Hero Husky Saves Kitten; Gets a Rockstar Home.
After 500+ Years, X-Rays Have Revealed an Amazing Secret Inside the Mona Lisa. (via Strange Company)
Wall Street Journal complains about workers using their sick days.
Confessions of a Tableside Flambéur. A former fine dining server dishes on how the flambé, a dying convention of French haute cuisine, became the ultimate tableside flex. (via Nag on the Lake)
Now, that's a street party dance. (via Everlasting Blort)
In a Huge First, Scientists Transfer Alzheimer's to Healthy Young Animals. The results show a link between our gut biome and the likelihood of developing the disease. (via Damn Interesting)
Meet Sheriff, the Horse That Literally Walks Into Bars. (Thanks, WTM!)
What Does Jeep Stand For? It’s a funny word when you think about it, and the origin story sounds like something you’d read in a history book.
"Dogs can donate blood to cats..." WHAT!?!?
ReplyDeleteAmerican Bantam Car Company produced the first Jeep in Butler, PA, about an hour north of Pittsburgh. They designed and produced the first Jeep in less than 2 months in September of 1940 and were awarded the contract to build them for the army. Unfortunately, Bantam could not meet the demand (75 vehicles per day), so the plans were given to Ford and Willys. More than 600,000 jeeps were made for WWII, but Bantam only produced about 2,600 jeeps. Bantam closed for good in 1956.
ReplyDeleteThere is a Bantam Jeep Festival near Butler each June since 2011.
https://www.bantamjeepfestival.com/about-the-festival
Love the story about the Hero Husky! Also, the moonwalker video.
ReplyDeleteConsumer Reports Magazine lists the Jeep as probably one of the worst car values in America, overpriced, unreliable, high maintenance, awful fuel economy, yet loved by its owners. As the quote implies, “They just don’t make them like they used to.”
ReplyDeleteAnd I do love my jeep. . .
A VETERAN’S STORY: Eugene the Jeep
Pretty sure X-rays were not known of, 500 years ago.
ReplyDeleteDoesn’t sound like the Husky had much say in the matter.
ReplyDelete20 years ago the UAW was talking about changing the name from Sick Days, to Personal Days.
Moving the gut microbiome they think is causing Alzheimer's disease in a human, to a rat that’s been cleaned of it’s natural microbiome, caused Alzheimers in the rat. The human and rat diet are not the same, did they move the diet also?
"The way the law works is it's private property," Duncan says.
If they sell food or booze at that private property, it’s a board of health issue.