We can never run out of jokes about marriage because each couple faces different situations in their everyday lives but one thing is certain, they all experience ups and downs, the boring, the mundane, the joys, the highs, and the absurd.
Here are 20 funny tweets about what people realize in their marriage about themselves and their partner, how their habits and routines change to adjust to their partner, and generally, how they go about their daily life as a married couple.
Tasers were made so that police officers don't need to use force in delicate situations which could become dangerous. As much as possible, in any encounter that the police have with people who have a tendency to become aggressive or violent, it would be best not to use force at all. But what happens if the equipment doesn't work?
...a yearlong investigation by APM Reports shows Tasers are often less effective than the company has claimed. And just as Tasers can save lives when they subdue suspects, when they don’t, the outcome can be deadly.
Shows that depict reality and make us question our long-held notions and beliefs embody a lot of the things that draw us to the stories that they tell.
There's something about stories that don't try to impose its own ascendancy or moral high ground but simply letting the viewers or readers decide for themselves how they would react to the characters and plots that happen.
Shows like The Americans question our own ideas, beliefs, and values. What would I have done if I were in their shoes? Well, at least we don't have to ponder too much since after we finish watching or reading, we get to go back to our real lives.
But what is it about stories like these that endear and captivate us toward them? In particular, Sara Fredman says this about The Americans:
Blurring this line between inside and outside, between real and pretend, between work and family, is representative of The Americans’ goal of weakening our belief in the very notion of lines.
The antihero genre, dedicated as it is to selling us on characters who are neither wholly good nor irredeemably evil, is the perfect vehicle for this project, and The Americans hews closely to the antihero script.
There are times when we need to eat healthy while there are moments when we should just let go and indulge on our cravings with some food that's so bad (for your health), yet so good. And now, KFC Indonesia is making that happen with their new fried chicken skin.
There have been numerous complaints all over Seattle about the increasing amount of garbage littering their streets, from household appliances just left on street corners to more hazardous waste. But it seems that the local government aren't doing anything about it.
Christopher Rufo from City Journal investigates the reasons for this growing public health crisis and why no actions have been taken to resolve them. And as he found out, it's not that no actions have been taken, there were but it's just, now, nobody can take action about it.
Only a few years ago, while Jenny Durkan, now mayor, was campaigning for office on a centrist policy platform, city government responded to growing public discontent and made an honest effort to clean up the streets.
From 2017 to 2018, municipal cleanup crews picked up 8.6 million pounds of trash from illegal homeless encampments. Since then, however, the numbers have fallen off dramatically, partly because of pressure from activists to “stop the sweeps” of homeless encampments, which they call inhumane and unconstitutional. In the first four months of this year, municipal crews have cleaned up only eight sites.
Tackling a big project like the Large Hadron Collider requires not just resources but also public support. With the success that the LHC has achieved, there have been talks within the particle physics circles about the next step to take after the LHC.
In doing an undertaking like that, they say that the major consideration they need to account for is communication, not just to investors or governments but also to the general public who now have more interest in the matter and want to be more involved as well.
The landscape of communications has changed dramatically since the pre-web/mobile days of the nascent LHC.
In one of 160 written contributions to the ESPP update, the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) emphasises the strategic relevance of concerted, global outreach activities for future colliders, stating that the success of such endeavours “depends greatly on the establishment of broad public support, as well as the commitment of key stakeholders and policymakers throughout Europe and the world”.
IPPOG proposes that particle physics outreach and communication be explicitly recognised as strategic pillars in the final ESPP update document in 2020.
Over the course of history, peoples have been trying to conquer other peoples to acquire power and exert influence over those they conquer. Though the term 'imperialism' is a relatively new concept, the ideas go way back even in ancient times.
But one of the main questions that this article tackles is whether imperialism is any different from colonialism. Surely, there are overlapping ideas between the two but they're not the same.
To give a quick run-down on why colonialism and imperialism are different; colonialism specifically refers to conquest by settlement and economic exploitation. It is still based on the fundamental ideas of expansionism and subjugation of other nations, like imperialism, though.
For more information on what imperialism is, its origins, and the different examples in history, check them on Sporcle.
Pre-Mendeleyev, many chemists and scientists already sought out to carve a system or some method of organizing the known elements in a logical way. Many tried but came short since they didn't have all the information regarding the elements. However, it was quite clear to some that patterns existed in the properties of the elements.
From the law of triads to the law of octaves, chemistry had to sojourn for quite some time before the elements could all be consolidated together in the modern periodic table. In large part, this history of the periodic table is obscure to most, at least to my knowledge.
The US has some of the wealthiest people in the world. In fact, 7 out of the 10 richest this year according to Forbes come from the US. On this list compiled by USA Today on the other hand, we will get to see who are the richest in each state. You will see that there are also huge gaps among the wealthiest.
According to Forbes’ ranking of global billionaires, 15 of the 26 wealthiest people on Earth are American. While most wealthy people tend to live in or near major economic centers in states with large economies, the extremely wealthy live where they please and can be found all across the country. All but six states have at least one billionaire, and all but one of those six have people with a net worth of at least $500 million.
Japan has some very weird and quirky stuff everywhere. Now, they're taking one of the more prevalent features of pop culture there to inception levels. If you haven't seen or heard of gacha machines, it's those vending machines where you have the chance to get one of a set of toys in random. The fun is in not knowing what you will get and hoping you get what you want. They have different themes and designs, but the concept is the same.
