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FYI, the "5-second rule" says that if you drop food on the floor and pick it up within five seconds, you can still eat it.

It's a running joke and there is no scientific evidence for it. If there are harmful contaminants where the food falls they will transfer to the food as soon as it touches them (due to the electrostatic effect).

If the food is moist, contaminants will transfer more easily because water is a polar molecule and readily adheres to other molecules.

(and you thought this video had nothing to do with STEM?)

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Cat hair doesn't nullify the 5-second rule...

(Fair Use video clip of SweeetTails at Twitch twitch.tv/sweeettails)

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A quote from amnesty.org... "Protest is an invaluable way to speak truth to power. Throughout history, protests have been the driving force behind some of the most powerful social movements, exposing injustice and abuse, demanding accountability and inspiring people to keep hoping for a better future."

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Do IBM investors realize that their vice chairman opposes one of the most fundamental values of any free society?

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R.I.P.

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“He didn’t have the authorities to move furnitures outside because the rains might get waters on them and then peoples couldn’t use them.”

Why do people (who know better) talk like this?

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If you're ever in Florida, make sure you stop by the restaurant with the chief who had a huge necrotizing sarcoma.

(Remember to wear your respirator while you are eating so you don't get infected by COVID-19.)

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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

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first a scene from Airplane! (1980) a closeup of Lloyd Bridges with a puffy face and a silly grin, he is sniffing glue. zoom out showing that all of his hair is sticking straight up. pan right to show air traffic controllers walking around, but they are upside down -- the camera is upside down and so was Lloyd. (that's why his hair was sticking up and his face was puffy)
Cut to a night scene from Starman (1984) showing Jeff Bridges standing naked, his arms out with his palms up. a small bright bluish light is next to him about shoulder height. the light slowly moves up and illuminates his head showing that his hair is sticking straight up, just like his father's was.

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Starman (1984)

The Starman has small balls and Jenny Hayden has big eyes, and when they get together…

The special effects are dated and there are a few plot holes, but this is a great film with a huge helicopter budget – highly recommended.

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a hand opens showing two small silvery balls, Starman looks pensive, he picks one ball out of his hand and looks sad or meditative; Jenny Hayden is in the dark and looks scared or amazed, she has big eyes; a spaceship that is pointy in front and spherical in the back heads towards Earth; fighter jets take off, one of them fires at that spaceship as the jet’s instrument panel is shown; cut to a house in a rural setting, then the camera is looking out through the window as a fireball streaks across the sky with a picture of Jenny and Starman inside the house in the foreground; the fireball crashes into the ground with a spectacular fiery explosion rising into the air.

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Here's a nice (visual) overview of the history of world civilizations...

youtube.com/watch?v=__BaaMfiD0

(sorry for the youtube link, couldn't find it elsewhere)

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Will the United States collapse before the end of this decade?

44 people · Mar 19, 2023, 10:04
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If humans suddenly became extinct*, which species would eventually evolve to become the “dominate” species?

Possibilities…

- One of the other hominids
- A large land animal (elephant, bear, rhino…)
- One of the corvids (raven, crow, blue jay, magpie…)
- One of the parrots
- A cetacean
- Another sea animal (octopus, crab...)
- Small mammal with fingers (mouse, squirrel, raccoon, koala…)
- Eusocial insect
- Someone else…

(* assuming a species-specific extinction for humans like a disease or infertility, not a mass extinction event like an asteroid or gamma ray burst)

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Notice how she was able to save the first one, but... 😆

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Fed chair Jerome Powell, in a hastily organized appearance, tries to calm markets by explaining the recent bank failures...

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Have you ever pretended to be less intelligent than you are in order to fit in socially?

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In 2015, Brian Williams was fired from NBC Nightly News after he told a fib.

In 2023, Jeff Zients was given a promotion to WH Chief of Staff after he killed a million Americans.

The times, they are a changing...

(images: zients PD; Williams CC-BY-SA-3.0, Shankbone, Mediawiki Commons)

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On the right is the first lion used by The Goldwyn Corporation for the movie The Ace of Hearts (1921).

On the left is a still of a crew filming "Jackie", the second lion used for the MGM logo (1928).

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There's a 50/50 chance that a wormhole is actually an inter-dimensional tunnel through an apple.

Here's the proof...

qoto.org/@Pat/1099003015904337

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More people died this week in the US from COVID-19 than were killed in the 9/11 attack. Every week, another 9/11 attack.

Please wear your respirator when you are around other people.

Do a seal check on your respirator when you wear it.

It is more dangerous to be in public without a respirator than it is to drive without a seatbelt.

(right image: Flickr, Danielle Blue, CC-BY-SA-1.0)

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