Forgot about the gay earring side. It's the right side, btw. Right earring === Gay Man. I'll have to poll my little brothers and see if that's still a thing.
A meme going around compares Syrian refugees to jelly beans:
If i gave you a bag of 50000 jellybeans and told you 100 are poisonous, you wouldnt accept them right? Then why would we accept 50000 refugees if some of them are bad?
I like jelly beans and numbers so I did a back of the envelope calculation. In the US there are about 15,000 murders per year. Most murderers kill only one person. Even serial killers kill only 2.8 people on average. Thus, 15,000 is also approximately the number of murderers in a year.
Let’s say that people live on average for 50 years–that’s a bit low but our figure for the number of murderers was a bit high–this means that in the current population there will be approximately 15000*50=750,000 murderers.
750,000 killers among us struck me as an awful lot when I first calculated the number but there are approximately 166,700 people in prison for murder right now and of the 750,000 some of them are not yet murderers and some of them won’t be caught. Thus, on reflection, 750,000 seems like a scary, yet reasonable estimate.
The current US population is 322 million so there are .0023 murderers per capita or 2.33 murderers per 1000 or 116 murderers per 50,000 people in the United States. Put differently, about 116 American babies out of every 50,000 will grow up to murder someone. (Perhaps the NYMag should rerun its poll?). In contrast, only 100 of the 50000 jelly beans were poisonous.
Thus, if anything, Syrian jelly beans look pretty good compared to American jelly beans.
Addendum: See Alex Nowrasteh for calculations going beyond jelly beans.
This is a chart showing different eyebrow trends in the Tang Dynasty. It’s based on a chart in Chinese Clothing by Hua Mei and Gao Chunming (2004), on pg 37. I wanted to create a chart that had the eyebrows on faces.
Interesting notes
“Women of the Tang Dynasty paid particular attention to facial appearance, and the application of powder or even rouge was common practice. Some women’s foreheads were painted dark yellow and the dai (a kind of dark blue pigment) was used to paint their eyebrows into different shapes that were called dai mei(painted eyebrows) in general. There were literally a dozen ways to pait the eyebrows and between the brows there was a colourful decoration called hua dian, which was made of specks of gold, silver and emerald feather.” (5000 Years of Chinese Costume, 77)
“…during the years of Yuanho in the reign of Xuanzong the system of costumes changed, and women no longer applied red powder to their faces; instead, they used only black ointment for their lips and made their eyebrows like like the Chinese character ’八’.” (5000 Years of Chinese Costume, 77)
The black lipstick style “was called the ‘weeping makeup’ or ‘tears makeup’.” (Chinese Clothing by Hua Mei, 37)
Latest body modification tech developed by Grindhouse Wetware is a subdermal LED implant which, as you can see, can display lights through skin:
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No videos as of yet but as they say, they’re coming soon …
The Europeans used what is known as the “Mediterranean draw” to pull their bowstrings back. This uses the first three fingers of the hand. However, the Mongols used their thumbs to pull the string back,
and curled their index and middle fingers over the thumb to support it.
This, they reckoned, was stronger and allowed for a cleaner release.
Okay guys, let me tell you about Deepo, the mascot of the Georgia Aquarium.
For years, I thought Deepo was a Finding Nemo knockoff as well. And he might be that still. But then one year on my birthday (because you get into the GA Aquarium for free on your birthday and it’s rad as fuck), I actually sat down and watched the cheesy 4D movie they have with Deepo and Friends there. It’s your typical fare, but there’s one line in there where the main character says “So, what you’re saying is that this is your home, Deepo?”
Home Depot is a major benefactor of the Aquarium and even sponsors the section that Deepo’s Hideaway is in.
Deepo is a goddamn pun reference to Home Depot.
what you end up animating if you don’t go to calarts
The event started when local landlord Gordon Green overheard a discussion between two men in his pub, the Neuadd Arms. One man suggested that over a significant distance across country, man was equal to any horse. Green decided that the challenge should be tested in full public view, and organised the first event.
Fascinating. 16 million years to go, ladies and gentleman.
Mass extinctions occurring over the past 260 million years were likely caused by comet and asteroid showers, a new study concludes. An artist’s illustration of a major asteroid impact on Earth. (credit: NASA/Don Davis)
Mass extinctions occurring over the past 260 million years were likely caused by comet and asteroid showers, scientists conclude in a new study published in an open-access paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
For more than 30 years, scientists have argued about a controversial hypothesis relating to periodic mass extinctions and impact craters — caused by comet and asteroid showers — on Earth.
