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Beads Found in Nordic Graves Traced to Egypt

Stunning glass beads found in Danish Bronze Age burials dating to 3400 years ago turn out to have come from ancient Egypt, from the workshop that made the beads buried with the famous King Tutankhamun.

Twenty-three glass beads found in Danish Bronze Age burials by the team of Danish and French archaeologists were blue, a rare color in ancient times. Altogether, 271 glass beads have been found at 51 burials sites in Denmark, the majority of which originated from Nippur, about 50 km southeast of modern Baghdad.

The 23 blue glass beads were analyzed using plasma-spectrometry, a technique that enables comparison of trace elements in the beads without destroying them. The analysis showed that the blue beads turned out to have originated from the same glass workshop in Amarna that adorned King Tutankhamun at his funeral in 1323 BCE. King Tut´s golden deathmask contains stripes of blue glass in the headdress, as well as in the inlay of his false beard.

The Egyptian and Mesopotamian glass beads found in the graves in Denmark indicates that trade was established already 3000 years ago, and conversely, Nordic amber has been found as far south as Mycenae, Greece and Syria.

“Trade systems in the Eastern Mediterranean seem to have collapsed around 1200 BC, which must have been due to troubled times, perhaps war and strife, and the emergence of the Sea Peoples. This collapse can also be observed in the Nordic burials. Fewer glass beads seem to have reached the north,” said Kaul Flemming, Curator of Prehistory at the National Museum of Denmark. “However an interesting phenomena occurred at the same time in Italy. In the Po Valley, new workshops arose, where they turned glass into glass beads. There are also large workshops where they processed Nordic amber from natural lumps into finished gems.”

Full Story: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.707620

Scientists Discover Plastic-Eating Bacteria

In a report published in the journal Science, a team of Japanese researchers described a species of bacteria that can break the molecular bonds of one of the world’s most-used plastics - polyethylene terephthalate, also known as PET or polyester. Further tests found the bacteria almost completely degraded low-quality plastic within six weeks.

Initial genetic examination revealed the bacteria may have evolved enzymes specifically capable of breaking down PET in response to the accumulation of the plastic in the environment in the past 70 years. Such rapid evolution was possible, said Enzo Palombo, a professor of microbiology at Swinburne University, given that microbes have an extraordinary ability to adapt to their surroundings.

The bacteria took longer to eat away highly crystallised PET, which is used in plastic bottles. That means the enzymes and processes would need refinement before they could be useful for industrial recycling or pollution clean-up.

PET makes up almost one-sixth of the world’s annual plastic production of 311 million tons. Despite PET being one of the more commonly recycled plastics, the World Economic Forum reports that only just over half is ever collected for recycling and far less actually ends up being reused.

The potential applications of the discovery remain unclear. The most obvious use would be as a biological agent in nature, said Palombo. Bacteria could be sprayed on the huge floating trash heaps building up in the oceans. This method is most notably employed to combat oil spills.

This particular bacteria would not be useful for this process as it only consumes PET, which is too dense to float on water. But the discovery could open the door to the discovery or manufacture of biological agents able to break down other plastics.

Full Story: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/10/could-a-new-plastic-eating-bacteria-help-combat-this-pollution-scourge

Molecular Experiment Reverses Evolution in Birds

Anyone who has eaten chicken can account for the presence of a long bone in the drumstick. This is the fibula, one of the two long bones of the lower leg. In dinosaurs, this bone is tube-shaped and reaches all the way down to the ankle. However, in the evolution from dinosaurs to birds, it lost its lower end, and no longer connects to the ankle. Scientists noted long ago that bird embryos first develop a tubular, dinosaur-like fibula; afterward, it becomes shorter and acquires its adult, splinter-like shape.

Scientists from the Universidad de Chile, headed by Joâo Botelho under the advisory of Alexander Vargas, genetically manipulated chickens so that they would grow up with legs like dinosaurs. Suppressing one of the genes responsible for the differences between raptors and chickens resulted in chickens that develop a full-length, tubular fibula connected at the ankle, matching the lower leg anatomy of a raptor.

The results of the entire study have been published this week in the renowned academic journal Evolution. This is the second time Botelho has achieved an experimental reversal to a dinosaur-like trait in birds. Previously, he had managed to undo the evolution of the perching toe of birds to produce a non-twisted, non-opposed toe, as in dinosaurs. Another lab at Yale obtained a dinosaur-like snout by altering gene expression in embryonic chicken.

