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• It’s A Card Deck And A Photography Resource At The Same Time!
• Teens Plastered A Home With Slices Of Cheese
• Two Kids Jump out of Burning Building, Caught by Neighbors
• Four-Year Old Poet Lands Book Deal
• How Did the Earth Crack?
• Fun With the Chandelier
• New <i>Tetris</i> Movie Will Not Be Like Other Game Films
• How Stupid Are Dogs, Really?
• Classical Gas - 3000 Years of Art
• This Kangaroo Was Arrested
• An Amazing Shot of a Black Panther and His Leopard Mate
• The Rise Of Animal-Assisted Therapy
• What Type Of People Are More Addicted To Social Media?

It’s A Card Deck And A Photography Resource At The Same Time! Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:27 AM PDT The Photography Deck is a camera reference guide printed on a deck of playing cards. So not only can you play card games with your friends, you can also relearn some photography concepts as you play! Creator Eric Bohring organized the contents of the resource by sorting the concepts into each suit, as My Modern Met detailed:  To organize this resource, creator Eric Bohring assigned each suit its own category of information: spades represent camera basics; hearts are about composition; clubs tell you about technical aspects; and diamonds highlight shooting styles. This array of knowledge gets to the nitty-gritty of photography and discusses concrete topics like ISO and shutter speeds as well as more subjective aspects such as finding negative space or patterns in a composition. Each card highlights this information through custom artwork that is minimalist in style to let the tricks and tips shine. The Photography Deck is now available for pre-order. There are a variety of deck designs available, including a variant that is extra waterproof and can withstand a day at the beach. Select your deck by visiting the deck's Kickstarter page. image via My Modern Met

Teens Plastered A Home With Slices Of Cheese Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:27 AM PDT All for the sake of a prank, three teens are facing disorderly conduct charges for covering people's property with cheese slices. How much did they spend on cheese to be able to cover a home, and two cars with it? Two 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old tossed the sandwich slices at a residence in Girard, Pennsylvania.  image via Philly Voice

Two Kids Jump out of Burning Building, Caught by Neighbors Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:27 AM PDT   Two brothers, ages 3 and 10, were saved from an apartment fire in France when they dropped more than 30 feet from a window and were caught by neighbors below.⁣ ⁣ The boys, along with 17 residents of the building, were treated for smoke inhalation. https://t.co/T8RsSpQsVPpic.twitter.com/99DSu5GFhE — ABC News (@ABC) July 23, 2020 An apartment building in Grenoble, France caught on fire. Two brothers, ages 3 and 10, were trapped inside on the third story. They jumped off the balcony and were caught by people gathered on the sidewalk below. Although they were treated for smoke inhalation, the boys otherwise escaped serious injury. BBC News reports that, unfortunately, two of rescuers at the bottom broke their arms during their rescue efforts. -via Sohrab Ahmari

Four-Year Old Poet Lands Book Deal Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:27 AM PDT Take our gloves off Take our shoes off Put them where they're supposed to go. You take off your brave feeling Because there's nothing to be scared of in the house That's "Coming Home" by the acclaimed British poet Nadim Shamma-Sourgen. He's four years old and has landed his first book deal. The Guardian exasperates: Now he has landed a book deal with Walker Books, which will release his "astonishing" collection next summer. Walker executive Denise Johnstone-Burt said that she had been "astonished that anyone so young could write such sensitive verse". "The poems talk about such important feelings, like love and loneliness, and Nadim finds the perfect words," she added. "They are simple, inspirational and have a wisdom all of their own". Clanchy said that the nickname she had given Nadim, the "Four Year Old Poet", made him sound "scarily precocious"; in fact, as his mother explained on Sky News, he is still learning to read and write and he dictates his poems to her. -via Marginal Revolution | Photo: Picador

How Did the Earth Crack? Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:27 AM PDT If you've ever studied plate tectonics, you know that dry land on earth was once a giant supercontinent, then it separated into plates that began moving away from each other. But how did that get started? It could be the same way you ruined Mom's serving dish by treating it as a baking dish.    In a new study, led by planetary scientist Alexander Webb at the University of Hong Kong, in collaboration with an international team of researchers, scientists have come up with a new idea to explain why Earth's crust cracked into pieces. According to the study, the early Earth's outer shell, or lithosphere, heated up, which caused it to expand and crack. This might seem like a simple explanation, but it contradicts many earlier theories. Previously, scientists thought the cracking came from the earth's crust cooling down. Read what's behind both of these ideas at Space.com.  -via Damn Interesting (Image credit: US Geological Survey)

