The 10 Most Disturbing Books Of All Time In my younger days if I heard a book or movie was disturbing or hard to handle I generally took that as a challenge. Most books generally turned out to not be too bad, but occasionally I’d come across something that would leave me with a sick feeling in my stomach for weeks. I’ve largely outgrown this “genre” of late, but here are my picks for the ten most disturbing books of all time. Any one of these books is capable of leaving you feeling a little depressed at the least, and permanently scarred at the worst. 10. Blindness is a book with a truly horrifying scenario at it’s heart: what if everyone in the world were to lose their sight to disease in a short period of time? 9. Anti drug crusaders should stop airing goofy commercials that nobody takes seriously and start pushing to have Requiem For A Dream made required reading for every high schooler in the country. 8. Naked Lunc is another ode to drug addiction. 7. 6. Bleak. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
At Core of Ruin, a Search for Life ANIME NEWS: 'Zetman' anime adaptation to air in April 2012 After buying up more than 3.5 million copies of the "Zetman" sci-fi hero manga, fans demanded more, wanting to see their favorite superhero in an anime adaption. They'll finally get their wish as "Zetman," currently serialized in Shueisha Inc.'s Young Jump weekly magazine by Masakazu Katsura, will get an animated TV series adaptation in April 2012, its official website announced. Osamu Nabeshima, best known as director of "D.Gray-man" and "Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas," will take the helm. Screenwriter Atsuhiro Tomioka, whose anime credits include the "Inazuma Eleven" and "Battle Spirits" franchises, will write the story. Hirotoshi Takaya, who has worked on many popular titles including "Kekkaishi" and "The Superior Reideen," will provide character designs. Music will be written by composer Gabriele Roberto, who provided the score for the live-action film "Paco and the Magic Book." The anime will be produced by leading anime company TMS Entertainment Ltd.
Wonk Room » WSJ Offers A New Idea For Fixing The Health Care Law By Igor Volsky on November 3, 2010 at 9:30 pm "WSJ Offers A New Idea For Fixing The Health Care Law" The Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins offers some really bizarre ideas for how the newly-elected Republican majority in the House can fix the health care law: Happily, a path back to the future exists that just might be politically actionable in a divided Washington. Unfortunately, this idea, just like the GOP’s efforts to repeal the individual mandate will spell doom to the entirety of the health care law, which of course, is its intention. But the larger problem with Jenkins’ charter concept is that it it would only further fragment the risk pool and create a death spiral in the exchanges. Meanwhile, the younger people who are enrolled in the cheaper high deductible policies will find their coverage inadequate once they — as we all inevitably are — fall ill.
Farmers issue warning after fatal cow attacks Two Dogs Defy the Wave Facebook The Sun and Radiation Exposure for Astronauts During Long-Duration Space Flight While high solar flare activity can expose a spacecraft outside of EarthÂ’s magnetic protection to potentially lethal doses of radiation, astronauts can be shielded against most of this fairly easily. Shielding against much of the GCR, on the other hand, is problematic. Scientists are developing anti-radiation cocktails, mixtures of various substances which can reduce the damage that high radiation doses cause in human cells. Radiation exposure during space flight can be categorized based on a property known as linear energy transfer (LET). The energy in the Sun, as in all stars, is produced by nuclear fusion. While high solar flare activity can expose a spacecraft outside of Earth’s magnetic protection to potentially lethal doses of radiation, astronauts can be shielded against most of this fairly easily.
Kill the Wabbit: 'Crazed Hare' Attacks Austrian Couple - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International An elderly Austrian couple have been attacked by a "crazed hare." Traditionally, rabbits and hares are better known as lovers, not fighters. On Monday, however, a hare in Linz, Austria broke the mold, attacking an elderly woman and her husband, not to mention the police officers who were called to the scene. In a scene eerily reminiscent of the attack of the "most foul, cruel, and bad tempered" rabbit in the cult movie "Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail," the Linz hare assaulted a 74-year-old woman who was hanging laundry in her garden early Monday morning. The unidentified woman, still under attack by the rampant hare, was eventually able to escape into her home, where her husband called the police before going outside to attempt to shoo the bunny away. When police arrived on the scene, they found the 78-year-old man fighting the hare off with a stick -- and losing. The police defended their apparent over-reaction by saying the hare could have fled if it had wanted to. kla
A Long, Painful Reckoning in Japan Flight of the Monarchs Reveals Environmental Connections across a Continent As autumn settles across North America, one hallmark of the season is the gentle southward flight of the Monarch Butterflies as they migrate towards the forests that shelter their species during the winter months. Unfortunately, as with other forests across the planet, the Monarch's "over- wintering grounds" in Mexico are suffering from increased human pressures. An innovative conservation group called the ECOLIFE Foundation has stepped up to help safeguard the Monarch's winter forests, and in the process discovered that addressing the Monarch's plight came only after uncovering connections that bind us all. Mongabay: Tell our readers about the development of the ECOLIFE Foundation and how your group decided to work with the over-wintering grounds of the Monarch Butterfly in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. Bill Toone: The ECOLIFE Foundation was born in part out of a sense of frustration and a need for change in the global conservation community. "Mi llamo Patsari".
Logical Fallacies and How to Spot Them Logical Fallacies and How to Spot Them In the Evolution vs. Creationism debate, it is important to be able to spot all the logical fallacies that Creationists tend to throw around. This essay covers many bare essentials of logical thinking, as well as ways to critically evaluate an argument. The logical fallacies listed here are the ones most often used by Creationists, although Creationists have, to date, used almost every single logical fallacy in existence to "prove" their case. Each fallacy will have its own little paragraph, describing it, why it is fallacious and how to counter it. THE STRAWMAN ATTACK: The strawman is, perhaps, the most heavily-employed tactic used by Creationists. "Evolution is a ridiculous theory! This is an example of a strawman attack. Spotting a strawman attack isn't that hard. Strawman attacks, once exposed for what they are, are not all that difficult to counter. THE FALSE DILEMMA FALLACY: The false dilemma is at the heart of the Creationist argument.
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