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- Kiss Like Halloween With These Lip Makeup Designs
- Can You Sneeze With Your Eyes Open?
- Useless, But Somewhat Awake
- Elephants Rush to Help Baby After Fall
- "Our Daddy Needs a Kidney" -- Photo Goes Viral, Locates a Donor
- Screaming In Movies: A Supercut
- Fried Maple Leaves
- Slaves of the Rave
- Surf Before Xmas - The Horror Of Hanging Ten
- 8th Grader Writes Brilliant, Hilarious <i>Star Wars</i> Algebra Problem
- How Supernatural's Ten Seasons Represent Buddhist Stages of Reincarnation
- Awesome Science Trick: Watch What Happens When You Stick a Coin in Dry Ice
- Losing Your Religion? Try the Church of Superheroes
- Epic Exercise Ball-Fails
- Would You Walk on This Swaying, Glass-Bottomed Bridge in China?
- "Anonymous Gods" by Artist Marion Balac
- The Last Nun in Europe Who Is an Active Brewmaster
- Extraordinary Ceilings from All Across the Globe
- Robin Williams' Last Interview
- Lo Pan's High Cuisine - Eating There Means Big Trouble
- Who Will Die Next on <i>Game of Thrones</i>? A Statistician Offers His Predictions
- Acer, the Dwarf Miniature Horse
- Australian Man Tries to Rob Gas Station with a Boomerang
- First Teaser for Pixar's <i>Inside Out</i>
- Why Did the Creator of <i>Adventure Time</i> Walk Away?
- 14 Fantastically Creepy Halloween Decorations
- 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Wine
| Kiss Like Halloween With These Lip Makeup Designs Posted: 04 Oct 2014 04:00 AM PDT
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| Can You Sneeze With Your Eyes Open? Posted: 04 Oct 2014 02:00 AM PDT So can you sneeze without closing your eyes? We are not asking in general, but rather, specifically asking you. Can YOU sneeze without closing your eyes? Some people are aware and some are blissfully unaware until the sneeze comes and the force of said sneeze causes you to shut your eyes. This has also started the rumor that we close our eyes when we sneeze as a reflex because the pressure can cause our eyes to shoot out of our skulls. I know, I know, it is silly, but a great many people think it. So can you sneeze with your eyes open? Luckily, you wont have to sit around waiting for pollen to blow in your open window so you can find out. D News put together this video explaining why you can, indeed, sneeze without blowing our your eyeballs. I know most of us knew this anyway, but it is nice to know the science behind things sometimes. Keep in mind, if you would rather not watch it and go on believing we can shoot our eyeballs out of our skulls with a strong enough sneeze, that's fine. No respect lost here. Some just dare to dream bigger than others. We cannot fault you for that. | ||||||||
| Posted: 04 Oct 2014 12:00 AM PDT Upside: if you skip your morning pot of coffee, you can blame your mistakes on the lack of it. Downside: you don't get that sweet, delicious happy juice. | ||||||||
| Elephants Rush to Help Baby After Fall Posted: 03 Oct 2014 11:00 PM PDT Examples abound of elephants and their caring, nurturing behavior, especially toward their young. This video shows two adults rushing to the aid of a baby who has lost his footing and lays on his back, struggling to right himself. The footage was shot by a visitor to the Zurich Zoo. It's hard to fathom the poaching and cruelty with which these noble, intelligent creatures are targeted. -Via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| "Our Daddy Needs a Kidney" -- Photo Goes Viral, Locates a Donor Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:00 PM PDT
Raleigh Callaway, 49, is a police officer in Greensboro, Georgia. He was facing stage 5 kidney failure and couldn't find a donor. He was running out of options. So he posed for this photo with his wife and daughters and posted it on Facebook. The photo went viral, attracting a lot of attention. Hundreds of people offered their help and got tested to see if they were suitable matches. One of them, Chris Carroll of McKinney, Texas, was. He traveled to Atlanta where, at Emory University Hospital, doctors transplanted one of his kidneys into Callaway. Callaway and Carroll were strangers, but now they're friends. And what they've shared is continuing to give beyond just one kidney. Of the hundreds of people who got tested to help Callaway, 125 are still being considered for transplants for other patients. -via Huffington Post | ||||||||
| Screaming In Movies: A Supercut Posted: 03 Oct 2014 09:00 PM PDT I love the horror genre of movies, as a great many people do around this time of year. A little pre-Halloween scare can be good for the soul, and gets you ready for the rest of the season. I thought to myself, what better way to usher in this season of screams than with a supercut compilations of screams from film? Usually, when I watch a supercut (which is to say, a bunch of different scenes put together), I try to play a little game with myself and see how many I can recognize. While there are many famous clips in here, there may be a few that catch you off-guard or surprise you. That is the beauty of a video like this: One of the cooler aspects of this supercut is seeing the screaming across the ages. You get films from the 60's all the way up the current generation of horror films and scream musterers. Reminds you that there is quite a library of horror out there for people like us, no matter what time of year it is. | ||||||||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2014 08:00 PM PDT
Maple leaves are more than just a national symbol of Canada. In Japan, they're a popular snack. Brian Ashcraft describes them at Kotaku. People collect fallen maple leaves, then preserve them in salt for more than a year. Cooks then fry them in a sweet batter for about 20 minutes to produce a pretty and tasty treat.
