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Human Hybrid Man found in China. This Bigfoot hybrid man footage was taken in Sichuan Province in China and is being described all over the web as the Chinese Hybrid Man or Yeren Ape Man.
So the story goes that the boy’s mother had claimed she was kidnapped by a Yeren “The Chinese Wildman” which is the Chinese version of Bigfoot, who raped her repeatedly before she escaped back to her village.
9 months later she gave birth this strange boy who grew to be abnormally large. Although he was never able to speak a language, he gain a mild understanding of what people said to him. He lived to be 33 years old and because he was kept hidden in a small village, not much was known about him.
Bastard Son of a Bigfoot Creature? One explanation was that he was born with (Microcephaly) which is a neurodevelopmental disorder which causes abnormal head growth, poor brain function and a shorter life expectancy. Skeptics who believe this explanation go on to say that the mother was ashamed of having a retarded baby and made up the story about being raped by a bigfoot.
The problem with this explanation however is that doesn’t explain the size of this hybrid looking man as no other past case of Microcephaly have been very tall. In addition, he displays many ape-like characteristics such as an ape like jaw, extremely long gangly arms, and a lack of a human neck. Half Human, Half Animal? So is the Human Hybrid Ape Man found in China Real or Fake?
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: JULY 9- A STABBING AND DR. DANIEL WILLIAMS
This Day In History: July 9, 1893
An important step in medicine occurred as the result of one James Cornish getting stabbed in the chest on July 9, 1893. His physician, an African-American doctor from Chicago named Daniel Hale Williams, performed the second successful operation on the pericardium (the lining around his heart).
Dr. Williams was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania on January 18, 1856, the son of a black barber and a Scots-Irish woman. After working as a barber himself, he became interested in medicine and apprenticed to Dr. Henry Palmer for two years. He then attended Northwestern University’s medical school and became one of Chicago’s first African-American physicians upon his graduation in 1883.
There were only three other black doctors in Chicago when Williams began practicing. He quickly built an excellent reputation as a highly skilled surgeon. By 1889, he was appointed to the Illinois Board of Health and dealt with hospital rules and medical standards. …
What Does It Mean When A Goat Gazes Into Your Eyes?
Researcher Christian Nawroth with Vern, who lives at the Buttercups Sanctuary for Goats in Kent, England. He thinks Vern was looking to be scratched.
When a goat gazes into your eyes, it may be issuing a silent plea for help.
That’s the suggestion from a new study of goats co-authored by Christian Nawroth, who researches animal cognition at Queen Mary University of London, published in Biology Letters.
Last summer at the Buttercups Sanctuary for Goats in Kent, England, 34 goats watched as a researcher put a piece of uncooked penne pasta on the lid of a Tupperware container and then placed the container itself atop the lid without locking it shut. And goats love pasta. Says Nawroth: “They go crazy for it. Some goats like apples, some don’t. I haven’t found any goat that does not like pasta.” …
The No Man’s Land Beneath the Border Wall
There’s a small stretch of soil north of the Rio Grande river that’s still part of the United States, but exists below the Mexican border wall. The Atlantic went inside this no-man’s land to uncover what life is like in a place that feels not-quite America, but not-quite Mexico.
10 Attributes Of Fascism In The United States
Fascism is defined as “a political system headed by a dictator, in which the government controls business, and labor and opposition is not permitted.” Many people confuse fascism with communism, as both are well-known systems under which the government exercises extreme control over its citizens, but the two are ideologically dissimilar in one important way: While communism ostensibly (if not usually in practice) distributes power evenly among the people with “communal” ownership of resources, fascist societies tend to concentrate power among very few individuals with an emphasis on corporate interests over public.
Such a system inevitably leads to populations mired in poverty with restrictive laws, loss of basic personal freedoms, and no means of escaping debt, let alone accumulating wealth. Many in the United States believe that the country is scarily close to embracing this form of government, and still others believe that it already has. And indeed, there are many well-established aspects of fascist societies that have taken root in the United States, some more recently than others.
10. Intense Nationalism And Demagoguery
Much more than simple pride for one’s country, extreme nationalism is rooted in the notion that one’s individual identity is entirely associated with their national identity—such that individual identity cannot exist separately from that of their nation. Strong emotional ties to one’s nation result from such attitudes, but more often than not, the allegiance gained is to a perverted notion of national identity put forth by politicians or demagogues.
