against a Christian doctor’s discrimination claim, saying his view of what it means to be male and female is “incompatible with human dignity.”

Dr. David Mackereth, 56, a former disability claim assessor, had filed a claim that the Department for Work and Pensions discriminated against him after he was suspended for refusing to use transgender pronouns. The Christian doctor said he is “deeply concerned” by the July ruling, the BBC reported Wednesday.

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The increasingly “woke” values of the educated upper classes reflect, as Alvin Toffler predicted almost half a century ago, the inevitable consequence of mass affluence, corporate concentration, and the shift to a service economy. The new elite, Toffler foresaw, would abandon traditional bourgeois values of hard work and family for “more aesthetic goals, self-fulfillment as well as unbridled hedonism.” Affluence, he observed, “serves as a base from which men begin to strive for post economic goals.”

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“The officer was doing what he felt was the right thing. Cooperating with federal law enforcement is part of our daily job and what we do everyday on the streets as officers in any department — whether it was the [Drug Enforcement Administration], FBI or ICE,” Culpeper County, Virginia, Sheriff Scott Jenkins said to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “He did what his conscience told him he should do: cooperate and work with another law enforcement agency as we do everyday. … I feel for him because I truly believe he was just trying to do the right thing.”

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Democrats are rushing into impeachment despite the knowledge that, given what we know now, the Senate will not remove Donald Trump from office. Why is Nancy Pelosi doing this?

Because she has resigned herself to the argument that impeaching Trump is the way for Democrats to win the presidency and Senate 13 months from now. Pelosi’s bank shot isn’t aimed at Trump’s conviction on the Hill. It’s aimed at his loss at the polls.

American University professor Allan Lichtman best expressed the political logic in a recent op-ed. His “13 keys” model, along with most quantitative forecasts, currently favors Trump’s reelection. Lichtman says impeachment would change that by tarnishing the incumbent with scandal. The facts of the case, and whether the Senate convicts, do not matter.

For what it’s worth, this sounds to me to be correct.

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We have the technology.

ROBOCOP, here we come….

Bomb blasts strike polling stations as Afghanistan votes in presidential election

French police ‘helping traffickers sneak migrants across Channel’ smuggler claims

Female Isil supporter killed in row over makeshift Sharia court in Syrian camp

Sweden Makes It Legal For Jihadist Migrants To Leave With The Intent Of Committing Terror Acts, Then Return

Map Shows “Four Times As Many Jihadist Militants” Around The World Than Before 9/11

While Erdogan Slammed Israel At U.N., Turkish Support For Terror Was Revealed

Cardiff jihadi Aseel Muthana begs to return to UK from overcrowded Isil prison in northern Syria

Iraqi troops use live fire as Baghdad erupts in protest

Women’s rights activists protest as Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni jailed for abortion 

NIGERIA: Christian Calm Compromised

Lira Slides As Erdogan Vows Syria Invasion & ‘Safe Zone’ To Come “Suddenly”

At Least 7 Dead, Embassies Sealed Off As Iraq Protests Rage; Police Open Fire On Crowds

Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet

Culture-Enriching Robberies at the Railway Station in Rome

Pakistani Kashmir Chief: Standoff With India May Spark Nuclear Armageddon

Martial Law Unfolding In Iraq: 30 Protesters Shot, Internet Blackout, 24-Hour Curfews

A New Wave of Migration to Germany?

Climate Change Activists Protest By Spraying Fake Blood On UK Treasury With Firetruck Hose

Rainfall Trends in India Show No Climate Fatigue

Did the White House Hide a Bombshell Memo From Mueller?  Slate reports rumor and allegation as fact.

Trump’s Ukraine mess leads to anxiety in Pence world  Or would, if Pence were as skittish as CNN.

Sam Donaldson on impeachment inquiry: There’s a smoking transcript When you’re a senile left-wing retread.

Actually, the Stock Market Has Barely Moved the Last Two Years Under Trump  But it hasn’t crashed, as it did under Obama.

Impeachment is driving right-wingers crazy. Literally.

Chris Matthews: We Gotta Impeach Pence Too!

‘Daily Show’ Correspondent: ‘Moral Blindness’ Is Trump Family Hallmark

‘We Are Devolving Into Insanity’: Don Lemon Blasts Trump Over Oval Office Name-Calling  But not his own, of course.

Whither Impeachment?

Stephanopoulos Coaches Pelosi on How to Make Impeachment ‘Airtight’ ‘Inevitable’

Speaker Nancy Pelosi Compares Impeaching Trump To American Revolution

Pelosi Flat-Out Lies; Claims Schiff Used ‘Trump’s Own Words’ In Fabricated Ukraine Call ‘Parody’

Rachel Maddow Is REALLY Excited to Have Hillary Bash Trump

Judicial Watch Releases Documents Showing Rosenstein as an Active Participant in the Coup, Keeping His Conversations With Mueller Secret from His Boss

CNN Panel ERUPTS at ‘Lying’ Pence Calling Out Bidens; Wonders About Pence’s Guilt

The Other McCain is on the case.

Remember that the firing of Comey was the pretext for launching the Mueller “Russian collusion” witch-hunt. What we now see is that Rosenstein, who wrote the memo supporting Comey’s firing, was the entire time working with anti-Trump forces — the whole thing was a set-up, a frame job, from the start. The “deep state” is real, my friends.

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During this past year alone, a number of internationally prominent hate crime and hate incident hoaxes have occurred in the USA. In July, popular Georgia State Senator Erica Thomas claimed that she had been shamefully attacked, in a Publix grocery store, by a white male who screamed at her and told her to “go back home.” In fact, the “white man” turned out to Cuban-American Democratic Party activist Eric Sparkes, who literally showed up at Thomas’ melodramatic press conference to rebut her story.

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The problem with letting Democrats run our city is that they spend all their time virtue-signaling rather than actually doing their jobs.

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Criticism of the police chief wasn’t confined to pro-ICE pundits, but also from the country’s largest police union.

“Unfortunately, Chief Roessler has decided to penalize an officer for being faithful to his oath of office rather than to the political likes and dislikes of his superiors. The chief was an officer once—he needs to remember where he came from,” read a statement from the president of the National Fraternal Order of Police.

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That’s why there aren’t any people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today. Oh,  wait….

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I would dearly love to see a dead zebra crossing the Autobahn.

It’s certainly telling about Germany that ‘rescue services’ shoot things.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

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Would you miss them?

What effect would it have on international terrorism?

What effect would it have on U.S. tech employment?

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I don’t use that method in my Commonplace Book page.

Don’t be that guy. Just don’t.