True story. The only enemy of the USA is itself.
Seriously. What on earth could a 3 yr old do to “warrant” a gun to the chest???
Apparently they were in the process of arresting her mother (whom they beat while handcuffed, naturally), also pointed the gun at the head of the child’s grandmother, and pointed the gun at her when she did what any toddler would do and started wailing. The incident gave her one of the worst cases of child PTSD the expert they assigned has ever seen and she’ll need therapy well into her adult years.
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of gun safety knows that you do not point a gun at anyone you are not willing to kill. So best case scenario these officers were grossly incompetent and worst case they were willing to kill a child for crying. This settlement is the least they deserve.
^^^^ reblogging for the extra info
Yacouba Sawadogo is an exceptional man – he single-handedly managed to solve a crisis that many scientists and development organizations could not. The simple old farmer’s re-forestation and soil conservation techniques are so effective they’ve helped turn the tide in the fight against the desertification of the harsh lands in northern Burkina Faso.
Over-farming, over-grazing and over population have, over the years, resulted in heavy soil erosion and drying in this landlocked West African nation. Although national and international researchers tried to fix the grave situation, it really didn’t really make much of a difference. Until Yacouba decided to take matters into his own hands in 1980.
Yacouba’s methods were so odd that his fellow farmers ridiculed him. But when his techniques successfully regenerated the forest, they were forced to sit up and take notice. Yacouba revived an ancient African farming practice called ‘zai’, which led to forest growth and increased soil quality.
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The way it works is really cool! You can read about it here.
There’s been a documentary about him, too
Something 19th and 20th century Western science consistently overlooked is that a lot of traditional methods are exquisite examples of the scientific method in action, the product of testing hypotheses and comparing results and control groups iteratively, over a period of hundreds or even thousands of years.
Respect ancient wisdom. Respect ancient science.
The Fall of the III Reich.
A perfect way to get your anger out
Aesthetic
“American single hand alphabet.” The manual alphabets and some common signs of the American deaf. 1912.
The embryos of all vertebrates look alike in their earlier stages. Life Science: Based on High School Biology. 1941.
Autoimmune Disease Acts Like Demonic Possession
Susannah Cahalan started feeling a bit off. Numbness on one side of the body, losing sleep, crying hysterically one minute and laughing the next. She went to get MRIs but they showed nothing. Things were getting a bit more strange.
Her boyfriend told her how at one point while they were watching a show together she started grinding her teeth, moaning, and biting her tongue until she finally passed out. He took her to the hospital and they found out it was a seizure. Her first of many. Things got worse.
She stopped eating, became paranoid and delusional, had more seizures in which blood would spurt out of her mouth. She was hospitalized (one nurse recalls that in the middle of the night while she was getting blood, Susannah sat up straigh and slapped her). Numerous tests were done and the doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong.
That is until Dr. Souhel Najjar came into the picture. He asked her to draw a clock. When she showed him what she had drawn he knew exactly what was wrong with her. All the numbers were written on the right side of the clock face, and no numbers were on the left side.
She had anti-NMDAR encephalitis. The receptors in the frontal lobe, responsible for cognitive reasoning, and the limbic system, or the emotional center of the brain, are under assault by the immune system. In other words, her body was attacking her brain. Nearly 90% of people that suffer from this go undiagnosed and it is more common in women.
Anonymous asked:
Hey Bunjy, I've recently found out about a creature from the Cambrian Explosion called the hallucigenia and I think that would be an amazing creature for weird biology if you do extinct creatures too.
bunjywunjy answered:
ah, Hallucigenia! the “walking worm” that might be related to our modern velvet worm! it was indeed, SUPER WEIRD.
but you know what? there are plenty of animals in the ocean today that are at LEAST as weird, if not weirder. check it out!
the Feather Star (yes, it SWIMS)
the Sea Pig
Phylliroe, the sea slug that thinks it’s a FISH
Melibe, a whole GENUS of sea slugs with nightmarish balloon mouths
and who could forget the noble Squidworm, which is a real actual living creature alive right now?
life has always been weird. life is still weird. enjoy it!
update: I’d like also forcibly introduce you to
the FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER
ELBOW SQUID
(second picture just to LET THIS BULLSHIT ARMS SITUATION SINK IN)
and THE CROWN OF THORNS STARFISH
thanks for your time.
Absolutely incredible. the ocean is like a treasure box that gives wonder, horror, and bewilderment in equal measure. Elbow Squid needs to chill
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