Joe Bob Briggs: No Thanks, I'll Skip the Asian Raccoon Feces in My $75 Espresso (Taki's Magazine)
Over this past weekend there were exactly five places in Southern California where you could show up to exercise your Insane Hipster Street Cred. You could walk into the upscale Klatch Coffee bistros in Redondo Beach, San Dimas, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, or, oddly enough, Los Angeles International Airport, and fork over 75 bucks for a single cup of coffee made from beans that were eaten by a foul-smelling forest critter and excreted as a partially chewed-up feces particle in his laboratory cage. Perhaps I should repeat that.
Alexandra Petri: When life begins and ends (Washington Post)
There is a timeline. Somewhere between conception and when you perish at age 26 after rationing your insulin, or at 27 after undergoing an unwanted Caesarean section, or at 32 in your car during a traffic stop, the moment comes. After that moment, preserving your heartbeat is a matter of total indifference. […] When, exactly, do you stop being worth protecting? Is it when you turn 18 but before you can quite graduate when your life starts to weigh less than a gun? Or does your life cease to be worth protecting at 12, when on the playground you can be shot by a police officer?
Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent: We don't have an attorney general (Washington Post)
So despite the fact that Russia launched a "sweeping and systematic" effort to help Trump get elected; despite the between 100 and 250 contacts between Trump campaign figures and people associated with Russia; despite Trump World repeatedly signaling eagerness for the Kremlin's help; despite that fact that everyone involved was constantly lying about contacts with Russia; despite the fact that Trump's former campaign chair, former national security adviser and former personal lawyer would all go on to plead guilty to crimes - despite all that, Barr is still casting doubt on the investigation's legitimacy.
Jonathan Chait: Bernie Sanders Wants to Destroy the Best Schools Poor Urban Kids Have (NY Mag)
Sanders would "call for a moratorium on the funding of all public charter school expansion until a national audit on the schools has been completed" and "halt the use of public funds to underwrite all new charter schools if he is elected president." He would additionally require charter schools to match employment practices with neighboring schools, meaning they would have to replicate the same rigid contracts, eliminating one of the key innovations that lets charters do a better job of teaching poor children.
The Brannock Device is a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for measuring a person's shoe size. The son of a shoe industry entrepreneur, Brannock attended Syracuse University, New York, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. Brannock spent two years developing a simple means of measuring the length, width, and arch length of the human foot. He eventually improved on the wooden RITZ Stick, the industry standard of the day, patenting his first prototype in 1925 and an improved version in 1927. The device has both left and right heel cups and is rotated through 180 degrees to measure the second foot. Brannock later formed the Brannock Device Company to manufacture and sell the product, and headed the company until 1993 when he died at age 89. Today, the Brannock Device is an international standard of the footwear industry, and the Smithsonian Institution houses samples of some of the first Brannock Devices.
The Brannock Device Company was headquartered in Syracuse, New York, until shortly after Charles Brannock's death. Salvatore Leonardi purchased the company from the Brannock Estate in 1993, and moved manufacturing to a small factory in Liverpool, New York. The company continues to manufacture several models of the device for determining the shoe sizes of men, women, and children; they also produce specialized models for fitting other types of footwear.
Source
Randall was first, and correct, with:
shoe size
Mark. wrote:
A Brannock device measures feet for shoes.
Alan J answered:
Feet.
Kevin K., back in Washington, DC, said:
Feet
Invented and manufactured in my hometown of Syracuse, NY, it measures shoe size. And you know what they say...
zorch replied:
A Brannock Device measures foot size.
Dave responded:
Feet, to determine shoe size. A shoe salesman (they still have some old fashioned shoe stores) measures a customer's feet for both length, length of the big toe, and maximum foot width. That way the salesman will know what size shoes for the customer to try on. And if you want one for your home, a new Brannock Device can be purchased for $50-$60.
