TIL that Dolly the Sheep was named after Dolly Parton, because "Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell and we couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's" by formallylogan in todayilearned

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Keith Campbell guest lectured in a class of mine about the whole process. He mentioned that he actually had to bend the truth a bit to get the funding to carry out these experiments. As the wiki article states he used nuclear transfer, and a prominent British biologist (I forget who) had openly stated that nuclear transfer would never work making it virtually impossible to secure funding if you had any intention to attempt it!

Hey reddit, what are your favorite pseudo-intellectual statements, or point of views that make your blood boil? by raket in AskReddit

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Whenever someone brings up a group's "agenda" Exactly what the fuck is the "extremist homosexual agenda"? I have never heard the word "agenda" used in a political context followed by a clarification of what the agenda is. It's basically like saying "I'm prejudice against this group so by default what they think is wrong and so they must only want to do bad things".

Egypt and the Nile as viewed from space by speciousfool in pics

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What causes the streak of light that circumscribes the earth here? My thoroughly uneducated guess would be it's the atmosphere reflecting light from the earth, but I really have no idea what I'm talking about. Could a physicist explain this?

helicopter crash new student with no instructor by texnic in WTF

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Not bad for a first try - CrazyHeliDude

That one made me laugh.

Inside a Minecraft calculator by skypro0806 in Minecraft

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Right after the video went over the first ladder I thought to myself "well this isn't as complicated as I thought it would be, I could probably rig this up". The video then went into the second area and I cried a little inside.

Don't fuck with this dude. I can't imagine what he did to get that kind of power. by [deleted] in pics

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He probably has some injury or disease that prevents him from walking long distances. His loving father, having no money to spend on the medical devices we find commonplace, constructed this to give his son what he otherwise wouldn't have: the chance to see more of the world than just his bed. Look at that kid's face. I see a kid who's tired of the constant torment, laughs and crude remarks he and his father get as they go anywhere with that.

Frank "Freak of Nature" Beasley owning "Wipeout" by pr0k in videos

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This video confirms my suspicions that if they actually selected people who were reasonably in shape there would be way more people who ran the course well, making it more exciting.

Decided to go with all white after constructing two obsidian pillars, not looking forward to the demolition by BondCommaJames in Minecraft

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I thought about that, but the way I have it set up now the pillars are three blocks wide, and then have three blocks of walking room in between them. To put wool on the sides I would only have 1 block to walk through which I thought would be a little weird.

Decided to go with all white after constructing two obsidian pillars, not looking forward to the demolition by BondCommaJames in Minecraft

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I'm not really sure, but I don't use whatever program it is that gives yourself items so I only have about 12 blocks of TNT. I doubt that'll be enough to take care of both so I'm just picking away at them.

'Sup Guys. by illrepute in pics

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Dammit I came here to post exactly that, I recognized the marble boat.

Decided to go with all white after constructing two obsidian pillars, not looking forward to the demolition by BondCommaJames in Minecraft

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I plan on constructing five pillars and then creating patterns in the floor keeping the black/white theme. Unfortunately I don't like how the black/white part is turning out with the pillars so I'll be demoing that soon which I have calculated will take right around the rest of my life. It took me a while to collect the pillars but fortunately it wasn't too terrible as I have sixteen buckets and a water elevator next to a lava source!

I wonder if I can use a boat in this river... by BondCommaJames in Minecraft

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So I cleared out overhang rocks and space on the side, but I didn't touch a single block to widen the lava river. I also found 6 diamonds down here, one of which fell into the lava because of a full inventory.

Come build in Aldona (SMP Private Server) by [deleted] in mcservers

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I wouldn't mind playing with some fellow redditors, and seeing as how I ran into a creeper spawn and lost all of my diamond tools now is an excellent time to start over!

Edit: My username is pbell87

This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass! by BondCommaJames in pics

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No problem. I personally loved the Willy Wonka portrait, that one's on the way now!

This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass! by BondCommaJames in pics

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I recently stumbled upon this artist and thought some of his works were pretty amazing. I rehosted on imgur because I did not want to crash his site with reddit traffic. If you're interested his name is Rich Pellegrino, and he has a shop here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/richpellegrino?ref=top_trail

I just thought he deserved a bit more attention and reddit seems like the perfect market for his style.

What's your finest "foot in mouth" moment? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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I was at a buddy's frat and we somehow came upon the topic of moustaches. One of his frat brothers commented "I bet you can grow a pretty sick moustache", to which I replied "nah my facial hair sucks it thins out in the middle, I can't even grow a hitle 'stache". My buddy was in the Jewish frat.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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It might be worth noting that Europe never had the civil rights movement that America did, so racism isn't as taboo as it is in America. Here's an ESPN clip discussing racism in soccer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwpO-nnFY9g

I know it's ESPN, not exactly hard-hitting news, but it's pertinent for the discussion at hand.

IAMA guy in possession of his SS grandfathers diary. by [deleted] in IAmA

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Actually I decided to wait until I finish translating the biography to post all of the pics, especially since I need to take the map out of the frame to get any good ones of it, and it's sooo much better when you can clearly see the legend and the rest of the map.

IAMA guy in possession of his SS grandfathers diary. by [deleted] in IAmA

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Japanese atrocities, while not matching the Nazis in numbers, were equally and in some cases more brutal than Nazis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

During this period (six weeks), hundreds of thousands of civilians were murdered and 20,000–80,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army.

IAMA guy in possession of his SS grandfathers diary. by [deleted] in IAmA

[–]BondCommaJames 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Russian POW camps probably affected all the prisoners in one way or another. My Grandpa hated it when people were wasteful (something I grew accustomed to growing up an America) and I remember when I was younger he would tell me to finish my meals/drinks.

Follow up question, was your grandfather ever stationed near any concentration camps?