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For some people, early synesthesia-like gifts may endure even longer and continue developing. Since 1812, when an Austrian doctor first described his own propensity to see numbers and letters in their own distinct hues, researchers have documented more than 50 forms of synesthesia.
What's it like to smell pink?
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One night during the rehearsal period, Buddy Ebsen woke up in bed, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, “screaming from violent cramping in his hands, arms, and legs. When he had difficulty breathing, his wife called an ambulance and rushed him to the hospital. He remained in an oxygen tent for two weeks, recovering from the pure aluminum he had ingested into his lungs” from his days in makeup as the Tin Man.
In the scene in which Dorothy is awakened in a poppy field by a blanket of snow engineered by Glinda the Good Witch, production reportedly used chrysotile asbestos.
Oh yeah - that broom caught fire and sent the actress to a hospital for a month and a half.
By the way, they killed lions to get the hair for the so-called lion costume.
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“Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34
Right. People tend to believe that which reinforces their bad intents.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) stated during an interview on Saturday that President Donald Trump is afraid of her and three of her fellow far-left colleagues in the House, collectively known as the "Squad."
Well, Sweetie-pie, this may come as a real shock to your system.
Nobody is afraid of you.
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It’s hardly the first time European royalty have displayed laughably elitist and clueless condescension. It’s not even the worst current scandal involving a British royal and a private jet. But the spectacle of a prince and a princess jetting around the globe in private jets (including a visit to Sir Elton John’s estate in Nice, France) while scolding the rest of us about carbon emissions is a telling one about the West’s elites and the climate change fight, and more beyond.
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, living on inherited wealth, don’t have jobs in the same way most of us do. Instead, they are full-time do-gooders. The Duke of Sussex, as Harry is also known, recently spoke (barefoot!) at a green summit in Sicily. Like many of the guests, he arrived by private jet.
Yep, keep lecturing the rest of us.
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ORANGE COUNTY, TEXAS — (KFDM) - A 19-year-old man and his 20-year-old bride died only minutes after their wedding in Orange County when their car and a pickup truck collided as they were leaving the Justice of the Peace courtroom and pulling onto a highway. "They had just gotten married," said Kennia Lashawna Morgan, the groom's mother. "They haven't even been married for five minutes."
Tragic, but could have been worse.
"Marriage" generally comes down to a couple of sentences for a guy: "Hi, you're kind of cute. Would you like to take half of my stuff?"
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Michael Mann, a climatologist at Penn State University, is the creator of the “hockey stick graph” that appears to show global temperatures taking a noticeable swing upward in the era when humanity has been burning fossil fuels and dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. The graph was first published in 1998, prominently featured in the 2001 UN Climate Report, and formed part of Al Gore’s 2006 movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
The jackass sued for alleged defamation - and lost.
He now has to pay his "defendant" for all costs associated with the nearly nine-year litigation. I love happy endings.
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The USS Macon flies above New York in 1933.
Hindenburg.
Now, more than 80 years later, the giant airships may be poised for a comeback — not for passenger service, but as an environmentally friendly means of delivering goods around the globe.
As proposed in a recent scientific paper, the new airships would be 10 times bigger than the 800-foot Hindenburg — more than five times as long as the Empire State Building is tall — and soar high in the atmosphere. They’d do the work of traditional oceangoing cargo ships but would take less time and generate only a fraction of the pollution.
“We are trying to reduce as much as possible emissions of carbon dioxide because of global warming,” said Julian Hunt, a postdoctoral fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, and the paper’s lead author. Hunt said the new generation of airships would get around by riding the jet stream, a powerful air current that circles the globe. He and his collaborators calculate that an airship a mile and half long could circle the globe in 16 days, hauling more than 20,000 tons of cargo while expending little energy.
When the Hindenburg flew, operators had only the most basic means of predicting weather patterns and the crudest materials for fabricating airships. “They used to use cow intestines to build the gas bags,” Hunt said.
Heck, they could've just used my wife for that...
Yes, we've come a long way since then. Long enough? That remains to be seen.
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Look for the summer’s most dedicated cooks, and you will probably find them at the grill. But you might not want to hang out there with them too long: it’s a hot, often buggy place to be. (And there are so many rules.)
Now, a group of ardent cooks is touting an alternate place to create some of summer’s standout dishes: their Instant Pot. Melissa Clark, the New York Times columnist whose latest cookbook is Comfort In an Instant, happily stays away from outdoor open flames. “It’s scorching out where the grill is, cool in the kitchen where my Instant Pot is. I can’t imagine doing long barbecued meats like ribs and pork shoulder on the grill ever again,” she says. “The only thing the grill is really better for is quick-cooking things that you want to char. Downside, you have to hang out with your ingredients while they char. Maybe char is overrated.”
Why: “They stay tender, they gain more flavor, they increase in succulence in the IP. On the grill, they often dry out, and they can get too smoky. Plus, ribs only take 25 minutes in the Instant Pot. Just compare that to the 4 to 6 hours ribs take on the grill.”
Hmm. Who knew? I got an IP years ago, but never considered doing things like ribs in the appliance. Probably worth a try.
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I'm a space cowgirl
Bet you weren't ready for that
I'm a space cowgirl
I'm sure you know where it's at
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
NASA is looking into claims that an astronaut accessed her estranged wife's bank account from space during a six-month stint on the International Space Station. Decorated astronaut and US Army lieutenant colonel Anne McClain has been accused of improperly gaining access to Summer Worden's online bank account using NASA computers, the New York Times reported. This would be yet another first -- potentially the first criminal allegation from space.
Why, exactly, an obviously mentally unstable person would be selected as an astronaut remains unclear at present.
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