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• The White Man in That Photo
• So What Is Meat?
• LPD Is Looking For A Suspect Wearing A ‘Very Cheap’ Deadpool Costume
• The Anime Based On Japanese Condoms
• Cyberpunk 2077 Delayed (Again) To November
• This Painter Uses Her Sink as a Canvas
• As If They Were Real
• The Strangest Unsolved Mysteries
• This Teacher Translated And Checked A Runic Essay
• Physical Therapists Review Our Posture
• It’s A Literal Baguette Bag!
• A New Toilet For The International Space Station
• The American Hedgehog Bowling Association
• Harlem’s Forgotten Fight to Save Africa’s Last Uncolonised Nation from Mussolini
• The Blobs Beneath Us Are Much Larger Than Previously Thought

The White Man in That Photo Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:57 AM PDT Here's a very interesting post about Peter Norman, the white guy in the famous raised black gloved fists picture on the 1968 Olympic podium. We all know that picture and its historical ripples, but do you know Peter Norman's place in it? You learn also how to use the Olympic Black Power statue on the San Jose State University campus.

So What Is Meat? Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:57 AM PDT For us, meat is just the juicy, tasty slab of tissue from animals. But some people think it's more than that simple definition. People who are developing cell-cultured meat believe that meat can be the product of cultural consensus, not of killing animals. If people accept meat in various shapes and forms, then they can accept that meat can come from different methods. Cell-cultured meat is one of the methods that big food companies are looking at for the future, as NPR details:  At the center of Chase Purdy's briskly paced and quietly bold Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food is Josh Tetrick, a San Francisco-based entrepreneur and CEO of Just Inc. Tetrick's company and a handful of others like it are growing cell-cultured meat that tastes, feels and looks like the livestock-harvested meat that people are used to — except without the farms and killing of animals. And before anyone raises a skeptical brow: Yes, it's actually meat. Technically, at least. The struggle for mainstream acceptance of cell-cultured meat is real. Convincing the American public that cells grown in "serum" in a big vat is meat will be challenging, but it could happen — and sooner than you might think. Meat, it seems, is all about what consumers are used to. For the sake of the planet and the future of food sustainability, it might be time to reconsider meat harvested from dead animals. If we're going to eat meat at all, eliminating the need to kill an animal that consumes food resources humans could otherwise be using — and that's also captive to an industry that pollutes the air and soil and deforests broad swaths of the planet — might be a good start. image via NPR

LPD Is Looking For A Suspect Wearing A ‘Very Cheap’ Deadpool Costume Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:57 AM PDT Police in Lincoln, Nebraska, are looking for a suspect in a very specific costume. A man dressed in a 'very cheap' Deadpool costume was seen smashing windows and causing damage to a business at the Lincoln Mall. The man managed to break out over 20 windows. Hopefully the police find the suspect!  image via abc8

The Anime Based On Japanese Condoms Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:57 AM PDT We've seen different kinds of anime over the years, but this Condom Battler Goro surprised me because of what it's based upon. It's an anime promoting safe sex, and also a marketing ploy by Japan's leading condom manufacturer, Okamoto Industries. The superhero anime is a 56-part series, but only  episodes 1, 19, 45, and 56 will be released for now. It's still not known if the missing episodes will be released in the future.  image via SoraNews24

Cyberpunk 2077 Delayed (Again) To November Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:57 AM PDT It seems that we'd have to wait a little longer before we can burn a city with Keanu Reeves, as the game Cyberpunk 2077 will be delayed to November 19, 2020. While the game may be finished "both content and gameplay-wise," head of studio Adam Badowski and co-founder Marcin Iwinski states via Twitter that they'd spend the additional time ironing things out in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, to ensure that the game will stay with the players for the years to come. The studio has also tipped its hat about a wave of hands-on preview articles from members of the press, and these will apparently be timed to the studio's "Night City Wire" live-streamed event coming on Thursday, June 25. [...] While game release delays like these can sometime spark outsized levels of online anger, it's always good to remember the words attributed to legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto: "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." Are you looking forward to the game's release? (Image Credit: Cyberpunk 2077/ YouTube)

This Painter Uses Her Sink as a Canvas Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:57 AM PDT Marta Grossi lives in Milan, Italy--the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in her country. Locked down since March 8, she's needed space to be creative. She found it in her own bathroom sink, which she paints and repaints with colorful images of less confined life. Grossi calls her series Wash Your Hands and Keep Creative. She explains that: Few weeks ago I thought about the perception of things, about how many times we are reminded to wash our hands since we met the corona virus. The sinks of all the world are now becoming silent companions, we look out every day - and under this tragic circumstances - a simple piece of furniture is changing in front of our eyes. -via My Modern Met

As If They Were Real Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:57 AM PDT Ben Hed of Pet Foolery took some famous illusion photos of pets and drew them as if they were real. Click to the right to see all of them. These are some fine animals, and I'd like to sign up to adopt one, especially the cat with antlers. I have plenty of cucumbers. -via Bored Panda

