1. Eating After(birth) So the first one’s kinda gross. It’s called Placentophagy, or in English, eating the placenta after your child is born. Now I know you’re probably going to vomit, but don’t yet, because it’s not like you push it out and just horse in to it, there are companies that offer to take it for you, freeze dry it, and give it back to you in pill form. This means if your spirit animal isn’t Hannibal Lecter like mine is, it’ll be that much easier to ingest those without quite having to look at or think about what you’re putting in your body. Placentaphagy, luckily, is only supported by a few wackado humans with defensive claims that ingestion of the placenta after your child is born helps prevent post-partum depression. ‘Spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Maggie Blott disputes the post-natal depression theory, stating there is no medical reason to eat the placenta: "Animals eat their placenta to get nutrition - but when people are already well-nourished, there is no benefit, there is no reason to do it."’ (Why Eat A Placenta?, BBC source below) While disgusting to most of us, and I hope, most people everywhere, this is regarded by some in Asia, China specifically, as a natural medicine that supposedly cures infertility and impotence, much like ground rhino horn, or tiger paw.. Good news is, at least the CDC itself has said ingesting placenta, pill form or otherwise, should be avoided, and that physicians should actively suggest against it as there are no documented benefits to it. I personally feel (and be aware, I’m not a doctor so what do I know) that encouraging self-cannibalization in most, if not, any form, is what I would refer to as "bad magic" or "not a good look" as the kids say. The Forbes article sourced here and below, has even worse details surrounding things that have happened to unfortunate mothers and their babies, including serious Strep Infections upon eating these capsules. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/06/30/cdc-if-you-eat-your-placenta-this-can-happen/#39750e7e2216) As a bonus fun fact: Kim Kardashian, Alicia Silverstone and January Jones have done this. 2. Australasian Gene Isolation As Genetics advances through the months and years, big questions are starting to come up and these questions are confounding some mainstream archaeologists. In 2018, articles and information started coming out that some early ancestors have had their genomes mapped and in the case of what’s called the Australasion Gene, it gets pretty weird to think about when put against what is largely held to be true. From the NewScientist.com article, which is far better at explaining than I could, this is the mainstream belief ‘The big picture is clear. Around 25,000 years ago during the last ice age, the ancestors of modern native Americans moved across the Beringian land bridge into what is now Alaska. They remained there for millennia because the way south was blocked by ice. Once a path opened up, groups of hunter-gatherers moved south very quickly.’ (this writing in quotes, all credit to Michael Le Page at NewScientist, source below) I will also add, that this topic and several others in my mind, prove that the Americas were populated far before this belief claims, and I will try to explain why. If our ancestors were to only start creating societies and expanding down from Alaska and Canada all the way through Central America and, eventually, South America, that says to me those that made it to the tip of South America would share some core DNA and genes with those from the North that, in this instance, would be relative to those that migrated south. However, this is not the case in some areas. The Australasian Gene is found in descendants the entire world away from each other in only four known locations. And if you remember your geography, and know that DNA in this sense is hereditary and unchanging, and is why we use this as a basis of understanding our ancestors, these genes appear in (as far as we currently know) Papua New Guinea, small groups of Polynesian tribes, Tribes in the Amazon Rain-forest only contacted by the outside world within the last 40-50 years, and Australian Aboriginals. How on earth could those genes be shared by peoples living on literal opposite sides of the planet if not for an entirely different view of how mankind colonized parts of the world thousands of years before the Ice Age, which as far as the Americas go, the belief is that until that point, not a single human lived in those areas (I.e North, Central, and South America) I am personally interested in this topic and would love to be more educated but finding sources that are not shut down or laughed at by other sides in this area is pretty hard. For example the latest article I could find with any information about this is from November 2018, which I quoted above, and even that has the Land Bridge belief listed as the absolute fact. 3. Sentinelese Islanders The Sentinel Island natives, a largely uncontacted tribe believed to have been living there for around thirty thousand years, was in the news at the end of last year. Unfortunately, a man named John Chau visited this island, paying Indian fishermen to ferry him there, to pass the Word of God on to them, feeling that was part of his Greater Calling. The islanders eventually killed him as they have before when contacts have been made or tried. Sentinel Island is in the Bay of Bengal between the coasts of India and Thailand. The inhabitants have largely remained uncontacted and are probably one of the most famous of such uncontacted tribes. Through recent history, some attempts have been made at establishing contact but through several shows of aggression, the islanders have made it clear they are not interested. This might have to do with an unfortunate story in their own history. A man named Maurice Vidal Portman came to Sentinel Island and ended up capturing and elderly man and woman, and four children. He transported them to Port Blair, the colonial capital nearby, while the six now-captives became intensely sick, having never been subjected to the pathogens the British had natural immunity to. The elderly couple ended up dying unfortunately, then Portman decided it was a good idea to drop the sick kids off on the island again before leaving promptly. Portman did leave some gifts with them though, guess that makes them all square. Since that and a few other defining incidents, they have, and rightly so I think, become adverse to visitors. Indian authorities and Survival International encourage isolation and letting