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The Most Audacious Soap Opera in History (And Why You’ve Never Heard Of It)
The most audacious soap opera of all time is one that you’ve probably never heard of.
Did you know that the marshmallow is actually a plant and that, beginning around 9th century BCE, the Greeks used them to heal wounds and soothe sore throats? This is the long, sweet history of marshmallows.
Remembering the First Smart Toy: 2-XL
Long before Siri and Amazon’s Echo, there was a sarcastic robot that quizzed users with multiple choice questions stored on 8-track cassettes. We remember the first-ever smart toy called 2-XL.
Dog walking isn’t always a walk in the park, so to speak—just ask the professionals hired to maneuver multiple dogs at once (and, occasionally, spot early signs of ill health). mental_floss shares 13 behind-the-scenes secrets of dog walkers.
While some people in various parts of the U.S. are panicking over a series of creepy clown sightings, McDonalds has decided to keep their mascot Ronald McDonald out of sight for a while. While it is hard to believe that people would mistake the familiar fast food clown for a creeper, the public reputation of clowns as a whole is not particularly positive or even neutral right now.
“McDonald’s and franchisees in local markets are mindful of the current climate around clown sightings in communities,” the company said in an email statement. “And as such are being thoughtful with respect to Ronald McDonald’s participation in community events for the time being.”
McDonald’s isn’t placing an outright ban on public appearances by its red-nosed clown, a corporate spokesman said. But the company is “being thoughtful in regards to” Ronald McDonald’s appearances.
There is no word on whether the clown will be paid for his time off.
A woman was in the checkout line at the Payson, Utah, Walmart when she began to feel stomach pains. She was in labor. She asked a store employee to call 911. While on her knees, she still insisted on paying for her purchases. The unnamed woman completed the transaction, then laid down on the floor and gave birth before the paramedics arrived. Employees were excited to tell the story, and the store is planning to buy her a supply of diapers and other baby supplies.
An explosion at the Shuttle Car Wash in Titusville, Florida, caused $500 in damage to a vacuum cleaner, but fortunately, no one was hurt. The explosion, around 5 p.m. Monday, was captured on surveillance cameras. Apparently, the woman was trying to vacuum up gasoline that was spilled in her trunk. As the vacuum machine was burning, she got in her car and drove away, and hasn’t been seen since.
Guy Williams tried to get some video of a raccoon he spotted on the campus of Bellarmine University in Kentucky. He had been feeding the raccoon acorns and even named him Stanley. Williams set his phone down while recording video in order to get a ground-level angle. Stanley grabbed the phone with his teeth and took off running with it. The phone continued to record as the raccoon ran away, with William’s yelling “Stanley!” as he gave chase. Stanley dropped the phone, apparently convinced that it did not taste that good. You can see the video here.
A broken 24-inch water main caused flooding in the Crayford neighborhood of southeast London in Sunday. While thousands of homes were without water service, the streets were flooded. An underground parking garage took on so much water that a floor expanded and rose several feet- far enough to crush cars against the ceiling!
A number of vehicles crumpled after polystyrene insulation under the floor appeared to float or swell, forcing them into the concrete ceiling above.
Flood water rose several feet at the newly-built car park below a block of flats in Crayford, south-east London.
Residents said they had been warned if any of the cars were removed too hastily it could result in gas explosion.
No one was injured, but more than a dozen cars are thought to be affected, some badly enough to be considered totaled. Can anyone explain why a parking garage has several feet of polystyrene insulation in the floor while the ceiling is concrete? You can see a news report on the flood here.
October 14, 2016 – 1:41pm
You see them on the movie screen; you read about them in the news. They’re calculating, charismatic, cold-hearted. But are they psychopaths or sociopaths?
Look to pop psychology for your answer and you’ll get a lot of conflicting opinions. Some folks believe that psychopaths are born, while sociopaths are made, the products of difficult childhoods and traumatic home environments. Others say “sociopath” is just the latest buzzword for “psychopath.” There’s no real consensus.
But there may be a reason for that: neither “psychopath” nor “sociopath” is a clinical diagnosis. They’re common terms for people who exhibit “pathological” personality traits. In the U.S., such traits fall under the diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder, or APD, according to the American Psychiatric Association, which issues the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, now in its 5th edition (DSM-5). The World Health Organization calls this dissocial personality disorder, or DPD.
