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• Dogs in the (Vintage) News
• Italy's Dollar Homes
• Doomsday Prepping in 1910
• Yichen's Painted, Tooled Leather
• How Henrietta Lacks Became the Mother of Modern Medicine
• When the Bobcats Came to Visit
• What's It Worth? Just Ask Jeff Foxworthy

Dogs in the (Vintage) News Posted: 01 Aug 2020 11:12 PM PDT As soon as photography advanced to the point where the subject didn't have to sit still for long, photographers found that the public loved to see pictures of animals, particularly funny pictures of pets. Harry Whittier Frees made a career out of posing kittens for amusing pictures, but dogs were popular, too, as seen the archives of the British Newspaper Association. The photo above appeared in the magazine The Tatler in October 1904. In this quite surreal and charming photograph, it is a dog who is both behind the camera and in front of it, the caption from The Tatler reading 'Thank you; would you mind turning this way, if you please, just for a few moments?' This is just one of a gallery of dog pictures featured in newspapers and magazines of the past with the stories behind them at the BNA blog. -via Strange Company

Italy's Dollar Homes Posted: 01 Aug 2020 11:12 PM PDT Would you move to a small town in Italy if you could buy a home for one Euro ($1.10)? The actual cost turns out to be more, once you outbid other interested parties, pay the back taxes, and make necessary repairs. It's pretty much the same deal as the condemned homes in Detroit that were going for just a few dollars a few years back. Even with the extra investment, you'll end up with a historic home that's way less expensive than a new home... as long as you are happy living in rural Italy. -via Digg

Doomsday Prepping in 1910 Posted: 01 Aug 2020 11:12 PM PDT Astronomers knew about the periodic appearances of comets, but the return of Haley's Comet in 1910 came at a pivotal time in human history. Mass communications kept people informed better than ever before, with books, newspapers, and periodicals, while the average reader wasn't all that well educated in the doings of the cosmos. Into that world, eccentric French scientist Camille Flammarion wrote some sensational predictions in the journal L'Astronomie.    The incoming of Halley's comet, he said, contained a poisonous cyanogen gas that "would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet." When The New York Times ran a story on his assertion, the fear amplified on a global scale in the tabloids. One science writer, Matt Simon, said folks were so frightened, they began sealing up the keyholes of their houses to "keep the poison out of their homes." The "Sacred Followers" religious group in Oklahoma was reportedly planning on sacrificing a virgin to ward off the disaster, but was stopped by police. Comet pills, comet shelters, comet soap, and even submarine rentals became the norm for doomsday preppers. So while many cashed in on the comet by selling souvenirs and anything with a comet theme, others leveraged the panic with survival elixirs and protection devices. Read about the comet panic of 1910 at Messy Nessy Chic.

Yichen's Painted, Tooled Leather Posted: 01 Aug 2020 11:12 PM PDT   View this post on Instagram 狗狗時鐘~ #leatherart #leathercraft #leatherworks #leathertooling #leathercarving #皮雕 #皮雕藝術 #皮雕工藝 A post shared by 黃一誠 (@yichen_leather) on May 14, 2020 at 4:21am PDT A master craftsman, @yichen_leather of Taichung, Taiwan carefully tools and then paints leather images, mostly animals. The worked leather makes the images pop out in three dimensions. These are remarkably beautiful and effective relief sculptures.   View this post on Instagram 記事本完成！ #leatherart #leathercraft #leatherworks #leathertooling #leathercarving #皮雕 #皮雕藝術 #皮雕工藝 A post shared by 黃一誠 (@yichen_leather) on Nov 20, 2019 at 5:45pm PST   View this post on Instagram 筆記本皮套~ #leatherart #leathercraft #leatherworks #leathertooling #leathercarving #皮雕 #皮雕藝術 #皮雕工藝 A post shared by 黃一誠 (@yichen_leather) on Jul 9, 2020 at 3:47am PDT   View this post on Instagram 今年的參加作品，算是個之前想做的有趣嘗試～ #leatherart #leathercraft #leatherworks #leathertooling #leathercarving #皮雕 #皮雕藝術 #皮雕工藝 #Sheridan #worldleatherdebut A post shared by 黃一誠 (@yichen_leather) on May 18, 2019 at 8:31pm PDT

