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olivianewtonjohn

olivianewtonjohn

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The six heirs of walmart, make more money than the bottom 42% of Americans, yet the average tax payer pays on average $1300/employee in food and housing subsidies.

If you make over $32,000/yr you are apart of the top 1% of the global economy

In 2012 more Vets died by suicide than by war.

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Delta3DStudios

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grokit

grokit

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Not to mention that "usually they are deep fried with garlic and chili peppers".

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BuzzDanklin

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Ratchett said:
More on the mantis shrimp from one of the best webcomic's on the interwebs:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
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I love that comic! I kept a mantis shrimp years ago, really interesting creatures, he used to dig tunnels and build houses and then demolish them all and start over. He was constantly digging, moving rocks/shells etc.
 
Wahiker

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CarolKing said:
Women live 5 to 10 years longer than men.

Not sure why? Maybe because men are chained to their jobs and work longer? They don't have as many options as women. Or maybe because women take care of their bodies better? They go to the doctor more often than men when they are sick?
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This is an area I work in, and as it turns out, men are actually narrowing the life expectancy gap between men and women. See http://www.nbcnews.com/id/47466204/...can-men-finally-closing-longevity-gender-gap/ :

Between 1989 and 2009, life expectancy for U.S. males grew by 4.6 years while predicted lifespans for American women rose by 2.7 years, according to the recent report from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

That manly surge narrowed the life-expectancy gender gap to five years, one month and six days – compared to a seven-year gulf in 1989. Modern guys will live to be an average age of 76.2 versus 81.3 for women, the IHME reports.

How’d the dudes pull closer? They’re smoking less than past generations, they’re less likely to be obese than modern women and more apt than females to treat hypertension and high cholesterol, Mokdad said.

When it comes to cardiovascular concerns, Mokdad said, “men are tending to be more vigilant than women."

Now, to be fair to the ladies, cardiovascular disease - the leading cause of mortality for U.S. females - is often unrecognized and untreated in women, according to the American Heart Association. "In this country, we haven’t done a good job," Mokdad said, "of raising awareness for women about the risk factors for cardiovascular disease."
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The differences in life expectancies narrow further as men and women age. One reason suggested for this is that there has been a larger reduction in smoking for older men than older women.
 
CarolKing

CarolKing

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Dogs like to align themselves with the North South Axis when they take a poop. They do this whenever the Earths magnetics field conditions are normal - If they are confused or unstable they turn around in circles before they do their business.
 
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lwien

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Did you know that George Bush, (our previous pres.) could actually say something that a liberal Dem such as myself could actually, go, "Wow, well said."

He was being interviewed on CNN about a book that he just wrote about his father and Candy Crowley asked him, "If anyone asked you about advice in raising teenaged daughters, what would you say?", and he replied, "Tell them..... I love you and there's nothing that you can do to stop me from loving you so stop trying."

I like that................
 
grokit

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...that the Earth faces its sixth ‘great extinction’ with 41% of amphibians (and 26% of mammals) set to go the way of the dodo:

Preceding extinction events:

