Some time ago I saw some mention of a Finnish "Sweet" Samiak

I with an inquisative mind decided that rather than rushing over to Finland to get some, that I would try and make my own alternative.  So I bought a rather large bag of Liquorice and a jar of Marmite.  I've decided to coin the mergence of the two Liquormite.  (Incidentally not everyone likes Marmite or Liquorice, so you can imagine what they would think of Liquormite.)

(While Marmite is a yeast extract derivative, it's extremely salty and it seemed that perhaps it would work as a decent substitute for Ammonia Chloride)

When the liquorice was faintly coated it was agreeable, however when I overkilled the Marmite it made me rethink eating it in such concentrations.  I'm not suggesting anyone repeat my experiment, however if you do it's best an experiment shared with friends or you'll have to eat the whole jar of Marmite on your own.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/footba...-1.2094280

EXCERPT: [...] My personal DeflateGate took just 40 seconds. Add in a few bobbles and the time it took to get in and out of the bathroom stall, and the entire affair took me just 77 seconds — well under the 90-second deadline....

'Deflategate': Employee reportedly took balls in bathroom for 90 seconds
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/...story.html

EXCERPT: On Monday, Fox Sports reported there is video showing the attendant taking footballs the Patriots provided before the AFC title game against Indianapolis from the game officials' locker room and into another room at Gillette Stadium before bringing them out to the field. Late Monday night NBC Sports' Pro Football Talk added several additional details, all attributed to an NFL source. According to the report, the locker room attendant took two bags of 12 footballs each -- one for the Patriots and the other for the Colts -- into a bathroom consisting of a toilet and sink with a door that locks from the inside. He remained in there for approximately 90 seconds, the report said....

http://www.livescience.com/49555-speed-o...phole.html

EXCERPT: A universal rule of thumb may need to be rewritten: Light moving freely through empty space does not necessarily travel at the speed of light. As physicists have come to know, light particles traveling through empty space should zip along at exactly 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second). This velocity is what's usually referred to as "the speed of light". Light naturally travels more slowly when it passes through a medium like water or glass, or artificial structures called waveguides. But once the light exits through the other side of the medium, it should immediately ramp back up to its maximum clip. But now, new research suggests there is an exception to this rule: Light will not travel at top speed in empty space if the "structure" of the light is first changed....

http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc...321&cn=394

EXCERPT: [...] What Michael Tomasello attempts in his new book is precisely what [Jean] Piaget deemed improbable -- a reconstruction of the prehistory of thought. As there is a natural history of the beaks of Darwin's finches, there is a natural history of the human mind, and putting it, or a version thereof, on paper should illuminate, by tracking parentage, the nature of thinking. This departure from the Piagetian cannon is in fact the current culmination of a very Piagetian project indeed. A Natural History of Human Thinking branches out from the considerable collection of research and theory professor Tomasello and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig have produced over the last decade or so. This corpus has so far been focused on what Piaget did recommend: ontogenesis, i.e. the characteristics of early childhood. Their investigations have aimed, specifically, at capturing the emergence at ever smaller ages of the rudiments of communication and cooperation. It is probably thought that this research has by now condensed into a thick enough foundation to allow for speculative projections into the distant past....

"Vincent van Gogh, drama queen. Rejected in love, he threatened to burn his hand. When broke, he cajoled and guilt-tripped his brother for money..."
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives...d-cunning/

http://www.livescience.com/49526-rare-fr...aught.html

EXCERPT: A bizarre, freaky-looking shark with rows of needle-sharp teeth and an eel-like body was caught by a fisherman in Australia. The odd creature is a rare type of shark known as a frilled shark, and is sometimes called a fish "fossil" because its roots can be traced back 80 million years, CNN reported. It was found by fisherman David Guillot, who said he had never seen anything like it. "The head on it was like something out of a horror movie," Guillot told Fairfax Radio on Wednesday, according to The Age. "It was quite horrific-looking ... It was quite scary, actually."...

"Michael Walzer detects much anxiety on the left, where fear of being called Islamophobic seems greater than fear of Islamist zealotry..."

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/i...d-the-left