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- The "Birdman of Chennai" Feeds Thousands of Parakeets Every Day
- How Old is Your Globe?
- Burger with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed Inside
- Believe - What Would Woody Woodpecker Do?
- Bridge Girder Erection Mega Machine
- These Teenagers Serve as Pallbearers for Homeless Veterans without Families
- Exploding Thermite Pumpkins
- Strange Medical-Themed Woodblock Prints From 19th-Century Japan
- Scientists: Constrictor Snakes Kill Their Prey By Over-Pressuring the Brain
- The Bone Church
- How to Travel Like Anthony Bourdain
- How To Survive A Free-Falling Elevator
- When Art Imitates Life
- Realistic Chocolate Dinosaur Teeth
- The Oldest Joke In The Galaxy - Forced Laughter
- The Wah Wah Machine
- Who Loves Fall Leaves? Stella the Yellow Lab
- 5 Kids Movies With Plots Inspired By Their R-Rated Relatives
- Juggling Gentlemen
- These Flowers Bloom When People Stand under Them
- The Truly Enthralling Tale Of The Man We All Know As Vigo The Carpathian
- 22 Horror Movie Facts
- Horrible Halloween Costumes Available on Etsy
- Duck Gets a Halloween Costume
- Police Department Training in the Use of Nunchucks
- Amazon Gym (Full Color) - Her Workout Will Do Wonders For Your Physique!
- These 25 Horror-Bly Funny T-Shirts Will Make People Laugh Their Heads Off!
- World's Slowest Rube Goldberg Machine
- Idealized Landscapes on Logs
- Getting a Grip on Bite Marks
| The "Birdman of Chennai" Feeds Thousands of Parakeets Every Day Posted: 29 Oct 2015 04:00 AM PDT For 25 years, Sekar has operated a camera repair shop in Chennai, India. He regularly fed the birds who lived near it. About 10 years ago, a tsunami drove 2 parakeets to his neighborhood. He was fascinated by the beautifully colorful birds. Sekar fed them. More parakeets came. Soon, he was feeding thousands of parakeets every day. He does this by laying wood planks across the roof of his shop, then spreading 60 kilograms of feed over them. This task, which costs 40% of his income, wakes him at 4:30 every morning. The sight of thousands of parakeets perching in one place is an amazing swath of color that impresses people who live and work in the neighborhood. This is Sekar's life. He enjoys it. But he's also feeling old. It's harder for him to do the physical work of hauling and arranging so much bird food. He says:
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| Posted: 29 Oct 2015 03:00 AM PDT It can be a lot of fun to find an old map and try to determine its date by the place names on it. North Vietnam and South Vietnam? Obviously between 1954 and 1976. East Germany? Between 1949 and 1990. But getting a precise year may take some further sleuthing. Luckily, we have a chart from Replogle Globe to consult. If your world globe has Southwest Africa on it instead of Namibia, but also has Zimbabwe instead of the older name Rhodesia, you can narrow it down to the 1980s. Using the chart, you’ll know to then look for the Leeward Islands, or St. Kitts & Nevis, as they were renamed in 1983. Outside of dating globes and maps, this can be a really handy chart for teaching your kids the history of world geography. Or yourself, for that matter. -via Digg My globe is so old... (Image credit: Petar Milošević) | ||||||||
| Burger with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed Inside Posted: 29 Oct 2015 02:00 AM PDT Look at the patty. That's not just beef. Inside that cow meat you'll find whole Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. It's ingenious. I'm embarrassed that I didn't think of this first. Then it would be me, not The Works in Kanata, Ontario, that would be acclaimed across the world as a fountain of brilliance. Now all of the glory rightfully belongs to this restaurant. Its Reese's PBC Burger also has onion strips, bacon, and even more Reese's Peanut Butter Cups mixed in. Each one costs $15.98 Canadian Dollars, which is about $12 USD. -via That's Nerdalicious! | ||||||||
| Believe - What Would Woody Woodpecker Do? Posted: 29 Oct 2015 01:00 AM PDT With a little help from your friends anything is possible in this world, but if you don't have any friends because you're a lowdown weasel then you'll simply have to insist your fellow woodland creatures give you a ride. Woody Woodpecker wouldn't have put up with hitchhiking weasels but he was old school, and in today's kinder, gentler forest scene the birds are happy to let you hitch a ride provided you don't try to chew on them after the flight! Let your imagination fly with this Believe t-shirt by Sophie Corrigan, it's the inspirational way to say "I believe weasels can fly!" without having people give you funny looks. Visit Sophie Corrigan's Facebook fan page, official website, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to her NeatoShop for more brick-tastically geeky designs:
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| Bridge Girder Erection Mega Machine Posted: 29 Oct 2015 01:00 AM PDT Talk about heavy equipment! This is the SLJ900/32, a Chinese bridge-building machine. It weighs 580 tonnes and is 91.8 meters long. It carries and install concrete bridge girders in places where a crane can’t go. This time-lapse video makes it look simple. It can’t be simple. But at least it’s doable. Watch the guys working with this machine. They hop around hundreds of feet above a chasm, installing tons of concrete, with no safety harnesses. There are two other videos that give a closer look at some of the steps, if you are interested. -via Daily of the Day | ||||||||