APD and DPD are essentially the same thing. In order to be diagnosed with either, a person must exhibit “disregard for and violation of others’ rights.” The DSM-5 lists 6 major criteria [PDF]:
1. Impairments in personality including a lack of remorse, egocentrism, “goal-setting based on personal gratification,” and the inability to form mutually intimate relationships;
2. Pathological personality traits, including manipulativeness, deceitfulness, callousness, hostility, irresponsibility, impulsivity, and risk-taking;
3. These personality traits and impairments must be stable and consistent over time;
4. These personality traits and impairments are not normal for the person’s developmental stage (many toddlers could easily be described as psychopaths) or cultural environment;
5. The person’s personality and behavior are not explained by a medical condition or substance abuse; and
6. The person has to be at least 18 years old—a contentious criterion, since many psychologists feel that children can begin displaying signs of APD at a very young age.
Another frequently used “psychopath test” is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, or the PCL-R, a 20-question checklist used by researchers, clinicians, and the courts to measure antisocial tendencies. (You can see the list to check yourself, or your boss, here.)
It’s worth mentioning that there is a big difference between psychopathy and psychosis. The two words sound similar and are both used as slurs, but that’s where the similarity ends. Unlike psychopathy, psychosis describes the condition of losing touch with reality, undergoing rapid personality changes, and having trouble functioning. The terms are typically mutually exclusive; most people with APD will never experience psychosis, and vice versa.
Scientists are still not sure what causes APD. Some recognize two forms of psychopathy, primary and secondary, each with its own set of causes [PDF] and manifestations. Traumatic childhoods and difficult home environments can definitely contribute, but there’s also a clear physiological component. A genetic variant called MAOA-L has been linked with an increased risk of violent and aggressive behavior, and brain scans of people with APD have shown low activity in areas related to empathy, morality, and self-control.
This does not mean that all people with APD are violent, nor does it mean that they’re bad people. Many cases of APD go undiagnosed because the people in question are living successful, ordinary lives.
For proof, just look at neurologist James Fallon: Fallon has spent decades researching the anatomical side of so-called psychopathy. His research has helped identify areas of difference in the brains of people with APD. One day in 2005, Fallon was looking at the brain scans of people with APD, as well as those of people with depression and schizophrenia. Sitting on his desk at the same time were a stack of scans from Fallon’s family members taken as part of a study on Alzheimer’s disease.
“I got to the bottom of the stack, and saw this scan that was obviously pathological,” he told Smithsonian. The brain in the image appeared to belong to a psychopath—but the scans at the bottom of the pile belonged to his family members. Shaken, he decided to look up the code on the scan to determine whose brain he was looking at.
It was his own brain.
Fallon couldn’t quite believe it. His first thought was that his research had been wrong, and that low activity in those brain areas had nothing to do with APD. Then he talked to his family. Duh, they told him. Of course you’re a psychopath. His mother, wife, and children had recognized and been living with his personality issues all along.
Fallon underwent more tests, which confirmed the diagnosis. Over time, he realized that he’d known all along. Throughout his life, he wrote in an op-ed in The Guardian, strangers had commented that he seemed “evil,” and while he was never violent, he did have an icy streak. He had put other people in danger. He had also just generally been “kind of an a**hole,” he admitted to Smithsonian.
“I’m obnoxiously competitive,” he told the magazine. “I won’t let my grandchildren win games … I’m aggressive, but my aggression is sublimated. I’d rather beat someone in an argument than beat them up.”
Fallon believes his relative success may be the result of growing up in a healthy, stable environment with a lot of support. He was raised in a loving home, which, he says, may have helped him overcome some of his ugliest impulses.
APD currently has no cure. Finding successful treatment methods has been tricky, in part because people with APD tend to feel pretty comfortable with their personalities and have little motivation to change. Still, some, like Fallon, are determined to do at least a little bit better.
“Since finding all this out and looking into it, I’ve made an effort to try to change my behavior,” Fallon told Smithsonian. “I’ve more consciously been doing things that are considered ‘the right thing to do,’ and thinking more about other people’s feelings.”
October 14, 2016 – 1:00pm
Pay transparency is a hot topic for today’s start-ups, with some entrepreneurs arguing that it fosters healthier workplaces and fairer compensation. But what if you’re one of the vast majority of people who doesn’t work in such an open office? There are still ways to gauge how much your cubemates are getting paid—and whether it’s time to ask for a raise.
