Had an awful time last night sleeping

[conuly]

I went to bed, lay down, I know I lost consciousness but it felt like my mind was racing all night long and I woke up a few times. Never felt really rested. This happens one night every other month or so, and I hate it. It just comes on completely randomly.

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Antarctica Was Once Covered in Forests. We Just Found One That Fossilized.

The Bagel’s Complicated Journey Into Israeli Cuisine

Why don’t Americans eat turkey eggs?

The Evolutionary Reason Why Fish Don’t Swim Upside Down

The Queens Movie Theater You Will Not Believe – Scouting The Valencia Movie Palace (He's right. Photographic evidence, and I still can't quite believe it.)

Sex rarely causes hearts to stop, research says

The Civil War Doctor Who Proved Phantom Limb Pain Was Real

US scientists try first gene editing in the body

The Quest to Save Baltimore’s Iconic Berger Cookie

Debating Whether Reptiles or Amphibians Should Be House Pets

Roy Moore On Pedophilia Accusers: ‘These Women Are Only Discrediting Me Now Because Shifting Sociocultural Norms Have Created An Environment In Which Assault Allegations Are Taken Seriously’ (When you can't tell if The Onion is satirical or not....)

High cognitive ability not a safeguard from conspiracies, paranormal beliefs

Do welfare states boost economic growth, or stunt it?

How Sicily Became Ungovernable

The Prison Fight Between ISIS And The Muslim Brotherhood

Climate's magic rabbit: Pulling CO2 out of thin air

Democrats Are Shockingly Unprepared to Fight Climate Change

Trump Ignores Climate Change. That’s Very Bad for Disaster Planners.

Trump choosing white men as judges, highest rate in decades

As Trial Begins, Trump Protest Attendees Face 60 Years in Prison

US to allow imports of elephant trophies from Zimbabwe, Zambia

The gun numbers: just 3% of American adults own a collective 133m firearms

Comments

[zyzyly]

That movie theater church is amazing! He was right!

[redbird]

I read an article years ago about a fossilized redwood forest on Axel Heiberg Island, in the Canadian high arctic. As in this article, the island was also in the high arctic when the forest formed, though with a milder climate than today, so we know that (some species of) redwood could handle polar light extremes as long as the temperature was suitable cold.

And now I'm wondering about evergreen trees at that latitude (since modern redwoods, at least, are deciduous conifers).

ETA: That was in the Eocene, and the trees are Metasequoia. Here are a couple of links:

http://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/2017/08/30/the-fossilized-forest-of-axel-heiberg-island/

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0326_020326_TVredwoods.html

[sapphire2309]

shit, i thought that onion article was legit for five minutes, then i scrolled down to see a bit about trump's staffers hastily disorganizing the White House so he wouldn't know they'd organized it in his absence, and then looked at the URL, and was like *phew*. Reality is shit, but not THAT shitty just as yet.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Sicily has been ungovernable ever since Dionysius the Elder died.

[conuly]

Hah!