| These Teenagers Serve as Pallbearers for Homeless Veterans without Families Posted: 29 Oct 2015 12:00 AM PDT
The National Alliance to End Homelessness says that there are 49,933 homeless veterans in the United States. In Detroit, homeless veterans who die without families to claim their bodies get a proper send off, thanks to students at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School. As a community service, students there serve as pallbearers, bringing an element of dignity and reverence to the funerals for these fallen American veterans. The Huffington Post talked to Todd Wilson, the director of service at the school:
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| Posted: 28 Oct 2015 11:00 PM PDT A video from The Royal Institution explains in a very calm, subdued, British way what happens when you burn iron oxide and aluminum powder inside a pumpkin. The visual effects are quite impressive. It’s also quite dangerous, so don’t try this at home. Please. Thermite is nothing to fool around with. -via The Daily Dot | ||||||||
| Strange Medical-Themed Woodblock Prints From 19th-Century Japan Posted: 28 Oct 2015 10:00 PM PDT Before science and medicine offered explanations for how bodily functions work and what diseases do to the body people had all kinds of strange ideas about what was happening inside their bodies. “Bodily functions personified as popular kabuki actors,” artist unknown, late 19th century Diseases felt like a curse, fevers felt like demonic possession, and drugs felt like a blessing from a god, so when artists created visual depictions of illness and diseases these terrifying themes could be seen in many of their works. “Chasing measles away,” by Utagawa Yoshimori, 1862 These fantastic Japanese artworks from the 19th-Century are part of the University of California- San Francisco's Japanese woodblock print collection, which isn't all medical-themed but is all kinds of cool to look through! See more of these medical-themed woodblock prints at Dangerous Minds | ||||||||
| Scientists: Constrictor Snakes Kill Their Prey By Over-Pressuring the Brain Posted: 28 Oct 2015 09:00 PM PDT
Constrictor snakes, such as pythons and anacondas, kill by squeezing their prey. But what precisely is the snake tightly coiling around your body doing that will kill you? According to an article recently published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, it's killing you by raising the blood pressure in your brain so high that you won't be able to think anymore. From the asbtract:
-via Seriously, Science? | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Oct 2015 08:00 PM PDT Sedlec Ossuary, near Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic, is one of many bone repositories in Europe, but it stands out for its unique architecture. The bones of the dead were used to make murals, light fixtures, and gingerbread to decorate the church! How did that happen? Dylan Thuras of Atlas Obscura tells the tale of Sedlec Ossuary. | ||||||||
| How to Travel Like Anthony Bourdain Posted: 28 Oct 2015 07:00 PM PDT
"In my carry-on, I'll have a notebook, yellow legal pads, good headphones. Imodium is important. The necessity for Imodium will probably present itself, and you don't want to be caught without it. I always carry a scrunchy lightweight down jacket; it can be a pillow if I need to sleep on a floor. And the iPad is essential. I load it up with books to be read, videos, films, games, apps, because I'm assuming there will be downtime. You can't count on good films on an airplane." Read more about Bourdain's travel habits and necessities at Esquire. | ||||||||
| How To Survive A Free-Falling Elevator Posted: 28 Oct 2015 06:00 PM PDT The free falling elevator trope is so overused that audiences know just what to expect when "things go wrong" with an elevator while main characters are on board, but would you know what to expect in real life? Elevator cables almost never snap in real life, and when they do most commercial elevators have secondary cables, brakes and air pressure on their side to keep the elevator, and its occupants, from going splat. That being said, it never hurts to discover some new survival tips and tricks, and watching this video from Business Insider might make all the difference if you ever meet with an elevator mishap. -Via Lifehacker | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Oct 2015 05:00 PM PDT This scene looks like a mess left after a party, doesn’t it? That’s what most people would think. But this is an art installation, titled “We were going to dance tonight” by Milanese artists Goldschmied & Chiari. It went on exhibit last Friday at the Museion modern art gallery in Bolzano, Italy. And, of course, when a new exhibit opens at a gallery, there’s always a reception. The cleaning crew arrived Saturday morning and saw what appeared to have been quite a party, so... they cleaned it up.