Fun With the Chandelier Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:27 AM PDT Kids will find ways to scare that you would never have thought of in a million years. Adults look at a light fixture and see illumination. This little girl saw an opportunity.   "After converting my twins' cribs to 'big girl beds', I quickly realized it was a mistake. I could hear a noise coming from the girls' nursery during their nap time so I pulled up my Arlo Security app and realized one of my twins, Elise, was swinging from the chandelier. Thankfully she wasn't hurt but the chandelier was immediately removed. This is just one, of many, reasons why I can't have nice things anymore. My girls still ask for their chandelier but I'd be willing to bet their reason isn't for utility." Were you waiting for that fixture to "untwist" and swing her around like a ceiling fan? I was. -via Digg

New <i>Tetris</i> Movie Will Not Be Like Other Game Films Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:27 AM PDT There have been numerous attempts at making a decent movie out of familiar video and board games, some that did well, like Clue and Angry Birds, and others that did not, like Battleship. A few years ago, there was actually an effort to make a movie called Tetris, but it never got off the ground. The problem is the nature of the game, and whether a story can be built around it. The game Clue was already based on a familiar book and movie plot, and they made the film a comedy. Tetris has no story... or does it?    A quick overview: Software engineer Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris (a portmanteau of "tennis" and "tetra") in 1984 while working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He shared the game with his coworkers, and they copied it onto floppy discs to share with their friends. The game went viral before viral was even a thing, spreading all across Moscow and even into a software exhibit in the Hungarian Institute of Technology. It is there that UK citizen and owner of Andromeda Software Ltd., Robert Stein found the game. He wanted to license it to distributors in the US and UK, so he went to Russia to make a deal. Unfortunately for Pajitnov, in Soviet Russia, the game plays you. Pajitnov didn't own the rights to Tetris, the game instead, falling under the purview of Elektronorgtechnica, a soviet agency created to oversee the distribution of their software to foreign countries. In other words, Tetris is going to be a drama based on a true story about doing business in the Cold War era, and not an adaptation of game play. Read more about the upcoming production at Cracked.

How Stupid Are Dogs, Really? Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:27 AM PDT A dog may be man's best friend, but a dog's intelligence can vary from amazing to comically dumb. They are a peculiar species in that nature never intended to give us a pet. All domestic dogs were bred originally from wolves, with breeders aiming for features that would be useful to humans, like herding sheep or fitting into the sleeve of one's gown. It usually doesn't matter how intelligent a dog is, because he's loved and cared for by his humans anyway. But maybe they are just intelligent in a different way from what we normally think. Indeed, considerable variation exists among dogs, as their behavior can be influenced by breed, socialization, life experiences, and so on. Importantly, however, dogs are really good at being dogs, including stuff like playing fetch, barking at the neighbors, herding sheep, mooching for snacks, and, very importantly, providing companionship. There's literally no reason for them to be more human-like when it comes to their intelligence, even if we sometimes mistakenly project more smarts onto them than they deserve. "Dogs are very good at what they're bred to do—they're excellent at doing those things, and in some cases even better than other species we think are intelligent, such as chimps and bonobos," Zachary Silver, a PhD student from the Comparative Cognitive Lab at Yale University, told Gizmodo. "But as soon as we step outside of that domain, we see a lot of failures in cognition, including a lack of flexibility and cognitive sophistication." Read about the intelligence and the limitations of our dogs at Gizmodo.

Classical Gas - 3000 Years of Art Posted: 23 Jul 2020 11:08 PM PDT This is one of the earliest "music videos," meaning an artful illustration of a song instead of a filmed performance. And I do mean art. Strangely, the music and the film existed separately before coming together in 1968. Mason Williams, who wrote and performed "Classical Gas," tells the story at the YouTube page. During the time that CLASSICAL GAS was a hit I was also the head writer for THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR on CBS. I had seen a film titled "GOD IS DOG SPELLED BACKWARDS" at The Encore, an off beat movie house in L.A. The film was a collection of approximately 2500 classical works of art, mostly paintings, that flashed by in three minutes. Each image lasted only two film frames, or twelve images a second! At the end of the film the viewer was pronounced "cultural" since they had just covered "3000 years of art in 3 minutes!" The film was the work of a UCLA film student named Dan McLaughlin. I contacted Dan and told him that I was interested in the idea of using his film as a visual for CLASSICAL GAS to air on THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR. (His original sound track had been Beethoven's 5th Symphony.) THE COMEDY HOUR offered him the money to finance a new film he wanted to make in exchange for the right to change the original soundtrack from Beethoven's 5th Symphony to CLASSICAL GAS and air it on the show. As a "music video" it was first shown on THE SUMMER BROTHERS SMOTHERS SHOW (Glen Campbell was the host) in the summer of 1968. You can read the rest of the story here. We can quibble with the "3000 years of art" because there are Lascaux cave paintings included that are around 17,000 years old. -via Nag on the Lake