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| Posted: 03 Oct 2014 07:00 PM PDT William Garratt made a little animation showing how difference audiences react to the music at various types of concerts. There’s folk, rock, metal, EDM, jazz, dubstep, opera, and maybe a couple more. Things start to go a little weird as each concert progresses. -via b3ta | ||||||||
| Surf Before Xmas - The Horror Of Hanging Ten Posted: 03 Oct 2014 06:00 PM PDT Surf Before Xmas by Victorsbeard Everything was in full swing in Halloween Town, as the residents scrambled to get everything ready for their favorite three months of the year- Hallowmas and Christmaween! There was one well known resident who was conspicuously absent from the seasonal preparation scramble- that old pumpkin head Jack! It seems he'd found some tasty waves off the coast of Skull Island, and he simply couldn't stop shredding those curls... Celebrate the endless summer of the afterlife with this Surf Before Xmas t-shirt by Victorsbeard, it's totally gnarly like a rotten old tree stump or a tasty tube! Visit Victorsbeard's Facebook fan page, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more totally radical designs:
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| 8th Grader Writes Brilliant, Hilarious <i>Star Wars</i> Algebra Problem Posted: 03 Oct 2014 06:00 PM PDT
Bob Swanek's son Cody was asked to take an algebraic expression and build a word problem from it. The result of his efforts is a gloriously rich tale about the composition of the next Star Wars film. J.J. Abrams, the director of that movie, is facing some serious problems:
What is the correct answer?
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| How Supernatural's Ten Seasons Represent Buddhist Stages of Reincarnation Posted: 03 Oct 2014 05:00 PM PDT
The show Supernatural on the CW has filled quite a void left behind by shows like The X-Files. What is so great about shows like these is they allow us a peak into a world very different from our own. Despite whatever your aunt Glinda says, angels and demons are not constantly battling on Earth in human form. It is classic horror and fantasy escapism. That is exactly why we like it. Thing is, with a show like Supernatural which has run for 10 seasons, you get some really interesting fan theories out there. You have people who have watched the show for that entire time and developed their own ideas on subtext and symbolism. A perfect example is this article about how Supernatural's Ten Seasons Represent Buddhist Stages Of Reincarnation over at Topless Robot. Though it may sound like a bit of a stretch, once you start reading, it is apparent some serious thought was put into this. In terms of season five of the show representing Bodhisattva: I'd actually heard of a Bodhisattva before researching this article: a spiritual guide and enlightened being that helps others. It's also the second-to-top rung of the reincarnation ladder even though we're only halfway through the article, which might be a hint to where the show quality goes in later seasons. Season 5, which is all about trying to constrain the fallout from the apocalypse, is an appropriate one for Bodhisattva as well. The brothers have an almost completely unselfish motivation and a genuinely heroic goal. Though videos of baby kittens doing adorable things is awesome, sometimes it is really nice to break away from that stuff for a moment and spend some time on the web with something a little more ambitious. Any fans of Supernatural should give this a read. Via ToplessRobot | ||||||||
| Awesome Science Trick: Watch What Happens When You Stick a Coin in Dry Ice Posted: 03 Oct 2014 04:00 PM PDT This is amazing! The coin appears to be jumping around on the ice--all by itself! What's going on? Why does it move this way? Lisa Winter of IFL Science explains:
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| Losing Your Religion? Try the Church of Superheroes Posted: 03 Oct 2014 03:00 PM PDT Corby Brandes is a man from Lincoln City, Oregon who is doing his best to make superheroes the basis of a new religion. Evidently, he's not joking. According to his Facebook page, Brandes wants "to teach life's moral lessons through the stories of the superheroes in modern comics." He extols the virtues of the X-Men as a means to educate parishioners against discrimination, and on his Facebook page, Brandes makes suggestions for patron saints. He writes, "Now that we have so many followers I would like to go over... superheroes as our patron saints. The ones that have already been suggested are as follows: Spiderman/Saint of determination, Tony Stark/Saint of technology, Deadpool/Saint of fried Mexican foods. Who has some more?" While Brandes says he's "always been a Marvel fan personally," he has plans to "branch out," as far as church services are concerned. "I've always wanted to find a church that I was comfortable at, but I've never been able to take that leap of faith. I didn't want to have to do that just to surround myself by people who were like-minded. I decided that it would be a great idea to do this through the superheroes." Currently, Brandes is trying to raise the $2000 necessary to file for tax-exempt status, before which he has to go through a number of legal hoops, such as writing by-laws and obtaining status as 501(3)(c). He eventually hopes to have a brick-and-mortar superhero church. | ||||||||
