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Doctor puts baby on almond milk diet. Baby gets disease rarely seen since the 1800s.

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A study published in the journal Pediatrics details the case of a young baby in Spain who for eight and a half months lived on an "exclusive intake of almond beverages and almond flour." As any mother (or most humans) could guess, this diet was not healthy for the baby.

A doctor suggested the baby, then two-and-half months old, switch from a cow to almond milk formula after exhibiting skin rashes, the Washington Post reports. For a few months, everything was normal. However, at six months the baby began repeatedly rejecting vegetable and fruit purées. A month later, there were signs of deterioration. At first, he "showed less interest in interacting and was more unstable when sitting."

A diagramming of scurvy from the 1840s, when it was more of a thing.

By month 11, there were some vary scary signals something was wrong: he wasn't walking and cried when someone touched his legs. It turned out that his diet has deprived him of vitamin C to such a point that his legs were broken. The baby's broken legs, mood, and "failure to thrive" were symptoms of his incredibly low vitamin C level. His vitamin deficiency meant he had contracted scurvy, a disease more often associated with pirates or voyagers traveling pre-1900 than modern-day babies in countries such as Spain. 

Fortunately, the baby was provided with a 300 mg dose of vitamin C daily. In three months, he improved to the point that he began walking. 

Now the little Spaniard can do a happy baby dance.

The study abstract ends by saying, "Manufacturers should indicate that these beverages are inappropriate for infants who consume a vitamin C–deficient diet." This case, then, does not mean that almond milk is "bad," it just infers that almond milk is not an ideal foundation for a baby's diet. Also, it suggests that an almond milk cleanse would be a very poor idea.

Singer Sam Smith discovered racism exists in the world, & now everyone is making fun of him.

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On Wednesday, musician Sam Smith tweeted about an upsetting encounter he had with racism on the streets of London. He doesn't get very explicit about what happened, but it seems like someone said something racist to a friend, who is presumably not a white man like Sam Smith. Smith's tweets also sound like he maybe thought racism was over?

https://twitter.com/samsmithworld/status/689646711837442048https://twitter.com/samsmithworld/status/689647027446243328https://twitter.com/samsmithworld/status/689647755023753217https://twitter.com/samsmithworld/status/689648199456395264https://twitter.com/samsmithworld/status/689648419212791808https://twitter.com/samsmithworld/status/689655196989939712

Well, Smith knows now. On the one hand, it's great when someone in a position of privilege acknowledges what other people live with on a daily bases. On the other hand, the Internet had a bit of a giggle at Sam Smith's "awokening":

https://twitter.com/Being_Deedee/status/689650190492381184https://twitter.com/dcmadness202/status/689863527511805952https://twitter.com/dstarwriter59/status/689793827910086656https://twitter.com/PixleySam/status/689731633432391680

And as Jezebel notes, coverage of the incident on various websites were pretty cheeky, ranging from "Sam Smith Just Found Out That Racism Exists And We Guess He Deserves A Cookie Now" to the more damning "Sam Smith Only Just Waking Up To Racism Shows He’s Part Of the Problem." Maybe he thought society was colorblind because he won a BET award last year (despite Donald Trump's claims that there are racial rules for those)?

Smith responded on Instagram, posting this:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAxreEaR2c-/

His message reads:

For the record, I was merely sharing an experience I had in the hope it would draw attention to how ridiculous it is to be racist in 2016.

This is not about me in any way, it’s about a deep rooted issue we have in our society that should now be extinct.

I don’t profess to know or remotely understand what it means to be on the receiving end of racist abuse, but having been bullied my whole life for being gay, what I do know is that it is wrong and completely unacceptable.

Here’s to people being allowed to be people.

It is ridiculous to be racist in 2016. It is also ridiculous not to know racism exists in 2016. Everyone's right, for once.

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Prankster pretends to be the school board on Twitter and tries to declare a snow day.

