Ringing vs. Bringing in the New Year: What’s the difference, and which is right?

You can bring in the New Year by ringing in the New Year, so neither is right. But technically, you aren’t RINGING in the New Year unless bells are involved. So BRINGING is always right, and RINGING is only literally correct if bells are rung. Unless it counts when your ears are ringing. In which case I’ve been RINGING in the New Year for years now.
Happy 2017 Everybody!! Hope everyone’s 2017 is better than 2016…no matter how crazy shit gets up in here.

#HappyNewYear #Happy2017 #Goodbye2016

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Scientists Stumped By Thousands Of Dead Fish Off Nova Scotia

Stumped? Really? It’s happening all over. Florida. New York. Out on the west coast. Around the world. It’s either toxins or temperature. Or both. And either way, humans are at least partially responsible.
So let’s keep being stumped, scientists. If you can even call yourself that, in this post-truth age, where science is the pawn of politics rather than slave to truth and fact.

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Worst Man-Made Disasters Of 2016 You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

All in all, 2016 also sucked for Mother Earth. Between the oil spills, air pollution, nuclear waste and climate change, we turned up the pressure in an already stressed global ecosystem. Humans must come to understand, and approach, zero impact living if we expect to survive on this world.

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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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