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• Behold the Shimmering Beauty of Iran's Glass Mosque
• Guéguen on Red
• A Delightfully Wrong Geek Valentine's Day Card
• The Restaurant with No Kitchen
• A Huge Collection Of Really Cool Tattoos Dedicated To Dogs
• Welcome To The Jungle - I Wanna Watch You Bleed
• Pictures Found on a Brooklyn Street
• Awesome Fan Art Imagines Alternate Scenes From Original Star Wars Trilogy
• Tomislav Jagnjić's Artwork with Humorous Titles
• World Of Warcraft Themed Cooking Show Launches In South Korea
• Corpse of Famous Weasel on Display
• The Best National Park in Every State
• Vintage Auto Ads from the Soviet Union
• Get Dressed Up For Awards Season In These Cool Cinematic NeatoShop Shirts
• Our 9,000-Year Love Affair With Booze

Behold the Shimmering Beauty of Iran's Glass Mosque Posted: 31 Jan 2017 03:59 AM PST Imagine stained glass reflected by a disco mirror ball, and that's only the beginning of what you can expect from Shah Cheragh, which means "King of the Light." The walls and ceilings are covered with glass and mirror tiles that shimmer and shine as you walk by.    (YouTube link) Shiny! The mosque was built as a mausoleum in Shiraz, Iran, and was later fitted with an interior designed to magnify any light passing through. -via Atlas Obscura

Guéguen on Red Posted: 31 Jan 2017 02:00 AM PST The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research, now in all-pdf form. Get a subscription now for only $25 a year! (Image credit: Flickr user Andrey) Some of Guéguen’s Attempts to Observe the Effects of Women Wearing Red by Alice Shirell Kaswell, Improbable Research staff Nicolas Guéguen researches the effects of women who wear red on men. He does research on other subjects too, many of them focusing on the effect of women’s appearance, while hitchhiking or waitressing, on men’s behavior. Guéguen is based at Université de Bretagne-Sud, France. Here are a few of Guéguen’s women-wearing-red studies. Guéguen and Red Clothed Women “Color and Women Attractiveness: When Red Clothed Women Are Perceived to Have More Intense Sexual Intent,” Nicolas Guéguen, The Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 152, no. 3, 2012, pp. 261-265. Guéguen explains: Research has shown that with some nonhuman primates, red is associated with greater sexual attractiveness of females, and recent studies found that a woman with red clothes increases attraction behavior in men. However, the mechanism that explains such behavior was not studied. In this experiment, we hypothesized that men overestimated women’s sexual intent when wearing red clothing. Participants evaluated attractiveness and the sexual intent of a woman presented in a photograph wearing a red, a blue, a green or a white teeshirt. It was found that men evaluated higher sexual intent in the red clothing condition. It was also found that perception of the woman’s sexual intent was not moderated by attractiveness rating. (Image credit: Roger McLassus) Guéguen and Male Drivers and Red-Clad Female Hitchhikers “Color and Women Hitchhikers’ Attractiveness: Gentlemen Drivers Prefer Red,” Nicolas Guéguen, Color Research and Application, vol. 37, no. 1, 2012, pp. 76-78. Guéguen explains: Five female confederates in their early 20s posed as hitchhikers wearing T-shirts of different colors (black, white, red, blue, green, or yellow). It was found that the women wearing red solicited a higher response in the number of male drivers who stopped to offer a ride. No color effect was found when considering the behavior of female drivers. (Image credit: Flickr user Khoi Tran) Guéguen and Women in Red in Internet Personal Ads “Color and Cyber-Attractiveness: Red Enhances Men’s Attraction to Women’s Internet Personal Ads,” Nicolas Guéguen and Céline Jacob, Color Research and Application, vol. 38, no. 4, 2013, pp. 309-312. Guéguen explains: Women with Internet personal ads registered on a web meeting site displayed photographs with their upper clothes colored in red, black, white, yellow, blue, and green. The dependent variable was the number of contacts received from men. It was found that women’s ads with red received significantly more contacts. Guéguen and Waitresses With Red Lipstick “Lipstick and Tipping Behavior: When Red Lipstick Enhance Waitresses Tips,” Nicolas Guéguen and Céline Jacob, International Journal of Hospitality Management, vol. 31, no. 4, 2012, pp. 1333-1335. Guéguen explains: Female waitresses with and without lipstick were instructed to act in the same way than usual with their patrons. Results showed that lipstick, and particularly red lipstick, was associated with greater male patrons (but not female patrons) tipping behavior. The increase of attractiveness and femininity of waitresses wearing lipstick and red lips was used to explain the results. (Image credit: Flickr user Alice) Guéguen and Women With Red Lipstick in a Bar “Does Red Lipstick Really Attract Men? An Evaluation in a Bar,” Nicolas Guéguen, International Journal of Psychological Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2012, p. 206. Guéguen explains: Female confederates wearing red, pink, brown and no lipstick were seated in bars on Wednesday and Saturday nights in a popular spot on the West Atlantic coast of France. Each experimental session lasted one hour. The number of men’s solicitations and the lead time of the first solicitation were used as dependent variables. Results showed that the red lipstick condition was associated with a higher number of male solicitations and a shorter lead time between the arrival of the confederates in the bar and the first courtship solicitation of a male. (Image credit: Gary J. Wood) Guéguen and Waitresses in Red “Clothing Color and Tipping: Gentlemen Patrons Give More Tips to Waitresses With Red Clothes,” Nicolas Guéguen and Céline Jacob, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, vol. 38, no. 2, 2014, pp. 275-280. Eleven waitresses in five restaurants were instructed to wear the same tee shirt with different colors (black, white, red, blue, green, or yellow). The effect of color on tipping according to patron’s gender was measured. It was found that waitresses wearing red received more tips but only with male patrons. _____________________ This article is republished with permission from the September-October 2016 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. You can download or purchase back issues of the magazine, or subscribe to receive future issues. Or get a subscription for someone as a gift! Visit their website for more research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK.

