Proof that it’s not the size of the mongoose in the fight but the size of the fight in the mongoose.
At first things are not looking so great for Jerry, the mongoose.
But he doesn't give a shit. Jerry is not here to mess around.
After those dumb dumbs underestimate him, Jerry retreats to his underground kingdom.
Instead of relaxing like a King should, Jerry comes back out like "WHAT NOW, BITCHES" because Jerry does not back down, he does not retreat and he's NEVER done giving you a piece of his mind.
Duangjay Samaksamam suffers from a rare and painful condition that has caused her hands and arms to swell to such a size that she now finds the most basic tasks extremely difficult.
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The 59-year-old’s hands weigh almost a stone and a half each.
According to The Sun, the shopkeeper’s condition is known as macrodystrophia lipomastosa, which causes large amounts of fat to build up in her hands and arms.
Samaksamam, from Surin Province in Thailand, was embarrassed by her condition at first, and, according to Barcroft Media, spent the first 20 years of her life as a recluse and never went to school.
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However, she eventually went to work to support her parents.
Her condition has attracted considerable attention and she's undergone numerous surgical procedures, but doctors have so far been unable to help her.
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Samaksamam is quoted by The Sun as saying: “My hands are so heavy I can barely lift them to comb or shampoo my hair. It’s very difficult. Getting dressed is also very difficult and painful."
“Some doctors said the only solution was to cut off my hands if I wished to walk around freely. But I don’t want to do that.”
We live on a planet, next to a star that's part of galaxy that's part of ... ah, here comes the new discovery. We are at the very tip of a giant galactic "supercluster." Take a look.
When doting dad Al Ferguson planned to capture the sheer joy he felt as a new father in an adorable photo shoot with his baby, he probably didn't expect the surprise he received.
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As he cradled the baby, Ted, in his arms, the newborn decided the shoot was the perfect opportunity to poo on his father's arm.
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We wanted to capture Ted in the earliest stages. Those first few weeks go so quickly, we wanted some quality reminders of him. Photos are very precious as they capture a moment and create a memory.
During the shoot I felt his tummy muscles tense up and in that moment I knew what was about to happen. Unfortunately, it was just a moment and before I could do anything Ted exploded from his bum.
He was amazed that his photos have gone viral, but felt that the situation was something parents could relate to: "I think that parents worldwide relate to the image and enjoy the funny side of it, and non-parents are probably just a little grossed out by it. Bizarrely, when you become a parent, your own child's poo doesn't seem that disgusting."
Some species of dinosaur were astonishingly enormous compared to anything alive on land today, which becomes obvious the moment you stand in the shadow of their skeletons in a museum. This is a key reason why we remain fascinated with these long-extinct beasts. The colossal size of the long-necked species like Brachiosaurus stretches the limits of our imaginations and exhausts our vocabulary. And nothing quite gets the hyperbole flowing like the discovery of a gigantic new dinosaur.
So meet Dreadnoughtus, the 65-ton, 26-meter-long plant-eating behemoth from the latest Cretaceous—84 to 66 million years ago—found in Argentina. It is named after the World War I British battleship Dreadnought.
This discovery comes only a few months after another team of Argentine researchers reported a slightly older, and apparently even larger, long-necked dinosaur. That discovery dominated the science news for days, to the point where elderly relatives, who never took much of an interest in my career in science, were phoning me up to ask how something so huge could have possibly existed.
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Humans just got a step closer to being able to think a message into someone else's brain on the other side of the world: in a first-of-its-kind study, an international team of researchers has successfully achieved brain-to-brain transmission of information between humans.
The team, comprising researchers from Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Starlab Barcelona in Spain, and Axilum Robotics in Strasbourg, France, used a number of technologies that enabled them to send messages from India to France -- a distance of 5,000 miles (8046.72km) -- without performing invasive surgery on the test subjects.
"We wanted to find out if one could communicate directly between two people by reading out the brain activity from one person and injecting brain activity into the second person, and do so across great physical distances by leveraging existing communication pathways," said co-author Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.
"One such pathway is, of course, the internet, so our question became, 'Could we develop an experiment that would bypass the talking or typing part of internet and establish direct brain-to-brain communication between subjects located far away from each other in India and France ?'"
Using a combination of internet-connected electroencephalogram and robot-assisted, image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (which, as the name suggests, uses electromagnetic induction to stimulate the brain from the outside), the team was able to communicate words from one human to another.
The team used a similar set-up to that commonly used in brain-computer interface studies. A human subject had electrodes attached to their scalp, which recorded electrical currents in the brain as the subject had a specific thought. Usually, this is interpreted by a computer and translated to a control output, such as a robotic arm, or a drone.
