The Daily Populous

Saturday January 20th, 2018 morning edition

image for In Back to the Future II when they go to 2015, one of the little details is inflation, where it cost Marty $2 dollars for a Pepsi (¢0.50 in 1985)

The walls were painted in pastel pinks and greens straight out of that new cop show — Miami Vice.

But a lot of stuff here Marty didn't recognize at all, or it somehow looked wrong.

Like what were all these weird yellow squares pinned to one wall, squares that said stuff like 'Baby on Board' and 'Dead Wife in Trunk'?

—From Back to the Future Part II by Craig Shaw Gardner (quote, page 27).

The Cafe 80's was a nostalgic restaurant on the Courthouse Square in the year 2015 to remind the citizens of Hill Valley in the 1980s.

The sound system was pounding out a song about heaven being only one step away, or something, that Marty thought sounded vaguely familiar.

According to an early script for the movie, the Cafe 80's is owned by Biff's future son, Biff Tannen, Jr. »

The Unprecedented East China Sea Oil Spill

Authored by theatlantic.com

Meanwhile, Chinese authorities and environmental groups have been trying to understand the environmental threat posed by the million barrels of hydrocarbons that the tanker was carrying.

Because the Sanchi was not carrying crude oil, but rather condensate, a liquid by-product of natural gas and some kinds of oil production.

Over the last two weeks, the maritime world has watched with horror as a tragedy has unfolded in the East China Sea. »

Harley Barber apologizes for racist video, says she was expelled from Alabama

Authored by al.com

Harley Barber told the New York Post she was heading back to New Jersey after being kicked out of school.

Barber was kicked out of her sorority on Tuesday, the executive director of Alpha Phi International Fraternity told AL.com Tuesday.

University officials, also on Tuesday, said the "unfortunate behavior" was reported to the Office of Student Conduct. »

Cancer blood test ‘enormously exciting’

Authored by bbc.com

Scientists have taken a step towards one of the biggest goals in medicine - a universal blood test for cancer.

A team at Johns Hopkins University has trialled a method that detects eight common forms of the disease.

Dr Cristian Tomasetti, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told the BBC: "This field of early detection is critical. »

TIL that when Diogenes, the ancient Greek philosopher, noticed a prostitute's son throwing rocks at a crowd, he said, "Careful, son. Don't hit your father."

Authored by philosimply.com

Antisthenes lived a life rooted in Socrates’ ethics, seeing virtue as the ultimate goal and actions as more important than words.

While Socrates was the first to call himself a citizen of the world (cosmopolitan), he also considered himself a citizen of Athens.

Upon seeing a prostitute’s son throwing rocks at a crowd that had formed, he said “Careful son. »