The term “demagogue” is used mostly derisively to refer to a politician who grows their base and amasses power not through the discussion of policy and real solutions to problems but by blatant appeal to fear, xenophobia, and outright ignorance. Of course, history has shown this to be an effective tactic among populations with little understanding of complex political issues but a strong sense of national identity. The fascist totalitarian regimes of World War II began with populist, grassroots movements headed by charismatic leaders who were able to use fears over loss of national identity to quickly amass power. …
Fear and Voting in America
Amid the civil-rights protests, riots, and unrest of the 1960s, Richard Nixon found a way to be conservative at a liberal time: scare tactics. Now Donald Trump is taking a page from his playbook.
A lone white woman walks down an empty city block in the middle of the night clutching her purse. It’s pitch black, and the only sounds that can be heard are the clacking of her sensible heels, the sound of implied danger, and Richard Nixon’s voice. He delivers terrifying crime statistics and a call to action. This woman, her body, and her livelihood are under threat.
“Crimes of violence in the United States have almost doubled in recent years,” Nixon says. “Today, a violent crime is committed every 60 seconds. A robbery every two-and-a-half minutes. A mugging every six minutes. A murder every 43 minutes … And it will get worse unless we take the offensive. Freedom from fear is a basic right of every American. We must restore it.”
The commercial fades to black. A slogan appears on the screen: “This Time Vote Like Your Whole World Depended on It.”
Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign bears a striking resemblance to the 2016 presidential race: Both have highlighted primal American fears. In his campaign commercial from that year, Nixon invoked the deeply racialized historical symbol of white womanhood; a symbol inextricably linked to the lynching of African Americans, whose killings were often justified by the belief that the white female body was in danger, preyed upon by the brutish black male. “White women,” according to Dr. Lisa Lindquist-Dorr, associate professor at the University of Alabama, “embodied virtue and morality; they signified whiteness and white superiority.” Nixon’s use of the vulnerable white woman, fearful of an ominous, yet ever present “other,” blew a dog whistle, one signaling that America, its values, and its power structure were under threat by a violent, liberal agenda. …
No one wants to be Donald Trump’s veep. What could go wrong?
If more evidence is needed that the Republican Party lacks confidence in its candidate, look no further than all the vice presidential prospects begging off
In the long Kabuki dance that is a presidential election, there are only one or two moments that even come close to a decision worthy of the Oval Office. All the rest is commentary.
For Donald Trump, we are fast approaching one of those moments. In the next two weeks, the property developer will make his most fateful decision since he fired Meat Loaf from Celebrity Apprentice.
Who deserves the peculiar honor of serving the nation just a heartbeat away from an orange-hued president? More importantly, who would accept a job that famously – even under sane and qualified presidents – isn’t worth a bucket of warm piss?
Trump’s vice-presidential pick might reassure some Republicans that there would be some adult supervision of a president who wants to launch a trade war with China, deport 11 million US residents, and close the borders to a billion Muslims.
Then again, any voter who thinks that Trump will listen to wise veep counsel is in desperate need of some adult supervision of their own. …
10 Forgotten Conquerors From Ancient History
In Shelley’s famous poem Ozymandias, a broken statue lies in the empty desert, its pedestal hollowly boasting, “My name is Ozymandias, king of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
The conquerors on this list boasted that they had “all the lands at [my] feet” or promised to make “Egypt taste the taste of my fingers!” But in the end, they, too, have been largely forgotten. Look upon their works and despair.
10. Lugalzagesi
Civilization was born in ancient Sumeria, in the rich lands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. But by 2330 BC, the region was in an uproar and ancient cities lay in ruins. The culprit was Lugalzagesi, the king of Umma. Before inheriting the throne, Lugalzagesi was a priest of the goddess Nisaba and he has been labeled an “ecstatic” and a “bone fide berserk” by historians seeking to explain the unprecedented destruction he unleashed.
Shortly after inheriting the throne of Umma, Lugalzagesi also became king of Uruk, probably through marriage. He then launched a series of frenzied campaigns against the kingdom of Lagash, eventually conquering the city itself. A priest of Lagash reported that he “set fire to the [temples] . . . he plundered the palace of Tirash, he plundered the Abzubanda temple, he plundered the chapels of Enlil and Utu.”