| Posted: 03 Oct 2014 02:00 PM PDT Exercise balls are strange inventions. On one hand, if used correctly, they can be a great assist to those who cannot get the gym or do not have access to the best equipment. They are affordable and versatile. The problem is, the people who get their hands on exercise balls never seem like they want to do the right thing with them (i.e. exercise). It seems they would rather film themselves attempting to do outrageous stunts using them. As you can imagine when it comes to a big, bouncy ball, rarely do these stunts go as planned. Seems these people have not quite grasped the basic ideas of physics. Thankfully for us, the end result is pretty funny. Yes, you are allowed to laugh at other people's stupidity, no matter how politically incorrect it may be. It is one of your freedoms as an internet user. Never let anyone tell you differently. What people don't seem to understand is, if you never try to do stupid stuff like this, you will never get hurt. I am sorry, but in many instances, these folks got what the rest of us call a "life lesson". Do stupid things on camera for a laugh, you might get hurt. That is just how it works, people. So as much as you may cringe or feel bad for them, there really is no need. If two people run at each other at full speed with a single exercise ball between them, they sorta deserve whatever happens next. | ||||||||
| Would You Walk on This Swaying, Glass-Bottomed Bridge in China? Posted: 03 Oct 2014 01:00 PM PDT Don't look down, because it's 180 meters down to the ground. Don't look to the sides, either, because the bridge sways in the wind. This new bridge in Pingjang, Hunan Province, China, stretches 300 meters between two mountain peaks. The bottom is made of sheets of glass. It leads to a similar glass-floored walkway along a vertical wall of Tianmen Mountain. The facility has trained staff detailed to help faint-hearted tourists who lose their nerves while attempting to cross. -via Twitchy | ||||||||
| "Anonymous Gods" by Artist Marion Balac Posted: 03 Oct 2014 12:00 PM PDT Image Credit: Marion Balac It is all well and good that Google cars automatically blur out faces when they drive through neighborhoods and take pics, so as to avoid any legeal trouble. But there is something else their camera and software does. It blurs all faces. This includes the faces they drive by of staues and monuments all across the country. Artist Marion Balac realized how funny this was, and went about collecting some of these pics with the blurred faces of the famous and infamous. She calls the project "Anonymous Gods" and as you can see, it works on multiple levels. It is funny and thought-provoking, which the best art should always be. It also shows us the absurdity of technology and how its imperfection has taken over our lives. Via LaughingSquid | ||||||||
| The Last Nun in Europe Who Is an Active Brewmaster Posted: 03 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT
Pictured above is Mallersdorf Abbey, a Franciscan convent in southern Germany. 490 nuns live there. They all have different jobs to make the abbey a self-supporting home. Sister Doris Engelhard, 65, is among them. Her job is to make beer. And she's really good at it. From an early age, Sister Doris wanted to become a nun. She needed a trade to offer the community, so she apprenticed with another nun who was a brewer and took a course on the subject. Once she had become a master brewer, she took her vows and went to work. Tracy Brown Hamilton of The Atlantic describes her work:
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| Extraordinary Ceilings from All Across the Globe Posted: 03 Oct 2014 09:30 AM PDT
The phrase "staring at the ceiling" brings to mind an annoying episode of sleeplessness or possibly a vacant state of mind. Here are some ceilings that could liven up the old expression. Some are colored glass, some wood or molded plaster — strangely enough, one ceiling pictured below is made of over a million iridescent beetles. Whatever the materials, they are spectacular. See more of this photo collection at Distractify.
