There are trillions of bacteria in the digestive tract, and as many as 100 different species. Fungi number in the hundreds of thousands, with just a handful of different species. For years, fungi were given scientific short shrift.
That's the Bleeding Tooth Fungus pictured - in case you were wondering
Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
-ZD
Hillary Clinton is, as her supporters like to put it, imperfect – a mass murderer, a wrecker of nations and peoples, the political expression of biophagous finance, a ruthless cynic who will fling millions into whatever ravine presents itself to get what she wants, which is power. Donald Trump doesn’t want power; he’s far more dangerous than that. He wants attention. How can you really measure her long list of abuses against the sheer potential for disaster coiled in his stupid, stocky body? Measure so many thousands of dead Libyans, so many tens of thousands of dead Syrians, so many hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis against the peril of a waddling baby in charge of the world? Still it’s not impossible, we can quantify anything. Say two million excess deaths under President Clinton – from financial predation, from disease, from war – and ten million excess deaths under President Trump – all those plus racist violence, malfeasance, and incompetence – and there’s your moral case for voting for Clinton.
-SK
Men who need penile reconstruction could soon be given organs grown from their own cells in the lab, according to a team of scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
The research is led by Anthony Atala, director of the institute. Atala is no newbie to the lab-grown organ scene: In 2011, he gave a popular TED talk on his experiments with 3D printed kidneys. And earlier this year, he and his team announced that they'd successfully implanted lab-grown vaginas in four patients.
The best way to combat bullying? The mayor of a small California town apparently thinks the answer is to become one himself.
Cameron Hamilton, the mayor of Porterville, Calif. reportedly told a City Council meeting that bullying victims need only to “grow a pair” to help themselves.
Disney's hit movie Frozen encourages homosexuality and bestiality. Or at least, that’s what one Christian pastor thinks.
Pastor Kevin Swanson of the Reformation Church, who hosts a Christian radio show in Colorado and insists he is not a "tinfoil hat conspiratorialist", described the animated film as "very evil" and denounced Disney as "one of the most pro-homosexual organisations in the country".
Fittingly, all four Republican candidates in the North Carolina Senate race were asked on Earth Day if they believed climate change is a proven fact. And all four candidates said "no."
“That’d be great [if the Star Ledger died]. I’m going to do all I can to not to give them a headline to keep them alive because I think I got them through the summer.”
Disney is subliminally trying to turn children gay through its hit animated movie "Frozen," an outspoken conservative pastor has claimed.
Kevin Swanson said the film, which has taken almost $400 million at the box office since its Nov. 2013 release, was created by the devil and is helping "foul up an entire social system."
I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating things like calling people fat?
During a House Judiciary hearing on his abortion bill Wednesday, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) said that he opposes an exemption for rape victims because "the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low."
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) said Tuesday that an increasing number of working mothers are the root of America's educational troubles.
In a Washington Post Live discussion with Delaware Gov. Jack Markell (D) and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R) on early childhood literacy, moderator Mary Jordan asked the three participants how America's educational outcomes became "so mediocre." Bryant was the first to respond.
"I think both parents started working," Bryant said. "The mom got in the work place."
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Mark Sanford: Obama Administration 'Overstepping Bounds'
One day after being sworn in to his new role in Congress, Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), waded right into one of the White House's largest problems.
Sanford appeared on Thursday's edition of CNN's "Piers Morgan Live," diving into Monday's revelation that the Justice Department secretly probed Associated Press journalists' phone records. The former governor chalked off the controversy as a product of misplaced presidential power.
Hugh Grant, CEO of Monsanto, told Bloomberg News in an interview that opponents of genetically-engineered crops, who can afford to choose what kind of food they buy, aren’t concerned with the needs of the rest of the world. And their opposition is preventing those in need from getting access to cheaper food.
“There is this strange kind of reverse elitism: If I’m going to do this, then everything else shouldn’t exist,” Grant told Bloomberg. “There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.”
Iowans are noted for their civility, intelligence, and common sense—which is why Steve King has been such a discordant congressional representative for the Hawkeye State.
Whether it’s claiming that Joe McCarthy was an “American hero,” being the sole congressman to refuse to recognize the role of slaves in building the U.S. Capitol, defending Joe Wilson and dog-fighting, doubled down on claims that State Department aide Huma Abedin is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, voting against Katrina-relief funding, or—already!—speaking out against Hurricane Sandy-relief funding, Wilson is an affront to reason.
Four years ago, he also predicted that if President Obama were elected president, "then al Qaeda, the radical Islamists, and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11th because they will declare victory in this War on Terror.”
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) thinks the federal government will stop at nothing to abridge America's Second Amendment rights. The federal government is so opposed to firearms, in fact, that it has gone on an ammunition-buying spree so that there won't be any bullets left for law-abiding Americans, Inhofe charged Monday.
Martha Stewart nearly added internet dating to her many hobbies.
In an interview with Matt Lauer for "Today," the 71-year-old business maven and domestic guru confessed that she almost joined Match.com, but didn't quite get through the process.
GOP Lawmaker Suggests the Boston Marathon Bombing Was an Inside Job
This is Rep. Stella Tremblay. She is a Republican elected to New Hampshire's House of Representatives and she believes the government planned the bombing at the Boston Marathon last week that killed three people and injured more than 150 others.
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Texas AG: Democrats "More Dangerous" Than North Korea
Greg Abbott, the Republican Attorney General of Texas, thinks that his state has bigger things to worry about than North Korea. Namely, President Obama.
“One thing that requires ongoing vigilance is the reality that the state of Texas is coming under a new assault, an assault far more dangerous than what the leader of North Korea threatened when he said he was going to add Austin, Texas, as one of the recipients of his nuclear weapons,” Abbott said. “The threat that we’re getting is the threat from the Obama administration and his political machine.”
McDonald's director of nutrition insists the fast food menu is healthy
The director of nutrition for McDonald's is insisting that the menu offered at the fast food chain is healthy.
Speaking about the launch of the new McWrap, Dr Cindy Goody said healthy eating is a top priority at the franchise.
Limbaugh Lambastes RNC Report: GOP Lost "Because It’s Not Conservative"
Rush Limbaugh on Monday made it clear that he was unimpressed with the Republican National Committee's post-mortem on the 2012 election, arguing on his radio show that the GOP is "bamboozled" and "entirely lacking in confidence."
"They think they got landslided, and they didn't, but they're acting like they did, and they think they did," Limbaugh said.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called on the Republican Party to "stop being the stupid party" on Thursday as GOP leaders promised fundamental changes to help stave off future losses.