27 Male Survivors Of Sexual Assault Quoting The People Who Attacked Them | 'Dr.' Aubrey Levin's Victims. The following is a link to a powerful photo essay featured on Buzzfeed from Grace Brown’s Project Unbreakable, an online platform that strives to “increase awareness of the issues surrounding sexual assault.” The photos of the victims are on the following link: They are also featured at the end of this post. I wonder sometimes if the act of brushing away the emotional and physical abuse borne by adult men shows a larger problem in our society on how male abuse is something not adequately dealt with in first world countries (or for that matter, other countries, but then many other countries are very patriarchal and the women there already suffer enough, and often much more than the men.) But I often wonder how abuse towards men is trivialized, not addressed adequately or just laughed off, especially in Canada, US, and Europe.
Have you thought what would have happened if “Dr.” Like this: True facts about Ocean Radiation and the Fukushima Disaster. On March 11th, 2011 the Tōhoku earthquake and resulting tsunami wreaked havoc on Japan. It also resulted in the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl when the tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Radioactive particles were released into the atmosphere and ocean, contaminating groundwater, soil and seawater which effectively closed local Japanese fisheries. Rather unfortunately, it has also led to some wild speculation on the widespread dangers of Fukushima radiation on the internet.
Posts with titles like “Holy Fukushima – Radiation From Japan Is Already Killing North Americans” and ”28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima” (which Southern Fried Science has already throughly debunked ) keep popping up on my facebook feed from well-meaning friends. I’m here to tell you that these posts are just plain garbage. Units of Radiation are confusing. Cesium-137 is product of nuclear fission. Behrens, Erik, et al. Heard of Blue Flames? Here’s Blue Lava. Photographer Olivier Grunewald lost two lenses and a camera in pursuit of these otherworldly images of an Indonesian sulfur mine called Kawah Ijen, but that hardship is nothing compared to the job of the miners, who hike to the top of the peak, descend 660 feet into its crater, then pick up chunks of raw sulfur and slog them back up to the rim in a pair of baskets that hold 100 to 200 pounds.
Sulfur becomes molten at temps just over the boiling point of water and turns into the spectral blue lava you see here. Conditions in the crater aren’t actually hot enough for the sulfur to self-combust — it turns molten when miners drop their torches. If you’ve ever been around a hot spring, you can only imagine the smell. Grunewald wore a gas mask for his shots (and threw away his clothes afterward), while few of the miners had any such protection.
And should you ever find yourself there, careful where you step — that lake is sulfuric acid. Want to see more of these radical pics? 4 More Scientific Wonders We Just Discovered on Our Planet. As we've discussed before, the world is much bigger than those yowling marionettes at Disneyland would have us believe. We're still finding new places and things in it, despite having lived around these parts for 200,000 years or so. Every day, science discovers something fascinating in a part of the world that the human race had previously shrugged at and said, "Eh, it's probably just more rocks and shit. " For example ... #4. Scientists Discover a Trove of Untouched Species in Australian "Lost World" For millions of years, a good chunk of land high in the Cape Melville mountain range of northern Australia has been isolated from the rest of the world, protected from Starbucks and McDonald's moving in and setting up shop by massive boulders and cliffs.
Tim Laman/National Geographic"What a coincidence, we've just discovered a new species, too: Annoyus photographia. " Conrad Hoskin"OUR LOVE WAS PURE! " That's just what they found on the first expedition. . #3. . #2. . #1. The 5 Most Spectacular Landscapes on Earth (That Murder You) Mother Nature is an evil bitch that wants us dead. We know this, we accept it, we try to burn one plant a day as petty revenge against her for it and we move on with our lives. But sometimes her traps are so unsubtle, so obviously, blatantly designed to do nothing but murder human beings in the most awful ways possible that we can't help but stand and applaud her sheer balls. In that spirit, here are five of Mother Nature's more vicious bear traps: #5. Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park -- Madagascar Olivier Lejade The Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park is a protected UNESCO world heritage site, but this park doesn't need any tollbooths, rangers or even a tall, spiked fence.