Mac Mac said:
Shoe size, foot size
Cal in Vermont wrote:
A Brannock Device accurately measures shoe size. Mom and I would get on the bus and go to Thom McAn's where the nice man would talk to Mom and then get the shoe size measurer with all it's slides and scales and measure my foot and saying "I will be right back" would get a box with the correct size and color of Keds or Buster Browns. Back on the bus where the new shoe admonishments would be delivered (Don't walk through mud, don't jump in puddles, Do Not step in dog poop, and etc.) Good times...
Jim from CA, retired to ID replied:
The Brannock Device is a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for measuring a person's shoe size.
Deborah responded:
A Brannock Device measures a person's shoe size. I always wondered what those things were called.
Thunderstorms, hail and rain showers blew through here yesterday. Today dawned clear, and chilly, for these parts. Climate change?
Kenn B wrote:
Human Feet for shoe fitting
John I from Hawai`i says,
"Measure Foot Size for Shoes."
Daniel in The City answered:
Shoe size
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
The Brannock Device measures feet for shoes.
David of Moon Valley replied:
isn't that that thingy to measure foot/feet for shoes?
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Shoe size
Joe S said:
It measures how well your bannock stacks up against you neighbors bannock. Is it tasty? Did you mix in any fresh berries? Oh wait, Brannock Device. I thought you said Bannock Device. Well that device measures shoe size, totally different.
Yellow Dog Roy in Gohmertstan, TX took the day off.
• Good things - and good stories - can come from small beginnings. The Fastbacks were a punk band from Seattle, Washington, that was formed by Kurt Bloch, Lulu Gargiulo, and Kim Warnick. Ms. Gargiulo remembers, "The point when I decided, 'Okay, I'm going to play in a band - I'm going to do this myself' is [when] I went to this concert, and it was just the worst band. They weren't a punk band; they were just kind of a rock band. They were so bad that I told Kurt, 'These guys are so bad that I'm going to go start a band just to prove that I'm better than these guys.' So I got Kim and Kurt to sign up, you know …." So how'd it go? Ms. Gargiulo remembers, "We just started playing, and it was really bad. … I'll tell you, it was just horrible." They got better. Ms. Warnick remembers some of the memorable concerts the Fastbacks did: "Opening for Joan Jett at Wrex; opening for the Ramones in 1983 or '84 at the Eagles auditorium; the shows in Japan with Seaweed and the Supersuckers in 1993; and all the Pearl Jam concerts in 1996, where we went as far as Istanbul and we finally realized our ultimate rock and rock fantasy. Seeing the enormo-domes of the world andplaying them was killer." By the way, Kim Deal became a member of the Pixies through an audition for a bassist. How did she win the audition? She was the only person to show up. Also, Penelope Houston became lead singer of the San Francisco band Avengers almost by accident. She remembers, "I had some friends at the Art Institute that were starting a band. One day I was in their warehouse, and they had a PA set up. I had never sung through a microphone before. They were gone for the day, so I had six or seven hours to sing along with records. I found it so powerful to have this PA. They came back, and I said, "Well, you've got your lead singer right here!" They wrote seven songs in a week, and she worried, "How are we gonna remember all these songs?" The first time they played together, some incorrect play lists caused a problem. In the middle of some major discord stood Mr. Houston, who was thinking, "I can't remember how this song goes." After about 90 seconds, everyone stopped playing and began to ask, "What are you playing?" Finally, they figured out that the guitar player was playing one song while the bass player and the drummer were playing another song. The Germs also got a little ahead of themselves. They started wearing band T-shirts and plastered Los Angeles, California, with band posters before writing any songs. And did you know that the Adverts' first single, released on Stiff Records in 1977, was titled "One Chord Wonders"? One more story: Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex said that she would shave her head if she ever became a sex symbol. She did become a sex symbol - and she shaved her head. (I lied - here's another story: Susie Quatro also rejected becoming a sex symbol. She was a 1974 centerfold for Penthouse - despite being fully dressed.)