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| Robin Williams' Last Interview Posted: 03 Oct 2014 09:00 AM PDT When actor Robin Williams past recently, it was quite shock to us all. A man who had spent so many years making us all laugh so consistently was in pain inside, and that can be hard to look back and reflect upon. Though there are many who said they did not see that side of the actor and had no idea it was coming, it is clear to see during his final interview that there was a sort of emptiness to how he portrayed himself. He seemed flat and like his mind was elsewhere. As if getting each word out was a struggle. It is not the Robin Williams we were all used to, but it also shows us that maybe the signs were there, and we just didn't have the courage to see them or ask him if he needed help. Though this may seem morbid to post, let me reassure you, it is with the utmost respect for all of you that I do. Let Robin Williams be the trigger that leads us all to lean in to someone we care about and ask them if they are okay. Life is tough, and it beats down the best and brightest of us. Let this be the tragic precursor to change, is all I saying. Because even with the brightest and funniest, as this video proves, sometimes the signs are there. We just choose to ignore them because it scares us. | ||||||||
| Lo Pan's High Cuisine - Eating There Means Big Trouble Posted: 03 Oct 2014 08:00 AM PDT Lo Pan's High Cuisine by Andy Hunt If you ever find yourself visiting San Francisco's Chinatown steer clear of Lo Pan's High Cuisine, especially if anyone in your party has green eyes! If they seat you in the back, near the creepy looking statue, watch yourself or you might get snatched up! Lo Pan isn't a very nice man, despite the persona he sells to the public, and ever since Jack Burton exposed his soul sucking ways people have been steering clear of that restaurant. Share your love of big trouble, and classic movies, with this Lo Pan's High Cuisine t-shirt by Andy Hunt, wear it in honor of your favorite comedic action flick! Visit Andy Hunt's Facebook fan page, official website and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic designs:
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| Who Will Die Next on <i>Game of Thrones</i>? A Statistician Offers His Predictions Posted: 03 Oct 2014 08:00 AM PDT
George R.R. Martin's slaughter of the inhabitants of Westeros and Essos appears random, but there are clear patterns that can detected and extended mathematically. Dr. Richard Vale, a professor of mathematics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, has conducted a survey of the first five books in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. He has applied Bayesian statistical methods to the deaths in those books to make predictions about The Winds of Winter, the upcoming sixth novel in the series. You can read his formal paper on the subject here. Warning: spoilers and math. Lots of math. -via Ian Chant | ||||||||
| Acer, the Dwarf Miniature Horse Posted: 03 Oct 2014 07:30 AM PDT Even among miniature horses, Acer stands out for being the shortest at only 22 inches tall! Mainestar Aces High was born of an imported sire, who has since been gelded, at Wolfscastle Miniature Horse Farm. The only survivor of three foals of the sire, Acer was born with dwarfism. Outside of a deformity of the rear hooves, which has been corrected with artificial hoof extensions, Acer appears to be in good health. Read his story here. The three-year-old horse is smallest in Britain! -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| Australian Man Tries to Rob Gas Station with a Boomerang Posted: 03 Oct 2014 07:00 AM PDT
A man walked into a Shell gas station in Tarragindi, a town south of Brisbane, Australia. He was armed with a boomerang. The man demanded money from the customers, then the clerk. Although he was armed, no one seemed intimidated by his boomerang. It's no wonder: there wasn't enough room in the store for him to throw it properly.* Eventually, the would-be robber left. People in the store called the police, who recognized their description. They arrested a suspect and charged him with being a public nuisance. -via Dave Barry *I've just had a great idea for a mass-produced consumer product: a bayonet mount for a boomerang. | ||||||||
| First Teaser for Pixar's <i>Inside Out</i> Posted: 03 Oct 2014 06:30 AM PDT Pixar’s next feature film, Inside Out, takes place inside the head of an adolescent girl, where her five main emotions battle each other for supremacy. We’ve seen these emotional battles from the outside, but inside Riley’s head, the emotions are anthropomorphized and voiced by Amy Poehler (Joy), Lewis Black (Anger), Mindy Kaling (Disgust), Bill Hader (Fear), and Phyllis Smith (Sadness). The teaser is actually quite short, as Pixar takes half the video to remind us of the emotions they evoked in their previous films. Inside Out should be in theaters in June, 2015. -via FilmDrunk | ||||||||
