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A wolf pack is generally a family.
Mom, Dad, and their Semi grown kids (which, to researchers with binoculars, look an awful lot like adults)
The advantages and disadvantages to a pack aren't entirely clear, but one of the biggies is that once Mom and Dad have killed say, a moose, they have nothing better to do with the excess food except give it to their kids. They can only eat so much of it before scavengers get to it, caching is only partially effective and tends to get raided as well.
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"The boondocks" is an American expression from the Tagalog (Filipino) word bundók ("mountain"). It originally referred to a remote rural area, but now, is often applied to an out-of-the-way area considered backward and unsophisticated by city-folk. It can also occasionally refer to a mountain in both Filipino and American context.
The expression was introduced to English by U.S. military personnel fighting in the Philippine–American War (1899-1902). According to military historian Paul A. Kramer, the term originally had "connotations of bewilderment and confusion", due to the guerrilla warfare in which the soldiers were engaged.
In the Philippines, the word bundók is also a colloquialism referring to rural inland areas, which are usually mountainous and difficult to access, as most major cities and settlements in the Philippines are located in lowlands or near the coastline. When used generally, the term refers to a mountainous area with a connotation of being rustic or uncivilized.
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President Zelinksy voiced the Ukranian version of paddington bear.
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Rats in a cage that have the option to havedrugs or food will starve themselves on drugs.
Rats in a rat chuckie cheese/rat park/ rat paradise on the other hand, will do a little bit of blow but otherwise lead happy productive rat lives Rat park
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Rats in a cage that have the option to havedrugs or food will starve themselves on drugs.
Rats in a rat chuckie cheese/rat park/ rat paradise on the other hand, will do a little bit of blow but otherwise lead happy productive rat lives Rat park
Great article. One wonders if any comparisons can be drawn between "Rat Park" and the "Mouse Utopia" experiments. Granted, I would guess that most comparisons therein would reveal more about the researchers' biases than about parallels between rodent and human societies, but that might just be my over-education talking.
By chance, would the food researchers offered to the rats have included pizza? If not, that may have skewed the results.
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Aphasia is an inability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine but aphasia due to stroke is estimated to be 0.1–0.4% in the Global North. Aphasia can also be the result of brain tumors, brain infections, or neurodegenerative diseases (such as dementias).
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Spanish-American actress, musician, and living meme María Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza, better-known as Charo (b. 1941 or 1951), is a virtuoso flamenco guitarist and protégé of the great Andrés Segovia.
In an interview, she said, "Around the world I am known as a great musician. But in America I am known as the cuchi-cuchi girl. That’s okay, because cuchi-cuchi has taken me all the way to the bank."
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American singer Toni Tennille (b. 1940), best known for her time in the pop duo Captain & Tennille, sang backup vocals on British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's landmark 1979 album The Wall.
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American voice actress Nika Futterman (b. 1969), best known for portraying Asajj Ventress in various Star Wars media, also provided the intro/backing vocals ("give it to me baby") on the hit 1998 single "Pretty Fly For A White Guy" by The Offspring.
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Dexter Holland, lead vocalist for the Offspring, attended the University of Southern California, where he earned a B.S. degree in biology, a M.S. degree in molecular biology, and eventually a Ph.D. in molecular biology in 2017. After the success of the Offspring, he suspended his studies to focus on music, but successfully resumed and defended his doctoral thesis in May 2017.
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Dexter Holland, lead vocalist for the Offspring, attended the University of Southern California, where he earned a B.S. degree in biology, a M.S. degree in molecular biology, and eventually a Ph.D. in molecular biology in 2017. After the success of the Offspring, he suspended his studies to focus on music, but successfully resumed and defended his doctoral thesis in May 2017.
It's good that he has rock star to fall back on, you know, in case molecular biologist doesn't work out.
He should form a band with Brian May. Are there any other rock stars with Ph.D. degrees?
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Are there any other rock stars with Ph.D. degrees?
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Greg Graffin, the lead singer of the punk rock band Bad Religion. He's got a PhD in zoology from Cornell, and has taught evolutionary biology at Cornell and UCLA.
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I seem to remember that at least one of the members of ShaNaNa had a Ph.D or two, so it's nothing new.
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Freudenfreude is the opposite of Schadenfreude.
Also rats will show it when observing another rat being tickled.
Also rats are ticklish apparently.
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…and that’s how I got a lifetime ban from the pet store!
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Freudenfreude is the opposite of Schadenfreude.Opposite as in "extreme empathy", or opposite as in "joy at your own misfortune"?
Schaden = harm
Freude = joySchadenfreude = joy at harm
Freudenfreude = joy at joy
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to tickle some rats. No rule against it if they're free range.
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Speaking of 'schadenfreude'...
It's often said that a word for that concept exists only in German. However, 18th century English philologist and lexicographer Nathan Bailey includes the word 'epicharikaky' in his Universal Etymological Dictionary (1721), defined as "a Joy at the Misfortunes of ethers".
The word is derived from the Greek ἐπιχαιρεκακία which appears in Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, meaning again "joy at the suffering of others."
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Verne Troyer was of Amish descent.
This would do much to explain his extraordinary (lack of) stature, as the Amish suffer from a "Founder Effect" that can lead to not only dwarfism and other genetic diseases so rare they've never even been named.
