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Having lice is one of life’s lower moments. It causes much wailing, rending of garments, purchasing of funny little combs, and a crushing feeling of ickiness. But lice are common in the animal kingdom, afflicting everything from a teensy mouse to one...
by Pakalolo
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on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 06:52 AM PST
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“McCarthyism” (Intransigent noun.) A condition whose symptoms include sycophancy, spinelessness, and an irrepressible desire to cut off ones own dick to impress a group crack-addicted prostitutes whose negligible desire for you is significantly...
by The Choobs
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on Sat Jan 07, 2023 at 09:27 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest, Saturday Science with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, Rise ...
by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat Sep 10, 2022 at 08:55 PM PDT
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What food is your favorite "odd" food? Something most people would not eat or give a double take at. I read the Front Page diary asking about what food you would never eat. When i read the responses it reinforced something already known…�I am odd.
My least favorite food category is Italian.
I ...
by CameronProf
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on Tue Jul 06, 2021 at 03:50 PM PDT
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�Welcome to Overnight News Digest —�Saturday Science Edition. Here are the topics in today’s diary:
Truth behind ancient Roman ‘Gate to Hell’
A long-lost letter from Albert Einstein
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by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat Jun 12, 2021 at 08:59 PM PDT
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Ever wonder how someone looked at something for the first time and decided “Hey! I should try to eat that!” One of the best examples is a honeycomb, like the picture above. Who would look at a bunch of wild, stinging insects and say: “Hey, I bet there...
by CameronProf
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on Sat Jan 30, 2021 at 08:06 AM PST
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Today, November 3 is celebrated as World Jellyfish Day. It is day to celebrate and learn about these unique and fascinating coelenterates, billions of which bloom in the oceans and sometimes infest our favorite beaches. We present here a few...
by AKALib
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on Sun Nov 03, 2019 at 05:33 PM PST
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This is NOT a Biodiversity Roundup, because that feature does not exist. I mean, there COULD be a regular Biodiversity Roundup that would be fun to learn about and write, but this is definitely not that. It’s just that looking through the recent news I...
by skralyx
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on Sat Sep 21, 2019 at 10:12 PM PDT
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Here's my fantasy of Inauguration Day, 2021:
Judge: "Do you, Democratic President, swear to uphold the Constitution, yadda-yadda-yadda?"
Dem Prez: "I certainly do!"
Judge turns slightly to his right: "And do you, Donald Trump, understand that...
by Raging Pencils
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on Fri Jun 21, 2019 at 08:27 PM PDT
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“Jellyfish are demanding our attention right now and we should be giving it to them. Those stings are an indication that something is wrong with our oceans — and we’re silly that we’re not listening”. Lisa Gershwin, Commonwealth Scientific, and...
by Pakalolo
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on Mon Jan 07, 2019 at 05:15 AM PST
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I am attempting to go to a form of eating in which I only eat veggies, eggs and fish. So going to this diet will mean I will have to give up one of my favorites but I can keep the other two.
First off, I love and always have since I was a kid:
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by BFSkinner
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on Sat Aug 18, 2018 at 02:20 PM PDT
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On a sunny day recently in August neither of us was feeling motivated to work on projects, so we decided to go walking at a couple of our favorite spots. No theme emerged from what we saw — just a miscellany of fun stuff on a summer’s day in the PNW...
by OceanDiver
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on Tue Sep 06, 2016 at 09:14 AM PDT
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Smart farming for lazy city farmers ... lettuce, basil, green onions, varieties of mint, a watermelon, eggplant, and some Arabian greens like meloukhia.
by mettle fatigue
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on Wed Jul 08, 2015 at 05:05 PM PDT
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On Saturday I reported on Japan's 'Hydrangea Revolution' . The massive demonstrations have been ongoing for the past few weeks and are scheduled to keep right on going until the government backs ...
by Joieau
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on Mon Jul 09, 2012 at 06:12 PM PDT
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That is according to Steve Urbon, who writes a twice weekly column for the The Standard-Times of New Bedford, MA and echoed on-line at SouthCoastToday.com .
His May 4th item was largely an entirely ...
by Gary Hurd
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on Sat May 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM PDT
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In brightest day, in blackest night,
No virus shall escape my sight
Let those who worship infections' might,
Beware my power... Green JellyCat's light!
by jpmassar
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on Mon Sep 12, 2011 at 10:16 AM PDT
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Originally, Groucho Marx.
Now, unfortunately, the Democratic Party.
by Liberal Capitalist
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on Mon Jul 25, 2011 at 05:16 PM PDT
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We called it, simply, The Test. I grew up on a house on Barnegat Bay in Chadwick Beach, New Jersey. With four little children scampering around, my parents had a hard and fast rule for us and our ...
by Michael Brune
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on Fri Sep 03, 2010 at 12:15 PM PDT
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger "There's a dead dolphin on this beach," Mother Jones ' Mac McClelland, wrote yesterday in Louisiana. It'
by The Media Consortium
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on Fri Jun 11, 2010 at 08:51 AM PDT
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This is serious.
KOKONOGI, Japan – A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged ...
by cskendrick
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on Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 08:58 AM PST
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