The National Institutes of Heath and the University of Alabama-Birmingham performed unethical medical experiments on premature babies. And it sounds like the NIH then pulled strings to block an investigation.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-wrong-way-to-treat-child-geniuses-1401484790?tesla=y&mod=trending_now_3

This is for Artemis, so he/she can gain some perspective on giftedness. The comments are especially interesting

And it sounds like the NIH then pulled strings to block an investigation.

I'm shocked, shocked to find that career bureaucrats are busy protecting their careers and pensions!

This book seems to be for real .. http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Harvest-collection-semen-based-recipes/dp/1481227041

What's really really important.

http://www.ozy.com/good-sht/the-secret-to-baking-the-best-chocolate-cookie-science/6613.article

I'll go with cute. Following are Telegraph readers' recollections of funny or disturbing (or both) in-flight announcements.

What was your most awful flight? Mine was on a nighttime run from Atlanta to Newport News, flying through a storm. I'm pretty sure that loud THWACK!!! I heard on the surface of the plane was us getting hit by lightning!

Led Zeppelin again: Their albums, rated.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

An excerpt from
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933-45

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter."

More at the link.

RPM, by far the most unpleasant flight I've ever been on was on a feeder airline (can't remember which one, it was affiliated with Eastern) Martin 4-0-4 from Atlanta to Birmingham. It was a relic of the days when airliners flew through thunderstorms instead of above them, which ours did. Several of the passengers around me got sick and the smell was terrible. Plus, the 4-0-4 was by far the loudest aircraft I've ever been in; the FA announcements were inauduble in that din and conversation of any sort was impossible.

RPM, by far the most unpleasant flight I've ever been on was on a feeder airline (can't remember which one, it was affiliated with Eastern) Martin 4-0-4 from Atlanta to Birmingham. It was a relic of the days when airliners flew through thunderstorms instead of above them, which ours did. Several of the passengers around me got sick and the smell was terrible. Plus, the 4-0-4 was by far the loudest aircraft I've ever been in; the FA announcements were inauduble in that din and conversation of any sort was impossible.

Posted by: Cousin Dave at June 5, 2014 6:46 AM

Most unpleasant flight. C130H from Frankfurt am Mein to Souda Bay Naval Air Station, on Crete. An 8 hour flight, I have done it six times, but the worst by far was a return trip in 1983.

Every flight, no bathrooms, heat came in from above but the floor was freezing. Jump seats, no stewardess, no drinks, and a box lunch, but on the worst trip, the plane was struck by lightening in a thunderstorm over the med. We were tossed all over.
One engine failed, and we ended up landing (hard) after diverting to Sigonelli. I was ok until the second bounce. Then I threw up. I was one of the last. Most everyone else had already puked.

Ah yes, ther joys of Air Transport Command... I don't envy you that one.