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• Orangutan Surgery
• The Cutest Dental Clinic In The World
• The Future From Back To The Future II In Lego
• Playing With Lightsabers In Skyrim
• Teddy Enjoys His Valentine’s Day Treats
• Obvious Study of the Day Report: Men Show Off To Women
• Tortoise Eating a Salad
• Scientists Had Humans and Monkeys Watch a Clint Eastwood Movie to Study Their Brains
• Animals Hidden in Coffee Cups
• Earth Travel Reviews
• Needing/Getting
• Jacobsen Lawn Mower vs. Sheep
• Man as Industrial Palace
• Rebecca Ward’s Tape Art
• The Restaurant at a Waterfall
• Timeline of The Best Super Bowl Ads
• Super Bowl Talking Points For Football Newbies
• Grapefruit Jello Shots
• Mad Men Posters Improved

Orangutan Surgery Posted: 06 Feb 2012 04:18 AM PST Sally is a 44-year-old Sumatran orangutan at the Denver Zoo. She developed a benign fibroid tumor of the uterus that was interfering with her other organs. Veterinarian Diana Boon arranged to collect orangutan blood from around the country and enlisted volunteer surgeons to remove the growth. The doctors tried to prepare but found a dearth of information on orangutan anatomy. But when Sally lost the ability to go to the bathroom, Boon understood she had only days to live if the obstruction wasn’t removed. So on a Friday afternoon she fired off e-mails to the team, telling them the surgery had to be done by Sunday. And they wouldn’t have blood. “It had to be a bloodless surgery,” Boon said. “It was either this would work, or this wouldn’t work and it would be fatal for Sally.” And then, the group got a break. Covidien, a Boulder company that makes a device called LigaSure that helps limit blood-loss during surgery, donated the use of a machine for Sally’s sake. Another snag loomed. The procedure demanded quite a bit of rummaging around in Sally’s abdomen. If a wayward blade nicked her distended bowel, she would die; Sally would not understand how to use a colostomy bag. There were other hairy moments during the six hours of surgery, but Sally came through it. Read the entire story (and see a video) at The Denver Post. Link -via Fark

The Cutest Dental Clinic In The World Posted: 06 Feb 2012 12:14 AM PST There’s Hello Kitty restaurants, hotels, hospitals, and more, so why not a dentist office? For those that just can’t stand the sterile environment of the standard dentist clinic, the Hello Kitty dentist office is a welcome alternative…even if it means having to travel to Japan just for a teeth cleaning. Link

The Future From Back To The Future II In Lego Posted: 06 Feb 2012 12:06 AM PST Hill Valley of the future is such a wonderful place to live, or at least it is when created by Lego artist Alex Jones. He has even more cool movie sets on his Flickr page for the viewing enjoyment of any Lego enthusiast. Link Via Geekologie

Playing With Lightsabers In Skyrim Posted: 05 Feb 2012 11:54 PM PST (Video Link) There’s something so wrong about combining the the mythos of Skyrim with that of Star Wars that it just has to be right. While there’s a lot of talking before you get to the good part, the bottom line is yes, you can get a lightsaber in Skyrim. Via Kotaku

Teddy Enjoys His Valentine’s Day Treats Posted: 05 Feb 2012 11:49 PM PST (Video Link) What more could an amorous porcupine ask for than a heart-shaped box of corn and a bouquet of red roses? It’s all just so romantic. Via BoingBoing

Obvious Study of the Day Report: Men Show Off To Women Posted: 05 Feb 2012 11:46 PM PST Here’s one of those studies you probably didn’t need science to tell you: guys show off to impress women. In the experiment, a group of men and women (on the younger side, with an average age of 21) were given the opportunity to donate money to a fund, knowing they would get nothing in return other than the pride of their selflessness. Whether they were watched or not, women donated at the same rate. But men, when watched by women, donated at higher rates. They didn't donate at higher rates when men watched. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m sure flabbergasted by this one. Who would have guessed? Link Via The Jane Dough

Tortoise Eating a Salad Posted: 05 Feb 2012 06:51 PM PST (YouTube link) A Sulcata tortoise enjoys a salad, which probably took hours in real time. With time-lapse fast forward photography and a dramatic soundtrack, he’s an unstoppable eating machine. -via Geekosystem

Scientists Had Humans and Monkeys Watch a Clint Eastwood Movie to Study Their Brains Posted: 05 Feb 2012 05:25 PM PST In order to examine the way that the human brain evolved differently from that of other primates, scientists arranged for selected humans and monkeys to watch the Clint Eastwood movie The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: All the study participants watched 30 minutes of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, listening to the dialogue through headphones. The humans watched it once and the monkeys saw it six times, during which the participants' eye movements were scanned and their neural activity monitored via functional magnetic resonance imaging. The researchers found some similarities in brain activity locations among the species, but several differences, too. Monkey brain areas that fired up during movements on screen were quiescent in the humans, yet both species shared activity in other areas. This is a function of the species' separate evolutions — brain regions that may once have been very similar have adapted to focus on different tasks. "The method may clarify whether specific functions are preserved in areas that anatomically correspond, are absent in one of the two species, or are shifted to other cortical locations," Mantini and colleagues wrote. This, in turn, could shed light on how human cognitive function evolved, as compared to cognitive function in our closest cousins. Which movie would you compel monkeys to watch? Link | Image: United Artists