• Kirstie Southcott, a 22-year-old shop worker from Hastings, East Sussex, England, and her friend Paige Bennett, a 20-year-old receptionist, both like metal music. In 2014, Ms. Southcott said, "If you're a girl and you like metal, it's frowned upon. People expect me to be into Justin Bieber and One Direction and, when I say I go to metal gigs, they think I'm strange. People think rock is more for the boys, and that girls should be into pop and dance, but my generation shouldn't be pigeonholed. I shouldn't have to like pop just because I'm a girl." Both Ms. Southcott and Ms. Bennett say that they feel safe at metal concerts. Ms. Southcott said, "If I go to a gig, I know I'll get looked after." She has experience. At a Korn concert, the 5'1" woman accidentally got thrown into a mosh pit. She remembers "a lot of burly blokes hitting each other, and there was me." Fortunately, she was quickly rescued: "A couple of boys I met that night grabbed me and threw me out of the way, and made sure I didn't get trampled on or hurt. You might think metal fans look scary but they're the most caring and loving people you'll ever come across. Male, female, gay, straight - it doesn't faze us." Ms. Bennett once got caught in what is called a "wall of death" - audience members divide into two groups and then rush at each other - and she said that she was quickly rescued by male fans who pulled her to a safe place: "Boys treat girls with a lot of respect. I've gone to deathcore gigs - really, really heavy - and there were all these big, hefty blokes with long hair, and I didn't feel in any way uncomfortable." Ms. Bennett said that she has felt a lot more threatened during dance nights, and she notes that the dance culture is allied with the drug culture, in contrast to metal. She said, "There's no drug culture around metal at all." (Of course, in any large group of people, whether fans of metal or enthusiasts of classical music, some people will be evil, but I have read many good things about metal fans.)
• Producer Steve "Mr. Mig" Migliore started small with a studio in a room in the home of a friend's parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He and the friend charged $25 an hour to produce and mix songs. But after a friendly music attorney named Brad Rubens introduced him to the major labels, he became big quickly. Mr. Migliore was broke and flipping hamburgers in a food court when he discovered that his remix of LeAnn Rimes' "How Do I Live" had reached the top spot on Billboard's adult contemporary chart. He immediately said, "Does this mean that I have a career?"
• Why did composer Jean Sibelius rarely invite musicians into his home? He explained that musicians "talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art."
Few weeks back, put my knee socks away for the season. Dug 'em out today.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'Blood & Treasure', then another FRESH'Blood & Treasure'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Howard Stern and the National.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Jessica Alba and Gabrielle Union.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Village', followed by a FRESH'The Voice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Kevin Hart, Beanie Feldstein, and Mabel.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Bryan Cranston, Eric Stonestreet, Chromeo, and Sebastian Thomson.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Jimmi Simpson, Feels, and Our Lady J.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'American Housewife', followed by a FRESH'The Kids Are Alright', then a FRESH'black-ish', followed by a FRESH'Bless This Mess', then a FRESH'1969'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Will Smith, Elizabeth Banks, and Jakob Dylan & Jade Castrinos.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Flash', followed by a FRESH'The 100'.
Faux has a FRESH'MasterChef Junior', followed by a FRESH'Mental Samurai'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
A&E has 'Intervention', followed by a FRESH'Intervention', then a FRESH'Kids Behind Bars: Life Or Parole'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Last Samurai', followed by the movie 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?', then the movie 'The Departed'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 5-Revulsion
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 6-The Raven
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 7-Scientific Method
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 8-Year of Hell, Pt. 1
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 9-Year of Hell, Pt. 2
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 10-Random Thoughts
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - Ep 11- Concerning Flight
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 12-Mortal Coil
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 13-Waking Moments
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 13-Obsession
[4:15PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 14-Wolf in the Fold
[5:30PM] FACE/OFF (1997)
[8:30PM] COLOMBIANA (2011)
[11:00PM] KILLING EVE - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 7-Wide Awake
[12:00AM] COLOMBIANA (2011)
[2:30AM] KILLING EVE - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 7-Wide Awake
[3:30AM] COLOMBIANA (2011) (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', another 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then a FRESH'Texicans', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central 2 hours of old 'The Office', an hour of old 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'The Jim Jefferies Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Ava DuVernay.
