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- Can An Ancient Greek Armor Protect You From A Bullet?
- Making a Great Movie Boring
- 1,000-year-old Pet Cat Found on the Silk Road
- When Idealistic New Englanders Moved to Kansas Territory to ‘Put an End to Slavery’
- This AI App Evaluates Tuna Cuts
- What Is This Bride Doing?
- Screening Applicants Using Social Media
- How Prosperity Transformed the Falklands
- Dog Comforts Cats Who Lost Their Mother
- EXP TV: 24-hour Weirdness
- SNES X PS1 Hybrid, Anyone?
- Do You Know Which Video Game Platform Is Right For You?
- What’s The Worst Place In New York?
- Are Gamers Ready To Face Unsatisfying Endings?
- Someone Copied The Legend of Zelda
| Can An Ancient Greek Armor Protect You From A Bullet? Posted: 10 Jul 2020 02:31 PM PDT
To protect their soldiers from getting wounded by the weapons used in their time, the Ancient Greeks during the time of Alexander the Great developed this suit of armor made out of layers of linen glued together by animal fat. The said armor is capable of deflecting arrows. It can also reduce the impact of sword blows on the wearer's body. But how does this ancient technology fare against modern weapons, such as new arrows and guns? You might be surprised at how comparable this armor is to a light kevlar, when it (the armor) is 5 times thicker. It doesn't fare well against fire, however, as it is flammable because of the animal fat. Via The Awesomer (Image Credit: How To Make Everything/ YouTube)
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| Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:11 PM PDT
Twitter user Romina asked people to give a short description of a movie and make it sound boring. Movie buffs jumped on the assignment. The best of them are 1. boring, and 2. make it obvious what movie they are referring to, at least to people who watch movies. The reply above didn't really need a picture.
See a lengthy collection of the best replies at Bored Panda. See hundreds more at the Twitter thread. |
| 1,000-year-old Pet Cat Found on the Silk Road Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:11 PM PDT
Life is not easy for solitary cats, no matter what era they live in. Any illness or injury, as well as malnutrition, can mean death. So it was a surprise for a team of archaeologists to find an almost-complete skeleton of a cat at a 8th-century settlement in southern Kazakhstan. The intact skeleton means it had been buried, as if someone had cared for it, which was an exceedingly rare find. Dr. Ashleigh Haruda explains more.
Read more about this discovery at PhysOrg. -via Strange Company |
| When Idealistic New Englanders Moved to Kansas Territory to ‘Put an End to Slavery’ Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:10 PM PDT
In the 1850s, political forces were splitting the US in the lead to the Civil War. Abolitionists were campaigning against slavery, people were reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, and women were organizing for the right to vote. Meanwhile, the federal government was trying to deal with the vast expanses of land that the US owned, but had yet to control.
Thayer wanted to establish as many New Englanders as possible in Kansas before the Kansas-Nebraska Act was signed a year after its passage. It wasn't easy, as travel was arduous, and passing through pro-slavery Missouri was downright dangerous. Read about the Yankee emigrants who settled Kansas at Zocalo Public Square. -via Damn Interesting (Image credit: Library of Congress) |
| This AI App Evaluates Tuna Cuts Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:10 PM PDT
When it comes to eating sushi, a fatty tuna is what makes the experience great. Because of this, fish buyers dedicate at least a decade of their life trying to learn how to determine which tuna cut is fatty and which isn't. But if you don't have the time to train yourself in tuna examining, then this app called Tuna Scope, developed by Dentsu Inc., might help. The firm trained the machine learning algorithm that powers the software using thousands of images of tuna tail cross-sections. The cut can tell human buyers a lot about the quality of fish they're about to purchase. In testing against human experts, Dentsu claims it found the app gave the same grade more than four out of five times. The app is currently in use by one company, conveyor belt sushi chain Kura Sushi. The restaurant buys the majority of its tuna outside of Japan. Part of the reason the company started using the app is that it allows its employees to grade tuna without traveling. That's a significant perk during the current pandemic. Moreover, conveyor belt restaurants in Japan tend to offer the least expensive sushi, so there's a cost-saving aspect at play as well. Traditionalists, however, are skeptical of the app. But for the average man, this app would certainly be useful. What are your thoughts about this one? (Image Credit: Dentsu/ Engadget) |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:10 PM PDT
The bride can be seen to be talking with someone on her phone, while her laptop sits on her lap. A few seconds later, the groom appears on camera and sits besides her. It appears that he is also interested in what makes his bride occupied during the wedding. The video, however, does not reveal what she is doing, and this prompted many Twitter users to theorize what's really happening. What are your thoughts about this one? (Image Credit: Dinesh Joshi/ Twitter)
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| Screening Applicants Using Social Media Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:10 PM PDT
Creating a good resumé might no longer be enough when applying for jobs, as companies no longer just look at a person's resumé — they also look at a person's social media activity, a process known as cybervetting. These were readily available information in the form of raw data and metadata, meaning what they had posted, when and how; analytics information that would require processing, for example, results of sentiment analysis or topic modeling of an applicants' posts; and information related to users' online social network that is often used for social network analysis, for example who follows whom on social media. The question is, are people okay with this method? It turns out, the responses are mixed. Some are worried, while some are not. More details about this over at TechXplore. What are your thoughts about this one? (Image Credit: Pixabay) |
| How Prosperity Transformed the Falklands Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:10 PM PDT
What do you know about the Falkland Islands? The British territory off the coast of Argentina was difficult to cultivate, and was only good for raising sheep. It was so far away from Britain that only people with little other choice went there, and they lived an almost-medieval existence. Then in 1982, the world learned of the Falkland Islands when Argentina invaded, ostensibly to "liberate" the islands. The war made the islands' declining economy worse, but it made the British pay attention to them.
