Young Men Are Natural Fanatics

https://aeon.co/opinions/what-every-dictator-knows-young-men-are-natural-fanatics by Joe Herbert, emeritus professor of neuroscience eat the University of Cambridge. Young men are particularly liable to become fanatics. Every dictator, every guru, every religious leader, knows this. Fanatics have an overwhelming sense of identity based on a cause (a religion) or a community (gang, team), and a tight and exclusive bond with … Continue reading Young Men Are Natural Fanatics

How American tipping grew out of racism

http://qz.com/609293/how-american-tipping-grew-out-of-racism/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg In the US, restaurant servers work under a very different pay system than most people. Beyond a small hourly rate, their employers don’t pay their wages—customers do. Essentially, these workers have dozens of different bosses each day that individually decide how they should be compensated. And there’s not even a requirement, beyond social … Continue reading How American tipping grew out of racism

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/09/466147956/why-its-so-hard-to-make-a-solid-test-for-driving-while-stoned?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg by Angus Chen Law enforcement officials would love to have a clear way to tell when a driver is too drugged to drive. But the decades of experience the country has in setting limits for alcohol have turned out to be rather useless so far because the mind-altering compound in cannabis, THC, dissolves … Continue reading Why Is It So Hard To Test Whether Drivers Are Stoned?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/the-research-pirates-of-the-dark-web/461829/ BY KAVEH WADELL, FEB 9, 2016 After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet. loughboroughuniversitylibrary / Flickr There’s a battle raging over whether academic research should be free, and it’s overflowing into the dark … Continue reading The Research Pirates of the Dark Web

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/11/opinions/lincoln-einstein-dark-energy/index.html BY DON LINCOLN [Note: Dr. Don Lincoln is a senior physicist at Fermilab who does research using the Large Hadron Collider. He has written numerous books and produces a series of science education videos. He is the author of, most recently, "The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and … Continue reading GRAVITATION WAVES COMFIRMED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27AQZcJl4Oc Nearly a million gather to cheer the Denver Broncos, February 9, 2016.

http://wakeup-world.com/2015/02/02/the-10-best-herbs-for-kidney-cleansing/ By Dr. Edward F. Group Guest Writer for Wake Up World Bean-shaped and located along the posterior side of the abdomen, the kidneys have the heavy responsibility of removing waste and toxins from the bloodstream. These vital organs work with other organs to regulate blood pressure, increase red blood cell production, and synthesize vitamin D. A … Continue reading The 10 Best Herbs for Kidney Cleansing

http://www.sciencealert.com/germany-s-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-just-produced-its-first-hydrogen-plasma Germany's massive nuclear fusion machine just produced its first hydrogen plasma. This is huge. German scientists have just switched on the Wendelstein 7-X (W7X) stellarator - the largest nuclear fusion machine of its kind - to successfully produce and sustain hydrogen plasma for the first time. Why is this such a big deal? The … Continue reading GERMANS PRODUCE FUSION ENERGY