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The human-fat market of the 16th and 17th centuries was so lucrative that butchers during the French Revolution offered freshly executed “graisse de guillotiné” as a specialty
The Lucrative Black Market in Human Fat
In 16th- and 17th-century Europe, physicians, butchers, and executioners alike hawked the salutary effects of Axungia hominis.
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Soviet rail disasters:
At 1:15 local time, two passenger trains of the Kuybyshev Railway carrying vacationers to and from Novosibirsk and a resort in Adler on the Black Sea exploded, 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) from the city of Asha, Chelyabinsk Oblast.[3] A faulty gas pipeline 900 metres (3,000 feet) away had unknowingly leaked natural gas liquids (mainly propane and butane), and special weather conditions allowed the gas to accumulate across the lowlands, creating a flammable cloud along part of the Kuybyshev Railway. The explosion occurred after wheel sparks from the two passenger trains heading in opposite directions ignited the flammable cloud. Estimates of the size of the explosion have ranged from 250–300 tons of TNT equivalent to up to 10,000 tons of TNT equivalent.[4][1]
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@Tim said in Interesting reads:
Soviet rail disasters:
At 1:15 local time, two passenger trains of the Kuybyshev Railway carrying vacationers to and from Novosibirsk and a resort in Adler on the Black Sea exploded, 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) from the city of Asha, Chelyabinsk Oblast.[3] A faulty gas pipeline 900 metres (3,000 feet) away had unknowingly leaked natural gas liquids (mainly propane and butane), and special weather conditions allowed the gas to accumulate across the lowlands, creating a flammable cloud along part of the Kuybyshev Railway. The explosion occurred after wheel sparks from the two passenger trains heading in opposite directions ignited the flammable cloud. Estimates of the size of the explosion have ranged from 250–300 tons of TNT equivalent to up to 10,000 tons of TNT equivalent.[4][1]
Something something Russian safety record during the 80s...
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The story of Guns N Roses first out of town gig
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It's eighty years since the Listener was first published.
They have just come up with a list of events that shap-ed NZ during that time
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Word of the day: barratry
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Interesting article on the history of MI5 failure:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-3149-963f-47bea720b460
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Interesting to read this two years on
Jacinda Ardern and the left look boldly to the future
Simon Wilson does a little dreaming, because why not?
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https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p1220-veterinarians-suicide.html
Veterinarians in the U.S. are at an increased risk of suicide, a trend that has spanned more than three decades, according to a new CDC study published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA)external icon.
The study is the first to show increased suicide mortality among female veterinarians. Female veterinarians were 3.5 times as likely, and male veterinarians were 2.1 times as likely, to die from suicide as the general population. Seventy-five percent of the veterinarians who died by suicide worked in a small animal practice.
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Story about the coroners at the Las Vegas massacre
After a Mass Shooting, Who Cares for the Coroners?
Las Vegas' death investigators witnessed the atrocities of the Route 91 shooting, then had to grapple with the difficult task of healing themselves.
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I read this in the newspaper yesterday. The story of the Kiwi WWII hero that nobody knows about.
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@Bovidae said in Interesting reads:
I read this in the newspaper yesterday. The story of the Kiwi WWII hero that nobody knows about.
I read that too , very cool . There was a few kiwis that stayed behind in Greece and Crete to get up to mischief. The locals helped them at great cost to themselves.
After the war Freyberg and other officers and veterans went back and thanked them in person for their sacrifices. According to Kippenbergers biographer a transcript of the thank you speech is in a frame on the wall of the mayors office in even the smallest town on Crete to this day. -
How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat
“O Uommibatto”: How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat
Angus Trumble on Dante Gabriel Rossetti and company’s curious but longstanding fixation with the furry oddity that is the wombat — that “most beautiful of God’s creatures” which found its way into their poems, their art, and even, for a brief while, their homes.
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The Asia-Pacific region is awash in crystal meth. A multinational task force is on the trail of a China-born Canadian national who, police tell Reuters, is the suspected kingpin of a vast drug network that is raking in up to $17 billion a year.
The syndicate, law enforcers believe, is funneling tonnes of methamphetamine, heroin and ketamine to at least a dozen countries from Japan in North Asia to New Zealand in the South Pacific. But meth – a highly addictive drug with devastating physical and mental effects on long-term users – is its main business, they say.
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Finished Igguldens War of the Roses
As with most of his stuff, well written, obviously historical characters, events mixed with fiction to provide a great read.
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
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@dogmeat Reminds me of Barry Crump's ex-wife Robin's book. Her concluding paragraph that I just dug out was:
I'm sure Barry was unaware he taught me the greatest lesson for my entry into middle-age - when he was alive and I looked at his well-lived face etched with deep lines and skin burned too many times I realized exfoliation was never high on his list of priorities. I'm reminded to reach thrice daily for the moisturizer, so there is much wisdom he's left me.
No letting bygones be bygones there.
I loved that guys books as a kid, after working with his nephew and reading the book written by Barrys brother I'm not surprised she still loathes him.
Remind me.....what did he do that made him such a prick ?
I mainly remember him from the Hilux ads.
Beat up women he was in relationships with, abandoned a bunch of his kids. He was pretty fucked up, his dad used to beat him pretty badly and he figured out not crying or showing pain used to wind his dad up and that was his best way of getting back at him .
My father-in-law had same experience but promised himself he'd be the opposite and was a top bloke.
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Background to this, this company fired a journalist yesterday who was told to talk about sports because he worked for a sports website. This was his last article
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/three-good-dogs-i-met-1839442469
Now another employee is writing articles slagging of their bosses on their own site
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Background to this, this company fired a journalist yesterday who was told to talk about sports because he worked for a sports website. This was his last article
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/three-good-dogs-i-met-1839442469
Now another employee is writing articles slagging of their bosses on their own site
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584
So they were obviously looking to get fired. I never understand how this is news.
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@Hooroo said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Background to this, this company fired a journalist yesterday who was told to talk about sports because he worked for a sports website. This was his last article
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/three-good-dogs-i-met-1839442469
Now another employee is writing articles slagging of their bosses on their own site
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584
So they were obviously looking to get fired. I never understand how this is news.
They weren’t looking to get fired though , they are looking at going to court for unjustified dismissal.
The reason I posted it here is there’s a scrap going on between the new owners of the site who want to make money and their writers who want to write shit that gets lots of clicks and twitter followers for them .
A lot of these digital media sites have been laying off lots of people because its becoming more difficult to make money out if digital media and now we have a company who’s employees are actually working against management using their own website.Didn’t know where else to post it , it doesn’t really fit in any another thread
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