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- Making LEGO Pizza: A Stop-Motion Animation
- Identifying Sounds Through Body Language
- Woman with Two Wombs Carrying a Twin in Each
- Myths About Crime We Believe Thanks To Pop Culture
- This Man Inserted A Live Eel To Cure Constipation
- This 34-Year-Old Gorilla Gets A CT Scan
- Man’s Bladder Explodes After Holding In His Pee For Eighteen Hours
- Those Times When People Accidentally Destroyed Expensive Items
- This Japanese Man Opened A Cricket Ramen Restaurant
- Is There A Better Way Than Just Taking Dietary Supplements To Prevent Diseases?
- When Hail Destroys Your Livelihood
- When You Accidentally Shoot The Ball
- Manramp
- The Disease That Silently Kills The People of Fiji
| Making LEGO Pizza: A Stop-Motion Animation Posted: 29 Jun 2020 03:45 AM PDT
YouTuber Bebop bakes a pizza made out entirely of LEGO pieces, from the dough, to the tomato sauce, as well as the pizza cheese and the pepperoni, onion, and black olives toppings. Bebop says that this 2-minute stop-motion video is made up of 2,890 pictures! Talk about dedication! Via Laughing Squid (Image Credit: Bebop/ YouTube)  |
| Identifying Sounds Through Body Language Posted: 29 Jun 2020 03:44 AM PDT
In a violin or a piano duet, have you ever wondered which person is making the melody and which one is playing the harmony? In order to answer this question, one needs not only his ears but also his eyes. When the ear fails to tell two instruments apart, the eye often pitches in by matching each musician's movements to the beat of each part. Taking inspiration from this concept,... A new artificial intelligence tool developed by the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab leverages the virtual eyes and ears of a computer to separate similar sounds that are tricky even for humans to differentiate. The tool improves on earlier iterations by matching the movements of individual musicians, via their skeletal keypoints, to the tempo of individual parts, allowing listeners to isolate a single flute or violin among multiple flutes or violins. This AI tool could be potentially used in sound mixing and reducing confusion in video conference calls. More details about this over at TechXplore. (Image Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology/ TechXplore) |
| Woman with Two Wombs Carrying a Twin in Each Posted: 28 Jun 2020 10:46 AM PDT
It's enough of a shock to find you are pregnant with twins. It's an even greater shock to find you are carrying twins in two different uteruses! That happened recently to a British woman.
To forestall the possibility that Fairhurst might have two different labor and deliveries, the twins will be born by cesarian section. Read more at the Guardian. -via Damn Interesting (Unrelated image credit: David Roseborough) |
| Myths About Crime We Believe Thanks To Pop Culture Posted: 28 Jun 2020 10:19 AM PDT
Police procedurals, whodunnits, and courtroom dramas are a big part of our entertainment, but that doesn't mean they are all that accurate. Crime fiction uses all sorts of shortcuts and tropes that just aren't so in real life, but they will keep using them as long as they create conflict and move the plot along -and ensure that the "good guys" win.
See 14 of these myths busted in a pictofacts list at Cracked. |
| This Man Inserted A Live Eel To Cure Constipation Posted: 28 Jun 2020 10:19 AM PDT
Don't do this, please. If you want to cure your constipation, don't insert a live eel into your anus. A man in China did, and the 15-inch long eel had to be removed from his innards after it tore a hole through the man's bowels. The man is safe now thanks to the doctors at Dongguan Huangjiang Hospital in Guangdong in China, but the eel didn't survive. image via wikimedia commons |
| This 34-Year-Old Gorilla Gets A CT Scan Posted: 28 Jun 2020 10:19 AM PDT
Makokou, a male western lowland gorilla from Johannesburg Zoo in South Africa, underwent a CT scan because of the unusual growths in its nose. Who knew that the medical procedure for humans can be given to animals as well? The gorilla was airlifted to a hospital to get a CT scan, as Sky News detailed: The facility's CT (computed-tomography) scanner is strong enough to cope with the huge ape's 210kg (33 stone) bulk. It took more than five people to lift the sedated Makokou, who turns 35 next month, off the stretcher after the scan and he was closely monitored. Zoo staff, who first became concerned for his health in May, decided he needed a scan after extensive tests revealed the primate had polyps in his nasal passages. image via Sky News |
| Man’s Bladder Explodes After Holding In His Pee For Eighteen Hours Posted: 28 Jun 2020 10:19 AM PDT
Don't go on a beer drinking binge for hours. If you choose to do so, make sure you'll be able to pee, or else you'll end up like this man! The man unknowingly held his pee in for eighteen hours after binging on booze. The 40-year-old man passed out after drinking ten bottles of beer, as Fox News detailed: After experiencing searing abdominal pains, the lager-logged soul reported to the to Zhuji People's Hospital in Zhejiang, eastern China, where a CT scan revealed that his bladder was torn in three places. The pee-induced pain was so intense that Hu was unable to lie flat, and he failed to relieve himself of his massive urine reservoir despite several attempts. Even worse, one of the holes had ruptured toward the patient's abdominal cavity and forced part of his intestines to spill into the bladder — a complication doctors deemed potentially fatal if not fixed immediately. Fortunately, they were able to save Hu's life via emergency surgery, and he has since been released from the hospital after making a complete recovery, according to local media outlets. image via Fox News |
| Those Times When People Accidentally Destroyed Expensive Items Posted: 28 Jun 2020 10:19 AM PDT
A subreddit is dedicated to photos and stories about people who made very expensive mistakes. From getting their cars wrecked and to toppling an expensive satellite, the subreddit holds some gems! See some astonishing examples and Bored Panda's in-depth interview with researcher and Assistant Professor of Marketing Noelle Nelson from the University of Oregon about how people deal with their mistakes. image via Bored Panda |
| This Japanese Man Opened A Cricket Ramen Restaurant Posted: 28 Jun 2020 10:19 AM PDT