FX has the movie 'Hidden Figures', followed by a FRESH'Verdon/Fosse'.
History has 'The Curse Of Civil War Gold', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Civil War Gold: Diving Deeper', then a FRESH'The Curse Of Civil War Gold', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges-Back to the Woods
[6:15A] Righteous Kill
[8:45A] Alien 3
[11:15A] Event Horizon
[1:30P] Alien
[4:00P] Alien 3
[6:30P] The Last Witch Hunter
[9:00P] Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
[11:30P] Prometheus
[2:30A] The Last Witch Hunter
[5:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse-Now You See Me, Now You Don't
[5:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse-Just Another Day (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] A Bronx Tale
[11:00am] The Untouchables
[1:30pm] American Gangster
[5:00pm] Starship Troopers
[8:00pm] Top Gun
[10:30pm] Top Gun
[1:00am] Starship Troopers
[4:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Underworld: Awakening', followed by the movie 'Underworld'.
Thirty-five years after Twisted Sister released "We're Not Gonna Take It," the rebel anthem still resonates in pop culture, appearing in everything from Steven Spielberg's sci-fi film Ready Player One to ads for the Yaz birth control pill. Famously, though, three years ago Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider asked his friend at time and former Celebrity Apprentice co-star, Donald Trump, to stop using the song as a presidential campaign theme - a request with which Trump politely complied. However, Snider tells Yahoo Entertainment that he's fine with any 2020 presidential candidates using that song, as long as they meet one important criteria.
"There's a simple litmus test here: Are you pro-choice?" says Snider. "And by pro-choice, I mean all choices. I mean, pro-people's rights to choose, particularly a woman's right to choose. I feel very strongly. And that is the litmus test. I hate the whole concept of pro-choice versus … well, I call it 'no choice.' It's not like you choose for yourself, and that means you can have children, or you don't have children. They're like, 'No, we're deciding for you what is right for you.' Anybody who is pro-choice, and has at least that position, knock yourself out - Republican, Democrat. And there are Republicans out there who are [pro-choice]. They call them 'Northeastern Republicans' as a rule, and they tend to be fiscally conservative/socially liberal. I love those guys. So yeah, if you're pro-choice, yeah, go for it."
Snider stresses that he "pro-every amendment," laughingly noting that Vice once called him a "gun-carrying woman's rights activist," because he steadfastly believes in both the First and Second Amendments. "I'm a concealed carrier, and I believe in that right as well - of course, intelligently. We can make some adjustments. I'm not NRA material. I don't have a blind [mindset] like, 'Grenades!' No, we don't need grenades."
As for his estrangement from his old friend Trump, Snider explains that the last straw that made him ask Trump to stop using "We're Not Gonna Take It" was "the immigration thing. That was the breaking point, because my grandfather received political asylum in this country. And if he was not given political asylum, I wouldn't be here. So how could I just insult his memory by standing with someone who is so hard against that? ... But the point is, I fight for all the amendments, and I believe in them. I believe in this country. So there's a lot that [Trump] does not stand with, and I don't stand with him."
Google changed its advertising policy this week, after facing scrutiny for providing tens of thousands of dollars in free advertising to an anti-abortion group that runs misleading ads designed to deter women from terminating their pregnancies.
Starting in June, advertisers running ads "using keywords related to getting an abortion" will first have to distinguish themselves as an organization that "either provides abortions or does not provide abortions", according to the new policy update.
The advertisers must get certified by submitting an application that requires basic information about the organization.
"Depending on how you're certified, Google will automatically generate one of the following in-ad disclosures for your abortion product or service ads: 'Provides abortions' or 'Does not provide abortions'," the new policy reads.
