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Co-author of physics paper is age 7 and feline

Brandon Specktor
LiveScience
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 07:06 UTC
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© Mollie Hunt - WordPress.comPhysics paper co-author F.D.C. Willard (media stand-in)
On April 1, 2014, the American Physical Society announced a landmark change in policy: All scientific papers authored by cats would henceforth become freely available to the public.

The announcement was a joke (it was April Fools' Day), but the cat that inspired it was not. His name is Chester - better known to the scientific community as F.D.C. Willard, arguably the most famous cat in physics after Schrödinger's.

In 1975, Chester/Willard's name appeared alongside Michigan State University physics professor Jack Hetherington's on an influential paper about the low-temperature physics of helium-3 isotopes - versions of an element (helium, in this case) with different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei - published in the journal Physical Review Letters. Hetherington was Chester's owner, and he had initially included the 7-year-old Siamese cat's name on the paper to resolve a grammatical blunder.

As a colleague pointed out while editing the draft, Hetherington listed himself as the study's sole author, yet he had nevertheless written the entire paper using the "we" pronoun. This was against the journal's style rules, the colleague noted. Hetherington's paper would surely be rejected if it wasn't retyped.
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Flatearth Aeronautical Experimentation Colonisation And Exploration Society to launch satellites by throwing them off the edge

Davywavy
News Thump
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:53 UTC
Flat Earth
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The Flat Earth Society is to beat Elon Musk at his own game by throwing satellites off the edge of the world to get them into orbit.

The society plans to both raise funds and prove its theories correct at the same time by launching telecommunications and weather satellites from their facility which will be built 'perched above the void'.

The New agency will be called Flatearth Aeronautical Experimentation Colonisation And Exploration Society - or FAECES for short.
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Missouri women catches neighbor's Corgi riding her pony

Alissa Zhu
Springfield News-Leader
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 03:25 UTC
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© Callie SchenkerCallie Schenker's pony, Cricket, has struck up an unusual friendship with her Mennonite neighbor's Corgi.
Callie Schenker's video of her one-eyed pony and its canine passenger trotting away into the dark has been seen by millions of people.

Callie Schenker, 22, was greeted with an unusual sight when she pulled into her driveway Thursday night.

Her neighbor's Corgi was sitting on top of her one-eyed pony, Cricket.

Schenker started laughing, whipped out her phone and pressed record.

She posted a 15-second video to Facebook, thinking only her friends would see it, with the message: "I can't make this stuff up!!! So we pull back in our driveway tonight and this is what we see. This is not our dog! But apparently him and Cricket the one eyed wonder pony are best friends. I'm stealing the dog, new circus act!"

Schenker's video of the pony and his canine passenger trotting away into the night has gone viral. As of Monday morning, her video has been shared 85,000 times and has received nearly 5 million views.

Schenker, who lives in Halfway, near Bolivar, told the News-Leader her phone has been blowing up with comments, questions and friend requests. When she woke up Monday, she had 400 new Facebook notifications.

"It was insane," she said. "It was kind of overwhelming."
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The yolk's on you: Norway's Olympic team receives 15,000 eggs they didn't order


RT
Sun, 04 Feb 2018 18:44 UTC
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© Ina Fassbender / Reuters
A minor translation error in a conversation with Norway's Olympic Team has left their Korean hosts with egg on their face - the Norwegian caterers took delivery of 15,000 eggs, ten times the amount they actually ordered.

The Norwegian Olympic team, which arrived in PyeongChang for the 2018 Winter Games, had placed an order for 1,500 eggs, but something was lost in translation - or rather, added: An extra zero increased the order tenfold.

The conversation between the Norwegian guests and the Korean hosts wasn't all that smooth as both sides made use of an online translator, Aftenposten reports.

Finally, the delivery arrived, but it only took one look at it too see it was too much. "We received half a truck load of eggs," said Stale Johansen, the Team Norway's chef. "There was no end to the delivery. Absolutely unbelievable," he added.
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IKEA founder forced to walk through all of heaven before getting to his section


The Shovel
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Ikea in Heaven
© Unknown
Ikea Founder Ingvar Kampgrad spent today walking through eighteen different departments and a maze of passageways, just to get to his section of the afterlife.
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ER nurse's video about flu epidemic goes viral: 'Wash your stinking hands!'