In another inscription, the defeated king of Lagash bitterly cursed the conqueror: “The leader of Umma, having sacked Lagash, has committed a sin against Ningirsu. The hand which he has raised against him will be cut off! May Nisaba, the god of Lugalzagesi, ruler of Umma, make him bear the sin.”
But the conquest of Lagash only increased Lugalzagesi’s strength. …
Congressional Proposal Would Create A Texas-Sized ‘Republic Of Cliven Bundy’
Cliven Bundy may be in jail, but he still has friends in Congress.
The U.S. House of Representatives next week is expected to vote on a proposal that would exempt 48 counties, primarily in the West, from the law that has been used for more than 100 years to protect archaeologically, culturally, and naturally significant resources in the United States, including the Grand Canyon and the Statue of Liberty.
The counties that would be exempted from the Antiquities Act of 1906 cover more than 250,000 square miles — an area nearly the size of Texas. The amendment, which was authored by Rep. Stewart (R-UT) and Rep. Gosar (R-AZ), appears to have two main purposes. …
THE HORRIFIC, PREDICTABLE RESULT OF A WIDELY ARMED CITIZENRY
The president of the Minneapolis chapter of the N.A.A.C.P., Nekima Levy-Pounds, leads mourners in a chant of “Hands up, don’t shoot” after the killing of Philando Castile by Minnesota police.
The killings in Dallas are one more reminder that guns are central, not accessory, to the American plague of violence. They were central fifty-plus years ago, when a troubled ex-Marine had only to send a coupon to a mail-order gun house in Chicago to get a military rifle with which to kill John F. Kennedy—that assassin-sniper also fired from a Dallas building onto a Dallas street. They are central now, when the increased fetishism of guns and carrying guns has made such horrors as last night’s not merely predictable but unsurprising. The one thing we can be sure of, after we have mourned the last massacre, is that there will be another. You wake up at three in the morning, check the news, and there it is.
We don’t yet know exactly by whom and for what deranged “reason” or mutant “cause” five police officers were murdered last night, but, as the President rightly suggested, we do know how—and the how is a huge part of what happened. By having a widely armed citizenry, we create a situation in which gun violence becomes a common occurrence, not the rarity it ought to be and is everywhere else in the civilized world. That this happened amid a general decline in violence throughout the Western world only serves to make the crisis more acute; America’s gun-violence problem remains the great and terrible outlier.
Weapons empower extremes. Allowing members of any fringe of any movement to get their hands on military weapons guarantees that any normal dispute—political or, for that matter, domestic—can quickly lead to a massacre. Our guns have outraced our restrictions, but not our imaginations. Sometime in the not-too-distant past, annihilation replaced street theatre and demonstrations as the central possibility of the enraged American imagination. Guns allow the fringe to occupy the center. …
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: JULY 9TH- U.S. DEBT TO FRANCE SETTLED
This Day In History: July 9, 1795
On July 9, 1795, James Swan, an American businessman and Revolutionary patriot, liquidated the debt the U.S. government owed to the country of France, agreeing to pay the sum of $2,024,899 (about $28 million today).
James Swan was a native of Fife, Scotland and emigrated to Boston, MA in 1765 at the age of 11. He joined the Sons of Liberty at 19, and hung out with the likes of John Adams, Paul Revere, Marquis de Lafayette, Joseph Warren, George Washington, and the other rabble-rousing revolutionaries. He took part in the Boston Tea Party and was wounded during the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775.
After the war, Swan held several positions in the government of the state of Massachusetts, including the legislature and the Massachusetts Board of War. He also became a very successful businessman; one of his many ventures included acting as a purchasing agent for France in the United States, and by 1787, Swan and his wife Hepzibah Clarke were living in Paris. …
Elie Wiesel and the Agony of Bearing Witness
Why should any of us expect people who have suffered profound trauma to relive it for our benefit?
Elie Wiesel speaks at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Elie Wiesel made it look so easy. I’m not referring to the profoundly beautiful troubling words that spilled from his pen and pricked the conscience of millions around the world. And I don’t mean the way that his speaking voice had a quiet depth of emotion, somehow more powerful because of its subdued tone. His galvanizing talents and moral courage have been lauded by many writers in the days since his death and rightly so.