This Kangaroo Was Arrested Posted: 23 Jul 2020 07:49 PM PDT Police officers from Fort Lauderdale captured a renegade kangaroo hopping through the city streets. The officers patted Jack, the kangaroo, and placed him in the back of a police cruiser. It turns out that Jack was under the care of Anthony Macias, as Oddee detailed:  It didn't take authorities long to locate the owner, who lived just a few blocks away from where cops apprehended the animal. Anthony Macias forgot to latch the gate after taking out his recycling bins earlier. "I guess he just punched his way through," he told the Sun Sentinel. Also, do you think that paper has an animal-hijinks beat that someone gets to cover?  Macias got the kangaroo, named Jack, from a friend who was moving out of the area and didn't want him anymore. Maybe because he missed being able to put drinks on his coffee table? Watch the tail. Unfortunately, Fort Lauderdale doesn't allow kangaroo ownership, so Jack's living at the police horse stables for his safety image via wikimedia commons

An Amazing Shot of a Black Panther and His Leopard Mate Posted: 23 Jul 2020 12:07 PM PDT   View this post on Instagram The Eternal Couple . Saaya and Cleopatra have been courting since 4 years now and whenever they are together it's a sight to behold. The forest comes alive as they trot nonchalantly in his fabled kingdom. Usually in the courting pairs generally it is the Male who takes charge and moves around with the female following close behind. But with this couple it was definitely Cleo who was in charge while the Panther followed. . This was shot on a surreal winter morning when a single Deer alarm led me to this breathtaking sight. . #kabini #love #leopard #nikon #wild #Natgeo #mithunhphotography #instagood #instadaily #jungle #bigcat #forest #wildlifephotography #nature #wildlife #blackpanther #melanistic #therealblackpanther #thebisonresort A post shared by Mithun H (@mithunhphotography) on Jul 19, 2020 at 7:52am PDT Wildlife photographer Mithun H has been watching Saaya the panther and Cleopatra the leopard, a bonded pair in the Kabini Forest in India. He writes: Saaya and Cleopatra have been courting since 4 years now and whenever they are together it's a sight to behold. The forest comes alive as they trot nonchalantly in his fabled kingdom. Usually in the courting pairs generally it is the Male who takes charge and moves around with the female following close behind. But with this couple it was definitely Cleo who was in charge while the Panther followed. From this perspective, it looks the leopard is being followed by her shadow. -via Colossal

The Rise Of Animal-Assisted Therapy Posted: 23 Jul 2020 07:56 AM PDT We've seen support animals helping people go through therapy or tough times, but usually people just touch or interact with these animals, not take care of them. Israeli psychotherapist Yono Yehuda provides therapy for people with mental health conditions by letting them take care of animals. The Guardian has more details: "With humans, it's survivor thinking: if I'm nice to people, they will be nice to me," says Yoni Yehuda, an Israeli psychotherapist, as his cat Jack Daniels licks water from a jug on his office table. With animals, he says, there is no apparent quid pro quo. We help them for purer reasons, often with no expectation of a return. "It's giving from something that is very clean inside." This concept is the foundation of the professor's work – providing therapy for people with mental health conditions by asking them to care for animals. There is healing, he believes, deeply rooted in the animal-human relationship. "The first animal-assisted psychotherapist was God," he says, as a parrot pecks at the mosquito netting on his office window. Animals were used in mental health institutions in the late 18th century to encourage socialisation. Today, a patient might be given time to stroke a dog, which has been shown to reduce stress. Practitioners say animals can also motivate patients to stay in treatment, or be used as a metaphor for their own struggles. Some traumatised people prefer not to interact with another person at all. image via The Guardian

What Type Of People Are More Addicted To Social Media? Posted: 23 Jul 2020 07:56 AM PDT People who are more inclined to spend hours on social media have personalities that indicate they enjoy angering and embarrassing others, according to a study from Michigan State University and California State University at Fullerton. Social media usage of 472 university students were tracked for the study, as FastCompany detailed:  A fascinating study of 472 university students tracked their usage on two top platforms for 18-to-24-year olds: Snapchat (2.64 hours per day) and Facebook (2.28 hours per day). Researchers found that users displaying addictive behavior were also more likely to be motivated to be cruel and callous and to use others for personal gain. "Our results demonstrate that individuals who have a greater preference for these types of rewards display greater problematic use of both platforms," write the researchers, who note that these traits are also associated with narcissism and psychopathy and have previously been correlated with addictive internet use. They write that social media sites unwittingly "cater to people who seek rewards from being cruel, such as through cyberbullying or various aggressive online behaviors." The researchers hope that their study will help clinicians treat addicted patients by better understanding the social rewards that may be driving them. The same study also found users logging longer hours with more addictive behaviors on Snapchat, but more frequently attempting to quit Facebook. image via FastCompany

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