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WTVC News Channel 9 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, interrupted their regular Twitter timeline on Tuesday with a message for some pranksters in the neighborhood. On January 19th, a kid DMed the station claiming to represent the school board, and then asked the news channel to report that the district's schools would be closed because of snow.

Seems legit.
https://twitter.com/newschannelnine/status/689574421238013952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

New York Magazine got in touch with WTVC's web director, who explained, “This DM was so obviously from a kid, there was never any doubt. Our entire newsroom thought it was hilarious. As most kids do, she used pseudonyms for her Twitter handles—I don't know what her actual name is.”

WTVC gets non-prank messages about snow days from kids all the time, so the station has learned to speak in memes and jokes, a language they will understand:

https://twitter.com/newschannelnine/status/689886056641085440https://twitter.com/newschannelnine/status/689917164451713024
Vincent Adultman, Hamilton County Department of Education.

A 93-year-old WWII vet gets reunited with the wartime girlfriend he last saw 70 years ago.

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A 93-year-old World War II veteran will finally get to hug the girlfriend he last saw 70 years ago, thanks to the Internet, the generosity of an airline, and good-ol'-fashioned journalism skills. The reunion will be happening on Valentine's Day, which is guaranteed to make your date plans look pretty lame by comparison.

Last fall, 88-year-old Joyce Morris, an Englishwoman who now lives in Australia, asked her son (from her ex-husband) to help her do an Internet search for her old boyfriend Norwood Thomas. Norwood was an American soldier stationed in England during World War II when they dated. The two lost touch due to a tragic miscommunication; she mistook his marriage proposal for a sign that he was—scandal!—already married (he wasn't).

Morris's son soon found a newspaper article about Thomas skydiving on his 88th birthday (he was in the 101st Airborne Division, after all). He wrote to the reporter on the article, asking him to reach out to his mom's old beau on her behalf. The reporter complied, and the pair joyfully reunited over Skype, even though Morris couldn't see Thomas—she has vision problems. “Let me tell you,” Norwood said on the call. “This is something I wouldn’t trade anything for.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77x1qUzqOJE&feature=youtu.be

When the reporter who reunited the couple wrote an article about them in November, people on the internet used a crowd-funding site to raise money for Thomas to reunite with Morris in Australia. Strangers contributed $7,500 to the fund; Air New Zealand is covering the remaining cost for him to fly First Class. And yes: he's getting there just in time for February 14. 

17 of the best reactions to Winter Storm Jonas from people about to be buried alive in snow.

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"Winter Storm Jonas" is scheduled to take a huge snow dump on the East Coast this weekend, but don't panic! There are only 3 things you need to do to prepare: get bread, get milk, and read these hilarious blizzard tweets from soon-to-be buried comics and commentators.

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https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/690147611274264578

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https://twitter.com/AlisonLeiby/status/690215433274785792

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https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow/status/689965760018530308

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https://twitter.com/desusnice/status/690014096058638336

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https://twitter.com/JerryThomas/status/690164871007105025

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https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/689787225492484096

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https://twitter.com/JohnnyMcNulty/status/690209526180626433

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https://twitter.com/StephanUngar/status/689859541756960768

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https://twitter.com/sidleykate/status/690189777883250688

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https://twitter.com/vickykuperman/status/690185522564718597

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https://twitter.com/curlycomedy/status/689955149037637632

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https://twitter.com/TheMissyBaker/status/690249470785753088

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https://twitter.com/MikeSchism/status/689833046590230528

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https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/690204715263614976

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https://twitter.com/joshgondelman/status/689964531481706498

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https://twitter.com/Weezer/status/689852647646568448

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https://twitter.com/katethewasp/status/689973838038302725

 

'Hunger Games' star gets in the baby bump game with a poetic Instagram post about her mom.