Shinohara Yuta is an entomophagist who eats and makes dishes out of crickets (and other insects). His dream was to open an insect restaurant, a dream that he was able to hatch into reality! Watch as Asian Boss visits Yuta during his cricket ramen restaurant's opening. Would you eat the dishes served in his restaurant? |
| Is There A Better Way Than Just Taking Dietary Supplements To Prevent Diseases? Posted: 28 Jun 2020 06:01 AM PDT
One of the things that people spend lots of their money on are dietary supplements, which is understandable, because we don't want to get sick. It is said that the dietary supplement market is worth over $14 billion in Europe alone in 2018. It is also estimated that more than half of the American population take one or more nutrition supplements daily or on occasion. Unfortunately, some people heavily depend on these supplements, and they no longer care about their diet. They treat these supplements not as supplements, but as substitutes. Scientists, however, say that having a healthy diet is much better than taking pills. "Anytime somebody is missing major food groups, the first question is, can we target the missing nutrients with food? If not, then we would look into a supplement," said registered dietitian nutritionist Melissa Majumdar, who is a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. [...] "Eating a healthy diet is going to do far more for you than any supplement you can take, and yet we have a whole industry that is based on selling us all types of supplements," said Martha H. Stipanuk, James Jamison professor of nutrition emeritus in the division of nutritional sciences at Cornell University. [...] "Fruits and vegetables have phytochemicals and fiber; when you pop a pill, you never get the same outcomes," said Lisa Young, a registered dietitian nutritionist and adjunct professor of nutrition at New York University. Experts worry that high doses of nutrients can give a false sense of promise. More details about this over at CNN. What are your thoughts about this one? (Image Credit: Efraimstochter/ Pixabay) |
| When Hail Destroys Your Livelihood Posted: 28 Jun 2020 06:01 AM PDT
Imagine for a moment that you are a farmer in Kenya. You have taken good care of your crops for several months, when suddenly you notice a lump of ice fall to the ground from the sky, and then you realize what's happening: a hailstorm — the event that you most fear — is now happening right in front of your eyes. And you can't do anything about it. You've been caught unprepared. This has been what's happening in Kenya recently. Hailstorms have always been a part of life in Kenya, but many farmers have noticed the problem worsening. Peter Muniu, another farmer from central Kenya, also notes changes in hailstorms in the 37 years he has lived here. "Not only have the hailstorms become irregular but the falling objects have become bigger," he says. The latest hail shower struck at the beginning of January 2020, leaving his village littered with icy boulders. "Initially we would know when the hailstorms would come and be prepared. But these days it is very difficult to predict their arrival," says Muniu. "This is bad for farmers like us who grow crops in open fields." During a good season when there are no weather extremes, Muniu's quarter-acre parcel where he grows snow peas can yield as much as 100kg (220lb) of the vegetables at harvest. But when a hailstorm strikes, it can either uproot maturing plants, or make ripe beans appear as if they have been visited by disease, he says. A farmer can only use the damaged pods as feed for livestock. Because of the worsening hailstorms happening in the country, some farmers almost gave up on farming, as they don't get to harvest anything, because all of the crops were damaged. Others now struggle to make ends meet because of these irregular disasters. More details about this over at BBC. (Image Credit: SturmjaegerTobi/ Pixabay) |
| When You Accidentally Shoot The Ball Posted: 28 Jun 2020 06:01 AM PDT
Sometimes the best things that happen in life (or in this case, basketball games) come in the form of happy accidents. In this game, a man seems to be attempting to shoot the ball from the distance. In reality, he is passing the ball to his teammate. His teammate, however, thought he was gonna shoot, and so he wasn't able to catch the ball properly. Luckily, when he saw the ball coming up to him, he put up his hands to prevent the ball from hitting his face, which made the ball fly towards and into the basket. Lucky! See the clip on Reddit. (Image Credit: Ghost_Animator/ Reddit) |
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| The Disease That Silently Kills The People of Fiji Posted: 28 Jun 2020 06:01 AM PDT
Two years before Wilisoni Lagi Vuatalevu retired from his clerical job, he noticed a boil on his leg that wouldn't heal. Alarmed, he had it examined at the health center. The center assured him that it wasn't diabetes, however, and that his blood sugar was fine. He then proceeded to carry on with his life and did not consider investigating the wound further. This would have horrific consequences to him. One month after he retired, his wound became unbearably painful and it bled profusely. "When they checked, the doctor was very kind and pleasant as she told me it was clearly 'that sugar disease' and told me I'd lose that leg... I was frightened," Wilisoni said. [...] While in many countries, diabetes is detected early and can be managed through diet, exercise and medication, in Fiji, the disease is often not caught until amputation, or even death, are imminent. Nearly one-third of the people of Fiji suffer from this disease, and its cause is, sadly, their diets. "I was never fat, I'm quite tall so I've always had a good body when I was growing up," Vuatalevu said. "But I ate everything and drank everything, I didn't really choose food that was good for me or even thought about what was good for me and what wasn't. I didn't have to. Whatever was available and came my way, I ate. It was the same with alcohol." Thankfully, there are people who are taking steps to prevent other people from getting parts of their body amputated. More details about this story over at The Guardian. (Image Credit: Jovesa Naisua/The Guardian) |
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