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The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor: Scientific American
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Total badass, Marie Colvin, an award winning UK journalist who lost her eye during a Sri Lankan battle.  Since becoming a war correspondent she has covered conflicts in the Balkans, Chechnya and East Timor, where she helped to save the lives of 1,500 women and children besieged in a compound by Indonesian troops.  Currently, Marie is covering the Gaza-Israel shitstorm.

Total badass, Marie Colvin, an award winning UK journalist who lost her eye during a Sri Lankan battle.  Since becoming a war correspondent she has covered conflicts in the Balkans, Chechnya and East Timor, where she helped to save the lives of 1,500 women and children besieged in a compound by Indonesian troops.  Currently, Marie is covering the Gaza-Israel shitstorm.

Josef Mengele 'created twin town in Brazil'
"Maryann Bruce, 48, of Cornelius, North Carolina, said that while others were “thinking of dying, I was actually thinking about living. I wanted to see my kids and my husband.” She said she had survived disasters before, including the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre, where she worked then. “I must have nine lives,” she said. “I was vacationing in Honolulu and had to be evacuated for a tsunami. I was skiing in Denver and had an avalanche. I was at the big LA earthquake."
- Passengers tell the inside story of plane that crashed into New York’s Hudson river
It took 1 min 47 seconds for my memory to become host to a horror that will never go
‘While I was standing there taking this picture, the guy in the left of the frame was asking the police officer whether he could join the protest. The officer told him very politely that he could not, because it was an unlawful protest and the police officers were now just trying to contain it. The guy in the left of the frame asked about his Constitutional right to assembly. “I understand how you feel,” the officer said, “But these people have already committed acts of vandalism. Right now, our job is just to contain them.” ‘

‘While I was standing there taking this picture, the guy in the left of the frame was asking the police officer whether he could join the protest. The officer told him very politely that he could not, because it was an unlawful protest and the police officers were now just trying to contain it. The guy in the left of the frame asked about his Constitutional right to assembly. “I understand how you feel,” the officer said, “But these people have already committed acts of vandalism. Right now, our job is just to contain them.” ‘

A Palestinian medic surveys the damage to a mobile medical clinic destroyed after an Israeli air strike in Gaza January 5, 2009. Four ambulances and three mobile clinics were destroyed in the bombing at Health Care Union, medical workers and witnesses said. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem) Way to go, Israel.  Fuck you assholes for shooting medical facilities.

A Palestinian medic surveys the damage to a mobile medical clinic destroyed after an Israeli air strike in Gaza January 5, 2009. Four ambulances and three mobile clinics were destroyed in the bombing at Health Care Union, medical workers and witnesses said. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)

Way to go, Israel.  Fuck you assholes for shooting medical facilities.

Popular Twitter accounts hacked

Actual Christmas Headlines from Columbia, SC

"The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known “mechanical computer”) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, in 1901. Subsequent investigation, particularly in 2006, dated it to about 150–100 BC; and hypothesized that it was on board a ship that sank en route from the Greek island of Rhodes to Rome. Technological artifacts of similar complexity did not reappear until a thousand years later."
- Antikythera mechanism - Wiki
List of common misconceptions Wiki
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Reblogged from CONSTANT SIEGE
The word 'genocide' didn't even exist until we were forced to name what the Nazis had done
mustard-roasted potatoes!

mustard-roasted potatoes!

Mulled Wine

1 navel orange
4 cups apple juice
2 tablespoons honey
1 2-inch piece fresh ginger, thinly sliced
6 whole allspice berries
10 cinnamon sticks
1 bottle dry red wine


In a large saucepan, gently simmer the zest, apple juice, honey, ginger, allspice, and 2 cinnamon sticks for 20 minutes. Stir in the wine and cook just until heated through. Serve hot with the remaining cinnamon sticks.

Tip: For an extra touch, spike it with a splash of Cointreau. Add 1/4 cup Cointreau or some other orange-flavored liqueur to the pot.

Using a vegetable peeler, peel the zest from the orange in long strips. (Reserve the fruit for another use.)

Analysis of a Toxic Death