A whole new meaning for thinking on your feet: Brains of small spiders overflow into legs

AMAZING!

"The smaller the animal, the more it has to invest in its brain, which means even very tiny spiders are able to weave a web and perform other fairly complex behaviors," said William Wcislo, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. "We discovered that the central nervous systems of the smallest spiders fill up almost 80 percent of their total body cavity, including about 25 percent of their legs."

MIT Scientists Create Camera That Allows Photons To Be Seen Moving In Slow Motion


the researchers were able to create slow-motion movies, showing what appears to be a bullet of light that moves from one end of the bottle to the other. 

Cellular processing of proteins found in Congolese child birthing tea now revealed

fascinating

Thousands Sterilized, North Carolina Weighs Restitution

More about the NC sterilization program.

The reports begin when he was barely a teenager, fighting at school and masturbating openly. A social worker wrote that he and his parents were of “rather low mentality.” Mr. Holt was sent to a state home for people with mental and emotional problems. In 1968, when he was ready to get out and start life as an adult, the Eugenics Board of North Carolina ruled that he should first have a vasectomy.

Author Schweizer: Pelosi Made Killing Off of Most In-Demand IPO in History

I realize this is from Newsmax but this quotation is striking.

“They found that corporate insiders — that is corporate executives trading their own company stock — beat the stock market average by 5 percent a year,” while professional Hedge Funds traders were successful 8 percent of the time and U.S. senators topped them all with a 12 percent success rate."

Los Angeles votes to end corporate personhood


"The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to support a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment that would assert that corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights, and that money is not the same as free speech.

The resolution was backed by Move to Amend, a national coalition working to abolish corporate personhood and overturn U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United ruling. The decision gave corporations and unions the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections, so long as their actions are not coordinated with a candidate’s campaign."