A Delightfully Wrong Geek Valentine's Day Card Posted: 30 Jan 2017 11:59 PM PST We already featured a whole collection of great geeky Valentine's Day cards, but I didn't discover this design by Josh Cullen until almost a week later. It was so good, I just had to share it with the rest of you. Josh's Etsy shop is full of great geeky art outside of his amazing Valentine's Day card. This Chewbacca Big Foot design is just one example, and you can see the rest of it here.

The Restaurant with No Kitchen Posted: 30 Jan 2017 09:59 PM PST At some restaurants, you sit down and they cook you some food. At others, you pick up the food and take it home. Now there's a restaurant in Helsinki that turns that idea on its ear. Take In doesn't even have a kitchen, but you sit down to eat take out food ordered from any of 20 other restaurants. With no kitchen, guests at Take In choose from a curated selection of dishes from roughly 20 restaurants via an app called Wolt, the other sponsor of the pop-up. Guests eat their dinner in the Take In dining room. Take In offers bar service, and “hosting service,” helping get orders to the correct table. Guests who just want to drop in for a drink are welcome to do so. While it seems like a concept designed for solo diners, a Wolt spokeperson tells Monocle that the restaurant offers a solution for groups who can’t decide on what they all want to eat. The Take In pop-up started at the beginning of November, and will run through April 2. It sounds like a fancier version of what we'd call a food court. Read more about this odd concept in dining at Eater.  -Thanks, John Farrier!

A Huge Collection Of Really Cool Tattoos Dedicated To Dogs Posted: 30 Jan 2017 07:59 PM PST (Image Link) People looking for a lasting way to pay tribute to their beloved pet often get a tattoo with their name or likeness, so that pet will be with them for the rest of their lives. (Image Link) This is a really sweet way to remember a pet you've loved and lost, but the ink memorial can have the opposite effect on you if the artist does a crappy job of rendering your dear pet's likeness. But we're not here to dwell on bad tats, we're here to check out some really cool body art dedicated to good dogs both alive and gone to that great big dog park in the sky. (Image Link) If you like tattoos this collection will inspire you, if you like dogs this list will probably touch you, but if you hate dogs and tattoos then I suggest watching Benji with your local tattoo artist! (Image Link) See 10+ Of The Best Dog Tattoo Ideas Ever here