this tribe live in peace, while others argue they should be given the chance to live in the present time. I personally believe they’ve made their stance clear, perhaps different decisions in the past may have brought about a different conclusion but in my opinion, they’ve been treated poorly by just about every visitor before modern times and have acted according to their beliefs. It is absolutely worth mentioning a team of anthropologists did make progress with these people in terms of contact, especially an Indian woman named Madhumala Chattopadhyay, who being an expert on the peoples and areas of this region with over 20 research papers on the subject, helped the team get further in to peaceful contact with the Sentinelese than anyone before or after them. That story from National Geographic below, (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/12/first-woman-chattopadhyay-contact-sentinelese-andaman/) 4. Gub’ment Came and Took My Patents! There’s a lot to be said about government secrecy, especially in the United States. We have one of the most secret governments that exists today, and has been so for a long time, typically extremely successfully. I mean, besides the people involved with working on it, The Manhattan Project (the development of nukes) had around 130,000 people working on it, 350 people at the Trinity Site (first nuclear detonation) and no one knew for sure that these capabilities not only existed, but were developed and ready for use until we made macabre history in Japan. Secrecy abounds world-over, but we here in Uncle Sam territory take it places you might not have otherwise thought. Lemme tell you about the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951. It, in simple terms, prevents the disclosure of devices, services, or other technologies that would put us, as a country and people, in harm’s way. The act pertains heavily to Patents, and the subject of this sub-article relates specifically to how it affects technologies I think shouldn’t be on the “you don’t get to have it” list. While probably somewhat petulant and idea, I feel I’m probably right about these at least in some regards. I will preface with this, I love this country, and I absolutely understand the basis of reasoning for this Act and further understand that even if I can’t come up with a way to hurt a person or country with some of these technologies, someone out there with sick intentions sure could, and we should to some level appreciate this Act being in place. I wish that wasn’t the world we live in, but we all wish a lot of stuff that doesn’t reflect reality. There are currently (at least since 2017) 5,785 patents with the secrecy order on them, meaning they cannot be seen by the public through the registered Patent Office resources. Some of these things include obviously dangerous machines like a warhead production method, laser tracking tech, and other military gizmos. However, there are a few, and I admit a couple of these borderline on conspiratorial, that I think would benefit the vast majority of people. Stan Meyer’s Water Fuel Cell driven engine for automobiles would be revolutionary (think running your car off of water with the same results a gas-combustion engine gives you), those patents were slapped secret, then Stan died bringing his research to an end with not much left behind. There are a number of theories regarding some surviving notes from Nikola Tesla’s research into global communication, radio emission, and free energy that are said to be among the secret patent vault, but I would say how could you know if it’s not viewable? I’d personally love to believe that ‘cause Tesla was cool as hell and brilliant, but who could know? A somewhat recent example involves a man named Robert Gold, who had his patent for a “breakthrough in wireless communications” described as “allowing for less interference and greater security in the communication” which would clearly impact our ever more internet and global communicating world quite a bit, but because of the Secrecy Act, we couldn’t reap whatever rewards could come of it when he had the secrecy order upon it in 2002. In 2007 his lawyer got the order lifted, but likely do to the progression of technology in that area during the passing five years between, Mr. Gold believed the opportunity was lost. If you want to invent, or are inventing, watch out for the orders, especially with our ever-evolving tech, and our apparent never-ending will to find interesting ways to kill each other. sources belowPlacentaphagy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placentophagy http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4918290.stm https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/06/30/cdc-if-you-eat-your-placenta-this-can-happen/#39750e7e2216 Australasian Gene https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181108142340.htm https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-26/dna-of-extinct-human-species-pacific-islanders-analysis-suggests/7968950 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2184840-indigenous-peoples-in-the-amazon-and-australia-share-some-ancestry/ Sentinelese https://www.businessinsider.com/sentinelese-uncontacted-island-tribe-photos-2016-5 https://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/sentinelese https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/11/30/everything-we-know-about-the-isolated-sentinelese-people-of-north-sentinel-island/#219fc4ea35a0 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/12/first-woman-chattopadhyay-contact-sentinelese-andaman/ Government Patent Taking https://www.wired.com/2013/04/gov-secrecy-orders-on-patents/ http://www.ushistory.org/us/51f.asp https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/part-II/chapter-17 https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-thousands-of-secret-patents-that-the-u-s-government-refuses-to-make-public.html Images Statement- I do not make claim to own, nor do I own any images on this post, all were pulled from stock, google, or flickr through weebly’s search funtion. All credit goes to original designers and photographers. All images here are used for humorous and relative articulation purposes, I’m not profiting financially or networking with any of the above images. Again, all credit goes to the designers and photographers who originally made/captured these images. A Sentinelese tribesman photographed in 2004. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images (from Forbes source) www.VectorStock.com
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