Category Archives: Outside the box

More proof Canadian people are not having enough babies

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We have all seen people walking around with tiny dogs in different degrees of humiliating (one may presume) anthropomorphised  costumes, some even in baby carriages.

Well, someone sent me these pictures from a city park and no, these are not leg warmers as you can clearly see the buttons.

These are custom knit sweaters, or so it at least appears, for trees.

Buttons…

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In defense of rotten food.

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Suddenly the inside of my fridge seems so much healthier than it did before I read this:

this is a part of the article From Canada.com

PLEASE read the comments for this post before making judgements.

 

BY DOUG SCHMIDT, POSTMEDIA NEWS DECEMBER 28, 2011
Nutritionist Melanie Hesketh of Windsor, Ont., shows off a McDonald's cheeseburger on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, she has had sitting on her kitchen counter for one year. Although dried out, the burger shows little signs of decomposing.

Nutritionist Melanie Hesketh of Windsor, Ont., shows off a McDonald’s cheeseburger on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, she has had sitting on her kitchen counter for one year. Although dried out, the burger shows little signs of decomposing.

Photograph by: Tyler Brownbridge, The Windsor Star

WINDSOR, Ont. — Whenever Melanie Hesketh’s kids get a hankering for junk food, all she has to do is point to the kitchen counter.

 

That’s where she keeps an unwrapped cheeseburger that celebrates its birthday Thursday, and it looks pretty much the same as the day it came off a McDonald’s grill 12 months ago.

 

Mould, maggots, fungi, bacteria — all have avoided the tempting meal that sits in plain view.

 

“Obviously it makes me wonder why we choose to eat food like this when even bacteria won’t eat it,” said Hesketh.

 

The meat patty has shrunk a bit, but it still looks edible and, with a faint but lingering greasy, leathery odour, she said it “still smells slightly like a burger . . . it hasn’t changed much.”

 

As a professional nutritionist at Windsor’s Lifetime Wellness Centre, Hesketh was already armed with the education and all the proper facts and information to steer her children — ages 13 and 15 — toward the best food choices.

 

But what self-respecting teen is going to listen to well-meaning lectures from mom, especially on a product sold by the millions annually? Continue Reading →

Cassias Clay speaks on race relations to the BBC in the 1970s

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I don’t actually agree with him entirely. He confuses race, culture and religion, which, I grant you, can be used interchangeably at times and then not at others. But when one does or does not is critical. It is fascinating to hear someone on the BBC speak plainly about issues which would land you solidly in a political re-education camp today or jail or certain career-death in any case. Of course, we call it sensitivity training nowadays but political re-education is political re-education no matter how nice you make it sound. Today of course in any Western city you do see the kind of couples he says cannot exist with their children and proudly. But nonetheless, this is a great blast from the past.

Outside the box. A rhetorical exercise on views concerning abortion

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This is way outside the parameters of this site. So please feel free to skip it if you like. I thought it was well done, and perhaps this is a debate that needs to happen. Typically, this debate polarizes people so fast and so hard that more damage is done, at least to the pro-life side, than good. And as I really try and stick to irrational leftism and Islam as topics, this is a dangerous post for me. However, I think its worth seeing. I will not say if I agree with him or to what extent. But it is interesting to see how he speaks with people who have a knee-jerk, reflexive attitude about abortion on demand under any and all circumstances and for any reasons whatsoever.

So our minds CAN be read: Magnetic scanner produces these actual images from inside people’s brains

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Just imagine what places like Iran, China, Saudi Arabia or England would do with technology like this. I think had Orwell even thought of this, he wouldn’t have written about it in case it gave the totalitarianists ideas. Posted is part of the article. Click over for the rest.

From The Daily Mail:

 

  • Process reproduces visual images from analysis of blood flow to brain
  • Experts believe it could be used in future to analyse dreams and memories

By Chris Parsons and Rob Waugh

Last updated at 1:36 PM on 23rd September 2011

Scientists have created a revolutionary brain imaging process which allows them to ‘see’ moving images inside people’s minds. As the test subjects think of a video, the researchers ‘see’ it on screen.

It’s the most astonishing demonstration of ‘mind reading’ technology ever demonstrated.

The academics from the University of California, Berkeley, managed to decipher brain activity by measuring blood flow through the brain’s visual cortex, and used this information to construct images of what they were ‘thinking’. 

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Reproduction: An image, left, of Steve Martin in Pink Panther 2 is amazingly recreated through analysis of blood flow into the brain's visual cortex to produce the representation on the right
Reproduction: An image, left, of Steve Martin in Pink Panther 2 is amazingly recreated through analysis of blood flow into the brain's visual cortex to produce the representation on the right

Reproduction: An image, left, of Steve Martin in Pink Panther 2 is amazingly recreated through analysis of blood flow into the brain’s visual cortex to produce the representation on the right

They then converted this information into visual patterns after feeding it through a computer, in a process which scientists say ‘opens a window into the movie of our minds’.

As yet, the technology can only recognise and reconstruct movie clips shown to the test subjects before they braved the scanner.