New Year’s Eve revelers bid adieu to tumultuous year of conflicts

Fuck you 2016. You’ve been a terrible year. You’ve taken some of our favorite musicians and actors, and given us President Donald Trump. We’re glad to see you go, and eager for 2017 to take your place. 365 chances for a better tomorrow. Goodbye 2016. Thanks for nothing but trouble.

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Obama Wrote the Most Popular Scientific Journal Article of 2016

AND here we see one of the BIGGEST problems with science in America. If you can call it that.
We should leave science to scientists. That way, when we look at scientific facts, we will know they are actually factual and not political instruments pretending to be science in our Alt-Post-Half-Truth society.
So many questions…How does a social activist who is a trained lawyer get published in a scientific journal? Does being President suddenly qualify you to be an expert in EVERYTHING? How is Obamacare a topic in a scientific journal anyway? WTF happened to SCIENCE and the Scientific Method?
No wonder climate change deniers don’t trust science. Apparently anybody can take whatever topic they want, call it science, and get published. Why should ANYONE trust scientists if they think Obama is qualified to write for a scientific publication…much less be the MOST POPULAR article?

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Coral Reefs Threatened By Climate Change, Studied From High Above | Video

If the coral reefs are allowed to die, up to 1/4 of all the ocean species will perish with them. Even species that don’t live near, or depend directly on coral reefs, feed on species that depend on those reefs. The ocean will be changed forever…and not in a positive way…if we don’t stop the destruction of these delicate ecosystems.
#climatechange #oceans #coral #reefs #NASA

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It’s 2016, yet the DEA still refers to cannabis as ‘marihuana.’ Why is that?

#News420
I don’t know…maybe for the same stupid reason they keep it listed Schedule 1 so it can’t be studied, because it hasn’t been studied enough?
Of course, calling it “Marijuana” regardless of spelling is a racial slur equating it with minority involvement in the illegal use and trafficking. It is a slang term, and the correct nomenclature should be “Cannabis”. “Marihuana” isn’t even a word.
Hey…I wonder if the prohibition laws could be overturned because “Marihuana” doesn’t actually exist? Even my spellcheck says it isn’t a word, so any law prohibiting it is literally prohibiting something that doesn’t actually exist.

#Catch22 #Marihuana #Marijuana

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