This cycle has been linked to periodic motion of the sun and planets through the dense mid-plane of our galaxy. Scientists have theorized that gravitational perturbations of the distant Oort comet cloud that surrounds the sun lead to periodic comet showers in the inner solar system, where some comets strike the Earth.
Crater formation rate per million years, with eight significant extinction events shown with solid arrows and two potential extinction events shown with broken arrows (credit: Michael R. Rampino and Ken Caldeira/MNRAS)
To test their hypothesis, Rampino and Caldeira performed time-series analyses of impacts and extinctions using newly available data offering more accurate age estimates. “The correlation between the formation of these impacts and extinction events over the past 260 million years is striking and suggests a cause-and-effect relationship,” says Rampino.
The sinkholes clustered around the trough of the Chicxulub crater suggest a prehistoric oceanic basin in the depression left by the impact. (credit: NASA)
One of the craters considered in the study is the large (180 km diameter) Chicxulub impact structure in the Yucatan, which dates at about 65 million years ago — the time of a great mass extinction that included the dinosaurs. And five out of the six largest impact craters of the last 260 million years on earth correlate with mass extinction events.
Abstract of Periodic impact cratering and extinction events over the last 260 million years
The claims of periodicity in impact cratering and biological extinction events are controversial. A newly revised record of dated impact craters has been analyzed for periodicity, and compared with the record of extinctions over the past 260 Myr. A digital circular spectral analysis of 37 crater ages (ranging in age from 15 to 254 Myr ago) yielded evidence for a significant 25.8 ± 0.6 Myr cycle. Using the same method, we found a significant 27.0 ± 0.7 Myr cycle in the dates of the eight recognized marine extinction events over the same period. The cycles detected in impacts and extinctions have a similar phase. The impact crater dataset shows 11 apparent peaks in the last 260 Myr, at least 5 of which correlate closely with significant extinction peaks. These results suggest that the hypothesis of periodic impacts and extinction events is still viable.
You know how when you spin around in circles a bunch and when you stop it seems like you're still spinning? I guess the same happens when you spin around on hamster wheels.
What 761 kilobytes looked like in 1969. This thing weighs a ton!
I just calculated roughly 71.5 bytes per gram. Two grams would get you one tweet. (btw the owner said 761 kilobytes, but the postit says 715kb. unsurprising though; he is old.)
A former hedge fund manager turned pharmaceutical businessman has purchased the rights to a 62-year-old drug used for treating life-threatening parasitic infections and raised the price overnight from $13.50 per tablet to $750.
According to the New York Times, Martin Shkreli, 32, the founder and chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, purchased the rights to Daraprim for $55 million on the same day that Turing announced it had raised $90 million from Shkreli and other investors in its first round of financing.
Daraprim is used for treating toxoplasmosis — an opportunistic parasitic infection that can cause serious or even life-threatening problems in babies and for people with compromised immune systems like AIDS patients and certain cancer patients — that sold for slightly over $1 a tablet several years ago. Prices have increased as the rights to the drug have been passed from one pharmaceutical company to the next, but nothing like the almost 5,500 percent increase since Shkreli acquired it.
This is absolutely monstrous. He’s like a parody of a capitalist from a Marxist propaganda film. Jesus H. Christ what a piece of trash.
Spread his face around. Don’t let him be anonymous. Let everyone know his name and what he looks like so that he’ll never, ever be able to go about in public again without being utterly terrified.
Haha, yeahhh so Android has like 3 different, independently mutable "volumes" and (last time I worked on things that made noises) none of them are enforced by the OS. So I think even if your phone is on silent or vibrate, you can make an app pump out some jams.
I hate hearing the phone ring. I don’t like hearing ringtones. My phone is always on vibrate.
But Google recruiting called me again today. “Unknown” number, but my phone rang. It was on vibrate, and it rang (not even my selected ringtone) before it vibrated. A high-pitched ring, too. This is sketch as all hell.
BBC's Life has a section on these guys. They're amazing. One of the birds is really into brown and manages to steal a snickers wrapper from the camera man. The nature photographer has to steal back the wrapper from the beautiful nest so they can film it properly and you can tell it's just breaking both of their hearts (the bird's and the photographer's).
Well, starting tomorrow, it’ll be a hundred thousand times worse.
Here’s how this fucking disaster is gonna look (it’s the one on the right, but you probably guessed that already, I mean, just look at that fuck-up):
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I like jelly beans and numbers so I did a back of the envelope calculation. In the US there are about 15,000 murders per year. Most murderers kill only one person. Even serial killers kill only 2.8 people on average. Thus, 15,000 is also approximately the number of murderers in a year.