(445 MYA) Ordovician-Silurian Extinction
  • 60% of all life died out. Triggered when the continent Gondwana drifted over the south pole and began to glaciate, resulting in an ice-age. Sea levels dropped rapidly, and ocean temperatures cooled. A controversial theory argues that an ice-age alone could not have resulted in such a staggering loss of life, and proposes that a possible Gamma-Ray Burst from a nearby supernova is the culprit.
(374 MYA) Late Devonian Extinction
  • 50% of all life went extinct. The Late Devonian Extinction is in actuality a series of 8 smaller extinction events occurring one after the other in short succession. Believed to have been triggered by the evolution of land plants, of all things. A majority of soil is the result of roots penetrating and breaking the top layers of rock. Prior to the Devonian, soil was much less common. With the advent of rooted plants, an abundance of soil yielded much higher nutrient-rich river water dumping sediments into the ocean - yielding massive algal blooms. This in turn caused the Earth's oceans to become anoxic (oxygen-deprived), killing off a great deal of life.
(252 MYA) Permian-Triassic Extinction "The Great Dying"
  • 90% of all life perished from the Earth. Resulted from a series of catastrophic events that nearly killed off all life on the planet. Super-continent Pangaea had formed, its interior became an immense desert tens of thousands of miles in size. The Siberian Traps occurred: a giant magma plume from the mantle punched through the crust - resulting in a volcanic flood event. It was a volcanic mountain range over ten thousand miles in size, constantly erupting lava and pumping out CO2. The abundance of CO2 caused temperatures to rise, and oxygen to fall. Plant die-off exacerbated the problem further. Oceans became acidic and anoxic.
(201 MYA) Triassic-Jurassic Extinction
  • 50% of all life died out. A lot of theories arguing one case or another as to why it happened. A theory gaining traction is that it wasn't so much an extinction, as it was a "bottleneck" of biodiversity. In other words, it wasn't that life was going extinct - as much as it was life wasn't diversifying into new species. This would cause a significant 'dip' if one were to graph the diversification of life on a chart. Other ideas postulate that gradual climate change, another volcanic flood event, or even an asteroid impact may have played a role.
(65 MYA) Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction
  • 75% of all life went extinct. Many things contributed to the K-Pg extinction event, but the most iconic is the Chicxulub impact, in what is modern-day Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. An asteroid over 10 miles in size struck the Earth, producing a crater over 100 miles in size. Everything within a thousand miles flash-ignited in moments of impact, and mega-tsunamis traveled the planet. But this alone could not have killed the dinosaurs. A large volcanic flood event, called the Deccan Traps, was active at the time of the extinction. The Earth's environment was resembling the "Great Dying" 200 million years before, just to a lesser extent. Temperatures were high, and the oceans were acidic - possibly even becoming anoxic. The asteroid impact is believed to have been the final coffin-nail in an already sick world.
(0 MYA) Holocene Extinction
  • % still left to be determined, but conservative estimates would be around 30%. Man-made extinction. Who said we'd never leave a mark on this world? Hahahaha...ah. =\
http://www.nature.com/news/biodiversity-life-a-status-report-1.16523
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2p96nc/earth_faces_sixth_great_extinction_with_41_of/
 
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CarolKing

CarolKing

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9. Baby soap oops
The hospitals were thinking the moms were using cannabis.

false positive on marijuana urine tests, researchers reported in 2012. The soaps, including formulas from Johnson & Johnson, CVS and Aveeno, don't contain pot, nor do the get infants high. A more sensitive test can show that the initial screening results were false positives, researchers reported in the journal Clinical Biochemistry.
 
RUDE BOY

RUDE BOY

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Did you Know ... You can't pump your own gas in NJ or Oregon ??? :ninja:

I didn't until this morning when asked where there was a full service gas station nearby(there ain't one) because someone in their 60's from NJ has never filled up at a self serve gas station and pumping your own gas is "scary".

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Edit: Are there any other places in the world that don't allow you to pump your own gas?
(Serious Question) I just gotta know now.
 
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Vicki

Vicki

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RUDE BOY said:
Did you Know ... You can't pump your own gas in NJ or Oregon ??? :ninja:

I didn't until this morning when asked where there was a full service gas station nearby(there ain't one) because someone in their 60's from NJ has never filled up at a self serve gas station and pumping your own gas is "scary".

:lmao:


Edit: Are there any other places in the world that don't allow you to pump your own gas?
(Serious Question) I just gotta know now.
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Wow, that's messed up! I wonder why NJ & Oregon do that.
 
t-dub

t-dub

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Vicki said:
Wow, that's messed up! I wonder why NJ & Oregon do that.
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Two reasons, safety and jobs. We wouldn't want to put a bunch of people out of work now would we? I'm not saying I totally buy it but I do not mind having someone pump my gas. I know how to do it and to speed the process at COSTCO I will take my gas cap off and then "charge" the pump with my member card, debit card, and PIN# before the kid comes over so he/she can begin fueling immediately.
 
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