The prosperity that resulted from fishing led to prosperity from tourism, and new immigrants came to settle in the Falklands. Read a short but fascinating history of the Falkland Islands at The New Yorker. -via Metafilter |
| Dog Comforts Cats Who Lost Their Mother Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:10 PM PDT
Losing parents at such a young age just might be the most devastating and the most emotionally painful experience one can have in this life. It would be really difficult to live life knowing that those who cared the most for you are already gone. Thankfully, there are those who would try to comfort you and make your life less painful. A miniature golden retriever named Poppie, who lives in Colorado with her cat fostering humans, gently comforted an orphaned litter of kittens who needed reassurance after their mother died. Poppie lovingly rubbed her nose against the little ones who came up to her and even gave one kitten a cleaning much in the way a mother cat would do. Neither the kittens nor Poppie like being separated from one another for too long. Now that's love right there. Via Laughing Squid (Image Credit: poppieseedmuffin/ Instagram) |
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| Posted: 10 Jul 2020 11:58 AM PDT
The infamous "Nintendo PlayStation" is one of unreleased consoles that a lot of people would pay heaps of money for should it be released. Since releasing that console is quite impossible, one person was able to build a unit composed of the SNES' Satellaview attachment and some components of a PlayStation 1, as Kotaku details: something from the same era that's even rarer is Nintendo's repeated efforts to create a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES, which ultimately came to nothing That add-on was supposed to clip underneath an existing SNES console, just like Sega went and did with its Genesis/Mega CD combo, and while we still haven't found one (if any prototypes ever existed in the first place), LASTFANTASY (via Attract Mode) has gone and built a pretty good likeness of one using a SNES, its Satellaview attachment and the guts of a PlayStation 1. image via Kotaku |
| Do You Know Which Video Game Platform Is Right For You? Posted: 10 Jul 2020 11:58 AM PDT
So maybe you're interested in spending your free time playing games. However there are a lot of consoles out there on the market, each offering different games. So what would be a good first gaming console to invest in? IGN lists the details and specs of each available game console on the market. Check out the full article here. image via IGN |
| What’s The Worst Place In New York? Posted: 10 Jul 2020 11:58 AM PDT
Twitter users have been labeling Penn Station as the worst place in New York City. Some called it their "hell on earth," even. Penn Station is a transit hub that sits below Madison Square Garden, and it has major dungeon vibes, as Time Out details: For the uninitiated (if you've somehow managed to dodge Penn Station in your time as a New Yorker), the transit hub, which sits just below Madison Square Garden, is home to three different railroads: Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, and Long Island Rail Road. With the entirety of the structure's above ground portion demolished in 1963 to make way for Madison Square Garden, it's pretty much devoid of sunlight. Garishly lit with low-ceilings and pigeons hanging out overhead, some would say it has major dungeon vibes. During the daily rush hour, confusing signs have tourists walking in circles, seasoned commuters shove and shoulder each other as their assigned train tracks appear on the big board. Hundreds race down cramped stairs to tunnels even further underground. image via Time Out |
| Are Gamers Ready To Face Unsatisfying Endings? Posted: 10 Jul 2020 11:58 AM PDT
One of the reviews on The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild is that its ending was a bit too anticlimactic and lacking. That point seems understandable, as players spent one hundred plus hours pouring their heart and soul into exploring the vast land of Hyrule, unlocking every story-related quest, and defeating all the required bosses to clear the game only to get a short cutscene for an ending. The trend of gamers being unsatisfied with endings seems to carry over to The Last Of Us 2. The game's ending has left a lot of gamers disappointed: I am perplexed. To me, this seems like the only way TLOU2 could have ended well. Yet, the census from the masses is that the game teases you with a climactic ending, only to fizzle out with a sad, pathetic fight. Which, yes, it does exactly that, yet it's so fitting – a pathetic scrap between two people worn down to their cores, by years of vainly seeking to heal their trauma. This is a beautifully fitting ending to a cautionary tale of revenge, but many say they would have preferred it if Ellie got her revenge. As if the game hasn't spent hours showing you that Abby gained nothing from enacting hers. This is saddening because, like Firewatch, this ending is designed to make the player reflect. I know I, like Ellie, wanted Abby's head on a pike for most of the story – Especially since the game, despite its best efforts, does a pretty poor job of making me care for Abby – but the ending gave me reason to pause and think. Was it ever really worth all this effort? image via Medium |
| Someone Copied The Legend of Zelda Posted: 10 Jul 2020 11:57 AM PDT
There's a game titled Final Sword in Nintendo eShop that looks oddly familiar: it looks like the Legend of Zelda. But it doesn't just look like the latter; it even sounds like it! Perhaps the only differences of Final Sword are the frustrating game bugs, as well as the bad choice of sound that its developers used when the player falls to his death, as well as the ugly music on the "game over" screen. There's plenty of Dark Souls in the main character's animation, and a boss fight with a dragon shows the creature posing just like its counterparts in Skyrim as it breathes a blast of fire. Several Japanese gamers have noted similarities to Monster Hunter as well. But perhaps the game Final Sword is most blatantly, oh, let's call it "taking inspiration" from for the look of its menus and outdoor environments, is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Heck, even the game's covers look incredibly alike… [...] But what's really gotten Final Sword in trouble isn't how much it looks like Zelda, but how it sounds like the beloved Nintendo franchise. Not long after its release earlier this month, players started noticing something very familiar about a certain piece of background music in Final Sword… And so it got pulled from Nintendo's eShop. More details about this story over at SoraNews24. (Image Credit: blizdliz/ Twitter) |
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