Something interesting you learned recently

Recent evidence indicates that racism, or what we call racism, is common in nature, and that we all inherit racism, but are so inbred as a species we don't really have distinct races. Humans evolved for over a million years living in small groups of usually 8 people and 30 at the most, that had to meet regularly with other tribal members throughout the year. Often the land could not support them congregating in larger numbers for any length of time and, like wolves and other predators, they seldom traveled further than two hundred miles from home. Being territorial, anyone who looked distinctly different was automatically suspect. Online studies have confirmed that even those who believe they are not biased, actually are biased.

Around the last ice age, humanity was driven to the verge of extinction making us inbred as hell. Something else is going on with evolution, and humanity appears to have taken another leap sometime in the last several thousand years, which may be related to epigenetics. Racism being natural means it can either add spice to life, or death, take your pick. It is often used to exploit people economically, and I say the planet cannot survive anymore fucking negativity.

 

Humans evolved into something that looks past race. Racism isn't natural, though it is archaic and should go extinct.

 

Really ??? - then how do you explain 'kinder transport' and the fact that where I live there were many 'German' refugees. One of my school friends was the son of a German refugee.

 

Look at all that mowld.

 

Mmmmm - the basis for all anti-biotics - penicillin !!!

Penicillium chrysogenum - Google Search

 

I learned that my 15th-great-grandmother was the great-grandmother of three of Henry VIII's wives: Jane Seymour, Anne Boleyn, and Catherine Howard.

 

in europe and canada they throw "u" into all their words.

 

You mean Erope

 

A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of an alphabet at least once.

 

I was way more amazed by this than I should have been. I was like, woah! I wonder how many of those there are, can't be many. Then when I was trying to find out I realized I'd read "word" instead of "sentence".

 

the lazy brown fox jumps over a quick dog.
the brown dog quickly jumps over a lazy fox.
a lazy fox runs down to the corner store with his favorite dog friend, when along the way he steps into a brown pile on the sidewalk and quickly blames the dog and all of dogkind for this horrible transgression, so the dog responds by running over to clean up the poop, and when he gets there he sees that it is full of worms, and startled, he jumps.

 

I really loved a few British books growing up, and reading them resulted in my learning the spelling of a few words in "the British way". Theatre, colour, flavour, humour, etc. I remember being in grade school and my teachers marking points off of my writing/spelling because I would spell things in British English, and I was confused because I had read those spellings in a book.

 

"A man, a plan, a canal, Panama."

This sentence is exactly the same spelt backwards.

 

The only problem is, that's not a complete sentence.

 

What is that called again? A palindrome?

 

I was watching this documentary on a place called Centralia in Pennsylvania. It has had an inferno fire burning underground for over 60 years. It used to be a coal mine, so the fire is basically burning on coals and they cannot stop the fire so the town is now abandoned with this fire still burning in the ground. They estimate it could maybe take 200 years to burn out and if they dumped continuous water into the mine for a year, the residual heat would still spark back up and keep burning.

The fire is actually so hot in the coal that it is undoubtedly heating the earth up too, as seen by the roads that have been distorted from heat and you can apparently see the environment burning and singing with smoke coming from the ground out of cracks. It also releases extremely toxic chemicals into the atmosphere.

I've never heard of anything like this, it's surprising man can just mess up so bad and walk away like nothing happened under the assumption it'll just sort itself out. 60+ years and it still burns for hundred more to come...

It is also where the movie Silent Hill took place I believe.



I see by the graffiti that someone was courteous enough to draw a penis.

 

I also watched a documentary piece on a place called Windsor, I think, and I also think it might be in Canada or Michigan, I should probably look that up lol. Anyway, there is sound resonance at this place and many citizens are driven mad by a humming vibration that nobody knows why it is there or why it happens. It mentioned a place off Detroit called Zug Island, I know of the place because the band Insane Clown Posse would often reference it as a toxic wasteland. There are theories that Zug Island's factories and plant create vibrations across the river to Windsor. Another theory is the place itself rings at a higher sound frequency, the earth itself. This particularly caught my interest, because I believe the ancients knew all about sound resonance and frequencies and used this to harness energy and power from the earth. The documentary also went to say that there are actually a number of places like this on earth that ring with a higher frequency that is physically audible, just nobody lives there.

 

The Russians have something similar !!!