Animals Hidden in Coffee Cups Posted: 05 Feb 2012 05:14 PM PST While it lacks the menacing message of The Prisoner poison glass (which is, after all, the effect we generally want when entertaining guests) Ange-line Tetrault’s coffee cups have a certain charm. As you drink from one, you expose a bear, a fox or an owl. Link | Designer’s Website

Earth Travel Reviews Posted: 05 Feb 2012 04:45 PM PST Aliens may have been rating our planet as a travel destination all along! This set of reviews is from Matthieu Barrère’s webcomic Awful Drawings. Link -Thanks, Kim!

Needing/Getting Posted: 05 Feb 2012 04:23 PM PST (YouTube link) The vehicle plays the music in the new video from OK Go in conjunction with Chevrolet. This took four months of preparation and four days of shooting. From their website: So let's not forget the true meaning of Sunday — OK Go in a super-hacked Chevy Sonic, playing 288 guitars, 55 pianos, and 1,157 homemade instruments while Damian acts as a stunt driver. (He took lessons.) It's truly the little things that are meaningful. Link -via reddit

Jacobsen Lawn Mower vs. Sheep Posted: 05 Feb 2012 03:05 PM PST How do you tout the benefits of your fancy-schmancy lawn mower? Lawn mower maker Jacoben turned to advertising icon Stan Freberg to create (now classic) ad campaign. Stan's answer? Compare it to a sheep. The Presurfer has the video clip: Link

Man as Industrial Palace Posted: 05 Feb 2012 02:04 PM PST Maria Popova of the always neat Brain Pickings has a great review of The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination by medical historian Julie Anderson and science writers Emm Barnes and Emma Shackleton. The iconic image above is the classic 1926 illustration by Fritz Kahn titled Der Mensch als Industriepalast / Man as Industrial Palace

Rebecca Ward’s Tape Art Posted: 05 Feb 2012 01:03 PM PST Lots of people love playing with tape, but Rebecca Ward has elevated sticking-tape-on things into an artform. Take a look at her geometric installation, featured over at My Modern Met: The tape artist redefines the space she's working in with her evenly spaced parallel and interweaving stretches of bright lines that form three-dimensional shapes. Taking her architectural pieces around the world, Ward has shown her installations from a gallery in Texas to a Kate Spade flagship store in Tokyo. Link | Rebecca Ward's official website

The Restaurant at a Waterfall Posted: 05 Feb 2012 12:38 PM PST Your bread might get soggy, but the view is worth it. At the Villa Escudero resort in the Philippines, you can dine right next to a waterfall. Don’t bother wearing shoes because the water runs right through the dining and buffet area. Link -via Bit Rebels | Photo: maryan54

Timeline of The Best Super Bowl Ads Posted: 05 Feb 2012 12:02 PM PST Do you watch the Super Bowl for the sports or the commercials? Back in the 1960s, a 30-second ad spot cost about $42,000. Now, it's $3.5 million, a whopping 8,300% increase. And something that costs that much money ought to be good, right? This one above from 1973 is Noxzema's "Creamed" ad with football star Joe Namath and pre-"Charlie's Angels" Farrah Fawcett. The Los Angeles Times has the timeline of the Best Super Bowl commercials through the years: Link

Super Bowl Talking Points For Football Newbies Posted: 05 Feb 2012 11:02 AM PST So, it's Super Bowl Sunday and you've gotten yourself invited to a football party but you know next to nothing about the sport or the two teams playing. What to do? Don't worry, BuzzFeed has got your back! Here are some handy talking points if you found yourself amongst fans of either the New York Giants or the New England Patriots: Read the rest over at Sly's post over at BuzzFeed: Link

Grapefruit Jello Shots Posted: 05 Feb 2012 08:25 AM PST For Super Bowl Sunday, Jaymee Sire made these jello shots by mixing vodka and fresh squeezed grapefruit juice. She then poured the mixture into emptied grapefruit rinds and quartered them after they congealed. Link -via Tasteologie

Mad Men Posters Improved Posted: 05 Feb 2012 07:26 AM PST AMC is promoting the return of the TV show Mad Men with a minimalist poster showing a falling man, with a blank expanse around him. The only other thing the poster contains is the date at the bottom right. That’s just asking to be embellished, and plenty of folks have great ideas about what to add. Gothamist asked for submissions,  and has been collecting the “improvements” to post for your pleasure. Link to gallery one. Link to gallery two. -via Laughing Squid

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