"The experiments are focused on single traits, to test specific hypotheses," Said Vargas. "Not only do we know a great deal about bird development, but also about the dinosaur-bird transition, which is well-documented by the fossil record. This leads naturally to hypotheses on the evolution of development, that can be explored in the lab. This leads naturally to hypotheses on the evolution of development, that can be explored in the lab."

Full Story: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-molecular-reverses-evolution-birds-dinosaur-like.html

>>17464486
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyw9J6NuFSM

>>17464486
Why not a shitty one instead?

>>17464486
Are they partially Negroes in masks?

>>17464417
Yes.

No.

no, since without the nervous system all of the organs will cease to work.

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bump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReYbrlG4BAU

>>17464311

>He never got to drink that beer
Probably the worst part

This reminds me of that one story... james the cave explorer or something. These two friends go digging in a cave and find a small hole that leads to another section of the cave. They get wanderlust and curious so they decide to come back and keep chipping at the hole until it gets bigger. Eventually they break through and the whole cave is vibrating or making some strange noise.... maybe the incidents are related. Bump

>>17463703
it lives in that shadow corner that you feel like something is there watching you.

>>17463712
What is it?

Wtf is this rp???

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SCP is a fan-based universe centered around an organization the conducts research on supernatural beings, objects, or other peculiar, remarkable instances of the supra-mundane.

There are even games centered around some SCP's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r7bqdNyu80

SCP??? (Forgot the number, too lazy to google it)
>omnicidal, invulnerable croc/reptile

fear of the unknown

>>17463683
It is incomprehensible.

Forever floating in the abyss

>>17463678

Everyone was kill, even that fag OP

Wish I knew
I passed out at about 3 am

>>17462389
Bump

>>17463506
That there was nothing at half past eleven at night, and that hour was apparently the time when ''jamb'' appeared on the chat.

They weren't there. And then not only the internet forgot about them.

I refused to write the article after reading that log. Honestly? I'm fed up. I think I'm gonna leave this job.

While I still have fucking time to do so. While I still can.

Reading this, you're doing it on your own.

And hell no. Don't fucking blame me if someone (something?) knocks on your door.


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<crown> of course, you will always blame me for something xD you could come here and not complain all the time
<crown> jambey!!!!1 :>:>:>
<paperplane> okay, finish your story crown ;p i just couldn't and that's it, sorry
<paperplane> JAMBEYYYYa <3
<braindamage> Jamb :O Haven't seen you for a while now :)
*man has quit
*man has joined #fockwits
<man> oh fuck not this shit again
<man> jamby :D what's up girl?
<crown> silence again xddd jammy what's up, you were offline for a month, explain yourself hahahah
<braindamage> Exactly, I was sweating from anxiety and want some explanation.
<man> and epey was also absent, didn't you break up or something?
<crown> :<
<paperplane> jam is ignoring us <3
<braindamage> it's not the first time
*alejaroz has quit
<jamb> i dont knw how things are wth e.pey
<man> what??
<crown> you quarrelled, sweethearts? :<<<
<braindamage> Ooo, don't tell me our sweet little Jambey got her heart broken? :)
<man> finally she can be with me <3 mwahahahah
<paperplane> jokes aside. jam, what's up?
<crown> omg man, the hell is wrong with you... man xD
<jamb> i haveent seen hm fore mon.thh now
<man> i see you drank a little <3
<crown> man, what the fuck :< jambey, why? did he go somewhere or what?
*alejaroz has joined #fockwits
<alejaroz> jj
<alejaroz> jam <333333333333

>>17463509
<braindamage> okay, Jam, please say that you aren't kidding us. Seriously, what's up? Are you kidding us with epey or what? :PP Say hello to him if he sits next to you, drunk af.
<paperplane> i don't like this
<man> i wouldn't mind if crown finally sent us her nudes or something, because how long can we beg her?
<alejaroz> if you wanted to relax us with your jokes then you didn't succeed xD
<braindamage> Your sense of humor sometimes annoys as fuck, man.
<jamb> .
<crown> okay, jam, tell us what is going on or I will turn off my computer because otherwise I won't be able to sleep
<man> come to me, crowney, I will tire you so much you'll fall asleep immediately
<crown> get lost :<
<paperplane> exactly, get your hands off my lady ;p
<jamb> we weree in thiz hous we talkd abo.ut
<crown> whaaaat...
<braindamage> I don't remember?
<paperplane> aaaaah, the abandoned one?
<jamb> yes
<man> and what? did some crazy exhibitionist spook you out? <3
<crown> shit man :<
<braindamage> Srsly, it doesn't entertain me.
<braindamage> and what was next, Jam?
<paperplane> god, abandoned houses :| it would scare the shit out of me, really
<paperplane> why did you go there in the first place
*dolly has joined #fockwits
<crown> dolly <3
<alejaroz> little dolly <3
<braindamage> Doll :)
<dolly> hi everyone :D
<man> shit, what can I do about your non-existent sense of humor...
<man> lolly :*
<dolly> what's up?
<man> jam is boring us with her dumb stories, we can't talk normally with her, she is drunk <3
<dolly> :O
<man> hey, listen up! i'm gonna tell you a joke about jews
<braindamage> End with it or I will kick you, man :) And I'm not joking this time.
<crown> congratulations, brain
<man> OOO, RIGOR
<paperplane> at last xD
<dolly> don't kick man, it's not his fault that he has such a small brain :(
<crown> okay jam, because we care, we will ask you - are you there?
<alejaroz> wow dem
<alejaroz> rap skills, crown!
<crown> i know, i'm the best rapper in the town <3