News On 6
Sat, 03 Feb 2018 07:32 UTC
Nurse rant on flu
A nurse's Facebook rant about the "cesspool of funky flu" in emergency room waiting areas is getting a lot of attention. According to Katherine Lockler, 25 to 30 people often sit for hours in hospital waiting rooms as the worst cases get treated first.

"Wash your stinking hands," Lockler says in a six-minute video that's been viewed 4.8 million times since she recorded it in frustration after a 12-hour shift during this particularly nasty flu season.

The mother of four works in several emergency rooms in the Pensacola area in Florida's Panhandle.

"Some of them are not true emergencies, but they're waiting along with the flu right next to them. So guess what? Five flus came in, 15 flus walk out. It's great," she said sarcastically. "They'll be back."

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FBI Director warns release of memo will undermine public trust in secret unaccountable spy agencies


The Onion
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:42 UTC
Christopher Wray
FBI Director Christopher Wray
Stressing that such an action would be highly reckless, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that releasing the "Nunes Memo" could potentially undermine faith in the massive, unaccountable government secret agencies of the United States. "Making this memo public will almost certainly impede our ability to conduct clandestine activities operating outside any legal or judicial system on an international scale," said Wray, noting that it was essential that mutual trust exist between the American people and the vast, mysterious cabal given free rein to use any tactics necessary to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizens or subvert religious and political groups. "If we take away the people's faith in this shadowy monolith exempt from any consequences, all that's left is an extensive network of rogue, unelected intelligence officers carrying out extrajudicial missions for a variety of subjective, and occasionally personal, reasons." At press time, Wray confirmed the massive, unaccountable government secret agencies were unaware of any wrongdoing for violating constitutional rights.

Comment: If we can't trust shadowy monolithic intelligence agencies who don't have our best interests at heart to take care of us, then who can we trust!? Oh wait... you mean we're not supposed to trust them?

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Flat-Earther is literally launching himself into space to prove planet is flat


RT
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:09 UTC
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Flat-Earther 'Mad' Mike Hughes intends to finally launch himself into orbit in a homemade rocket on Saturday - right over the Route 66 ghost town of Amboy, California.

An earlier attempt to launch the steam-powered rocket was thwarted at the last minute by a US federal agency, saying Hughes had no permission to use public land.

The vertical rocket jump will now take place on private land belonging to the owner of Amboy, Albert Okura. If successful, it will bring Hughes one step closer to his ambition of reaching the edge of space and proving the Earth is actually flat.

Comment: Gold. Some things about America are just great.

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Freezing streets, red-hot moves: Russian breakdance team braves -29C


RT
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:19 UTC
Break dancing
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A team of Russian breakdancers took to the freezing streets of the city of Novosibirsk to brave the temperatures and show off some hot moves.

The footage was posted on Instagram by a Novosibirsk-based breakdancing team called the GOBcrew.

The dancers headed to the snowy central square of the city and demonstrated some intense moves. Two of the team were wearing only light summer clothing, and another one was decked out in a jumpsuit.
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World Economic Forum - "The internet is exposing our lies and it needs to stop"


Waterford Whispers News
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:16 UTC
TM in Davos
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Philanthropists, lobbyists, financiers, CEO's and world leaders all gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week to discuss the risks posed by too much information being funnelled down to the lower classes via the internet and social media channels.

Speaking with their mouths, political leaders lined up to slam social networks for gaining more power than they do, insisting that investors should boycott social media platforms that don't delete and censor perceived views that are not in line with their own.

"Facebook has more influence and reach than any world government, and that's bad," British Prime Minister Theresa May insisted, "the lower classes now have the ability to see every mistake we make and every unedited lie uttered in real time.

"How are we supposed to divide and conquer if all the lower classes are joined together in harmony under one single global platform?" she then asked a now flabbergasted audience of megalomaniac billionaires and world leaders, "even the working class are starting to read the news, news that we didn't create or sign off on with Rupert, news that's exposing many of our secrets - fake news".
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