The museum staff went to work to re-assemble the installation, using photographs as a guide. -via Arbroath | ||||||||
| Realistic Chocolate Dinosaur Teeth Posted: 28 Oct 2015 04:00 PM PDT Sarah Hardy is chef with extraordinary abilities to create delicious desserts that look like things you normally wouldn't eat, such as a severed human head and a raw turkey. She's now applying her talents to paleontology with 1:1 scale models of teeth from frightening dinosaurs. But they're made of chocolate! The megalodon (left) is 14 cm long and is a truly luxurious chocolate experience:
The tyrannosaurs rex tooth (right) is similarly the product of a master chocolatier:
-via Technabob | ||||||||
| The Oldest Joke In The Galaxy - Forced Laughter Posted: 28 Oct 2015 03:00 PM PDT Oldest Joke In The Galaxy by Warbucks Design They're the jokes every being in the universe has heard before, the ridiculous tales that involve three or more different characters walking in to some sort of establishment to set up the punchline for a solid delivery. They're the groaners, the knee-slappers, the jokes that win wit wars by forcing an opponent to choke on a sympathetic snicker and slink away. This one stars an old man, a boy and two droids, stop me if you've heard this one before- An old man, a boy and two droids walk into a bar. The bartender takes one look at them and says "Whaddya doin' hangin' around wit' those two stiffs?" The old man replies "Those are our droids", to which the bartender says "I wuz talkin' to tha droids!" Share a silly joke setup with the world, wear this Oldest Joke In The Galaxy t-shirt wherever you go and watch your sci-fi comedy star rise among your fellow fans. Visit Warbucks Design's Facebook fan page and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more delightfully geeky designs:
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| Posted: 28 Oct 2015 03:00 PM PDT A new promotion for The Peanuts Movie is a generator that turns your text into the trombone adult voices you hear in the Peanuts cartoons. Try out the Wah Wah Machine! Just type in whatever, and listen to the machine-translated gibberish. I get the idea that vowels are crucial, and punctuation is more important than the actual words you use, so punctuate away. You can even save your creation as an mp3, in case you want to use it as a ring tone or send it to Aunt Betty. Oh yeah, it knows when you’re typing profanity, too. -via Boing Boing | ||||||||
| Who Loves Fall Leaves? Stella the Yellow Lab Posted: 28 Oct 2015 02:00 PM PDT Most Labrador retrievers will go to any length to get a ball that's thrown to them, even if one throws the ball all day long. Stella is no different. But this playful pup obviously loves the autumn twist of having the ball thrown into a big pile of leaves. If only dogs could rake and bag them as well as they scatter them! Via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
| 5 Kids Movies With Plots Inspired By Their R-Rated Relatives Posted: 28 Oct 2015 01:00 PM PDT Filmmakers are always trying to prove that they can make a kid appropriate movie that parents will enjoy as well, and flicks like The Incredibles and Wreck-It Ralph have come pretty darn close. But these PG movies have something else in common besides their rating- their plots are incredibly similar to some R-rated films. The Incredibles was heavily influenced by Alan Moore's graphic novel masterpiece The Watchmen, a connection posited by Baltimore Sun writer Michael Sragrow back in 2009 that seems pretty obvious in retrospect. But would you believe parallels can be drawn between Wreck-It Ralph and Taxi Driver? It's easy to dismiss these theories as nothing more than a case of every story influencing every other story, but the parallels extend beyond the plot to the very camera shots, story arc and dialog, making them mighty hard to ignore. See 5 Movies For Kids That Stole Their Plot From Adult Movies here (contains NSFW language) | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Oct 2015 12:00 PM PDT The New Conformity is a trio of jugglers who perform with Cause & Effect Circus. They start off with synchronized juggling, which is nice to see. Then they start juggling each others’ balls. A nicer term for that would be tandem juggling. They also do contact juggling, ball balancing, a hand dance, and even a Three Stooges-type routine. After all that, they just start showing off. -via Digg | ||||||||
