Knowledge Nuts

bonobos aren't chimps, they're separate species https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/08/18/the-difference-between-chimps-and… "an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan; the other is Pan troglodytes, or the common chimpanzee." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo

This has been going on for quite a while: https://knowledgenuts.com/2015/05/04/doctors-once-recycled-penicillin-…

Also interesting: https://knowledgenuts.com/atom-bomb-creator-tried-to-poison-his-teache…

Another one not many people know about, but will usually recognize the name instantly: Whitey Bulger [1] 1. https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/11/17/mobster-whitey-bulger-underwent-c…

Electrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant, says a lot more about you as a human being than the person you're trying to discredit by electrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant. https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/10/19/edison-publicly-tortured-animals-… https://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant NSFL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlPYikt_qvo

You know you can research this stuff right? Gasoline was a waste product in the refining of crude oil (specifically, into Kerosene [itself a replacement for whale oil] they were making anyways). It used to be considered garbage. [1] It really only became valuable once they realized they could power cars with it. They used to dump it in rivers, making them catch fire. [2] In what - concrete - way is bitcoin related to the success of Amazon or the internet? Please be specific and don't hand-wave if you're going to make such bold claims. [1] https://knowledgenuts.com/2014/02/24/gasoline-used-to-be-considered-ga… [2] http://www.attendly.com/rockefellers-unconventional-approach-to-gettin…

Luckily this is not the only direction: > To test his theory, he nailed his wife’s dog to a board and chopped it open while the poor thing was still alive. https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/09/29/descartes-dissected-his-wifes-dog…

http://knowledgenuts.com/2015/01/21/how-to-starve-to-death-while-stuff… A certain degree of fat is essential. People have been reported to actually starve on very high protein/very little fat diets.

title says it all: http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/09/20/ayn-rand-was-a-secret-welfare-quee…

Russian and Chinese spy ships do this. http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/10/19/edison-publicly-tortured-animals-t… https://news.usni.org/2014/07/18/china-sends-uninvited-spy-ship-rimpac

He's also kinda a crackpot: http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/09/22/the-strange-story-of-henry-heimlic…

There are Native American legends about the volcanic eruptions about 7,700 years ago that formed Crater Lake. [0,1] [0] http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/05/09/the-surprisingly-accurate-myth-of-… [1] http://www.craterlakeinstitute.com/online-library/historic-resource-st…

Caesium 137 has a fucking halflife of 30.7 years. There is still a lot of that material in Ukraine and Belorussia. The economy and agriculture of both countries sustained severe damage as a result http://www.greenfacts.org/en/chernobyl/l-3/5-social-economic-impacts.h… now were just very lucky that there was no full meltdown of the reactor core. Can you claim without flinching that this will never ever happen? I doubt it. Just look up 'heroes of Chernobyl' - we were very close http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/04/13/when-three-divers-swam-into-the-ja… The fact that an accident of similar magnitude happened after Chernobyl sort of invalidates the point that it was all exclusively due to faulty reactor design. In Germany this assessment led to a full shutdown of all nuclear power plants.

L'Arbre du Ténéré was once considered the most isolated tree on Earth, the only one for over 400 kilometres ... it was killed in 1973 by a drunk truck driver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbre_du_Ténéré http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/09/30/a-drunk-driver-killed-the-most-iso…

As the article notes, many non-profits are often little more than tax avoidance structures - one sign of this is bloated salaries paid to the upper-tier executives. This is described as 'the economic theory': > "From an economic point of view, it could be said that a fair percentage of America’s non-profits are phony non-profits of a sort. In these cases, the non-profit isn’t a major vehicle for social change; rather, it is a bunch of profit-seeking vehicles with a tax break, masquerading as non-profits." The religion and television theories the article introduces are very interesting - i.e. the notion that non-profits are 'seeding ideas into media', and the fact that religious non-profits "have yearly revenues around $378 billion." This points to the role of non-profits in what might be called deliberate social engineering attempts of various sorts. An addition category, however, could be "the government theory", since non-profits have been heavily utilized by governments as cutouts for state propaganda, often in partnership with private interests. Non-profits are not very transparent when it comes to sources of funding. In this context, they're generally referred to as 'non-governmental organizations' (NGOs). A fairly notorious example is the Ford Foundation and the CIA, dating back to the 1950s, e.g. https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/FordFandCIA.html It's hardly just the US government doing this - other actors include Israel, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, etc.…

Advertising isn’t the problem, the processing of data to target those adverts is the problem. That said, given how often they insist on showing me (literally) revolutionary marxist content no matter how often I click “Show me less of this” — and from the same specific groups no matter how often I click “Never show me ‘Demexit Memes For Green Teens’” (I’m not a teen, I can’t exit the Democrat party because I’m not an American and can’t join in the first place, Brexit riffs give me a negative affect[0], and while I am vaguely green-ish at least in regards to UK politics I feel negatively about the USA Green Party) — I don’t think they’re even very good at using this data for targeting content. > It would be like saying it is unfair that meat I buy in the supermarket costs the supermarket less than they charge me. Something about buying Manhattan island for some beads comes to mind, although the actual history behind that meme is rather more interesting: https://knowledgenuts.com/native-americans-didnt-sell-manhattan-for-24… [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affect_(psychology)

> This specific issue has nothing to do with Trump. I can certainly agree with that. In these sorts of discussions I work hard to ignore the 'people are complaining about ...' sorts of inputs because people complain about everything, it is hard to develop understanding from that. However it is useful to understand economic value is changing. For example, gasoline was a 'waste product' of refining oil for kerosene[1]. When the economic value of gasoline changed, it changed how the companies were viewed. Nuclear power was once the power of the future with high economic value, until it was perceived (or maligned depending on your point of view) into being a threat to civilization. So where does economic value arise? It is the ratio of the cost of production over the price of a good. So raising tariffs allows the cost of production of a foreign good to rise, and assuming the buyers are all trying to get the same price, the economic value of aluminum production goes up in the local (tariff free) economy. So the price of aluminum goes up, and now it can be made profitably in Spokane, so an aluminum plant (mill?) opens up and jobs are created and the town becomes more prosperous. With tariffs it is possible to raise the effective cost of any good to the point where it can be made profitably locally. However it requires that the local economy be able to pick up production. That is generally not a problem for the US economy, not as easily done on places like Brazil for example…