The key is to be strategic in how you get the info, says Connie Thanasoulis-Cerrachio, a career coach and cofounder of SixFigureStart. “You must be careful because management never wants you to ask, and it can look unprofessional when this information bubbles to top management,” she says. Rather than accost folks at the water cooler, try sleuthing out salary info this way:
“Even if it’s been years since you graduated, your university can be a good source of information for you,” says Thanasoulis-Cerrachio. That’s because many college career offices survey alumni about salary info and also compile industry data. Get in touch with a career counselor to get ahold of those stats: If alumni work at your organization, you may get company-specific details, but even if you’re the lone alum at your company you can get a snapshot of what people make in your industry.
In general, the smaller the company, the more likely HR is to be reticent about revealing what certain positions pay. (When the graphic design department is just one person, connecting the dots isn’t too hard.) “But if you work for a large company, you can always ask someone in HR to give you the salary ranges for different positions,” says Thanasoulis-Cerrachio.
And at some companies, compensation is a cut-and-dry formula, and sharing those salary levels isn’t taboo. “Of course, the friendlier you are when you ask, the better,” she says. “It’s always helpful to make a friend in HR!”
Private companies are typically tight-lipped about salary info. But if you work for the federal government, those pay grades are published by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. If you’re at a not-for-profit, you can sleuth out salaries for high-level employees by peeking at the organization’s tax returns (form 990). Start with GuideStar, which has info on thousands of not-for-profits. Don’t think the info is only limited to the director, either: The IRS requires nonprofits to share salary details about its officers, directors, key employees, and the five highest-compensated employees making more than $50,000. In a smaller nonprofit, that might mean details on most of the staff.
Glassdoor.com is the go-to for most salary sleuths, but it’s not the only resource. Thanasoulis-Cerrachio recommends also checking out Payscale.com, GetRaised.com, Vault.com and Wetfeet.com. “People are very willing to share, because it’s so anonymous,” she says. Just keep in mind that the info may skew toward forward employees, so casting a wide net across multiple sites will give you more data points to compare.
Odds are, you aren’t scouring your company’s help wanted ads. But if you’re curious about compensation, you’re missing a big opportunity for clues. Many listings will include a salary range, and if the company is hiring in your department or for a similar position, that’s a good indicator of what your coworkers are probably earning.
Yes, talking about salary is still taboo in most offices, but that doesn’t mean you can’t query a trustworthy coworker. “Don’t ask someone you barely know or you’ll look very unprofessional,” says Thanasoulis-Cerrachio. “Instead, trust your gut about who you can ask directly.” She recommends acknowledging that salary isn’t typical office chatter, but then plunging ahead anyway: “You could say something like: ‘We’re not supposed to talk about compensation, but do you think we could share with each other what our base is or give a range?’” If the coworker bristles, drop it, of course. And if you do get the info, be ready to share your own salary in exchange.
October 14, 2016 – 1:00pm
After a dog attack that killed a woman earlier this year in Montreal, the Canadian city approved breed-specific legislation targeting pit bull-type dogs. Under the new law, no one would be able to get one of these dogs, and people who already have them would have to face severe restrictions, like paying a high fee for a permit, muzzling the animals in public, and keeping them on a leash that is 4 feet long. Any owners who don’t get the special permit will likely have their dogs seized and put down.
Luckily for the pit bulls of Montreal, Justice Louis Gouin of the Quebec Superior Court has suspended the legislation until a hearing about the legality of the law is held. But the legal scuffle has likely furthered false negative perceptions of the breed—even though the dog that initially spurred the ruling wasn’t necessarily a “pit bull-type” dog; the Humane Society claims it was registered as a boxer.
Breed-specific legislation on the whole has been proven ineffective. Hundreds of cities have adopted them, forcing dog owners to jump through hoops like DNA tests, obtaining liability insurance, and enduring lengthy permit processes. But the fight against dogs hasn’t always been focused at pit bulls—in the past it’s been German shepherds, Doberman pinschers, and Rottweilers—and studies from Australia and the Netherlands have found that the bans aren’t reflective of reality. The American Bar Association, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Humane Society of the United States, and the American Veterinary Medical Association have all noted the ineffectiveness of these laws, as well as pointing out that research doesn’t implicate one breed as worse than others.
Pit bulls are known (and loved) for their sweet, silly personalities, and loyalty to their owners and other animals. Here are 10 stories of pit bulls that were true heroes.
