Snipped from SciAm.com.

As if we didn’t have enough reasons to fight against the use of coal power plants, we have, yet, another one that may be just as bad as the others! The stereotype of coal power plants being safer than nuclear power plants, at least when it comes to radiation, has been drastically broken. It seems that coal ash, also known as fly ash, “contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste.” It has to do with the uranium and thorium levels in natural coal. Unburned, the levels of these dangerous compounds are somewhat benign, but when burned, they are concentrated up to ten times their natural levels.

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Snipped from Cectic.com.

Now, I thought this was pretty clever. Not exactly the best analogy, but pretty comical nonetheless. Here is a common father using the same abstinence only ideology that has been such a success thus far with our nation’s children for gun safety.

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Snipped from NewScientist.com.

I have to admit something. I am obsessed with spicy food. Some may say addicted. I don’t know why, but I always have been. Thai food, Mexican food, Indian food … it doesn’t matter. The hotter the better. Oh, and one more thing. I am never sick … ever. Well, except that silly little meningitis episode I got a long time ago, but that is another story. So, one could ask, “Does all the spicy food lend some assistance to my healthy state of existence?” Umm, good question.

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Snipped from DiscoveryMagazine.com.

Whether you are from Fargo and are intimately familiar with the white fluffy stuff, or you are from South Texas and you have only dreamed of it, snow may be more fascinating than you think. Here is an article covering 20 things you may have never known about snow.

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Snipped from BMJ.com.

Are you ever standing around and happen upon a conversation where people are perpetuating inane myths, urban legends or folk tales as true. It gets you off your rocker, doesn’t it? Well, here is a list of some medical myths, and the science to back up why it is, and always will be, a myth.

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Snipped from PopulistAmerica.com.

Now here is someone that actually thinks with his cerebrum, and not his penis. While I was reading this, I kept saying to myself, “this is exactly what I have been saying … damn it, why is this type of thinking so rare?” If one wants to truly solve our geopolitical problems, then close all of our military bases, cut military spending by half or MORE, and bring every single troop home. Militarily speaking, become an isolationist nation.

Take all the left over money (hundreds of billions of dollars) that would go to the military (for killing, scaring people) and then become more diplomatic, philanthropic and giving. This way, we are not threating, bullying, coercing or manipulating nations into hating us, but winning over the hearts and minds of other nations … sound familiar?

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