In this case, though, the output target was another human.
The emitter on the left being shown the binary code, and the receiver on the right.
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The study had four participants, aged between 28 and 50. One participant was assigned to the brain-computer interface to transmit the thought, while the other three were assigned to the computer-brain interface to receive the thought.
At the BCI end, the words "Ciao" and "Hola" were translated into binary. This was then shown to the emitter subject, who was instructed to envision actions for each piece of information: moving their hands for a 1 or their feet for a 0. An EEG then captured the electrical information in the sender's brain as they thought of these actions, which resulted in a sort of neural code for the binary symbols -- which in turn was code for the words.
This information was then sent to the three recipient subjects via TMS headsets, stimulating the visual cortex so that the recipient, with ears and eyes covered, saw the binary string as a series of bright lights in their peripheral vision: if the light appeared in one location, it was a 1, and the second location denoted a 0. This information was received successfully and decoded as the transmitted words.
This experiment, the researchers said, represents an important first step in exploring the feasibility of complementing or bypassing traditional means of communication, despite its current limitations -- the bit rates were, for example, quite low at two bits per minute. Potential applications, however, include communicating with stroke patients, for example.
"We anticipate that computers in the not-so-distant future will interact directly with the human brain in a fluent manner, supporting both computer- and brain-to-brain communication routinely," the team concluded. "The widespread use of human brain-to-brain technologically mediated communication will create novel possibilities for human interrelation with broad social implications that will require new ethical and legislative responses."
Today, my 8 year old son asked me why he had to make his bed everyday if he would just use it again. I replied with, "You flush the toilet even though you're going to use it again, right?" He said, "Good point."
Now he's not making his bed or flushing the toilet. FML
While the Queen was away in Scotland last month, one creative Grenadier Guardsman took the opportunity to add an unusual twist to his usual sentry duty.
Notice how he never breaks the pace of his march with his lovely pirouette – 10/10 guardsmanship right there.
TACOMA, WA—Sitting at the bedside of her ailing husband Roger, whom she first met at a school dance in 1951, local woman Jeanie Davison told reporters Wednesday that when the time comes for her beloved spouse of 60 years to pass on, she has no inten...
They boldly went where no sex geckos had gone before. RIP sex geckos.
The Russian geckos that were lost while having sex in space – and then found again – have all been found dead upon their return to Earth, according to the Russian space agency.
The geckos were on board Russia's Foton-M4 capsule, where they were taking part in an experiment to see how their sexual activity was affected by microgravity.
Roscsomos said that: "It was established that while the Drosophila flies handled spaceflight well, developed and bred successfully, all the geckos, unfortunately, died. The date and circumstances of their deaths will be established by specialists."
The Moscow Timesreports that scientists will have to view 44 days worth of video footage to determine exactly when the geckos died, and if they ever actually had sex.
“Here’s a guide for Russian soldiers who keep getting lost and ‘accidentally entering’ #Ukraine.”
Ukraine has repeatedly accused Russia of sending troops to support pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's east. Russia has repeatedly denied the allegations, despite evidence otherwise. On Aug. 25, Ukrainian forces captured ten Russian troops about 12 miles inside Ukraine. Russia said the troops had entered "by accident" as the border was unclear.
Today, my manager made everyone put up Christmas decorations around the store. As well as this, we're going to have Christmas music playing on repeat all the way through to January. It's not even September yet. FML
Science educators have recognized that teaching science as a large compendium of facts, without reference to the scientific process and theories that bind them together, simply leads to uninterested and uninformed students. So it's a bit mind-boggling to discover that an Ohio state legislator is attempting to block educators from teaching anything about the scientific process. And for good measure, the bill's sponsor threw politics and creationism into the mix.
The bill, currently under consideration by the Ohio Assembly, is intended to revoke a previous approval of the Common Core educational standards, which target math and literacy. However, the bill's language also includes sections devoted to science and social studies. And the science one is a real winner:
The standards in science shall be based in core existing disciplines of biology, chemistry, and physics; incorporate grade-level mathematics and be referenced to the mathematics standards; focus on academic and scientific knowledge rather than scientific processes; and prohibit political or religious interpretation of scientific facts in favor of another.
Specifically prohibiting a discussion of the scientific process is a recipe for educational chaos. To begin with, it leaves the knowledge the kids will still receive—the things we have learned through science—completely unmoored from any indication of how that knowledge was generated or whether it's likely to be reliable. The scientific process is also useful in that it can help people understand the world around them and the information they're bombarded with; it can also help people assess the reliability of various sources of information.
