FACT OF THE DAY: Chainsaws were first invented for childbirth. It was developed in Scotland in the late 18th Century to help aid and speed up the process of symphysiotomy (widening the pubic cartilage) and removal of disease-laden bone during childbirth. It wasn’t until the start of the 20th Century that we started using chainsaws for woodchopping.

POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
― Frederick Douglass

POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:

Missiles write the night
No vote, no voice, only force
Silence fills the courts

FACT OF THE DAY: You can actually die laughing. And a number of people have, typically due to intense laughter causing a heart attack or suffocation. Comedy shows should come with a warning.

POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel – let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing. I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that’s handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”
― Howard Zinn

POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:

Ash falls over Tehran
Orders signed far from the smoke
Law fades into fire

FACT OF THE DAY: People who eat whatever they want and stay slim have a slow metabolism, not fast. A skinny person tends to have less muscle mass than others, meaning their basal metabolic rate (BMR) is lower than those of a high muscle mass – this gives them a slow metabolism, not a fast one.

POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
― Gore Vidal,

POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:

Dust settles slowly
Names lost beneath headlines fade
Grief outlives the war

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FACT OF THE DAY: You can smell ants. Many species of ants release strong-smelling chemicals when they’re angry, threatened or being squished. Trap-jaw ants release a chocolatey smell when annoyed, while citronella ants earn their name from the lemony odour they give off.

POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one’s country; is it hate of one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That’s a good thing, but one mustn’t make a virtue of it, or a profession… Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin,
― Thomas Jefferson

POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:

Sanctions, strikes, and fear
Years of pressure find release
Nothing stays contained

FACT OF THE DAY: If the Earth doubled in size, trees would immediately fall over. This is because surface gravity would be doubled. It would also mean dog-size and larger animals would not be able to run without breaking a leg.

POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:

Allies stand as one
Yet their goals are not the same
Cracks beneath the force

FACT OF THE DAY: Dogs tilt their heads when you speak to them to better pinpoint familiar words. Your dog is tilting its head when you speak to it to pinpoint where noises are coming from more quickly. This is done to listen out more accurately for familiar words such as ‘walkies’ and helps them to better understand the tone of your voice. If a dog doesn’t tilt its head that often (as those with shorter muzzles might), it’s because it relies less on sound and more on sight.

POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
― Noam Chomsky,

POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:

Power speaks in steel
Diplomacy fades to ash
Echoes answer back

FACT OF THE DAY: The Moon is shrinking. But only very slightly – by about 50m (164ft) in radius over the last several hundred million years. Mysterious seismic activity, known as moonquakes, could be to blame.

POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”
― John Adams

POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:

Cities hold their breath
Sirens carve the midnight air
Children count the blasts

FACT OF THE DAY: A lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun. The charge carried by a bolt of lightning is so intense that it has a temperature of 30,000°C (54,000°F).

POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
― Harry S. Truman

POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:

Voices call it war
Others whisper “illegal”
Truth divides the world

FACT OF THE DAY: You could sweat when you’re anxious to alert others. One theory suggests we’ve evolved to sweat whilst anxious to alert the brains of other people around us so they are primed for whatever it is that’s making us anxious. Brain scans have revealed that when you sniff the sweat of a panic-induced person, regions of the brain that handle emotional and social signals light up. When you’re anxious your sympathetic nervous system releases hormones including adrenaline, which activates your sweat glands.

POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you. ”
― Pericles

POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:

Oil burns, markets shake
Ships reroute through quiet seas
Tension rides the waves