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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • If you’ll permit me to replace the first name “Matthew” by “Fuckhead,”

    It would appear that Fuckhead Israel is a horrible human being:

    The Judge Rotenberg Center was founded by Matthew Israel in 1971 as the Behavior Research Institute (BRI). In 2002, JRC staff tied an autistic boy face-down to a board with four-point restraints and shocked him 31 times at the highest amperage setting. The first shock was given for failing to take off his coat when asked, and the remaining 30 shocks were given for screaming and tensing up while being shocked. The boy was later hospitalized with third degree burns and acute stress disorder, but, as neither the law nor JRC policy had been broken, no action was taken against any of the staff.

    The above quote is taken from this Wikipedia article:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Rotenberg_Center

    Truly a sick individual. It appears he managed to escape persecution:

    Six students have died of preventable causes at the school since it opened in 1971. The school has since been condemned for torture by the United Nations special rapporteur on torture. In 2011, Israel was indicted on criminal charges of child endangerment, obstructing justice, and acting as an accessory after the fact. He was forced to resign his position at the JRC as part of a plea deal to avoid prosecution.

    The above is from yet another depressing Wikipedia article:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Israel

    I’m wondering: can dangerous fuckheads like Fuckhead Israel not be decertified from academic institutions in the US?






  • Thank you for sharing this. Your comment inspired me to read the article and it does have some interesting references:

    In a study published in Apidologie, researchers at East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York, uncovered one of the largest known aggregations of ground-nesting solitary bees ever recorded, estimating that an average of about 5.6 million bees emerge from a single section of lawn each spring, with totals ranging from roughly 3.1 to 8 million. Records show the species has been present at the site since the 1930s, raising the possibility that this population has remained active for decades beneath the same patch of ground.

    Also:

    And yet, most of that activity goes unnoticed. These bees do not form hives or swarm like honeybees. They live alone, emerging quietly in early spring, with activity surging as temperatures climb above about 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius), before disappearing just as quickly.

    And perhaps very unexpectedly:

    As unusual as it might seem, a cemetery can offer the kind of stability these bees need.

    Places like this are often left undisturbed for decades, creating consistent conditions for ground-nesting species.

    A. regularis is one of the most effective pollinators of apple trees in the region, and studies have shown that individual visits from solitary bees can deposit more pollen than those from managed honeybees. Large populations like this can rival or even exceed the pollination power of entire honeybee colonies.

    Maybe having apple orchards near cemeteries is a good idea, LOL.