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Actress Jenna Malone, who plays Johanna Mason in The Hunger Games series, announced she was pregnant on Wednesday with what has now become a celebrity tradition: a flattering baby bump photo on Instagram. Malone made her baby with help from boyfriend Ethan DeLorenzo, and they are a very cute couple:

https://www.instagram.com/p/6lmzexBLh6/?taken-by=uglyhippie

DeLorenzo is credited as the photographer of this dreamy Polaroid-turned-digital announcement. There's Malone, her bump, and the gentle rays of the sun touching both:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAyOXi-IhS3/?taken-by=jenamalone

The photo is captioned with a few lines of poetry that she wrote about her own mother, and an explanation:

Womb to womb
To beating wing
I climbed out of the eternal
And into the shape of me
Some words I wrote years ago when I was thinking about my own mother. And the woman she was when she had me. And the woman I was reaching to become. The shape your desires make out of you. The body you become to hold your dreams. It's with two feet firmly on the ground and a heart swelling in an ocean of love that I'd like to share the new shape I am becoming to hold the greatest dream of them all.#babybump #newparents

#impossibleproject Polaroid taken by my beautiful hearted baby daddy @uglyhippie

Very beautiful! A little undermined by the #babybump ending, but this is the age we live in. DeLorenzo also shared a post on his account that's simpler, but just as lovely:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAycCb-hLrM/?taken-by=uglyhippie

Two people had sex in a shared hostel room, and the girl's friend wrote the dude a note with some pointers.

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On the Facebook page Confessions Of A Backpacker, a guy shared a handwritten note that his friend had passed along to him. Apparently, the friend slept with a German girl in a hostel, where they had sex in the same room as several others, including the girl's friend. In response, the girl's friend wrote the male culprit a letter that both admonished him and gave him some constructive criticism.

https://www.facebook.com/ConfessionsOfABackpacker/photos/pb.448662128533988.-2207520000.1453402477./1006037826129746/?type=3&theater

Hey, Mr Heavy-Snorer,

Congratulations on having a successful SEX with her. It sounded like you guys had a great time, right?

But hey dick, you should know that there are always some more things that a girl expects from you rather than just one round of sex. I don't think many girls on this planet would like a guy who falls asleep right away after their first sex, do you?

Also, from next time, I recommend you to go back to your room and sleep after having sex.

It must have been so embarrassing for her to see people waking up one by one because of the sound from her bed.

Anyway, good luck with you guys relationship!

Even though Im not sure if she would like to maintain it.

If she felt comfortable writing all this to a random dude, then she must've had some choice words for her friend. But perhaps the author shouldn't view this letter as a success. "I would frame that and hang it in my house for the rest of my life as one of my greatest achievements," David Clark commented on Facebook. Then his parents could see it and be equally proud. 

US Men's Gymnastics team's shirtless beach pics have made the Internet thirsty for sports.

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The US Men's Gymnastic team took a shirtless selfie on the beach in Brazil last week, and the amount of drool it produced might be enough to solve both Flint and California's water crises. Holy moly. These hunks are hot af, and the only thing they love more than gymnastics is taking half-naked pics of themselves to post on Instagram. Anyone else feel a sudden interest in sports?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAhpKpOGD97/?taken-by=jake_dalton

If that didn't make you horny enough, here are some other choice shots from this team of amazing athletes representing our country. USA! USA! USA!

https://www.instagram.com/p/thz63RnOvG/https://www.instagram.com/p/t436FyNTOr/?taken-by=donnell_whittenburg

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAhtOBTr5TV/?taken-by=samuelmikulakhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BAyC9P-GD9v/?taken-by=jake_daltonhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BAhAhG9D4r6/?taken-by=steve_legendre

 A cute baby too? It's just too much to handle right now.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAx19bhD4ml/?taken-by=steve_legendre

Cold case expert offers sensational 'Making a Murderer' theory on who killed Teresa Halbach.

