Richard Levenson at the University of California, Davis, and his colleagues showed pigeons microscope images of breast tissue. Then they rewarded them when they correctly pecked a coloured button that corresponded to either cancerous or healthy tissue. After 15 daily sessions, each lasting an hour, the pigeons got the right answer 85 per cent of the time.

Pooling responses from a panel of four pigeons, or “flock-sourcing” as the researchers call it, increased accuracy to 99 per cent. The pigeons were just as good at spotting small calcium deposits associated with cancer, which appear as white specks on mammograms.

“I was quite surprised by the strength of the findings,” Dr. Steves said, “because to be honest, I am someone who has always in the past prioritized work of the mind over work of the body. This study brings home to me that the brain needs exercise to keep fit.”

“They’ve changed themselves from worst in class to the best in class,” Mr. Hypponen said. “The change is complete. They started taking security very seriously.”

the divorce was filed in Dec 2013 (has been going on for quite some time now) and boy did he get fucked. It looks like their net worth was around $8 mil. That was obviously split and I believe she now owns their two properties (though I'm not certain). He moved into a $11k/mo penthouse unit at a building in Austin (where this segment was filmed) and is now making payments of $44,000/mo to his ex-wife for the next 6 years.

This is what happens when the patriarchs are allowed to run free—nothing. They don’t attack blacks or Jews or treat women as second-class citizens. Piggy doesn’t get his brains smashed against the rocks when he grabs the conch shell. He says his piece and the conch shell is passed to the next person. We don’t harass or humiliate anyone. That’s boring. Instead, we focus on stimulating conversation and having a good time. That’s what we’d all do if our strings were cut. If you removed sexual-harassment laws and all HR departments in the country, you wouldn’t have anarchy. You’d have harmony. This is because, as we all suspected, the arbiters of political correctness aren’t rescuing the oppressed from our evil ways. They’re preventing everyone from having a good time and getting the job done. Mainstream broadcasters tried to shelf free speech, but they ended up shelving themselves in the process. What a bunch of fucking fags.

“We’ve discovered six antibiotics in the recent past,” Fenical said. “Of those, three to four have serious potential as far as we know, including anthramycin. But we have no way to develop them. There are no companies in the United States that care. They’re happy to sell existing antibiotics, but they’re not interested in researching and developing new ones.”

Intentionally depriving the Catalonian economy of funds it desperately needs to keep things ticking over — including keeping the cycle of bribes to local politicians in motion — could prompt independence-minded Catalans to begin asking themselves, “why bother paying taxes to Madrid at all if they’re not going to send the money they owe us?”