I love the Bonobos, those crazy little apes. You know what I like best about them? Just like us, those little guys like to have sex all the time. I am not kidding; living in the primal horde is like having been 20 years old in the 1970s. Unlike other ape species, female bonobos engage in sex even when they are not fertile. They do it just for fun. They even like girl-ape on girl-ape action from time to time.
Female strippers made almost $90 more a shift when they were ovulating than the week after and $170 more than when menstruating. And strippers on the pill, who do not ovulate, made almost $700 less a month than those not on the pill.
So there appears to be some sort of non-verbal cueing that makes men pay more money when they sense an ovulating woman. Wonder what it is?
The first 3 minutes seemed like normal safety stuff – no smoking in bed, no turning on lights when standing in the bath tub, no frayed wires. All things that could start fires.
Then it took a turn for the weird with an admonition not to use gasoline to clean your clothes in the kitchen. So, they start off with a nice safety message to lull us in and then hit us with the real point – don’t use gasoline for cleaning your clothes. I guess the film worked because I do not know any people who clean their clothes this way anymore.
It is amazing how real problems from a generation ago are simply gone. Now we try to get gasoline smell out of clothes not into them. The movie short really shows how much things have changed in about 70 years.
This one is obviously focussed on women and gasoline. “The woman using gasoline in her kitchen or elsewhere in the home, with a false idea of economy, does not fully realize the true high explosive character of a mixture of air and gasoline vapor.” As men could be as stupid with gasoline as women, I have to figure that their movie short is somewhere else. Maybe something like this one from 10 years later or so. Not nearly as dramatic as the female one.
I love how all the newspaper articles only describe women being killed or burned. Meanwhile, other headlines that are much smaller state “Hundreds Killed In Chinese Quakes”, “Diogenes in a sheet is ruled disorderly”, and “3000 Additional Japanese Troops arrive in China”,
So we watch in dread as she soaks some shirts in a basin full of gasoline. Using her hands. And fixing tea is always a good thing when using gasoline to clean clothes. I thought the open gas flame would do the damage. But it was the invisible menace of static electricity that does her in.
The subsequent explosion and fire could have killed her if not for the man who grabbed her hysterical body and wrapped it up in a blanket. Resulting in the men of the fire department having to answer the call.
Meanwhile the Reputable Dry Cleaning Company – an obvious pseudonym – is run by men who know what they are doing. They are experienced and licensed by the state. They are inspected by uniformed men.
Nice. Let the men keep women from burning themselves and their kids up. He still did not prevent her from the shaking head of the doctor. Is she dead? “No fortunately not in this case.But their pretty mother, withered and scarred, for life.” Glad there is a happy ending. Should have had that sliding door.
Or course, I love reading the ‘paper’ when they come spinning into focus. In this last one there is a great headline that caught my attention more than ” Home ‘Dry Cleaning Explosion Disfigures Woman for Life.” It is ” Mercury New X-Ray Source, two scientists say.” Looks like they are from the University of California and used a high-powered vacuum tube to make their finding. I had not heard of using mercury as an X-ray source, but the only things I could find that might be relevant were from the late 1920s and involved Harvard men.
Did you notice that when they had the ‘demo’ fire at the Reputable Dry Cleaning Company the doors closed, tapping the men inside? The one conscious guy opened the door and then pined it open with a heavy can. I bet that actually violates some regulation. It seems idiotic to require fire doors but then make it okay to block them open. I would assume that theReputable Dry Cleaning Company would be cited for breaking that regulation.
Where is Mystery Science Theatre 3000 when we need them?well, there is the next best thing. For 99 cents you can have RiffTrax do it.
The more diverse an ecosystem is, the healthier it is. The healthier it is, the more adaptive it is to changes. The more adaptive it is, the better life is supported, including us.
An update to what I wrote about earlier.A key part of understanding which side of a debate to listen to is to understand which side misrepresents facts and misleads listeners by providing easily debunked rhetoric.
‘Facts’ based on lies is not a way to make a good decision or argue in good faith. There may be reasons to be leery of some aspects of AGW but Barton simply repeats things that are easily debunked.
In this case, the Representative from Texas uses some rhetorical tools that so many denialists present whether they are denying climate change, evolution or vaccination. One of those is to take the work of others and spin their work 180 degrees in order to use it as support for the denialist view.
Many facts he wrote in his Op-Ed can be demonstrated to have been spun, twisted or to be flat out wrong. As he wrote:
The reality is that the two-day hearing made it clear that Mr. Mann’s global warming projections were rooted in fundamental errors of methodology that had been cemented in place as “consensus” by a closed network of friends. The hearing strengthened science because it was informed by various expert work, including that of the National Research Council, which corroborated our central concerns. Mr. Mann’s miscalculations would persist today except that they were identified and discussed in public.
Here is how the chair of that NRC report, Jerry North, responded to some of Barton’s untruths:
While we did find some of the methods used in Michael E. Mann’s original papers to be less cautious than some of our members might have used, we have not found any evidence that his results were incorrect or even out of line with other works published since his original papers. Mr. Barton’s reference to “Mr. Mann’s global warming projections” is incorrect and quite misleading. Mr. Mann’s work does not make projections about global warming. His work, and that of our committee, was concerned with the reconstruction of temperatures in the past. As stated in the report, this area of research does not attempt to make any inference about future temperatures.
Mann does not do global warming projections, there were not fundamental errors of methodology and the NRC did not corroborate the central concerns. In fact, if anything subsequent work has strengthened Mann’s research.
Denialists depend on the lie traveling around while truth tries to catch up. Luckily, anyone who really cares about the truth and gaining a better understanding of the world around us can easily determine how off base Barton was in his response. Sadly, too many people will stay in their Cargo Cult Worlds and refuse to understand. That is what he hopes for when he writes something like this letter which contains so many fallacies.