What stays with me is this: Elie made it look bearable to bear witness to horror again and again, to on a daily basis invite traumatic memories back into his consciousness. He never claimed he was comfortable with this role. He accepted this painful duty in order to defend human rights and advocate for the oppressed. In his 1986 Nobel acceptance speech, Elie spoke of the community of Holocaust survivors as honored by a terrible burden. He asked, “Do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have perished? Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not. No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. And yet, I sense their presence. I always do. … This [Nobel Prize] belongs to all the survivors and their children…”
But not all Holocaust survivors are willing or able to speak of their experiences. I am intimately familiar with the choice to stay silent. My father was a nine-year-old Jewish boy when Nazi Germany invaded his native Poland. He was one of the lucky ones, eventually saved by deportation to Soviet territory where he nearly starved to death in a slave labor camp. Almost his entire extended family—well over one hundred people—were killed. For decades after the war my father suppressed his pain, never speaking of what he had endured and dodging questions when pressed by friends or strangers. This silence was his way of healing and building a new life in the pluralistic America he so loved. My father became a professor of Soviet studies, dedicating his life to fighting totalitarianism and anti-Semitism from a comfortable professional distance. …
Court ruling could make sharing Netflix and Spotify passwords a federal crime
US court rules in favor of a new criminal act designed to counter cases of hacking, but decision may have consequences for ‘innocuous’ password sharers
Sharing passwords to access streaming sites such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and HBO Go could be a federal crime, according to a new ruling.
Three judges from the US court of appeals from the ninth circuit issued a ruling on Tuesday that such activity now constitutes a criminal act, under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
The ruling came from the ongoing United States v Nosal case, filed against David Nosal, a former employee of the recruitment firm Korn/Ferry. Nosal left the recruitment firm in 2004 to launch a competitor, and allegedly used a former co-worker’s password to access a work computer after his personal access was revoked. …
DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY: No person giving their password to someone else constitutes authorization.
6 Works Of Art Made Possible By An Absurd Amount Of Drugs
The relationship between drugs and art is pretty straightforward: Artists put drugs inside their bodies and then expel them through their fingers in the form of strange paintings, statues, music etc. That’s how the art/drug relationship usually goes, but there’s another, arguably better way: Use the actual drugs to create the actual art. That way, you can write off drugs as a work expense! For instance…
#6. An Artificial Intelligence Programmed To Buy Drugs
Created by Swiss art collective and spell-check nightmare !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Random Darknet Shopper is a software program installed on a laptop. The program’s sole purpose is to shop on the Darknet, the sketchy parking lot below the information superhighway where drugs are sold. RDS is given a relatively tight budget of $100 in Bitcoins per week, which it can spend on whatever it chooses. In 2014, the program decided to throw a party and bought a baggie full of ecstasy pills, which, as per protocol, were shipped to the gallery.
“No, really, officer. The laptop bought all these drugs without
my knowled- I’ll go quietly …”
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Here’s how startups are outsmarting Siri and Alexa
Small companies are finding ways to compete in AI, even without big data
Nearly every big tech company now offers a digital assistant powered by artificial intelligence. Apple has Siri, Facebook has M, Microsoft has Cortana, Amazon has Alexa, and Google has, well, Google. The success of these services is heavily dependent on the mountains of data they have at their disposal — along with massive amounts of computing power to crunch that data, understand user queries, and respond in real time.
This reality raises an obvious question: how can startups without their own server farms and massive customer bases hope to compete?
Companies like Hound and Viv want to build standalone apps that consumers will use in place of the assistants built into their smartphones. And companies like X.ai, Ozlo, EasilyDo, and Julie Desk are trying to carve out niches as dedicated helpers focused on single tasks like scheduling meetings or managing your inbox. These startups have advantages when it comes to getting started, primarily because many barriers to entering the industry have fallen. …
Microsoft lets AI experiments loose in world of Minecraft
The code for Project Malmo, Microsoft’s tool for conducing AI experiments in Minecraft, is now open source
Microsoft researcher Katja Hofmann watches a screen as the company’s Project Malmo software simulates the actions of an artificial intelligence in Minecraft.
