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We Did Not Realize Aircraft Carriers Could Go This Fast And Turn This Sharply You usually see aircraft carriers as stationary behemoths, but when they need to move, they can really truck it. January 16, 2018 at 03:47PM

Here's The Terribly-Designed Computer Menu That Led To Hawaii's False Missile Alarm While the alert was a massive, massive screwup, there doesn't appear to be anything nefarious behind it — other than truly awful design.

emasculate , v : (transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld. (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. (transitive, botany) Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.

Word of the day is emasculate : (transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld. (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. (transitive, botany) Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.

Article of the day is Eastbourne manslaughter. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

We Did Not Realize Aircraft Carriers Could Go This Fast And Turn This Sharply

The commuter ferry Emelie arriving in Henriksdalshamnen, Stockholm. In the background, Norra Hammarbyhamnen (Södermalm)..

The Article of the day for January 17, 2018 is Eastbourne manslaughter . The Eastbourne manslaughter (R v Hopley) was an 1860 legal case in Eastbourne, England, about the death of a teenage pupil at the hands of his teacher, Thomas Hopley. Reginald Cancellor's parents gave Hopley permission to use corporal punishment to overcome what he perceived as the boy's stubbornness. After the boy died, the teacher insisted that the beating was justifiable and that he was not guilty of any crime. An inquest into Cancellor's death began when his brother requested an autopsy. As a result of the inquest Hopley was arrested and charged with manslaughter. He was found guilty at trial and sentenced to four years in prison. Hopley's conviction was upheld by the Court of King's Bench (Chief Justice Alexander Cockburn pictured), which said that a schoolmaster "may for the purpose of correcting what is evil in the child, inflict moderate and reasonable corporal punishment." T...

Here's The Terribly-Designed Computer Menu That Led To Hawaii's False Missile Alarm

Picture of the day on January 17, 2018: The commuter ferry Emelie arriving in Henriksdalshamnen, Stockholm. In the background, Norra Hammarbyhamnen (Södermalm).