How Henrietta Lacks Became the Mother of Modern Medicine Posted: 01 Aug 2020 11:12 PM PDT In 1951, Henrietta Lacks went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, despite her misgivings, because the pain was so bad. She was suffering from cervical cancer, which would take her life eight months later. Lacks was wary of the doctors there, because rumor had it that they conducted experiments on Black people against their will and without their knowledge. The first order of business was a biopsy.    The tissue taken from her cervix 10 days later was given to Dr. George Gey, director of tissue culture research at Hopkins [PDF]. He believed that if he could find a continually dividing line of malignant human cells, all originating from the same sample, he could find the cause of cancer—and its cure. His assistant placed tiny squares of the specimen into test tubes, then labeled each tube with the first two letters of the unwitting donor's first and last names: HeLa. Soon, Henrietta's cells began to divide. And, unlike the other cells they had sampled, they did not die. Gey started giving the immortal cells to colleagues, saying they had come from a woman named Helen Lane. Within two years, HeLa cells had been put into mass production, commercialized, and distributed worldwide, becoming central to the development of vaccines and many medical advances. By 2017, HeLa cells had been studied in 142 countries and had made possible research that led to two Nobel Prizes, 17,000 patents, and 110,000 scientific papers, thereby establishing Henrietta's role as the mother of modern medicine. Henrietta lacks left five children behind, who did not learn about her immortal cells for 22 years, and to this day have not received any of the billions of dollars they have generated. Read about Henrietta Lacks, born 100 years ago, and her cells that still live on 69 years after her death at Mental Floss. (Image credit: Emw)

When the Bobcats Came to Visit Posted: 01 Aug 2020 11:12 PM PDT Artist Kathy Maniscalco lives in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Last month, a family of bobcats, a mother and five bobkittens, paid their home a visit. The Maniscalcos kept their distance, but managed to get plenty of photographs and some video footage, too. Kathy says she may make a painting out of the portrait above that her husband took. Don't they pose nicely! See all the pictures and videos at Bored Panda. (Image credit: John Maniscalco)

What's It Worth? Just Ask Jeff Foxworthy Posted: 01 Aug 2020 09:43 AM PDT People collect things for a lot of different reasons: the urge to complete a set, the satisfaction of acquiring things, the hope of increased worth, a sense of history, just a hobby, sentimental reasons, or they genuinely enjoy the objects they collect. There are two ways to look at the value of these things: what they are worth to others, or the objective market value, and what they mean to you. That's according to Jeff Foxworthy. You may remember Foxworthy best as the comedian who told why "you might be a redneck." He has a new TV show premiering August 4 on A&E called What's It Worth? in which he explores the value of the things people keep. Foxworthy himself has a collection of baseballs that don't quite fit the mold of collectibles, but they are worth a lot to him. Instead of being autographed by baseball stars, they are signed by his friends, fellow comedians, and country music stars.   Another baseball that Foxworthy is unlikely to part with is the one he used to throw out the first pitch at a Braves game. "It was during the playoffs," Foxworthy remembers. After Foxworthy did his first-pitch duties, "Someone said, Stand here until they're done with the national anthem, then you can go back to your seat. And as I'm standing there, I look over and there's Jimmy Carter seated in the front row. I had the ball that I had just thrown out for the first pitch, so after the anthem, I turned around and said, Mr. President, would you sign this? And he wrote 'To Jeff. Great first pitch! Jimmy Carter.' Well, that's a great memory of that night, and it's one of those collectibles that has a story behind it." Read about Foxworthy and his unique baseballs at Collectors Weekly.

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