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A few days ago, I spotted a strange title on a physics paper, claiming to have produced negative mass. I gave it a read. No they didn’t, I thought to myself. I will not cover this interesting but esoteric cold atomic physics paper.
Do the new McDonald’s uniforms remind you of anything? If you answered “every dystopian sci-fi movie ever,” you’re correct. To me, they invoke a very Logan’s Run future. But mandatory gray-on-gray with a dash of black is pretty much universally recognized as the standard uniform for bleakest of futures.
Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Bart finds all of those megaphones and breaks all of the windows in Springfield? Well, Kevin Kohler, better known as The Backyard Scientist has recreated the prank. Will it explode all of Homer’s beers in the fridge? Again?
Kevin lined up all 10 megaphones and screamed through them, just like Bart Simpson did in the episode. But did he recreate Bart’s shock wave throughout the city of Springfield? I won’t spoil it for you, but probably not. And nearby beers were safe.
He does create a feedback loop that was crazy loud though, and applies some science to figure out if speaking through 10 megaphones is any louder than speaking through a single megaphone. Now that he’s got all of these megaphones, I’d love to see some more experiments that use them.
[via Laughing Squid]
I have observed many ideas about and reactions to the election since November that perplex me. One idea that stands out among Hillary fans is that Bernie was too dirty in the primary and has a lot of ground to make up if he is to win the support of the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party going forward. I will not address the absurdity of this idea here, but I highlight it to make a point: Hillary fans still have no idea what happened in 2016 that led to Donald Trump being president. This is particularly troubling given the small window of opportunity we have to replace Trump. Hillary fans, allow me to clue you in to the deciding issue of the 2016 election: many Trump voters ― nearly half ― believe that Trump’s victory was a victory against the Illuminati. And, because of that, nearly none of his scandals or failures matter to them.
In December, after an armed man walked into the DC pizza restaurant at the center of the “pizzagate” conspiracy, Economist and YouGov conducted a poll of Clinton and Trump voters about belief in conspiracies surrounding the election. A whopping 46 percent of Trump voters believed that leaked Clinton and Clinton loyalist emails contained information about a child sex ring being run out of the DC pizza shop. I was admittedly late to the “pizzagate” story as I tend to stay away from internet conspiracies, but once I researched it I discovered that this conspiracy is an extension of the Illuminati conspiracy. Believers thought the emails were in code, that the symbols on the front of the pizza place were Illuminati symbols, etc. Trump voters largely believe that Clinton is part of a global conspiracy run by the world’s wealthiest and most influential people. If we do not address this going forward, the Democratic Party will continue to make the same mistake it made in nominating Hillary.
Understand that when I say it was a mistake to nominate Hillary Clinton I am merely pointing out the fact that 2016 was a change election and she was an establishment candidate. But, to further muddy the waters, it was also very easy to paint her as a globalist. The Clintons have been mentioned in scandals going all the way back to President Clinton’s rise to fame in Arkansas. Their record is long and very well known. She has seemingly been on a two-decade long campaign for president. I know it is a little confusing that Trump, a self-proclaimed billionaire, is seen by Trump voters as not a part of the global, billionaire conspiracy. But, believe me when I say it is easy to paint Hillary as part of it herself. This was an easy sell for Trump to his voters and he had blowhards like Alex Jones to go further in tying her to the Illuminati than Trump would go in public. Trump voters view him as self-made and an outsider to politics. They view Hillary as deeply tied to the system that they have come to hate.
Going forward the Democratic Party must come to grips with the fact that we nominated a candidate who half of Trump voters view as part of the global Illuminati conspiracy. If we are to win in 2020, I do not think just being the anti-Trump Democrat will be enough to win us back the White House. We need to build a deep bench of and support candidates who are viewed as change agents who are not deeply tied to the establishment. I know many establishment Democrats are licking their chops at the opportunity to run against Trump, but many of them need to sit this one out. If you are an establishment Democrat, this is not your fight. We need fresh faces, new ideas and candidates who project independence from the system.