Welcome To The Jungle - I Wanna Watch You Bleed Posted: 30 Jan 2017 05:59 PM PST Welcome to the Jungle by Nihat Gokcen Welcome to the jungle, we've got jeep rides and....wait, is that a raptor? What the hell kinda theme park is this?! You're telling me there are actual living dinosaurs in here? What's stopping them from having us all for lunch? Apparently they weren't lying when they named this place Jurassic Park, but from the looks of it their security system isn't doing a very good job of keeping the guests safe from the dinosaurs. Why do I say that? Because that raptor over there has blood on its maw... Celebrate your favorite dinosaur-themed movie franchise in style with this Welcome To The Jungle t-shirt by Nihat Gokcen, it's sure to make people grin like a raptor wherever you go! Visit Nihat Gokcen's Facebook fan page, official website, Twitter and Instagram, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more dino-riffic designs: An Empire Full of Force - Stormtrooper Eeny Meeny Miny Mo An Empire Full of Force - Scarif Cantina Cafe Dagobah View more designs by Nihat Gokcen | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

Pictures Found on a Brooklyn Street Posted: 30 Jan 2017 05:59 PM PST Six years ago, Annie Correal found a discarded photo album on her Brooklyn street. It contained snapshots of a black couple in New York in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, but the notes gave little information as to their identities. She held on to the album, but as time passed, Correal knew that time was running out on finding who the pictures belonged to. Gentrification was transforming the neighborhood — soon there might be no one left who recognized the world in these pictures. And the album was literally falling apart in my hands. If I was ever going to try to get to the bottom of it, this was the time. I decided to uncover its story. I thought it would be simple. But chasing the album would become something of a journey, one that would take me far from present-day Brooklyn to the Jim Crow South, from a remote island in the Pacific to the packed tenements of Harlem, before returning me to Lincoln Place at another moment of great change. Through knocking on doors, searching public records, and traveling to North Carolina, Correal pieced together the story of Etta Mae and Isaiah Taylor and their experiences in World War II, Harlem nightlife, and the changing demographics of New York City. She even found out why the album was thrown out. Read about the project and the people she found at the New York Times. -via Metafilter (Image credit: Jesse Williams)

Awesome Fan Art Imagines Alternate Scenes From Original Star Wars Trilogy Posted: 30 Jan 2017 03:59 PM PST (Alternate Opening To A New Hope by Morgan Yon) Alternative facts aren't cool, and they will never replace cold, hard facts, but alternate takes on our favorite pop culture franchises are often cool enough to take on a life of their own. For instance, these fan art pieces depicting alternate scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy are cool enough to be used as concept art on a project, but the artists didn't create them for use in a film. (The Final Test by Markus Stadlober) They were submissions for the ILM ART Department Challenge, hosted by Industrial Light & Magic, Wacom and ArtStation, and each piece tells a compelling tale we'll never get to see on the big screen. (Image by Matt Rhodes)  These alternate artworks were created within a strict set of guidelines, in order to give the artists a taste of what it would feel like to work for ILM as a concept artist: The guidelines set by ILM were as follows: Think about the story you are trying to tell with the image - it should be cinematic and convey a specific emotion. The image must fit within Episodes IV - VI aesthetic. Again, everything used must already exist within the world of Star Wars. (Marauders by Pavel Goloviy) See Star Wars Fan Art Imagines Alternate Endings here Alternate Opening To A New Hope by Morgan Yon

Tomislav Jagnjić's Artwork with Humorous Titles Posted: 30 Jan 2017 01:59 PM PST hey psst, wanna buy some cubes Serbian artist Tomislav Jagnjić creates lovely digital artwork of science fiction and fantasy scenes, and then gives them hilariously subversive titles. yo bro is it safe down there in the woods? yeah man it's cool You can see more of these at his web gallery. Hovering over an image will give you its title. I think there's an implied permission to use these images from the Facebook comments.  Leo Olten Dunkelberger Tomislav, do you have a site that sells prints or anything? :D Tomislav Jagnjić no man just download it from artstation and print it who gives a sh*t :D or pm me and say which one u want in hi-res and i'll send it to ya -via io9

