A nod to his biggest influence. The post ‘Walking in the Park with Eloise’: Paul McCartney’s most obscure but meaningful ‘Desert Island Discs’ selection first appeared on Far Out Magazine.

by Steve Kirsch, Steve Kirsh’s Newsletter: And when you contact Anders Hviid to ask him questions about his studies, he blocks you. Of course, no US epidemiologist is going to point out the biases to you — that’s my job. Executive summary Do you know why all these vaccine autism studies are done in Denmark? […]

When special-education teacher Thomas Ackermann comes home from work, he heads straight for the basement of his house in Aachen, Germany. Behind the door of his self-described “man cave” lies a four-by-four-meter world of mossy logs, trickling water and humid air — an astonishing micro-jungle he has built in a dozen terrariums. “I could watch them for hours,” he says, pointing at thumbnail-sized electric-yellow poison dart frogs that hop between bromeliads. But the rarest residents are the ones he tends most carefully: Ecuadorian stump-foot toads — delicate green amphibians with black speckles and neon-orange feet. Barely larger than half a thumb, they were declared extinct 15 years ago. The culprits were habitat loss, a warming climate and a lethal fungal disease, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which has contributed to declines in hundreds of amphibian species worldwide. The post You Can Foster an Endangered Species in Your Home appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful.

The old military adage, “An army marches on its stomach,” has been a guiding principle for the U.S. armed forces for centuries. However, the mission to feed troops well—and, crucially, to feed them imperishable and easily transportable rations—has resulted in far more than just MREs. Since World War I, the military, through the Quartermaster Corps […] The post 10 Everyday Foods You Didn’t Know Were Invented by the U.S. Military appeared first on Listverse.

Dem House Candidate Aftyn Behn Refuses to Answer Whether She Still Supports Defunding the Police

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