This might sound more real if english was your first language. I'm still unsure what your point is though.

3 years of MS-Paint

Photoshop filters on a t-rex toy

>>17463159
An even shittier shoop of smile dog

this film made me reconsider the way I treat women

>>17462810
Yeah I was thinking about that. Didn't it trigger billions of tumblrinas when it came out?

>>17462810

true that.

now i just get right to it and douse them in gasoline and watch them burn.

Please & Thankyû

~ B U M P ~

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>>17462571
http://www.how-to-meditate.org/
http://zenhabits.net/meditation-guide/
http://www.mindful.org/meditation-for-beginners-video/

These will get you started. Basically, it's all about finding the primal sentience within. Before you learned words, you had thoughts... meditation is about finding that inner silence. It's much more difficult than it sounds to achieve. But every once in a while when you're meditating, you'll find yourself there in the void. It's an amazing feeling.

Good luck, OP.

Thankyû very much !

I've dabbled in it a few times before, as well as using the app "Headspace" for a few weeks but I wanted to make sure this time I could progress in it, if you will.

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>>17462177
Basically, they cashed in on The Blair Witch Project (1999). The show has inspired numerous ghost shows, my favorite being Ghost Adventures.

Fear was pretty legit. Voodoo by Godsmack was the credit song, that was always pretty sweet.

When did Scariest Places On Earth fire up? I always liked that one better.

Loved that show. Used to have to watch it during the day when I was a kid.

Went back and watched a few episodes a couple years ago, they hold up. Very early 2000's reality show vibe to it but it was legitimately scary as shit.

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This shit is horrific. Here's an aerial picture of the pavilion area, where they all met and spoke about committing suicide before drinking the kool aid.

They took needles off syringes and squirted the poison into children's mouths. Hell, if you google the pictures, they even poisoned the dogs. There's a ~40 minute recording of the night they died, and by the end of it you can hear children crying and screaming.

They didn't buy an island, they bought a patch of jungle in Guyana and set up a communist community. Jones bribed Guyana immigration officials so that mass immigration off his cult members would be a quick process with minimal questions asked. Also, he bribed them to make it very hard for members to leave Guyana.

Yes, he did have help. His lawyers were devout followers, and he had armed guards around the town. Plus most of the people in Jonestown were true believers. You don't up and immigrate to a jungle commune in Guyana if you're a casual.

I could go on about this all night, I find it absolutely fascinating in the most morbid way. The Jonestown wiki reads like a horror novel, I recommend it.

If you're a metal fan, there's a thrash song called "Hypnotized" by Heathen that starts off with lines from various Jim Jones speeches. The guy was a lunatic, but he was a great public speaker and very charismatic, which helped him pull this off.

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>>17462523
Here's a pic of the airstrip in Guyana where US Congressman Leo Ryan was killed. He went to Jonestown to investigate claims that people weren't allowed to leave.

He was there for a few days and some of the cult members told him they wanted to leave, so he took them back to the airstrip with him. They got on the plane, and a bunch of Jones' followers showed up with guns and opened fire. Five of them were killed, including Ryan, who was shot over 20 times.

What was Jones goal? I thought he only had the mass suicide carried out because he feared authorities were about to force him to end the cult.

>>17461791
Tips on how to do it or tips on how to shatter all duality by continually shitposting without never saying anything?

t. autist.

To all the anons who have astral projected, is it normal to feel somekind of pulsing in the head and start to feel like your body is being pullled downwards. because that happens any time I try to astral project

>>17461803
lmao tips on how to thanks anon