The policy change comes after a report in the Guardian revealed the Obria Group ran ads suggesting it provides abortion services at its medical clinics, but actually sought to deter "abortion-minded women" from terminating their pregnancies.
"In an ideal world, no one would ever die," said John Oliver on Sunday's Last Week Tonight. "I'm certainly never going to, and, at the risk of sounding too prescriptive, I don't think you should either."
Unfortunately, as he notes, "Death is one of the few things you can't avoid, like taxes and plugging in a flash drive upside [down]. Statistically it can't be done."
Each year around 2.8 million Americans die, and when they pass, doctors typically assign a cause of death. However, if a death seems suspicious or unexpected, they are passed on to death investigators. "A death certificate isn't like a degree from USC," said Oliver. "It actually means something."
Unfortunately autopsies aren't always performed as professionally as one would hope and Oliver showed the local news clips to prove it. There are antiquated facilities, under-funded departments and severe staff shortages, and in some extraordinary instances, wildly unprofessional medical examiners have taken bodies home where parts are eaten by dogs or played with by children.
Additionally, around 2/3 of autopsies are overseen by coroners who are elected to the position and do not need any special medical training. According to Oliver, that's why people have called for the abolition of coroners since 1857, in favor of having autopsies performed by forensic examiners with medical training.
Three handwritten wills have been found in the suburban Detroit home of Aretha Franklin, months after the death of the "Queen of Soul," including one that was discovered under cushions in the living room, a lawyer said Monday.
The latest one is dated March 2014 and appears to give the famous singer's assets to family members. Some writing is extremely hard to decipher, however, and the four pages have words scratched out and phrases in the margins.
Franklin was 76 when she died last August of pancreatic cancer. Lawyers and family members said at the time that she had no will, but three handwritten versions were discovered earlier this month. Two from 2010 were found in a locked cabinet after a key was located.
The 2014 version was inside a spiral notebook under cushions, said an attorney for Franklin's estate, David Bennett.
Bennett, who was Franklin's lawyer for more than 40 years, filed the wills on Monday. He told a judge that he's not sure if they're legal under Michigan law. A hearing is scheduled for June 12.
How we measure the world underwent a quantum leap on Monday as scientists adopted new hyper-accurate definitions for units of weight, electricity and temperature derived from the universal laws of Nature.
The change, on the occasion of World Metrology Day, sees one of science's most influential objects -- a metal cylinder used to define what a kilogram is -- retired in favour of an infinitely more precise measurement taken from a quantum ratio.
"Le Grand K", as the platinum-iridium object is known, stood as the world's benchmark of the kilogram for nearly 130 years before a decision was taken in November to bring several units of measurement into the 21st century.
Instead of relating to the mass of a singular physical object, the kilogram will now be defined in terms of the Planck constant -- the ratio of a frequency of light, on the one hand, to the quantum energy of that frequency, on the other.
Put another way, it is 6.626 x 10-34 joule seconds.
The lowly milkshake has turned into an unlikely weapon of choice for Britons determined to make a splashy statement against the rise of the Brexit-backing populist right.
Former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage became the latest political figure Monday to be doused with the sticky concoction while campaigning for his new Brexit Party in this week's European Parliament election.
The suspected culprit told the Press Association it was a £5.25 ($6.70, six euro) banana and salted caramel shake he bought at the local Five Guys hamburger chain store. First-time offenders in such cases usually pay a small fine.
The entire mess prompted McDonald's to temporarily halt milkshake sales near the site of a campaign event Farage held last week.
That decision elicited a controversial comeback from the US chain's eternal rival Burger King. "Dear people of Scotland," the @BurgerKingUK account wrote on Saturday.
The National Rifle Association was more deeply involved than previously disclosed in the formation of a movement that encouraged county sheriffs not to enforce some gun-control laws, a U.S. gun-control advocacy group said on Monday, based on public records it obtained.
