RelentlesslyOptimistic

6% of scientists are Republicans

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ABBA The Museum set to open in Stockholm

"Abba The Museum forms part of the new Swedish Music Hall of Fame, a 2,000-square-meter exhibition space that features a mix of permanent and temporary exhibitions from 1920 to the present."

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If it's the same girl, the message is a little more disturbing

Doesn't she look like the girl in this post?

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Things I hate

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"Who's your daddy now?"

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Metal from people's cremated remains recycled to make road signs

Metal body parts from the dead are being recycled into road signs, lamp posts, car parts and aircraft engines. Steel hips, plates and screws from legs and skulls are collected after cremation and sent off for recycling. Even metal plates from false teeth and tiny fragments from fillings can be recovered and re-used, together with metal fittings on coffins. High value metals which survive the 1000-degree cremation are then sold for use in the automobile and aeronautical industries.

Money made is donated to charity and almost £1million has been raised for good causes since the project began in Britain in 2004.

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Misguided Fund-Raisers, Episode 10

Previously

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Good point

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Asbestos-contaminated tarantula could be on the loose!

"A web of intrigue surrounds a gruesome discovery in a 19th century attic – where a large tarantula skin, potentially contaminated with asbestos, has been found. The shock find was made during a routine survey by Cardiff asbestos specialists Kusten Vorland.

...Although it had been assumed Katie had stumbled on a dead tarantula, when we showed the evidence to Cardiff Reptile Centre, they said the bagged exhibit was just a shed skin - meaning the spider, thought to be a Chilean Rose Tarantula, could still be at large."

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Dear Winter

Dear Winter: There have been some good times, but to been honest lately it's all been leaving me cold. It's over. Please leave, and take all your stuff with you.

Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers (SFW)

Using the Internet Adult Film Database, "the premier resource for information about the American porn community on the web (who knew?)," Jon Millward extracted lots of interesting information about those who work in porn movies: Most common names: Nikki & David; average bra size: 34B. The infographic above is a color wheel of actresses races. Read the story at JonMillward.com.

The Most Common Locations Where Craigslist "Missed Connections" Occur

"Dorothy Gambrell of Psychology Today put together this map of the number-one places where missed connections occur by state. It's very telling and also pretty hilarious. "

n=100, so it's probably not statistically valid.

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Mississippi Abolishes Slavery!

"The state of Mississippi has officially ratified the 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a long overdue motion to abolish slavery that originally began more than two centuries ago on December 6, 1865, but was never completed, according to the latest discovery by University of Mississippi professor Ranjan Batra and anatomical material specialist Ken Sullivan. The two academics apparently started looking into the status of the 13th amendment after watching Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated Lincoln and after learning that the ratification had never passed, they contacted Mississippi's secretary of state who arranged the passage of the bill which took place earlier this month on February 7."

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There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written

"In Alaska’s North Slope, the population of bowhead whales seems to be recovering. But that’s really not the coolest part of this Alaska Dispatch story. Instead, it’s this, noticed by Geoffry Gagnon"

"Bowheads seem to be recovering from the harvest of Yankee commercial whaling from 1848 to 1915, which wiped out all but 1,000 or so animals. Because the creatures can live longer than 200 years — a fact [Craig] George discovered when he found an old stone harpoon point in a whale — some of the bowheads alive today may have themselves dodged the barbed steel points of the Yankee whalers."

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At least they admit it...

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