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In the comedy film Airplane, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker chose actors such as Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, and Leslie Nielsen because of their reputation for playing no-nonsense characters. Until this film, these actors had not done comedy, so their "straight-arrow" personas and line delivery made the satire in the movie all the more poignant and funny. Bridges was initially reluctant to take his role in the movie, but his sons persuaded him to do it.
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Nukie is a 1987 South African science-fiction film directed by Sias Odendaal and Michael Pakleppa. The plot concerns an alien, Nukie, who crash-lands on Earth and seeks help from two children to reunite with his brother, Miko, who has been captured by the US government. The film was considered a knock-off of Steven Spielberg's 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and is also considered one of the worst movies ever made.
The Milwaukee (Wisconsin)-based production company Red Letter Media spent nearly a decade collecting over one hundred Nukie VHS tapes after fans began mailing them copies of the film. Despite this, they never watched the film until December 2022, when they released a special episode about the practice of grading VHS tapes following a graded VHS copy of Back to the Future auctioning for $75,000. The group had one copy of the movie professionally graded, while the others were destroyed using a wood chipper. The graded tape was then auctioned off on eBay with proceeds going to charity, selling for $80,600. The results of the auction made Nukie the most expensive VHS tape in history.
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There is an extensive Memory Alpha (Star Trek wiki) entry on, of all things, chairs.
But is there ANY explanation for the lack of a seat belts?
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Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson met for the second time while filming the movie Volunteers. Wilson originally met Hanks in 1981 on the set of Bosom Buddies (1980) when she guest-starred in the episode Bosom Buddies: All You Need Is Love (1981). However, their relationship wasn't kindled until they were reunited on the set of this movie. The pair married three years later.
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Writers Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, who wrote the original story treatment for the movie Conan the Destroyer, were deeply displeased by the final screenplay by Stanley Mann and the finished film, so they made their story into the graphic novel "Conan: The Horn of Azoth", published in 1990, with art by Michael Docherty. The names of the characters were changed to untie the graphic novel from the movie: Dagoth became Azoth, Jehnna became Natari, Zula became Shumballa, Bombaata became Strabo, Thoth-Amon became Rammon, and the characters of Queen Taramis and The Leader were combined into sorcerer Karanthes, father of Natari.
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Kamandi is a fictional comic book character created by artist Jack Kirby and published by DC Comics. The bulk of Kamandi's appearances occurred in the comic series Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, which ran from 1972 to 1978.
Kamandi is a young hero in a post-apocalyptic future. After a huge event called "The Great Disaster", humans have been reduced back to savagery in a world ruled by intelligent, highly evolved animals.
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In The Terminator, the revolver Reese carries after the police station massacre, which he gives to Sarah at the motel is Lt. Traxler's. In a deleted scene, Reese and Sarah are trying to escape the police station when they come across the wounded Traxler. He now believes their story and gives Reese his sidearm, telling him to protect Sarah. Several other scenes were also removed from the film that showed Traxler's increasing belief that Reese may be telling the truth.
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Sonic Corporation, founded as Sonic Drive-In and more commonly known as Sonic (stylized as SONIC), or "The Drive-In," is an American drive-in fast food restaurant chain owned by Inspire Brands, the parent company of Arby's and Buffalo Wild Wings. The company, founded by Troy N. Smith Sr., opened its first location in 1953, under the name Top Hat Drive-In. Originally, a walk up root beer stand outside a log cabin steakhouse selling soda, hamburgers, and hotdogs; Sonic, currently has 3,545 locations in the United States. Sonic, known for its use of carhops on roller skates, annually hosts a competition (in most locations) to determine the top skating carhop in the company. The company's core products include the "Chili Cheese Coney", "Sonic Cheeseburger Combo", "Sonic Blasts", "Master Shakes", and "Wacky Pack Kids Meals." The company also has a breakfast menu.
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The first Green Lantern character, Alan Scott, was created in 1940 by Martin Nodell with scripting or co-scripting of the first stories by Bill Finger during the Golden Age of Comic Books and usually fought common criminals in Capitol City (and later, Gotham City) with the aid of his magic ring.
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Dwayne Glenn McDuffie (February 20, 1962 – February 21, 2011) was an American writer of comic books and television, known for producing and writing the animated series Static Shock, Damage Control, Justice League Unlimited and Ben 10, and co-founding the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic book company Milestone Media, which focused on underrepresented minorities in American comics.
McDuffie earned three Eisner Award nominations for his work in comics.
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The sebae anemone (Heteractis crispa) is a species of sea anemone belonging to the family Stichodactylidae. It is widespread throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific, from the eastern coasts of Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia, and from south Japan to Australia and New Caledonia. It prefers hard-base substrates slightly covered with sand but it can also cling to branching corals from the surface to a depth of 40 metres (130 ft).
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An unfinished and unreleased animated feature based on the Conan story Red Nails, went into production around 2005. Actor Ron Perlman was cast as providing the voice of Conan, while Tolkemec was to be voiced by Mark Hamill. The film was originally due to be released in 2010. However, production was stalled and since 2007 there have been no updates as to this film's status on its official website.
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In Terminator 2, Linda Hamilton's twin sister, Leslie Hamilton Gearren, was used as a double in scenes involving two "Sarah Connors" (for example, when the T-1000 was imitating her), and in a scene not in the theatrical release (but on the DVD) as a mirror image of Linda.
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The first level of Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) was named Green Hill Zone and was situated in South Island. In the film, it's the name of the town where Tom lives in. However, the Island itself and its iconic landmarks (trees, bridges, loops) appear in the film as a young Sonic's first home.