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John Cameron, a former police sergeant and FBI cold case task force worker, thinks he may have answered the question surrounding a good deal of the Making a Murderercontroversy—if Steven Avery wasn't responsible for the death of Teresa Halbach in 2005, then who was? According to his website, Cameron attributes the murder to Edward Wayne Edwards, a serial killer who was once on the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives list, and who allegedly specialized in framing other people for crimes he committed. The man wasn't arrested until 2009, when his daughter turned him in to authorities at the age of 76. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU94s8b7EZY

Edwards was convicted for the deaths of five people (including that of his adopted son, for the insurance money), but many investigators think he's responsible for more, including some really high-profile unsolved cases like JonBenét Ramsey, Chandra Levy, and the Robin Hood Hills murders. Cameron's theory that he's responsible for Halbach's murder, too, is based on a few details. One of which is the fact that several of Edwards' victims were killed on Halloween night, the same date Halbach went missing. He'd killed in Wisconsin before (high school couple Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew in 1980, nicknamed the Sweetheart Slayings) and lived only an hour away from Steven Avery at the time of Halbach's death.

Edwards' 2009 mugshot and Avery's 2005 mugshot.

Edwards supposedly enjoyed the media frenzy surrounding his crimes and was known to show up at his victims' funerals as well as the trials of the people he framed. He can reportedly be seen in the background during a documentary about the West Memphis Three (who were originally convicted of the Robin Hood Hills murders, but released from prison 19 years later after entering the Alford plea), and now people are trying to establish if an elderly, heavyset man seen in the background during Avery's trial footage in Making a Murderer could be him. 

https://twitter.com/joederenzo/status/684593311491993600

Interestingly, the lawyer now representing Steven Avery—Kathleen Zellner—previously represented Ryan Ferguson, a man wrongly convicted of a murder that Cameron believes was also the work of Edwards.

All these facts combined could make a person wonder about the possibility of Edwards' involvement in the crime for which Avery is currently serving time. But it's also important to point out that Cameron believes Edwards to be responsible for over a hundred unsolved murders, which might seem a little farfetched for even the most prolific serial killer. No one can ask Edward Wayne Edwards about it, though, because he died in prison of natural causes in 2011. Ultimately, even though Cameron's credentials are respectable, his theory is just one person's opinion. 

Edward Wayne Edwards' 1955 mugshot

What it all comes down to is that a really good way to turn your kid into a serial killer is to give him the same first and last name, but that's just another person's opinion. 

World's Craftiest Dad builds an unbelievably detailed fairytale tree in his daughter's room.

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A dad recently posted this album of the one-ton tree he built for his daughter's bedroom that looks like it was ripped from the pages of a fairytale. It's so gorgeous and cool that you'll wish he made a version for adults to hang out in and do, um, stuff. It's definitely one of the more impressive Dad DIYs the Internet has seen in awhile. (Scroll all the way down for the complete 50+ image making-of album.)

The project cost $4,250 and took the dad 18 months to complete.
The renovation also included the rainbow wall paint, hardwood floor, and the princess-y canopied bed (by way of mosquito net).
There's a spot inside for reading, including a built-in light. There are also little cubby holes for, like, freaking fairies to live in.
At bedtime, the parents dim the fairy windows and use the tree as a night light.
The dad who built this is an artist in the video game industry.
And here's what the room looked like before. 

According to the dad, his biggest fear now is "when she's 13 and wants it removed from her room." For the record, dad, you can send it to the Someecards office if that ever happens.

Here's his full album showing the whole process from beginning to end:

I built a tree in my daughter's bedroom

Kid writes MLK Day essay opposing Donald Trump's policies, supporting 'Netflix and chill.'

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On Thursday, Reddit user eid14 posted a short essay that purportedly came from the mind of a child and was then snapchatted by the kid's teacher, a friend of eid14. Presumably assigned on MLK Day, the essay centers around the potential ramifications of a Donald Trump presidency. ​What this child imagines is not pleasant:

I have a dream 2016!

I have a dream that Donald trump will not be president. But if he does all Asians, Africans and Mexicans have to go back to their contry. Without them the U.S.A. population will go down to 12,0000 people only. Most enginners are indian then their won't be no tecnolegy! without tecnology their's no NetFlix without netflix their's no chill. IS that a world you what live in NO!