World Of Warcraft Themed Cooking Show Launches In South Korea Posted: 30 Jan 2017 11:59 AM PST World of Warcraft adaptations are an inevitable byproduct of the game's success, and so far the board games, movie, comic books, etc. that have come out make perfect sense for the franchise. But South Korea has taken their love of WoW in an odd new direction- by creating the first ever World of Warcraft themed cooking show. The show is called "Wow! Recipe? The Meal Is Ready", it's hosted by celebrity chef Choi Hyun-seok, an avid Warcraft player, and it debuted on January 20th. (YouTube Link) It's hard to tell where Warcraft fits into the show from the clip, but according to GameAbout "Choi a known WoW player, will cook dishes like 'Hell Hound Sweet and Sour Fish' and 'Murloc Soup' while guests share stories from and about the game." Nothing says "Mmmmm!" like Murloc! -Via endgadget

Corpse of Famous Weasel on Display Posted: 30 Jan 2017 09:59 AM PST Last fall, a weasel failed to read the warning signs and crossed a fence guarding CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The stone marten was immediately zapped with 18,000 volts, and the incident shut down the collider temporarily. Now the corpse of that hapless creature is on display in an exhibition called Dead Animal Tales at the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The exhibit looks at animals that died due to circumstances caused by humans, one way or another. Kees Moeliker is the director of the museum.   The stone marten is the latest dead animal to go on display at the museum. It joins a sparrow that was shot after it sabotaged a world record attempt by knocking over 23,000 dominoes; a hedgehog that got fatally stuck in a McDonalds McFlurry pot, and a catfish that fell victim to a group of men in the Netherlands who developed a tradition for drinking vast amounts of beer and swallowing fish from their aquarium. The catfish turned out to be armoured, and on being swallowed raised its spines. The defence did not save the fish, but it put the 28-year-old man who tried to swallow it in intensive care for a week. It was another unfortunate incident that spurred Moeliker to establish the exhibition in the first place. In 1995, a male duck flew into the glass facade of the museum and died on impact, a fate that did not deter another male duck from raping the corpse for 75 minutes. The incident ruffled feathers in the community but earned Moeliker a much-coveted IgNobel prize when he published his observations . “I was the one and only witness,” Moeliker said. “I’m a trained biologist but what I saw was completely new to me.” Yes, that's where you know the name Kees Moeliker. Read more about the Dead Animal Tales exhibit at The Guardian. -via Gizmodo (Image credit: Kees Moeliker)

The Best National Park in Every State Posted: 30 Jan 2017 08:59 AM PST America is a beautiful country and our National Park system is an amazing way to explore the best wilderness and historical destiations in all of the US. Whether you like beaches, snow, rivers, forests, colonial towns or majestic mountains, the National Park service is sure to please.  That's why we love this amazing Travel and Leisure article that picks out the best National Park in each and every state. It's a great guide whether you want to see the best National Parks in states near you or to plan a huge road trip where you can see each of the best parks.  So don't miss the full list over on Travel and Leisure (and feel free to argue your case if you feel their selections are wrong).

Vintage Auto Ads from the Soviet Union Posted: 30 Jan 2017 07:59 AM PST The Soviet Union produced millions vehicles every year in the 1950s and '60s. In a collection of advertisements for them, there are some that border on fine art, like the art deco poster above. Then there are some that just invite mockery, like ads of the era from all over the world. Consider this ad for the Ukrainian LuAZ 969-M. It's supposed to evoke an image of the hardy outdoorsman, as he drives his LuAZ into the wilderness for a day of hunting. The wild boar is obviously pasted in, but they carved him a path in the snow to indicate his location. Or did they? The model, who isn't what you'd expect of a typical hunter of the Soviet Union, has no idea where to point the gun. Maybe he didn't really want to field dress a boar that day. You'll find a wide variety of styles in the roundup of Soviet car ads at Vintage Everyday. -via the Presurfer