| These Flowers Bloom When People Stand under Them Posted: 28 Oct 2015 11:00 AM PDT
HQ Architects designed this unique shade for pedestrians in Vallero Square in Jerusaelm, Israel. It's called "Warde." These flower sculptures are equipped with sensors and air compressors. When someone stands under them, the fabric blossoms unfold and inflate, providing relief from the sun. You can see more photos and a video at Contemporist. The flowers are especially lovely at night when the built-in lights activate. | ||||||||
| The Truly Enthralling Tale Of The Man We All Know As Vigo The Carpathian Posted: 28 Oct 2015 10:00 AM PDT Imagine what it would feel like to play supporting roles and bit parts in Hollywood productions for decades yet the role you become best known for is one where you play the evil guy in the painting. You only get to move for a few minutes in the film, and when you finally have a short speaking line your voice is overdubbed, a fact which you discover for the first time on premiere night. That's the Ghostbusters II experience for Norbert Grupe, aka Vigo The Carpathian, and the only thing more wicked than his scowl are the dark secrets he kept buried deep within. Norbert's life played out like a Greek tragedy, as he tried to come out of the shadow cast by his larger-than-life father Richard and instead found a life full of failure, debauchery, violence and hate. No wonder he was chosen to play Vigo The Carpathian! Read about The Hateful Life And Spiteful Death Of The Man Who Was Vigo The Carpathian here | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Oct 2015 09:00 AM PDT Spooky things are happening on the set of the mental_floss List Show. Weird things also happen on the sets of horror films, which you’ll learn about in this episode. Find out which films are based on true stories, which productions were plagued with bad luck, and where horror novelists and screenwriters get their ideas. | ||||||||
| Horrible Halloween Costumes Available on Etsy Posted: 28 Oct 2015 08:30 AM PDT This "Walter White" mask is one part meth-dealer, one part Leather Face and one part just-plain-no. And it's only one of the many WTF costumes Flavorwire discovered are available for sale on Etsy this year. While it might be a little too late to have an item delivered on this list to your house in time for Halloween (though I don't know why you would though) you can at least get the PDF instructions to make this terrible Lady Gaga lobster hat. | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Oct 2015 08:00 AM PDT You remember Nibbles the Duck: he’s the one who couldn’t wait for his boy Jonny to get home from school. Now Nibbles is modeling his Halloween costume. He’s a Lobster! You could say the costume is, um, daffy. What makes the video is the infectious laughter. Nibbles is quite a trooper. He’ll put up with anything for his beloved, if somewhat wacky, family. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Police Department Training in the Use of Nunchucks Posted: 28 Oct 2015 07:30 AM PDT
Here's Sgt. Casey Day showing how to use nunchucks to not only strike like Bruce Lee, but to restrain and control suspects without causing undue harm. He and his colleagues on the police department of Anderson, California hope to add it to their arsenal of non-lethal weapons. KRCR News reports:
-via Jeremy Barker | ||||||||
| Amazon Gym (Full Color) - Her Workout Will Do Wonders For Your Physique! Posted: 28 Oct 2015 07:00 AM PDT Amazon Gym (Full Color) by Adria.Wells When you're looking for a little inspiration to kick your workout routine into high gear you should take a note from Wonder Woman and train like a princess. Of course, it helps if you're an Amazonian princess who was born with a superhuman physique and endless endurance levels, but every hero has to start somewhere! Shape up in superheroic style with this Amazon Gym (Full Color) t-shirt by Adria.Wells, it's one tee that's sure to earn you lots of compliments from your fellow geeks at the gym! Visit Adria.Wells's Facebook fan page, official website, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to her NeatoShop for more mighty geeky designs:
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| These 25 Horror-Bly Funny T-Shirts Will Make People Laugh Their Heads Off! Posted: 28 Oct 2015 07:00 AM PDT Halloweentime isn't all about scares and nightmares, it's also about that fringe kind of funny known as dark humor or black comedy. It's the kind of funny that makes you laugh in the face of death, or get a good chuckle from a horrifying situation, and designs created with this peculiar hue of horror humor in mind can be found in the NeatoShop! Those who dig black comedy have a rotten sense of humor And a penchant for finding the morbid funny CHARLIE'S FINAL HUMILIATION by BeastPop They're not like those ordinary folks who laugh at ordinary things The Queen Is A Lizard by Immortalized Because ordinary is boring! The love of dark humor is something you're born with Alien Big Wheel by Chet Phillips And something that stays with you until the day you die It's a love that starts in our unusual minds Works its way through our greasy guts And always comes out in the end Some people find our sense of humor disturbing Hello, Is It Me You're Looking For? by MannArt But when we meet a fellow fan of the horribly humorous we bond instantly Be My Beelze-Bud by Nicholas Ginty Because it's not every day you meet someone with such good taste in funny! Bestie From Another Chestie by ClayGrahamArt There's laughter lurking around in the outskirts of our minds The minions of morbid humor gnawing at our funny bones Fruit Of The Tomb by Gimetzco! And those scary funny things forcing us to crack a smile The call of the frightfully funny is irresistible And we're transformed by the unification of the tragic and comedic The Walking Deadpool by Vincent Trinidad Captivated by the creepy nature of dark comedy And makes us into the morbidly madcap people you know and love! I Spawn Again by Xaq-Industries We're not crazy, well, not exactly Minions Misfits Parody by Boggs Nicolas We just like to poke fun at the dark side of life Instead of letting it get us down we find a way to grin about it Spike Don't Sparkle by Manny Peters Art + Design Finding humor in horror and delight on the dark side BLOOD MOON by Wirdou Because even a horror movie can have a happy ending! If you like your humor like you like your coffee- black with a couple of spoonfuls of silliness, then you'll simply adore the NeatoShop! There you'll find thousands of designs, ranging from funny to horrifying to horrifyingly funny, and all created with the best printing quality in the biz. So head to the NeatoShop and find a shirt that screams FUNNY! | ||||||||
| World's Slowest Rube Goldberg Machine Posted: 28 Oct 2015 06:30 AM PDT How would you design a chain reaction that takes six weeks to complete? Bob Partington of Field Day did it. My question was how do they expect us to sit through the video? But that’s easy, because the slower parts of it are time-lapsed, with a clock in the corner to indicate when and how much time is compressed. Part of this involves filling a trough with enough molasses to float a boat. Slowly. A tortoise has to carry the ball for a while. Popsicles have to melt. And the last “slowness” gimmick is a real doozy. I'm just glad they didn't recreate the Pitch Drop experiment, which would have taken years. Partington has a behind-the-scenes video in which he explains the design process. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Oct 2015 06:00 AM PDT Alison Moritsugu is an artist from Hawaii who lives in Beacon, New York. For her log series, she composed idealized images of nature onto the cut surfaces of rough hewn logs. Moritsugu explains:
Several of her log paintings will be on display from Nov. 12 - Dec. 12 at Littlejohn Contemporary Art in New York City. This is one of my favorites: a miniature painted on the top of a walking stick. -via Hi-Fructose | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Oct 2015 05:00 AM PDT
by Stephen Drew, Improbable Research staff
An Earlier Case of a Cheesy Toothmark
Chomping and the Chocolate Factory
Cake-Chomping in the Snack Bar
What the Dentures Did to the Food
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