Ordinary people’s lives torn apart due to international politics.
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One snippet from it; apparently the average number of citations for a scientific paper is 0-9, and anything with over 100 citations is in the top few percent of all papers ever published.
We still need another dozen or so, but they should continue to slowly accumulate for a while yet.
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Earlier this year, two unsuspecting tech bros attempted to start an online business in knitting supply sales, assuming it would be easy to “disrupt” a market full of hobbyists and grandmas. They could not have been more wrong.
Serial entrepreneurs Dave Bryant and Mike Jackness bought the domain name knitting dot com in February, hoping to capitalize on the unbeatable SEO and become major players in the knitting-supply space. Within days, however, knitters from around the world had descended on their blog, accusing them of being opportunists, sexists, and worse.
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The 24-year-old atheist has recently emerged as a rebel publicly contesting the powers of the supernatural in this deeply religious country.
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Many Nigerians believe that magic charms can allow humans to morph into cats, protect bare skins from sharp blades and make money appear in a clay pot.These beliefs are not just held by the uneducated, they exist even at the highest level of Nigeria’s academia.
Dr Olaleye Kayode, a senior lecturer in African Indigenous Religions at the University of Ibadan, told the BBC that money-making juju rituals - where human body parts mixed with charms makes money spew out of a pot - really work.
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While he has been dismissed by some as an attention seeker, no-one can hide from the grisly images of the bodies found recently with missing limbs and empty eye sockets in a resurgence of the sinister money-making juju rituals.
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Addendum: I LOVE the look on its face. I can’t think of a good caption.
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Oh geez, I was just considering of moving my lappie on its vintage hosptial tray from the living room to my bedroom…you just tipped the scales with this! Thanks for sharing it with us!
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Some of the comments are gold.
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Hm, is this of true Roman origin, or is it something they lifted from the Greeks, who lifted it from the Egyptians, and so on and so forth?
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/bonus-eventus-god-of-success.394610/
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I feel supremely confident that digital media would survive on the ocean floor for 150 years.
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The most recent episode of Quirks and Quarks included a segment about vampire bats, for those podcast-ily inclined. It’s really interesting. My uncle was bitten (not badly) by a vampire bat, in Central America, but he said it was his own fault, because he disturbed them, and it was defensive.
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It involves Edward Cullen “changing” them.
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Here’s the paper, which is open access. The link from the AP doesn’t work–it tries to log me into some AP file server.
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