The Strangest Unsolved Mysteries Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:57 AM PDT If you're looking for more articles or stories to read about in your quarantine time, try this list of the strangest unsolved mysteries compiled by Reader's Digest! From the mysterious Voynich manuscript to the ghost ship Mary Celeste, these cases will surely make you think! Check out the full list here.  image via Reader's Digest

This Teacher Translated And Checked A Runic Essay Posted: 21 Jun 2020 02:32 AM PDT This Japanese teacher took a great deal of time and effort to check one of their students' essays. If you tasked your students with writing an essay in any language, I'm sure you wouldn't expect someone to turn in an essay written in a Runic alphabet! The teacher was able to check the student's essay after transcribing the essay to Romaji in three hours.  image via Twitter

Physical Therapists Review Our Posture Posted: 21 Jun 2020 01:33 AM PDT If your back hurts after spending time browsing the Internet or doing work from home, then maybe it's your posture that's the root of the problem. I'm sure it is the cause of my back problems. While we can't really go to physical therapists for advice during a pandemic, we can learn vicariously through Buzzfeed as they consult physical therapists about posture.

It’s A Literal Baguette Bag! Posted: 21 Jun 2020 01:32 AM PDT You wouldn't want to forget this Bag-uette as you go to France. It's not edible, however, but you can put an authentic baguette inside it, protecting it from unwanted microbes and pollution. This ensures that you won't go hungry as you travel across the romantic streets of Paris. I hope they make a croissant bag, too! (Image Credit: Yuri Morgan/ Facebook)

A New Toilet For The International Space Station Posted: 21 Jun 2020 01:32 AM PDT The current toilet on the International Space Station (the photo above) has been there ever since the 1990s. Astronauts have struggled with aim (especially when doing number two), and they also found it clunky to use (especially for the women). The aged toilet also is now prone to accidents. Just last year in February, the Russian media reported that it burst, spilling gallons of fluid, which the unlucky astronauts had to wipe off with towels. Suffice it to say, it's about time that the toilet is replaced with a new one, and NASA is doing just that. A NASA spokesperson told Space.com that the new and improved lavatory could be headed to the ISS as early as this fall, but a spacecraft has yet to be picked out for the special delivery. The goal of the new toilet is also to make sure that we don't have to leave human waste behind and thereby risking cross-contamination on distant planets. They also have future goals in mind. More details over at Futurism. (Image Credit: NASA/ ScienceAlert)

The American Hedgehog Bowling Association Posted: 20 Jun 2020 11:29 PM PDT So what if college and professional sports are cancelled? Welcome to the American Hedgehog Bowling Association match between reigning champ Pepper and the 11-week-old newcomer Tuck! Rest easy, the hedgehogs are not thrown down the lane as you may have imagined, but instead are the athletes playing under their own steam in this riveting bowling match. -via Laughing Squid

Harlem’s Forgotten Fight to Save Africa’s Last Uncolonised Nation from Mussolini Posted: 20 Jun 2020 11:18 PM PDT Beginning in 1881, European nations raced to colonize Africa, until almost all of the continent was under the rule of various faraway countries. In 1935, as tensions that led to World War II were building, Italy invaded Ethiopia.   The continent's only remaining nation to avoid colonization in Europe's Scramble for Africa, has just been invaded by Benito Mussolini. And more than seven thousand miles away, in a historic display of Pan-Africanism and Black Nationalism that took place across the United States, this was the Black American community drafting itself to defend the Empire of Ethiopia when no one else would. Today's forgotten chapter of history connects to a number of fascinating stories about America's first Black aviators, taking us from the streets of Harlem to Africa, with an unexpected stop in the English countryside following the little-known footsteps of the last Emperor of Ethiopia (who just so happens to be regarded as the incarnation of God by the Rastafarian religion). Because Ethiopia was not an official ally of the US, the government prevented most volunteers from going off to fight. But those who managed to get there left a mark. Read about the volunteers who fought for Ethiopia and the legacy the conflict left at Messy Nessy Chic.

The Blobs Beneath Us Are Much Larger Than Previously Thought Posted: 20 Jun 2020 11:17 PM PDT Deep within the planet Earth, unseen by our eyes, are gigantic blobs of hot rock that extend hundreds of miles in every direction. These humongous blobs, which go by many names like "thermo-chemical piles" and "large low-shear velocity provinces" (LLSVPs) still baffle scientists up to this day. Geologists don't know much about where these blobs came from or what they are, but they do know that they're gargantuan. The two biggest blobs, which sit deep below the Pacific Ocean and Africa, account for nearly 10% of the entire mantle's mass, one 2016 study found — and, if they sat on Earth's surface, the duo would each extend about 100 times higher than Mount Everest. However, new research suggests, even those lofty analogies may be underestimating just how big the blobs really are. In a study published June 12 in the journal Science, researchers analyzed the seismic waves generated by earthquakes over nearly 30 years. They found several massive, never before-detected features along the edges of the Pacific blob. Know more about this study over at Live Science. (Image Credit: Sanne.cottaar/ Wikimedia Commons)

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