Category Archives: K-stimuli
NY Times Points Out It Is The Age Of The Twink?
A commenter pointed it out: But the latest twinks — many of whom are straight — are what you might call “art twinks,” building upon an aesthetic legacy established by Ryan McGinley’s turn-of-the-millennium photographs of the sloppily skinny, or last … Continue reading
Ontario Issues Genderless Birth Certificate
Again, this is r-selection in action: A biological male who identifies as neither male nor female has received Ontario’s first birth certificate with an “X” designation in place of his biological sex. Joshua M. Ferguson is a Vancouver-based filmmaker who … Continue reading
Apocalypse Starts Early In Britain
Apocalypse may be getting a head start in Britain: LONDON’S knife crime epidemic is spreading into the home counties and across the country as a wave of stabbings take place fuelled by drug gangs from the big cities. The capital … Continue reading
African Children Beat Germans In The Marshmallow Test
Who has more resources and less amygdala stimulation? Who has more amygdala stimulation as kids, and who would see an amygdala with more development from it? For more than four decades the marshmallow test has been used to measure an … Continue reading
Can Dengue Be Transmitted Sexually?
Looks like it might: A MAN who contracted Dengue fever after a trip to Thailand had the virus in his semen, even after he had healed from the illness, pointing to troubling new evidence that the disease, like Zika, can … Continue reading
Ted Lieu Says Russia Investigation A Waste Of Time
The Demoralization: Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said on Saturday that the House Intelligence Committee’s now-defunct investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election may have been a “waste of time.” In an interview on CNN, Lieu said that Rep. … Continue reading
DNA Has Another Shape
Not surprising: For the first time, scientists have identified the existence of a new DNA structure never before seen in living cells. The discovery of what’s described as a ‘twisted knot’ of DNA in living cells confirms our complex genetic … Continue reading
Boycotts Should Be Resales
I was looking at the Yeti Cooler boycott featuring people wreck their coolers: On April 21 Breitbart News reported on a NRA-ILA statement which said Yeti Coolers had cut ties with the NRA Foundation. The statement, written by former NRA … Continue reading
Australia Has A Flesh-Eating Ulcer Spreading
Not a good trend: Scientists in Australia have voiced concern about an apparent outbreak of Buruli ulcer, a flesh-eating disease that usually occurs in West and central Africa. The infectious disease has seen a spike in cases in recent years … Continue reading
Typhoid Gains Extensive Drug Resistence
Picked up a plasmid and then spread to humans in a shithole: The first known epidemic of extensively drug-resistant typhoid is spreading through Pakistan, infecting at least 850 people in 14 districts since 2016, according to the National Institute of … Continue reading