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- Building A $34 Tiny House In 3.5 Days
- Restoring A Flashlight From World War II
- What Are The Greatest NBA Teams Of All Time?
- What Happens In Your Body In The Next Minute
- Can This Underwear Really Make You Smarter?
- Giant Isopod in Aquarium Poops for First Time in Two Years
- Generating Electricity From Shadows
- Abraham Lincoln: The “Wrastling” President
- Thomas Edison’s First Patented Invention Was a Total Flop
- Snot Palaces In The Ocean
- Wild Boar Blocks The Railway, Railway Service Interrupted
- Clark Sorensen's Sculpted Urinals
- Why You Shouldn’t Get In A Las Vegas Pool, Ever
- Look, It’s Spiderman!
| Posted: 08 Jun 2020 12:37 AM PDT
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| Building A $34 Tiny House In 3.5 Days Posted: 07 Jun 2020 06:16 PM PDT
Rob Greenfield helped his friends build a tiny house in just three days. Well, three and a half days, to be precise. The tiny house is built from wood harvested from his friends' property and some second hand materials. Watch Greenfield pull off the project with minimal materials and a limited amount of time! |
| Restoring A Flashlight From World War II Posted: 07 Jun 2020 06:16 PM PDT
It's really fun to see restoration projects, as it gives us a glimpse of how antique objects looked in their prime. In this video, Odd Tinkering restores a flashlight that was used by the Germans in World War II. Aside from its primary function, which is to provide light in darkness, the flashlight can also change its colors for signalling purposes. See how he painstakingly restored this antique object in this video. (Video Credit: Odd Tinkering/ YouTube) |
| What Are The Greatest NBA Teams Of All Time? Posted: 07 Jun 2020 06:16 PM PDT
Basketball fans and enthusiasts alike always have a team they look up to. Some will say their favourite team's name, and some would actually give the exact year their favourite team played, and what made that team become their ultimate favourite. If you're looking for a list of the greatest teams of all time, check out The Onion's picks! image via The Onion |
| What Happens In Your Body In The Next Minute Posted: 07 Jun 2020 06:16 PM PDT
The human body is always a busy system. Whether a person is awake or sleeping, working or relaxing, the body continues to work non-stop. Have you ever wondered what goes on inside your body? In this video, The Infographics Show shows in detail the many things that will happen inside the human body. What's more amazing is that all of these things happen in only one minute. So after watching this video, your body will have already undergone through these things twice, as the video is 2 minutes long. Via The Awesomer (Video Credit: The Infographics Show/ YouTube) |
| Can This Underwear Really Make You Smarter? Posted: 07 Jun 2020 06:16 PM PDT
Perhaps the reason why I wasn't that smart compared to my male colleagues was not because I wasn't studying enough; maybe it was because I was wearing the wrong underwear. This clears up many things for me! I wonder if this product can be shipped. I'm planning to buy a dozen if ever it can! What about you? Image via Engrish.com |
| Giant Isopod in Aquarium Poops for First Time in Two Years Posted: 07 Jun 2020 06:15 PM PDT
Imagine being a zookeeper somewhere and the animal you are in charge of hasn't had a bowel movement in two years. You might be worried. For most critters, keepers would have tried a laxative before that much time passed, but it's really not all that unusual for the giant isopod, which has a very slow digestive process. On May 26, the caretakers of five giant isopods at the Toba Aquarium in Japan found fecal matter in the tank, for the first time since April of 2018. It was an occasion of joy.
Read more about the weird eating and pooping habits of giant isopods, and see some strange videos at SoraNews24. -via Metafilter |
| Generating Electricity From Shadows Posted: 07 Jun 2020 06:15 PM PDT
Who would have thought that shadows could also be a source of electricity? Scientists from the National University of Singapore have created a device that exploits the contrast between bright and dark spots in order to create electricity that can power small electronic devices. We can harvest energy anywhere on Earth, not just open spaces," says Swee Ching Tan, a materials scientist at the National University of Singapore. Tan and his team created the device, called a shadow-effect energy generator, by placing a superthin coating of gold on silicon, a typical solar cell material. Like in a solar cell, light shining on silicon energizes its electrons. With the gold layer, the shadow-effect energy generator produces an electric current when part of the device lies in shadow. [...] Someday, these generators might produce energy in the shadowy spots in a solar array, between skyscrapers or even indoors. "A lot of people think that shadows are useless," Tan says. But "anything can be useful, even shadows." Amazing! (Image Credit: Royal Society of Chemistry/ ScienceNews) |
| Abraham Lincoln: The “Wrastling” President Posted: 07 Jun 2020 06:14 PM PDT Abraham Lincoln ushered our nation through extremely tumultuous times and was also known for a self-deprecating sense of humor. But there's always something new to learn about our 16th president.