Get Dressed Up For Awards Season In These Cool Cinematic NeatoShop Shirts Posted: 30 Jan 2017 06:59 AM PST Viva la Rebelion by Olipop The Academy Awards are about a month away, which means the 2016-17 awards season will soon come to a close leaving some actors, directors, writers, producers and other members of the entertainment industry feeling like winners. Others will wonder where they went wrong, and why their project wasn't picked to win an award, but they'll cheer up when they realize they have tons of fans out there who still think they're winners. If you're a fan of motion pictures and television shows then awards season probably fuels your passion, and there's no better way to share your passion for viewing with the world than a NeatoShop shirt! Awards season is a time for creators of champion-level cinema to shine El Burton by ikado And a time for the once unappreciated underdogs to get the recognition they deserve The Tarantinoverse by Dan Avenell It's also a great time to watch your favorite projects conquer the competition! Conquerors by RicoMambo But award season isn't all about competition ALOHA by Li.Ro.Vi Or winning a major award Revenant Boy by Emporion It's about academies awarding creators for their contributions to our entertainment ham4ham by haplo And fans nerding out on all their favorite films, TV shows, plays and franchises There's a Walking Carpet on My Starship by Stephanie Jayne Design It's no wonder movies, TV shows and Broadway plays are all anyone talks about this time of year Stranger Stole My Bike by NibiruHybrid There's excitement in the air about all the upcoming cinematic fun Finding Knight by DeepFriedArt And a healthy dose of nostalgia Off To Rock The Wiz by Donovan Alex Because people love pop culture Psycho by Mos Graphix And their passion is what fuels the awards industry ED WOOD 209 SCISSORHANDS by Bleee And no matter who wins, loses, or is unfairly snubbed Nagel Horror by Sam Daugherty Fans are always going to be in love with their favorite franchises Pop Art Slayer by Kellabell9 Even if the reboot doesn't quite thrill them like the original ATTACK OF SQUIRILLA by ADAM LAWLESS And with so many of our old favorites coming back with new content Maulien by Firebeard It's easy to keep the fires of fandom alive Blood of Kali by AndreusD But stay cool fanboys and fangirls! the dude abides by spike00 There are many more magical moments to come The Substitute by DeepFriedArt So keep the spirit of fandom alive in your hearts Ghost hunters by Albertocubatas And get ready for all the shiny new stuff to come! Come With Me, If You Want To Live by zerobriant If award season has rekindled your love of pop culture, or you're just looking for some great TV and movie themed shirts, then the NeatoShop has got you covered...literally! The NeatoShop applies the best prints in the biz to long and short sleeved t-shirts, hoodies, kids shirts, baby onesies, heck we even have shirts for your dog! And every sale supports indie artists who are superfans like yourself, the artists who create the designs that drive fans wild, so head to the NeatoShop and grab some entertaining garb today!

Our 9,000-Year Love Affair With Booze Posted: 30 Jan 2017 05:59 AM PST Evidence of alcoholic beverages goes back at least 9,000 years, and we may eventually find evidence even older. Even before that, our primate ancestors were attracted to fermented fruit for its good qualities: calories, easy digestion, and the good feeling it gave them. Historians once considered alcohol as just another consumable, but it's becoming more clear that alcohol was one of the driving forces behind a lot of developments and upheavals of human civilization. Indirectly, we may have the nutritional benefits of beer to thank for the invention of writing, and some of the world’s earliest cities—for the dawn of history, in other words. Adelheid Otto, an archaeologist at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich who co-directs excavations at Tall Bazi, thinks the nutrients that fermenting added to early grain made Mesopotamian civilization viable, providing basic vitamins missing from what was otherwise a depressingly bad diet. “They had bread and barley porridge, plus maybe some meat at feasts. Nutrition was very bad,” she says. “But as soon as you have beer, you have everything you need to develop really well. I’m convinced this is why the first high culture arose in the Near East.” Alcohol had a big role in the rise of agriculture and communities, then trade, then war. Read what we we know about the role of alcohol in human history at National Geographic. -via Digg (Image credit: Brian Finke/National Geographic)

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