Stasto’s 1:12-scale Gacha Gacha Machines come in only two colors, red or green, and have identical exterior designs. That makes them a pretty sure bet in the capsule toy world, since often the same product lineups have some very different items in them, though there’s still a bit of randomized fun here, which we’ll get to in just a second.
The coolest part of all, though, is that the mini machines are functional. Turning the crank causes a capsule to drop down into the prize claim slot, but only if you’ve first inserted an actual coin.
For people who are into arts and crafts, particularly sewing, you may want to try creating your very own pincushion with a dual purpose: not only does it store needles but it also has a chain where you can put your safety pins. You may check the instructions on how to make one on Strange Ago.
Accessibility of information has vastly improved due to the internet and the numerous social media platforms that allow users to post and share just about anything. Though there are still a lot of issues concerning these sites and even rights concerning the use of these platforms like privacy, freedom, and misinformation among others.
People have been talking a lot about the algorithms that make these platforms work. Just like Google's method of sorting the sites most relevant to your search queries, Facebook and other platforms have the same issue.
A group of researchers suggested that Google's monopoly of their algorithm more or less tips the scales in favor of certain sites that take advantage of that algorithm to rise in the search rankings. I mean, that's what search engine optimization is for, however, because of this so-called "googlearchy" coined by the researchers, users aren't always able to get the content that they need.
“Though no one expected that every page on the Web would receive an exactly equal share of attention, many have assumed that the Web would be dramatically more egalitarian in this regard than traditional media. Our empirical results, however, suggest enormous disparities in the number of links pointing to political sites in a given category.
We introduce a new term to describe the organizational structure we find: “googlearchy” – the rule of the most heavily linked. We ultimately conclude that the structure of the Web funnels users to only a few heavily-linked sites in each political category.”
In Facebook's case, their algorithm defines what would show up on your news feed. If you have a lot of friends on Facebook, you would literally spend hours just scrolling down and browsing through your feed until the whole day has been spent without you even moving a muscle.
Users still have control over their feed somewhat. One can organize their contacts in such a way that they would only see posts from friends whom they really trust or whose content seem most relevant to them. But to get to this point, it would be quite taxing and require you to sort through your list.
These situations were likened to scientific publishing in that the information that gets through usually depend on a certain "algorithm". In the case of scientific publishing, it depends on the number of citations. So the most relevant and useful papers or content don't necessarily receive enough attention because of it. For online platforms, it's usually the number of links or likes.
Why am I telling you this? Because it occurred to me recently that the problem with Facebook’s omnipotent algorithm is very similar to a problem we see with scientific publishing. In scientific publishing, we also have a widely used technique for filtering information that is causing trouble. In this case, we filter which publications or authors we judge as promising.
It's easier to solve the issue in scientific publishing. The people behind the Back Reaction blog have developed a website that could help parse through scientific work. But it might be difficult for consumers to make a significant difference in terms of online platforms since the big tech companies are the ones who create these algorithms by which we abide.
However, here's the suggestion made by Sabine Hossenfelder:
Likewise, the problem with Facebook’s algorithm is that no one knows how it works, and it can’t be customized. If it was possible for users to customize what information they see, gaming would be much less of a problem. Well, needless to say, I am assuming here that the users’ customization would remain private information.
So, I think an easy way to solve at least some of the problems with Facebook would be to allow a third-party plug to sort your news-feed. This would give users more control and also relieve Facebook of some responsibility.
In recent memory, there have been two major nuclear disasters: the Chernobyl disaster in Russia and the Fukushima nuclear explosion in Japan. And in the aftermath of these two events, workers are still cleaning up radioactive material from the sites and trying to rehabilitate the areas.
Certainly our mothers need to be appreciated and that's why we designated a day to celebrate the women who brought us into the world. Of course this appreciate should not only be limited in one day of the year and should be done every day of the year. There are some curious things about this day however, that you might not have realized. From the origins of the holiday to some statistical data about Mother's Day, Brette Sember from Mental Floss presents to us ten things we might not know about this special day.
People want to inhabit Earth's Moon. There seems to be a lot of hype going around the plans to send humans back to the moon and even more as these plans involve establishing colonies there. Obviously, the environment on the moon is not conducive for habitation but engineers are thinking of ways to make it happen. That is, they want to start with underground colonies.
"Our idea is to actually start underground, using a mechanism we already use on the earth, a tunnel boring machine, to make a continuous opening to create habitats or connect the colonies together," he added.
Analysis of images of the lunar surface show lava tubes capable of housing large cities underground, said Rostami, director of the Earth Mechanics Institute at the US Colorado School of Mines.
The only problem in this plan is the logistics. How do you get a machine weighing several tons on the moon? That would require a big spacecraft to deliver each of the parts which, I guess, will then be assembled on the moon's surface. From there, they will start digging a hole into the moon.
Let's say they successfully accomplish this herculean feat. What then? Will human civilization start from scratch on the moon? Will we send resources every now and then so that they can survive? How will boring a hole on the moon affect Earth? To be honest, it just feels impractical. But we'll see. They plan on sending humans in 2024, so we have ample time to think about it.
