And now for something a little different: Scotland the Brave. Tips open.
Oh, Shiny Commandante!
Soylent Turd
Insects, blood and faeces may not sound particularly appetitising, but they are among the produce we should consider eating if we want our food to be sustainable and healthy, according to a team of chefs and scientists in Denmark.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Requiem for an industry: Newsweek presents “A massive graveyard of content.”.
The Children Are Our Future
Steve Bannon Shares His View of the World
From 2011 but even more prescient now:
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Financial Post: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced approvals for two major export pipelines Tuesday, while dismissing a third pipeline and imposing a ban on oil tanker traffic on the northern section of B.C.’s coast.
Gatlinburg
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I hate trees.
More Pavilions At Volkfest
A German intelligence officer has reportedly been arrested over a suspected Islamist plot to bomb the agency’s headquarters in Cologne.
The 51-year-old official was said to have made a “partial confession” to the plot, according to Der Spiegel.
The suspect attempted to pass on “sensitive information about the BfV (Germany’s domestic security agency), which could lead to a threat to the office”, an official told the newspaper.
Make It So
Elizabeth May says she's willing to go to jail in the fight against the Kinder Morgan pipeline. #cdnpoli #hw pic.twitter.com/o2oQMvElmN
— JULIE VAN DUSEN (@JULIEVANDUSEN) November 29, 2016
Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough
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To honour the contributions of the late, great ‘Ratón Comandante’ toward the advancement of socialized medicine, all Saskatchewan residents are to return to their place in line immediately, or there shall be consequences. Vive la révolution! |
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The Snows Of Settled Science
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ALLAHU ATTACK CAR!
Law enforcement officials told NBC News the suspect’s name is Abdul Artan, an 18-year-old student at the university. He was a Somali refugee who left his homeland with his family in 2007, lived in Pakistan and then came to the United States in 2014 as a legal permanent resident of the United States, officials said.
The motive was unknown, but officials said the attack was clearly deliberate and may have been planned in advance.
Thoughts and prayers for all the evening news editors who had to scrap all those 10-minute gun violence segments
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 28, 2016
*Original post referenced dated info, updated.
It’s Not “Rigged” If The Democrats Do It
It’s almost as if Jill Stein, a regular on Russia Today TV, is pursuing a strategy calculated to foment chaos. But we’re not hearing anything about that from the people who’ve been seeing Russkis under their beds for months.
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I Amuse Myself
This is how you look from the outside. @GraemeCGordon @stphnmaher pic.twitter.com/a9xGJ8zTz0
— Katewerk (@katewerk) November 28, 2016
What Would We Do Without Peer Review?
Hoss Cartwright, a former editor of the International Journal of Agricultural Innovations and Research, had a good excuse for missing the 5th World Congress on Virology last year: He doesn’t exist. Burkhard Morgenstern, a professor of bioinformatics at the University of Gottingen, dreamt him up, and built a nice little scientific career for him. He wrote Cartwright a Curriculum Vitae, describing his doctorate in Studies of Dunnowhat, his rigorous postdoctoral work at Some Shitty Place in the Middle of Nowhere, and his experience as Senior Cattle Manager at the Ponderosa Institute for Bovine Research. Cartwright never published a single research paper, but he was appointed to the editorial boards of five journals…