One day in 2007, in Cagayan de Oro in the Philippines, a cobra found its way into the kitchen of the Fronteras family. The snake went after 87-year-old Liberata la Victoria and her granddaughter, Maria Victoria Fronteras—but the family’s 4-year-old pit bull, Chief, wouldn’t allow anyone to get hurt. When Fronteras screamed for help, the dog rushed in to protect both women from the cobra, shielding them from two attacks and then grabbing the snake by the neck and smashing it on the kitchen floor until it died. But in the process, he suffered a fatal bite on his jaw. Chief was able to give his owners one last glance and wag of the tail before dying from the attack. A local pit bull club later released balloons in his honor.
When a stray pit bull was walking around town in Baldwin, Georgia, this August, he saw a man and woman fighting in the street and ran to intervene after the man pulled out a knife. He protected the woman, taking the brunt of the attack as he was stabbed five times. He was rescued by Sgt. Timothy Clay and Officer Daniel Seeley, who immediately brought him to a vet for surgery. The dog died twice during surgery but miraculously recovered; he was named Hero and has now been adopted.
One night in May 2012, Lilly, an 8-year-old pit bull, and her owner, Christine Spain, were walking along train tracks in Shirley, Massachusetts, when Spain collapsed. The operator of a freight train was heading down toward them when he saw the pit bull desperately pulling the unconscious Spain off the tracks. Spain escaped injury, but Lilly was hit, causing internal injuries, pelvis fractures, and catastrophic damage to her right front leg. Even while suffering from a devastating injury, Lilly was calm and stayed by her owner’s side until help arrived. After multiple surgeries, the amputation of her leg, and lots of physical therapy, Lilly recovered. Spain’s son, Boston Police Officer David Lanteigne, who had adopted Lilly from a shelter in 2009 for his mother, told ABC News, “We saved Lilly, and Lilly saved my mom’s life. My hope is that this story is going to get out and show what pit bulls are truly about. I hope by Lilly going through this, it’s going to get other dogs homes.”
When Darrin Trombley heard a crying noise coming from his housemate Carol Hathaway’s room one evening in 2014, he went to check on her—and found Hathaway, who has Type 2 diabetes, lying on the bed with her feet on the floor, unconscious. Her pit bull, Messiah, was whining and licking her face. Trombley saw that the pup’s tail wasn’t wagging and realized something was wrong, so he called 911. When EMTs arrived, they discovered that Hathaway’s blood sugar was dangerously low. “She had already started to seize and was making, like, burbling noises,” Trombley told The Post-Star. Thankfully, the EMTs were able to stabilize her. When Hathaway woke up, Trombley told her that it was Messiah—who she had rescued from a shelter a year and a half before—that had alerted him to the fact that Hathaway was in trouble. “I was stunned,” Hathaway said.
Robert Lineburger lived on his boat at Port LaBelle Marina in southwestern Florida with a service dog, Precious, who could sense his seizures. “She went everywhere with me for the past six years,” he told WPTV. So, when Lineburger got up to use the bathroom one night in April 2016, Precious followed—and intervened when an alligator on the dock tried to attack. “She jumped in front of me,” Lineburger said. “She was roughly 2 to 3 feet away from me when the gator attacked.” Lineburger couldn’t see the gator because of the lack of lights on the dock, which he believes is a violation of code. Precious died saving her owner’s life, and he is determined that her death bring about some changes at the marina. “Nothing they will do will bring her back, but I do not want her death to be in vain,” he said. “At least let it accomplish something [and get] some of these violations taken care of.”
Popsicle began his life as a drug dealer’s fighting dog. When the dealer was arrested in 1997, a policeman found the dog in a black garbage bag stuffed into a freezer on the back porch, blood-caked, malnourished, and near death. Popsicle was taken to a local animal hospital/shelter, but no one would adopt him because of his breed. So, he was sent to the Canine Enforcement Training Center in Front Royal, Virginia, which trains U.S. Customs dogs. He graduated at the top of his class and ended up at the Texas-Mexico border, where he sniffed out more than 3000 pounds of cocaine hidden in a truck—the facility’s biggest drug bust at that point.