Democrats made a huge mistake in not nominating Bernie Sanders in 2016. Bernie had actual outsider credentials and appealed to people who ended up pulling the lever for Trump. Perhaps he is the best candidate to unseat Trump in 2020. I am 100 percent sure of one thing though: this conspiracy problem that plagued the 2016 election will not go away by 2020. We will still be dealing with the fact that a large portion of Trump voters believe that the Illuminati exists and controls establishment politicians. Remember this when you can not figure out why Trump voters still approve of Trump’s job performance even when it seems like he is failing. They simply do not care about the liberal media’s opinion or your opinion. All that they care about is that they believe they stuck it to the Illuminati. And, because of this, they are willing to ride with Trump even if it takes them over a cliff.
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We think we’ve seen celebrity look-alikes before, but Steve Irwin’s son is here to (croco)dial it up to 11.
While Robert Irwin appeared on “The Tonight Show” on Thursday, Jimmy Fallon broke out a side-by-side picture of him and his dad as a kid, and it’s enough to make you say, “Crikey!”
”I thought it was me,” said the young Irwin. Apparently he couldn’t even tell the difference before looking at his dad’s shirt in the picture.
“You’re like, ‘I wouldn’t wear that,’” joked Fallon.
It’s been more than a decade now since Steve Irwin, known for his show “The Crocodile Hunter,” tragically lost his life. His daughter Bindi Irwin previously told HuffPost that in that time, the whole family has been working to keep his spirit of animal conservation alive.
“Well, for us as a family, it’s a team effort. I think we have tried so hard to make sure everything he lived and died for carries on. My dad always used to say, ‘I don’t care if anyone remembers me. I just want people to remember my message,’” she said.
Following in his dad’s footsteps, Robert brought some animals, too, and we just can’t bear it (because there are bears).
”The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on NBC.
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The U.S. grew from a “backwoods country” to one of “greatest nations the world has ever known” thanks to science — but that pillar of America is eroding, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson warns.
Science deniers “rising to power” now create a “recipe for the complete dismantling of our informed democracy,” Tyson says in a powerful new video that he promises contains “what may be the most important words I have ever spoken.”
“People have lost the ability to judge what is true and what is not, what is reliable, what is not reliable,” he says in the above video, which he posted to Facebook Wednesday. “That’s not the country I remember growing up in. I don’t remember any other time where people were standing in denial of what science was.”
Many scientists have become frustrated with the Trump administration’s anti-science moves, which has led to them holding the Earth Day March for Science protest Saturday.
Tyson, the host of the “StarTalk” podcast and TV show and director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, has been campaigning to “Make America Smart Again” since President Donald Trump won the election last year. Just last month, he warned that the U.S. would need more than an intelligence boost if Trump’s proposed budget cuts to key areas including science passed.
Recognize what science is, and allow to be what it can and should be: In the service of civilization.
Now, in his new video that’s interspersed with news reports, he warns of the threats that climate change skeptics and those against vaccinations pose.
One of the clips is of Vice President Mike Pence when he was a congressman enthusiastically rejecting the existence of evolution. “Let us demand that educators around America teach evolution not as fact, but as theory,” Pence says.
Tyson praises science as an “exercise in finding what is true” that’s based on peer-reviewed experimentation backed by other experiments and counter-experiments that gives birth to an “emergent truth.”
He points out that science is “not something to toy with.” “You can’t say, ‘I chose not to believe in E=mc2,’” he says, referring to physicist Albert Einstein’s corroborated theory of special relativity. “You don’t have that option. It is true, whether or not you believe in it.”
“The sooner you understand that, the faster we can get on with the political conversations about how to solve the problems that face us,” he adds.
And Tyson warns that every minute someone is in denial of a scientific truth delays the “political solution that should have been established years ago.”
“Recognize what science is, and allow to be what it can and should be: In the service of civilization,” he says. “It’s in our hands.”
Watch the powerful video in full above.
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