We know Lincoln best from his presidency, when he was in his 50s and suffering some physical ailments, including depression. But the young Lincoln was pretty well-known for his wrestling matches, the most notorious of which you can read about at Today I Found Out. |
| Thomas Edison’s First Patented Invention Was a Total Flop Posted: 07 Jun 2020 06:11 PM PDT When Thomas Edison was only 22 years old, he was granted a patent for an electronic voting machine deigned for Congress to use. It was his first patent, and it's a good thing that its reception didn't discourage him from tinkering with other machines.
The machine never gained any ground. Read about the reception it received in Congress at Mental Floss. |
| Posted: 07 Jun 2020 02:58 PM PDT
Tiny critters, around four inches big or less, build complex houses to protect them from predators and filter their food. These complex houses are all made from snot coming out of their homes. The tadpole looking creatures called giant larvaceans builds a new snot palace every day or so, and these infrastructures have piqued the scientists interests. Bioengineer Kakani Katija hopes to crack the snot palace architectural code so that someday humanity can replicate these houses, as Spectrum News 13 detailed: Her team took a step toward solving the mystery of the snot houses and maybe someday even replicating them, according to a study in Wednesday's journal Nature. The creatures inside these houses may be small — the biggest are around 4 inches (10 centimeters) — but they are smart and crucial to Earth's environment. Found globally, they are the closest relatives to humans without a backbone, Katija and other scientists said. Together with their houses "they are like an alien life form, made almost entirely out of water, yet crafted with complexity and purpose," said Dalhousie University marine biologist Boris Worm, who wasn't part of the study. "They remind me of a cross between a living veil and a high tech filter pump." Also, when they abandon their clogged homes about every day, the creatures collectively drop millions of tons of carbon to the seafloor, where it stays, preventing further global warming, Worm said. They also take microplastics out of the water column and dump it on the sea floor. And if that's not enough, the other waste in their abandoned houses is eaten by the ocean's bottom dwellers. image via Spectrum News 13 |
| Wild Boar Blocks The Railway, Railway Service Interrupted Posted: 07 Jun 2020 02:57 PM PDT
Sometimes, all it takes to stop a whole complex system from working is just one thing, and that's just what happened in the Scottish rail service. The trains were stopped because there was a wild boar blocking the railroad. ScotRail tweeted Thursday evening that the line between Glasgow Central and Larkhall was being blocked in Wishaw by an animal on the tracks. "There's a pig (yes, you read that right) on the line at Wishaw," ScotRail tweeted. The tweet said National Rail officials and police were attempting to capture the animal. A later tweet clarified that officials had been "advised that the beast involved is in fact a wild boar." Thankfully, the railway service resumed later in the evening. It wasn't stated, however, if the boar was caught, or if it just wandered away from the railroad. (Image Credit: ScotRail/ Twitter) |
| Clark Sorensen's Sculpted Urinals Posted: 07 Jun 2020 02:56 PM PDT
When we feel pressure, art can be such a great relief to us. Experience its beauty fully as your stress leaks away. Never mind what the other visitors at the museum gallery think. Clark Sorensen, a professional sculptor, brings his skills to the task of crafting urinals. These need not be strictly utilitarian designs. They can be expressions of nature's beauty when nature calls.
The natural curved forms of flowers and shells most often inspire Sorensen. But before you use his appliances, make sure that they are actually hooked into the plumbing and are not purely artistic displays. There's no need to get permanently banned from the museum.
-via Nag on the Lake |
| Why You Shouldn’t Get In A Las Vegas Pool, Ever Posted: 07 Jun 2020 11:46 AM PDT
Now that summer has begun, you might find yourself looking for ways to beat the heat, and maybe one thing you would have thought of might be taking a dip at a swimming pool, and that's not a bad idea at all. After all, swimming is fun, but not when you're swimming with lots of harmful chemicals and bacteria. A specialist in chemical and biological warfare named Dan Kaszeta has warned us not to get in the pools in Las Vegas. And when he says don't get in the pool, we don't get in the pool. That's how dangerous Las Vegas pools are. After receiving a few annoyed replies from Las Vegas pool enthusiast Twitter for the enigmatic tweet, he decided to elaborate on why you shouldn't go swimming in a Las Vegas pool, or even touch the water. Fair warning, it makes for some grim reading. In a Twitter thread, he explains in the late 1990s he was working as the "chemical and biological terrorism guy at the White House Military Office," right around the time they were starting to take chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense seriously. While working there, he got a call from another federal agency that needed his help. [...] The suspicious sample, it turned out, contained something relatively harmless "like glycerine". But the control sample, in this case, swimming pool water from a major Las Vegas Hotel, hoo boy. See the full story over at IFL Science. (Image Credit: Dan Kaszeta/ Twitter) |
| Posted: 07 Jun 2020 11:46 AM PDT
Twitter user SuperSartre is one supportive parent! When his son finally got his long-awaited Spider suit, SuperSartre made sure that his son would feel the power of the special suit. The Twitter user took photos of his son in the suit and made it appear as if he can really climb walls. Isn't that adorable? image via SuperSartre |
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