Employees from an animal rescue group made a surprising discovery on a Texas roadside in March 2015: a stray pit bull nursing an abandoned newborn kitten. The dog, named Pittie by Mercy Animal Clinic where the pair was taken, was keeping the kitten alive with her milk. “Over my 28-year career, I’ve never seen anything like this,” veterinarian Dr. Rick Hamlin told The Dodo. “My gosh, to find this in the wild, that a pit bull and kitten found each other on their own and they connected like they did, it’s really something.” From that point on, Pittie acted as the kitten’s mother—and when her milk began to dry up and the kitten had to be bottle-fed, Pittie followed and watched over the whole process. The two couldn’t be separated because Pittie would get upset every time someone took her kitten out of her sight. Sadly, according to Mercy’s Facebook page, Pittie’s kitten passed away in April (the kitten “had congenital malformation of the urinary bladder and kidneys,” according to the clinic, which might be why its mother abandoned it). Pittie, though, has since been adopted to her forever home.
In 2013, then 10-year-old pit bull Baby rescued her family—and their other pets—from a house fire in Wellston, Oklahoma. The fire likely started in the dryer and spread through the house while Rhonda Westenberger and her sister Evelyn were asleep. Baby ran into their rooms, barking and jumping on them so they would wake up and see the danger. “There were flames shooting down the hallway,” Westenberger told KOCO News. “If Baby hadn’t woken Evelyn up, I don’t think either one of us would have come out of it.” The women escaped, but they had five other dogs still trapped inside. Baby saved them, too, even pulling one from under the bed and dragging it out of the house.
Sergeant Stubby was a pit bull mix (among the types that would be banned in Montreal) hailed as a war hero in World War I. Originally a stray puppy found by Private J. Robert Conroy at Yale University in 1917, Stubby became the mascot for the unit Conroy was training with. The dog made it to the front lines in France, where he was injured after being exposed to gas; after he recovered, he was able to smell when gas attacks were coming. He was also very good at locating wounded men between the trenches. He once managed to capture a German spy—an effort that made him the first dog to gain rank in the U.S. Armed Forces. Stubby served in 17 battles total, and he even learned a modified salute, putting his right paw up by his right eyebrow.
Rescue pittie Jack and rescue cat Kitty share a similar past and a current friendship, with Jack regularly acting as Kitty’s watchful caretaker. When two coyotes attacked Kitty at their Florida home in 2013, Jack sprang into action. Sheree Lewis, the animals’ owner, said the coyotes were battling over the cat, one grabbing her by the tail and the other grabbing her by the neck. Jack bolted over to save his friend’s life—”I didn’t know Jack could run that fast,” Lewis said—fighting off the coyotes until they let Kitty go. Kitty didn’t escape unharmed—she had several cuts, a broken tooth, and brain swelling—but without Jack’s help, it would have been far worse. Jack is still devoted to his friend. “He checks on her every day and sniffs her, seeing what kind of shape she is in,” Lewis said.
October 14, 2016 – 12:00pm
It’s seems as if news of big data breaches shows up on the news almost weekly these days. There is no doubt that hackers are working diligently to gain access to computer systems of businesses and individuals alike as they search for information they can profit from in some way. It would be understandable if the general public has begun to believe that big corporations do not care about the security of their personal information. After all, many of these big companies make billions of dollars and still do not appear to invest enough in data security to keep the
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As a recurring feature, our team combs the Web and shares some amazing Amazon deals we’ve turned up. Here’s what caught our eye today, October 14.
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Two months of Sling TV for the price of one
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Intermatic DT620 Heavy Duty Indoor Digital Plug-In Timer, White for $17.77 (list price $23.88)
Coast G19 LED Inspection Flashlight for $9.07 (list price $13.99)
Uvex Skyper Blue Light Blocking Computer Glasses with SCT-Orange Lens for $8.80 (list price $11.17)
Rust-Oleum 7710830 Bright Coat Metallic Color Spray, Gold, 11-Ounce for $3.68 (list price $9.57)
DEWALT DWA2T40IR IMPACT READY FlexTorq Screw Driving Set, 40-Piece for $19.99 (list price $27.01)
Stanley 33-525 25-Foot-by-1-Inch PowerLock Tape Rule with Blade Armor for $15.79 (list price $23.50)
Pumie Toilet Bowl Ring Remover #TBR-6 for $9.38 (list price $14.33)
Goo Gone Whole Home Grout Cleaner, 28 Ounce for $5.99 (list price $8.99)
Estwing T3-18 18 oz Tinner’s Hammer with Shock Reduction Grip for $28.93 (list price $39.99)
Titan 0516011 Xt250 Airless Sprayer for $308.00 (list price $349.00)
Craftsman 100 Piece drilling and driving kit for $21.90 (list price $29.99)
Ridgid 31100 18-Inch Aluminum Pipe Wrench for $52.99 (list price $61.55)
October 14, 2016 – 11:52am