Americans consume around 46 million Turkeys over the Thanksgiving holiday. How do farmers produce so many birds for a one-day celebration?
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The Denver Post recently uncovered a collection of photographs taken by William Pennington and Lisle Updike between 1915 and 1920. The photographers’ hobby was taking portraits of Native Americans.
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Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind. They really don’t know who they’re dealing with here, do they?
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Adults Fooled by Visual Illusion, But Not Kids. It takes years for someone to learn how to be distracted by context.
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A Shaolin Monk balances his body on two fingers. Supposedly, there are only two people in the world who can do this.
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Since the 1997 Kyoto accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated more than we ever thought possible.
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Manly Ways to Prepare Turkey. Always be sure to keep a fire extinguisher nearby.
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“Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.”
Gee, the grimmest warnings I recall were Florida being under water, polar bears all dead, mass starvation and lotsof Cat 5 hurricanes that will wipe out the southeast coast. From what I see none of these have come to pass. Now with the Climategate email scandal in the news we can all see that the science is far from settled and simply manipulated to meet a predetermined outcome favorable to the GW industry.
Is it any wonder so many people don’t believe a word the GW crowd screetches?
posted by Hurricane on 11-24-2009 at 9:53 am
For purposes of balance, let’s recognize that the purveyors of the man-made climate-change have an agenda and the truth is coming out. I’m saddened to see the Weather Channel insist on this charade but alas the world changes.
For those unaware, hackers have released email and other data from a Climate Research center in the U.K. which shows at the very least a willingness to hide and/or fudge data and actively discredit any criticism in academic publications. A summary can be found at the website of the Telegraph newspaper in England: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/
posted by Tom in GA on 11-24-2009 at 9:54 am
So to anyone who thinks that there job sucks, I give you this quote from the 1st article:
These birds have been bred to produce as much white breast meat as possible, resulting in males so large and unwieldy that they can’t properly mount the females. Toms therefore have to be manually stimulated and “milked” for their semen, which is then inserted into a hen using a syringe.
Now THAT has to be the worst job on the planet!
posted by TXCherokee on 11-24-2009 at 11:24 am
opps….’their’, not ‘there’.
posted by TXCherokee on 11-24-2009 at 11:26 am
From a sternly scientific point of view, attempting to find ways to withhold data required for peer review is worse than manipulating the data. Peer review is the foundation of our present scientific method; these persons willingly went to great lengths to obstruct this process, with full support from the editors of some of the once most prestigious scientific journals. Try that in, say, physical chemistry and see how far your academic career will take. That’s because physical chemistry, as essential as it is to any modern science, has no political weight; it has no influential and rich patrons behind it ready to transform climatology, the Cinderella of physical and natural sciences, into such a huge hit to help further their petty dreams and political agenda.
posted by Karen on 11-24-2009 at 1:18 pm
I am glad to see that the readers of mental_floss are paying attention to the truth behind “climate change”.
This is not the first post that has been made regarding “climate change” by Miss Cellania. I’d like to know her thought on the matter.
Do you believe that the article to be fact? Do you believe in “man made climate change”?
Will you post the views of the “other side”?
posted by graham on 11-24-2009 at 1:50 pm
Also, Jonny, if you’re out there…any comments?
posted by graham on 11-24-2009 at 1:59 pm
@TXCherokee – If you ever watch the show Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe on Discovery, that was one of the jobs he went to do. It was pretty funny to watch, but sure glad it’s not my job.
posted by John on 11-24-2009 at 2:17 pm
TXCherokee:
If you think that it would be bad performing artificial insemination on a turkey, you really do not want to know about cattle.
I will spare you all of the details, but I must tell you that it involves a condom for your arm that covers everything from finger tip to the shoulder – and sometimes it is not long enough.
posted by n2y2 on 11-24-2009 at 5:53 pm