So it turns out that people without the pen-pin merger who don't say again to rhyme with rain

[conuly]

do say it to rhyme with Ben all the time. And so do those of us with the merger, but then it also rhymes with bin, so yeah.

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How Animals Hacked The Rainbow And Got Stumped On Blue

Story of lost, mute girl searching for home unites India, Pakistan

Astronauts Have Some Weird Pre-Launch Traditions

Stolen violin turns up after 35 years

Scientists want to develop electronic skin that could imbue prosthetics with the sense of touch.

Sumo Breakfast Of Champions: Bowls And Bowls Of Clay Pot Stew

Verizon will drop phone contracts, end discounted phones

Skip the rosé: These refreshing summer wines are ancient, complex, and “orange”

Monkey the Cat Hunts for Dinner

The Lonely, Lifesaving Job of Lighthouse Keepers, Revealed at the National Lighthouse Museum (They've been talking up this museum for half my life, I didn't realize it was ever going to open!)

Swedish Scientists Build Artificial Neurons Able to Communicate With Organic Neurons

Catholic groups lose another contraceptive court ruling

U.S. steps up efforts to meet Obama goal to close Guantanamo prison

Divers Discover Enormous Squid Egg Mass Off The Coast Of Turkey

The Hyperloop Will Be Only the Latest Innovation That's Pretty Much a Series of Tubes

Finding their voice: Speech clinic helps transgender clients

Blows for Obama as key lawmakers come out against Iran deal

Eye Shapes Of The Animal World Hint At Differences In Our Lifestyles

Why the US nuclear budget grows while the stockpile of warheads shrinks

Cancer research gets a better look at ‘zombie cells’

China’s Cyberspying Is ‘on a Scale No One Imagined’–if You Pretend NSA Doesn’t Exist

As California fires rage, the Forest Service sounds the alarm about sharply rising wildfire costs

Native Americans lose fight for long hair in prisons

Man gets a choice: Marry her or go to jail (THIS IS EVEN MORE FUCKED UP THAN THE TITLE SUGGESTS.)

Fish go deep to beat the heat

People are developing dementia earlier and dying of it more, a study shows

Philippines' Aeta people 'beggars' in their own land

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Yemeni forces take last rebel-held army base in south

A Hotter Climate May Boost Conflict, From Shootings to Wars

New sunspot analysis shows rising global temperatures not linked to solar activity

Yes, Mr. President, We Remade Our Atlas to Reflect Shrinking Ice

Attack in central Mali sign of spreading extremist violence

The US has been bombing the Islamic State for a year. What has been achieved?

These Academics Are Outracing (and Outwitting) ISIS

UN rights envoy says meeting with Myanmar's Rohingya blocked

Two killed, 10 wounded in clashes in Turkey's southeast: sources

Hungary wants 'exemplary' penalty for migrants cutting fence

Comments

[heliopausa]

Thanks for these! The blueness story was great (and tied in with the story about sea sapphires a few weeks back). Some other stories emphatically not great, but important to know. :(

[conuly]

Thanks :)

Yeah, I try to stick some things under the cut because most people, when questioned, only skimmed the headlines - conflict-related stuff, Greek and Puerto Rico debt crises, migrants, and climate change, mostly - and I'm lately trying to stick the more depressing articles at the bottom after a suggestion on my LJ. So far no complaints.

[siderea]

People are developing dementia earlier and dying of it more, a study shows:

Scientists quoted in the study said a combination of environmental factors such as pollution from aircraft and cars as well as widespread use of pesticides could be the culprit, the newspaper reported.

Or, you know, anticholinergics, including benadryl, increase risk of dementia.

[conuly]

Or, you know, anticholinergics, including benadryl, increase risk of dementia.

Wait, what??? THAT IS TERRIFYING.

[siderea]

Why, yes. Yes, it is. I am fully freaked out about the fact.

I posted about it back in Feb. The list of anticholinergics is considerable. [PDF]

Note, in that post I said I went off my anticholinergic cold-turkey; that worked terribly and I am back on it. Time to start the project of titrating myself off it. :(

[conuly]

Geez, that's a list not to be sneezed at. Although if you stop taking Claritin because of this, you probably will sneeze at it.