[QUOTE=science_man_88;412348]Possible suspect detained after 1 shot dead, 1 wounded at Texas Southern University[/QUOTE]

And to think, that was during a yoga session Shavasana (Death pose)....

[url]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/14/police-say-couple-beat-son-to-death-in-new-york-church/[/url]

[QUOTE]A central New York couple has been charged with fatally beating their 19-year-old son inside a church and four fellow church members have been charged with assault in an attack that also left the young man's brother severely injured, police said Tuesday.[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/23/americas/hurricane-patricia/"]Mexico hunkers down for Patricia, 'the most dangerous storm in history'[/URL]
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While its strength could fluctuate, "Patricia is expected to remain an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane through landfall," the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Friday afternoon.

Already, Patricia is "the strongest hurricane on record in the National Hurricane Center's area of responsibility (AOR) which includes the Atlantic and the eastern North Pacific basins," according to a Friday morning forecast discussion.

The closest contender, at this point, might be Hurricane Camille, which battered the U.S. Gulf Coast in 1969. Patricia looks to be more powerful than that storm, as well as stronger than Hurricane Andrew in 1992, Katrina in 2005 and many others.

It already has surpassed them in one way: its central pressure reading -- the weight of the air above a system -- which is a key measure of any storm's strength.

The midday Friday central pressure recording of 879 millibars (the barometric pressure equivalent is 25.96 inches) "is the lowest for any tropical cyclone globally for over 30 years," according to the Met Office, Britain's weather service.

Patricia's intensity is comparable to Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines in 2013, the World Meteorological Organization tweeted. More than 6,000 people died in Haiyan, due largely to enormous storm surges that rushed through coastal areas. Haiyan had 195 mph sustained winds when it made landfall, while Typhoon Tip was at 190 mph (and had a slightly lower pressure reading of 870 millibars) in 1979.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.sciencealert.com/human-trials-will-test-freeze-dried-poop-pills-as-a-weight-loss-treatment[/url]

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If you want to lose weight, a new diet or gym membership sounds a whole lot better than consuming someone else's poop in pill form, but that's exactly the method researchers are about to investigate in a clinical trial that's been approved for later this year.[/QUOTE]

I know there have been minor studies and such but don't we have enough pharmaceuticals that taste like shit ( as someone who was once on 12 steroid pills in one day ( same type not mentioning which) and chewed them I should know) ? why not rectal at very least !

[QUOTE=science_man_88;423283][url]http://www.sciencealert.com/human-trials-will-test-freeze-dried-poop-pills-as-a-weight-loss-treatment[/url]



I know there have been minor studies and such but don't we have enough pharmaceuticals that taste like shit ( as someone who was once on 12 steroid pills in one day ( same type not mentioning which) and chewed them I should know) ? why not rectal at very least ![/QUOTE]
Yeah, lots of stuff's been going on about the benefits of poop and pee. I read somewhere that if a baby is born by Cesarean(sp?) they've started putting gauze in the mother's vagina for 5-10 minutes, and then rub the gauze all over the baby, including the mouth, nose and eyes. Apparently, getting vaginal bacteria on a newborn helps the newborn to be healthy later on.

[QUOTE=jasong;423372]Apparently, getting vaginal bacteria on a newborn helps the newborn to be healthy later on.[/QUOTE]

well that makes sense as it's a primer for the immune system as the skin is part of that. I guess it makes sense for what I posted as well but I definitely wouldn't sign up for that trial myself. I was talking to a person I know who's a pharmacist about it and there's a lot of complicating factors for this one though.

[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colostrum"]Colostrum[/URL] also plays a huge role in boosting infant immune function.

[QUOTE=jasong;423372]I read somewhere that if a baby is born by Cesarean(sp?) they've started putting gauze in the mother's vagina for 5-10 minutes, and then rub the gauze all over the baby, including the mouth, nose and eyes. Apparently, getting vaginal bacteria on a newborn helps the newborn to be healthy later on.[/QUOTE][url]http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/birth-of-a-microbiome-researchers-smear-babies-with-vaginal-fluid/[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;424918][url]http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/birth-of-a-microbiome-researchers-smear-babies-with-vaginal-fluid/[/url][/QUOTE]Bacterial wipes. :smile:

I'm having flashbacks to the [i]Meaning of Life[/i] sex ed scene: "Did I ... or did I not ... do ... vaginal juices?"

:pythonmonty:

[Edit: still no emoticon for that one, but I shall keep trying until his Chief Gerbilness deigns to provide us one.]

[url]http://www.marketwatch.com/story/coin-toss-broke-6-clinton-sanders-deadlocks-in-iowa-and-hillary-won-each-time-2016-02-02[/url]

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONP9oKpyjQ4[/url]

For someone outside the US this is indeed WTF?!? These deadlocks was like 34-34 and 29-29, is it communities so small there are so few voters? or is it some sort of council voting?

Seems strange there are so many places with an even number of voters and the chance of it being exactly deadlocked in so many places seems really remote.