It's sad that big telecom can crush even politically attractive things like city-run broadband with enough money.
This story was written and published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, DC, and is exclusively republished here.
Janice Bowling, a 67-year-old grandmother and Republican state senator from rural Tennessee, thought it only made sense that the city of Tullahoma be able to offer its local high-speed Internet service to areas beyond the city limits.
After all, many of her rural constituents had slow service or did not have access to commercial providers, like AT&T Inc. and Charter Communications Inc.
In the continuing battle over Internet regulation in Iran, one of Iran's highest religious clerics has ruled that access to high speed internet is "against moral standards," and urged the judiciary "not to remain indifferent on this vital issue."
"All third generation [3G] and high-speed internet services, prior to realization of the required conditions for the National Information Network [Iran's government-controlled and censored Internet which is under development], is against Sharia [and] against moral and human standards," Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi wrote on Aug. 25 in response to question posted on his website, The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) reported Thursday.
The Iranian administration is under no legal obligation to enforce Shirazi's ruling.
The battle over Internet censorship in Iran has pitted President Hassan Rouhani — a pragmatic reformer who campaigned in 2013 in support of some internet liberalization — against hardline conservatives — who oppose Rouhani's rhetoric of reform and hold considerable power in the judicial and security sectors.
Activists have long accused Iranian authorities of slowing the speed of the Internet (as well as radio and television broadcasts) in order to undermine access, especially during times of protest. Iran began efforts to create a National Information Network under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. If implemented, the service would make it even easier for the government to censor the internet in Iran.
During the 2013 presidential campaign, Rouhani appeared to argue for a change. "We are in a situation where our researchers and students wish to use the Internet. Our people deserve better than to wait for information on the Internet," ICHRI reported.
About 42 million Iranians, or 55% of the population, use the Internet, according to ICHRI. The Supreme Council of Cyberspace (SCC) censors many websites, including social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Rouhani heads the SCC, though the council's many hardliners outnumber moderates, according to the Center for Internet and Society.
Millions of Iranians nonetheless use services like VPNs to bypass the blocks; Rouhani and his Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif maintain popular Twitter accounts, though only Zarif has been verified. There is also an unofficial Twitter account that claims to be associated with Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Imam Khomeini, despite the clerics stated opposition to liberalizing Internet censorship.
Shirazi's statements follow months of apparent infighting over Internet and social media censorship between reformers and hardliners in Iran. On July 24, Iranian officials arrested three American journalists, including the Washington Post's Tehran correspondent, without charge and later accused them of spying. Rouhani has not publicly spoken out against the arrests. In another widely publicized incident in May, Iran's Committee for Determining Criminal Web Content passed a ban on WhatsApp, a free messaging service, which the Rouhani-appointed Minister of Communications then rejected.
Think you could sleep through an earthquake? Probably not, judging by data from Jawbone. The company says that almost everyone using its Jawbone Up device to track their sleep near South Napa was awakened by yesterday's earthquake. About 90 percent...
Nope. But I finally (seriously, how did this take me so long?!) bought a universal remote. It was only $60, and it controls the TV, the Tivo, the A/V Receiver, the PS3, the PS4, and the Apple TV. It's AWESOME.
Between Chromecast, Roku, Apple TV, TiVo, Xbox One and Playstation 4, our entertainment centers are getting pretty crowded. Who even has room for all those remotes? Thankfully, though, there are a number of apps and devices that can turn your...
For all the advancements we've made with technology and medicine, a cure for cancer still eludes us. But maybe that's because we haven't enlisted nanoparticles to attack tumors just yet. New research from the University of California's Davis Cancer...
Perhaps 85 inches isn't enough? Samsung's just introduced a 105-inch curved, bendable UHD TV at its IFA 2014 press conference. That means not only is it a massive, ultra high-definition screen, but also that it's re-shaped at the touch of a button....
Think you could sleep through an earthquake? Probably not, judging by data from Jawbone. The company says that almost everyone using its Jawbone Up device to track their sleep near South Napa was awakened by yesterday's earthquake. About 90 percent...
Between Chromecast, Roku, Apple TV, TiVo, Xbox One and Playstation 4, our entertainment centers are getting pretty crowded. Who even has room for all those remotes? Thankfully, though, there are a number of apps and devices that can turn your...
For all the advancements we've made with technology and medicine, a cure for cancer still eludes us. But maybe that's because we haven't enlisted nanoparticles to attack tumors just yet. New research from the University of California's Davis Cancer...
