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Audrey Hepburn's famous slenderness, copied by the fashion world for seventy years, was what was left of a girl who had lived through a winter on tulip bulbs.
In the autumn of 1944 she was fifteen, living with her mother in Arnhem and then at her grandfather's house in Velp, while the battle for the Rhine bridges was fought around them. She had been dancing in blacked-out houses to raise money for the Dutch resistance. That winter the German authorities cut off food to the occupied west of the Netherlands, the canals froze, and the cities fell to a few hundred calories a day.
The Dutch call it the Hunger Winter. People ate whatever they could find. Endive, when there was any. Nettles. Bread made from peas. And tulip bulbs, dug up and peeled, the bitter core cut out, ground into a grey flour that one survivor said tasted of sawdust. The government printed recipes for them.
Her son wrote later that she would spend whole days in bed with a book, trying to stop thinking about food.
When liberation came in May 1945 she had just turned sixteen. She was nearly five foot six and weighed 88 pounds, with jaundice, oedema and anaemia, and close to death. A Dutch soldier gave her seven chocolate bars and she ate the lot, with condensed milk from the relief trucks, and was violently sick, because her stomach had been empty too long.
The relief organisation was UNRRA, which became UNICEF. She spent the last years of her life working for it.
Her family believes the famine left her body unable to put weight on for good. The world saw the waist and the collarbones and built a standard of elegance on them.
The Dutch bulb growers later named a white tulip after her.
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If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different ...
The Pentagon is investigating suspected cyberattacks after refrigeration systems at U.S. military facilities on six bases switched to defrost mode, spoiling food. Officials are examining whether the incidents are connected to similar attacks targeting refrigeration systems at approximately 100 French supermarkets earlier this month.
Watch OAN on OAN Live for updates.
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They should not have refrigerators or anything connected to Wi-Fi or the Internet… I mean that just seems like common sense
This paper answers why confident idiots run the world.
Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy.
It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.”
they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception.
And the results are wild.
participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile.
they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence.
the paper revealed a brutal paradox:
the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain.
if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing.
this creates a dangerous systemic loop.
the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ...