WikipediaSometimes the Earth gives a freebie to the World of Warcraft design team. Biologists call the area a bio-fortress. National GeographicSometimes a forest of daggers just isn't enough. Olivier LejadeSo yeah. Marco ZanferrariSometimes the formations produce Yes album covers just to mess with you. #4. Dominica-weekly. The 5 Weirdest Sixth Senses Humans Have (Without Knowing It) #2. Men Can Sense Ovulation Getty Researchers wanted to find out whether men could detect when women were more fertile, as previously the only known way to figure this out was if the women stripped their clothes off and jumped on a guy's junk. It turns out that not only can men sense when women are ovulating, but they subconsciously change their behavior on the fly to adapt to it. Getty"Somehow, I knew all that Mountain Dew and weed would pay off. " It's not as creepy as it sounds. The men were then asked to do the same thing. Getty"It is a child, a lonely child, who despite having little, bequeaths his sole treasure unto another.
" OK, so it actually is as creepy as it sounds. #1. We're not talking about the way the blind superhero Daredevil can "see" with sound. In one study, they put an old blind man in a maze and told him to find his way out on his own, hopefully after the man volunteered for it. Getty"That's the 37th subject this week, how very curious. How? 5 Superpowers You Didn't Know Your Body Was Hiding From You. The fact that pain is a necessary part of life is one of those hard lessons we all learn growing up. But then, at some point, you break a bone or have some other sudden injury and realize, wait a second. This barely hurts. In those moments of shock and trauma your brain flips off pain like a switch. Ask somebody like Amy Racina, who fell off a cliff, landing six stories below, shattering her knee and breaking her hip.
Not feeling more than minor pain, even with broken bone jutting out from her skin, she dragged herself until she found help. It was only at the point when she was being loaded safely into a helicopter that the pain returned. The phenomenon called runner's high is similar. Why Can't We Do This All of the Time? Welcome to the wonderful world of endorphins. Yep. So why is your body so stingy with the endorphins? For every one time pain annoys you, there are about a hundred times it saves you from disfiguring yourself.
Quite simply, "bullet time" is real. 5 Superpowers You Didn't Know Your Body Was Hiding From You. Those motivational speakers are right: You are capable of amazing things. You wouldn't know it, because 99 percent of the time your body or brain hides these superpowers from you. Sure, they say there's a good reason, but we're not sure we're buying it. Dammit, we want our... You may have heard urban legends about "the lady who was able to lift a whole car in an emergency" but, believe it or not, it's not just a legend. They're talking about Angela Cavallo, whose son was working on the suspension of a 1964 Impala, when the car slipped off of the jack and trapped him in the wheel well. Angela ran out to find her unconscious son pinned under the car.
Artist's rendering. OK, maybe she didn't lift the thing over her head like She-Hulk, just the few inches it took to get it off her son for the several minutes he needed to drag his ass to safety. "Next time I get panic muscles, I'm tossing boulders with my dick. " Why Can't We Do This All of the Time? "Seeing" With Your Ears (A.K.A. To fight crime. 6 Ways Your Sense of Smell Is Secretly Controlling Your Mind. #3. Change Your Moods Maybe it's not a vivid memory that assaults you out of nowhere, but a feeling, or a mood. You're sitting there, minding your own business, when suddenly you're overcome with dread, or anxiety, or anger. Once again, there's a good chance a faint smell is at play, triggering your subconscious. Fans of aromatherapy are always talking about "relaxing" scents, but the nose is actually way more useful when it comes to making you anxious, or alert.
It works in a good way, too -- studies of "pupillary fatigue oscillations" (a sciencey way of measuring tiredness) found that people exposed to a peppermint scent stayed awake longer than those without it, and people given periodic doses of peppermint smells performed better on tasks requiring a high level of concentration. Photos.com"Goddammit, Steve, this looks like a two candy cane vault. " Photos.com"I'm sorry, but does someone in here have a full bladder? " But How? #2. Photos.comIt's because they have horse souls.
"No, ham! #1. Agujeros negros del Atlántico. Epecuen. 5 Superpowers We All Had as Babies (According to Science) Ever notice that infants don't have such weight problems? What's their secret? Why, a pile of borderline-magic fat, of course. Of course Around five percent (or six ounces) of all infants' body mass is Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT), or brown fat.
In an adult body, three ounces of brown fat would be enough to burn 400 to 500 calories of white fat a DAY, or around 10 pounds a year, just from sitting on your increasingly sexier behind. We always knew that kids have an amazing capacity for learning, but we couldn't really call babies "smart," especially after witnessing their dietary preferences for Play-Doh and miniature toy cars. Humans are born with around 100 billion neurons, same as the number of stars in the Milky Way. Thanks to that, their supercomputer brains can constantly suck up data from their surroundings, then store, analyze and compare it relentlessly trying to understand the world they live in. This kid is just asking for it now. But all good things must come to an end.