Under the so-called Second Amendment sanctuary movement, county sheriffs in at least four states have vowed to refuse to enforce laws that they consider to be infringements on the U.S. constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
The movement has been widespread in New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Illinois, where elected sheriffs and county commissioners have taken particular exception to "red flag" laws designed to take guns away from people legally deemed to be a threat to themselves or others.
The Brady group focused its public records search on New Mexico, where earlier this year 25 of the state's 33 counties passed resolutions to support sheriffs who refuse to enforce firearms laws they consider unconstitutional.
Critics have questioned the legality of the sanctuary movement, saying sheriffs should enforce laws set by the legislature and leave it to courts to interpret them.
Like most planets in our solar system, the Earth has its own magnetic field. Thanks to its largely molten iron core, our planet is in fact a bit like a bar magnet. It has a north and south magnetic pole, separate from the geographic poles, with a field connecting the two. This field protects our planet from radiation and is responsible for creating the northern and southern lights - spectacular events that are only visible near the magnetic poles.
However, with reports that the magnetic north pole has started moving swiftly at 50km per year - and may soon be over Siberia - it has long been unclear whether the northern lights will move too. Now a new study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, has come up with an answer.
Our planetary magnetic field has many advantages. For over 2,000 years, travellers have been able to use it to navigate across the globe. Some animals even seem to be able to find their way thanks to the magnetic field. But, more importantly than that, our geomagnetic field helps protect all life on Earth.
Earth's magnetic field extends hundreds of thousands of kilometres out from the centre of our planet - stretching right out into interplanetary space, forming what scientists call a "magnetosphere". This magnetosphere helps to deflect solar radiation and cosmic rays, preventing the destruction of our atmosphere. This protective magnetic bubble isn't perfect though, and some solar matter and energy can transfer into our magnetosphere. As it is then funnelled into the poles by the field, it results in the spectacular displays of the northern lights.
Since Earth's magnetic field is created by its moving, molten iron core, its poles aren't stationary and they wander independently of one another. In fact, since its first formal discovery in 1831, the north magnetic pole has travelled over 2,000km from the Boothia Peninsula in the far north of Canada to high in the Arctic Sea. This wandering has generally been quite slow, around 9km a year, allowing scientists to easily keep track of its position. But since the turn of the century, this speed has increased to 50km a year. The south magnetic pole is also moving, though at a much slower rate (10-15km a year).
Those looking to stay safe from the sun should steer far clear of do-it-yourself sunscreens, a new study out Monday suggests. The study looked at recipes of homemade sunscreens shared on the popular website Pinterest and found these concoctions were woefully worse at actually protecting our skin from UV radiation than commercial sunscreens.
Pinterest, like other social media sites, has quickly become a haven for users to upload and share information (in this case, images) on so-called natural and alternative treatments made at home. It's a trend that hadn't gone unnoticed by the study authors.
"It made us want to look at what people are making themselves that could be potentially harmful for them or their children. And coconut oil was having a moment-everything seemed to have coconut oil in it. So that made us want to look at homemade sunscreens, because it's very common there," senior study author Lara McKenzie, a principal investigator in the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio, told Gizmodo via phone.
So McKenzie and her team, whose study was published in Health Communication, conducted two searches on the site, using the terms "homemade sunscreen" and "natural sunscreen." Then they took a sample of the searches-every fifth image-and studied their contents more closely using whatever information was available.
Nearly all of the 189 images they studied contained glowing praise for homemade sunscreens, with around two-thirds offering recipes for how to make your own. A third also claimed the sunscreen would provide a specific amount of SPF protection against UVB rays, up to as high as 50 SPF. But across the board, the researchers found, many if not all these sunscreens simply didn't pass muster.
You have reached the Home page of BartCop Entertainment.
Do you have something to say?
Anything that increased your blood pressure, or, even better, amused or entertained?
Do you have a great album no one's heard?
How about a favorite TV show, movie, book, play, cartoon, or legal amusement?
A popular artist that just plain pisses you off?
A box set the whole world should own?
Vile, filthy rumors about Republican hypocrites?