Krish

If this is real—which eid14 repeatedly said it is—Krish has a future in speech writing. If it's a fake, well, it still speaks some truth because in this age, there is indeed no chill without Netflix.

Jada Pinkett Smith responded to Aunt Viv's comment about the Oscars boycott.

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Yesterday evening, Jada Pinkett Smith responded to Janet Hubert's video mocking Jada's boycott of The Oscars. Hubert, who played Aunt Viv on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, posted a video calling Jada and her husband Will Smith wealthy hypocrites. This is just one of several less-than-supportive responses Jada's boycott has garnered, including one from Whoopi Goldberg. Here's Jada's response to Hubert:

https://youtu.be/7_Y5L4JP6RU

This whole Oscar controversy isn't really about the Oscars. Really, in my plea to ask all communities and people of color to take back our power is so that we can use it in all sectors of our community, and right now, specifically with African-American people, we have some very serious issues that I think we as a people have to move together on. I'm hoping we can find ways to step together in this instead of finding ways to fight each other. I got love for everybody.

Jada's boycott has certainly created awareness and publicity, and it also resulted in an official response from The Academy. It may have even helped people remember the actual name of the actress that played Aunt Viv, at least until The Oscars air in February.

In which a bunch of old guys use a giant see-saw and fall off.


Stephen Colbert is so, so happy that Sarah Palin is back.

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As if the 2016 Presidential race didn't have enough amazing characters, Sarah Palin has re-entered the limelight with her endorsement of Donald Trump on Tuesday, and Stephen Colbert is rightfully delighted. In this segment from Wednesday's show, the former fake conservative pundit did the only rational thing in the face of such a comedy bounty—he laid back and let the grammatically bizarre tsunami of sound bites wash over him. So join Colbert and let Palin's words drill, baby, drill into your brain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LPR7DktumA

Related: Here's a Palin-to-English translation of former Gov. Sarah Palin's Trump endorsement speech.

Flirting

The scariest animal isn't a tiger or a shark. It's this crab holding a knife.

Student suspended for carrying asthmatic classmate to the nurse while a teacher waited for an email.

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15-year-old Anthony Ruelas attends Gateway Middle School in Killeen, TX, and he was suspended from school on Tuesday for physically bringing a classmate suffering an asthma attack to the nurse while his teacher "waited for [an email] from the nurse." After watching his classmate struggle to breathe for several minutes while the teacher asked the class to remain calm, Ruelas, concerned for her health, picked her up and carried her to medical attention, albeit rather rudely. According to the teacher's own statement,

During 5th period another student complained that she couldn't breathe and was having an asthma attack. As I waited for a response from the nurse the student fell out of her chair to the floor.  Anthony proceeded to go over and pick her up, saying ‘f—k that we ain’t got time to wait for no email from the nurse.’ He walks out of class and carries the other student to the nurse.”

Ruelas reportedly knew what would happen if he left the classroom without permission, and said he would do the same thing over again. "I broke rules but, she need help. Like she, needed help,” said Anthony. Mandy Cortes, Anthony's mother, was similarly surprised by the school's reaction, saying, "I don't think he should have used that language, but as far as getting suspended for walking out of class, he could have saved her life."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ergG_aaso

Gateway is an alternative school in Killeen for students who have struggled with disciplinary issues, which may be part of the strict response. Cortes, however, felt that this provided extra reason to applaud her child, rather than punish him. "Especially with it being an alternative school," she said, "I feel like the kids hear enough of ‘they're bad’ or their behavior...for them to not be rewarded for really something that is brave, ya know, he is a hero to me.”

Related: A 14-year-old girl was suspended for these hilariously snarky answers to a sex ed class quiz.

Worse, after he was suspended, the school called Cortes the next day to demand to know why her son wasn't in class. The asthmatic classmate, on the other hand? She texted him later that night to thank him and let him know she was OK.

Better safe than sorry.

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