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On Aug. 10, 2017, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Axios wrote a story about a close group of Washington insiders — senior officers who sought quietly to restrain President Trump from his worst inclinations, and thereby shield the nation from disaster.
VandeHei and Allen named the unsung heroes, dubbing them the “Committee to Save America”: White House chief of staff John Kelly; National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster; Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joseph Dunford; economic adviser Gary Cohn; and Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell.
Ten days later, Allen provided an update: “Why they stay.” Theonion. Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger Crush a Limo With His Own Tank. Theonion. Salon. Guy Trolls His Neighborhood With Fake Posters, And People Aren’t Sure If He’s For Real. Someone Finds Old “Grow In Water” Egg At Goodwill And Puts It In Water, Regrets It 23 Hours Later. Each generation has it’s own variety of bizarre toy creations.
You know, the toys that you found so entertaining at the time but now looking back you think WTF? Theonion. The Young Anarchist and Future Joy of Sex Author Who Sparred with George Orwell Over World War II. The summer of 1943 found George Orwell, English socialist man of letters, reaching the end of his patience with his job at the BBC.
The cultural programs and commentary he had been producing for the Indian and East Asian outposts of the British Empire were designed to counter German wartime radio transmissions. These broadcasts were not quite propaganda: he was allowed “reasonable freedom of speech” despite being (in his words) “an independent and more or less ‘agin the government’ commentator,” and he could contribute to outside publications as well. But the job was boring. The Literal Translation of Every Country's Name In One World Map. Which comic book company is the best: Marvel or DC?
This is a perennial argument on middle-school playgrounds and Reddit threads, but this map, courtesy of USDish.com, might just give us a definitive answer. The information here is broken down by state, using information provided by Google Trends to give us a clear winner of not only the most popular comic book company but also the most popular individual hero in each state (let’s show a little respect to Indiana for championing the Martian Manhunter).
Ed Viesturs Discusses Trump's Wall - Professional Mountain Climber on Trump's Wall. Former Governator Schwarzenegger wants to sue oil companies for ‘murder.’ In Sheridan County, farmers managed to slash irrigation by 20 percent without taking a punch in the wallet, according to a new economic analysis.
The wells in Sheridan County sip from the Ogallala Aquifer, an underground lake that stretches from South Dakota to Texas. It happens to be rapidly depleting. Theonion. Astronaut Scott Kelly's DNA changed in space and his identical twin proves it. This Twitter Meme Says Cleopatra Looked Like Britney Spears. Theonion. "Hidden history" of labor suggests prehistoric women would outmuscle today's elite rowers. New research looking at the bone strength of European women living through the first 6,000 years of farming suggests they had quite the work ethic.
So much so, their arms may have been stronger than today's elite rowers, with scientists claiming their findings point to a "hidden history" of physically demanding manual labor by women. In looking to learn more about how ancient societies behaved, scientists have investigated the bone structure of women, but this was always done by comparing them directly with men. And because stress is more visible in male bones than female's, scientists at Cambridge University say that we may have been underestimating the kinds of strain women were putting themselves under.
"This is the first study to actually compare prehistoric female bones to those of living women," says Dr Alison Macintosh, lead author of the new study published today. Young voters came out in historic numbers for the Democrat in Virginia's recent gubernatorial election, raising concerns among Republicans. Young supporters of Virginia governor-elect Democrat Ralph Northam listen to his speech at his victory rally at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., on election night.
(Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post) RICHMOND — As bad as the overall outcome of Virginia’s recent election was for Republicans, there was one facet of the vote that raises special alarm for the party’s future. How giving a face to the voices in their heads can help schizophrenics. A fascinating study led by King's College in London has shown success in rapidly reducing auditory hallucinations in people with schizophrenia.
The technique uses a novel form of avatar therapy, which essentially allows a person to talk to a visual representation of the voice in their head. Auditory hallucinations are one of the more debilitating aspects of schizophrenia, with drug treatments and counselling often proving ineffective in addressing the problem for approximately a quarter of patients. This new study chronicles a randomized clinical trial involving 150 schizophrenic patients with auditory hallucinations that had proved resistant to other forms of treatment. The subjects were divided into two groups: 75 patients who underwent the new avatar therapy and 75 who were given a more traditional form of support counselling. After 12 weeks the avatar-treated group displayed less severe and less distressing symptoms than those in the counselling group. View gallery - 3 images.
9 Mysterious Noises. "Music" From The Dark Side Of The Moon In 1969, Apollo 10 astronauts Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan heard weird sounds while orbiting the far side of the moon — but the noise was likely the result of radio interference.
Undelivered letters shed light on 17th-century society. An appeal for help from a desperate woman has been opened and read more than 300 years after the man it was sent to refused to accept delivery – not surprisingly, since the wealthy merchant in The Hague must have suspected it contained the unwelcome news that he was about to become a father.
The letter is part of an extraordinary trove of thousands of pieces of correspondence, never delivered, many still unopened and sealed closed, found packed into a leather trunk and stored away for centuries in the Netherlands. The collection includes letters from aristocrats, spies, merchants, publishers, actors, musicians, barely literate peasants and highly educated people with beautiful handwriting, and are written in French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Latin.
Reading should not carry a health warning – Frank Furedi. At universities around the world, students are claiming that reading books can unsettle them to the point of becoming depressed, traumatised or even suicidal. Some contend that Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway (1925), in which a suicide has taken place, could trigger suicidal thoughts among those disposed to self-harm. Others insist that F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), with its undercurrent of spousal violence, might trigger painful memories of domestic abuse. Even ancient classical texts, students have argued, can be dangerous: at Columbia University in New York, student activists demanded that a warning be attached to Ovid’s Metamorphoses on grounds that its ‘vivid depictions of rape’ might trigger a feeling of insecurity and vulnerability among some undergraduates. Many Greek and Roman thinkers shared Socrates’ concerns. By the Middle Ages, the potentially harmful effects of text had become a recurrent theme in Christian demonology.
Daily Weekly Explore Aeon History. The Invention of the Wah-Wah Pedal. On August 18th, 1969, at around ten o’clock in the morning, Jimi Hendrix raised his white Fender Stratocaster guitar in the air, gazed out across the mud-soaked crowd at Woodstock Music Festival, and began to play “The Star Spangled Banner.” The NSA school: How the intelligence community gets smarter, secretly. A tool once commonly used by students at the National Cryptologic School to diagram communications networks. (Susan Svrluga/The Washington Post.)
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