Microsoft has published the source code for its Project Malmo, allowing anyone to conduct artificial intelligence experiments in the world of Minecraft with a little programming.
It unveiled the project, then known as AIX, back in March, but at the time only a few academics had access to the code. On Thursday the company made good on its promise to open up the source code by publishing it on Github.
Minecraft, the blocky world-building game that Microsoft paid $2.5 billion for two years ago, is an ideal place to test how artificial intelligences will interact with one another and with humans.
As it’s a simulation, Minecraft is a safe place to test how AIs learn to perform certain kinds of physical tasks…
10 Surprising Facts About Sloths
Sloths have the short end of the stick in many ways. Who wants to be named after a Deadly Sin? Calling them “sloths” isn’t just a quirk of English either; other languages have names for them that cluster around terms like “laziness,” “slow,” and “sleep.” The scientific name for three-toed sloths, Bradypus, is Greek for “slow feet.” Only their cute and mildly bemused expressions worthy of Internet memes save them from being considered completely useless.
But sloths are much more than little bags of indolence. Here are ten facts about sloths to shake up their singularly somnolent status in the animal kingdom.
10. They Live In A Dangerous World
Surely an animal that rarely moves more than 40 meters (130 ft) in a day must live a carefree and positively Zen lifestyle? Alas, nature is red in tooth and claw, and the sloth makes a tempting target for many predators. As the video above shows, even when in their arboreal homes, they can fall prey to pumas. It gets worse, though. Their jungle home leaves them open to attack by Harpy eagles, which feed mostly on sloths.
But it’s not just fearsomely large animals that prey on sloths. In one case, a small spectacled owl was found to have killed and eaten a sloth. This is remarkable, because sloths are twice as large and four times as heavy as spectacled owls. While sloths do have their long claws and may swipe at a predator, their low muscle mass makes such an action little more than a warning. How can a creature such as the sloth have evolved to be so seemingly defenseless? …
New Mac malware tries to hook your webcam up to the Dark Web
Mac malware is sufficiently rare, at least compared to Windows and Android, that new OS X malware strains often get a lot of attention.
That’s both good and bad.
It’s good, because it reminds us all that Macs aren’t magically immune to cybercriminality, and that basing your digital lifestyle on that assumption would be a risky strategy.
And it’s bad, because it tends to bring out extreme views, with one side saying that the fuss about Mac malware is no better than unwarranted exaggeration, and the other side accusing Mac users of being credulous fanbuoys (and gurlz).
Nevertheless, Mac malware is often technically interesting, and offers an intriguing insight into online cybercriminality. …
Who wants to be a Portlandia extra?
Moments before the man-bun carnage.
Have you ever put a bird on it? Hesitated to eat a chicken until you knew his name and life story? Is your safe word cacao?
Then you’re in luck. Portlandia, the satirical Portland-ish show that we all don’t want to admit is kind of exactly how Portland is (sometimes), is looking for extras.
The IFC channel announced that Portlandia is about to film its seventh season and needs people, homes and businesses to feature in all their Portlandy-ness. …
HOW DID “911” BECOME THE EMERGENCY CALL NUMBER IN NORTH AMERICA?
Before the 1960s, the United States didn’t have one universal phone number for Americans to call if they needed help from the police or fire department. Callers simply had to know the phone number for each department in the area they were currently in. In the case of large cities, there were often multiple police and fire departments covering different areas. Los Angeles, for example, had fifty different police departments and just as many phone numbers. Telephone operators would usually be left to direct emergency calls if the caller wasn’t sure which department or phone number they needed. Oftentimes there would be further delays upon getting the police or fire department on the line if the clerks who answered the phone were busy with another caller. Needless to say, this system wasn’t optimized to get emergency help where it needed to go very quickly.
To solve this problem, the National Fire Chief’s Association suggested a national emergency phone number in 1957. But it wasn’t until 1967 that President Lyndon B. Johnson helped get the ball rolling. A report to President Johnson’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice suggested that a single telephone number should be designated for callers to use in emergencies nationwide, or at least in major cities. The report also recommended that police departments have two phone lines: one for emergencies and another for regular business calls. That way callers looking to report an emergency wouldn’t be stuck on hold while the clerk helped someone who was simply looking for information. …
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