| Why Did the Creator of <i>Adventure Time</i> Walk Away? Posted: 03 Oct 2014 06:00 AM PDT
Cartoonist Pendleton Ward came to California to make his dreams come true. It hard going. For a while, it looked like he might become homeless. Then came Adventure Time. Ward's cartoon is wildly successful, with 14 million weekly viewers, along with video games, comic books, and hundreds of items of merchandise. Adventure Time made Ward the head of a vast entertainment empire. Now he's walking away. Pendleton Ward is now just a writer and storyboard artist on the show that he invented. Why? Neil Strauss of Rolling Stone investigated. Ward explained to Strauss that running a show is simply contrary to his personality:
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| 14 Fantastically Creepy Halloween Decorations Posted: 03 Oct 2014 05:30 AM PDT When it comes to seasonal home decoration, Halloween is the second most popular holiday behind Christmas in the US. While some people just put out a few carved pumpkins, others like to go all out and these 14 horrific Halloween decorations on Homes and Hues are a great source of inspiration for those who really want to scare. The article covers everything from massive props (like a haunted tree with faces coming out of the bark) to small details (like multiple ways to make your store-bought skeleton look like a real decomposing body). There are even some cool tech-inspired decorations like this cool haunted mirror effect, so if you want to scare your neighbors and their children, you won't want to miss this great Homes and Hues article: 14 Over the Top Halloween Decorations To Terrify Trick or Treaters | ||||||||
| 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Wine Posted: 03 Oct 2014 05:00 AM PDT Between the vine and the liquor store, plenty of secrets are submerged in your favorite bottle of vino. Here the author of Black Lane Wineries of Sonoma spills some of the best.
1. Digital eyes are everywhere in vineyards. Certain premium estates in Bordeaux and Napa are beginning to look a little more like an army base -or an Amazon.com warehouse. They’re using drones, optical scanners, and heat-sensing satellites to keep a digital eye on things. Some airborne drones collect data that helps winemakers decide on the optimal time to harvest and evaluate where they can use less fertilizer. Others rove through the vineyard rows, where they soon may be able to take over pruning. Of course, these are major investments. At $68,000 a pop, the Scancopter 450 is about twice as costly as a 1941 Inglenook Cabernet Sauvignon!
4. What a canary is to a coal mine, roses are to a vineyard. Vintners plant roses among their vines because they get sick before anything else in the field. If there’s mildew in the air, it will infect the roses first and give a winemaker a heads-up that it’s time to spray.
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Hall of Ambassadors at the Alcázar of Seville, Spain
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2. There are also lots of cow skulls. They’re not everywhere, but biodynamic farming techniques are on the rise among vintners who don’t want to rely on chemicals, and this is one trick they’ve been known to use to combat plant diseases and improve soil PH. It’s called Preparation no. 505, and it involves taking a cow’s skull (or a sheep’s or a goat’s), stuffing it with finely ground oak chips, and burying it in a wet spot for a season or two before adding it to the vineyard compost. 
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5. Vintners exploit the food chain. Small birds like blackbirds and starlings can clear out 20 percent of a crop in no time. But you know what eats little birds? Big birds. Falconry programs are on the rise in vineyards from California to New Zealand. Researchers have found that raptors eat a bird or two a day (along with a proportion of field mice and other critters) and cost only about as much to maintain as your average house cat. 
7. The big problems in tasting rooms are very small. Winemakers are constantly seeking ways to manage the swarms of Drosophila melanogaster that routinely gather around the dump buckets in their swanky showrooms. You know these pests as fruit flies, and some vintners in California are exploring ways to use carnivorous plants to tackle the problem without pesticides. Butterworts, sundews, and pitcher plants all have sweet-sounding names, but the bug-eating predators make for terrific fruit fly assassins, and you’ll see them decorating tasting rooms across wine country. 
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