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- Keep Your Cash Safe by Hiding It inside Firewood
- How Asbestos Was Used Before
- Using Smartphones To Track Health and Disease
- A Brief History of Animals Launched Into Space
- Giant Panda Gives Birth
- Katrina Herrndorf's Bra Art
- Cut Your Hair With Nail Trimmers
- AI Beats Pilot In A Dogfight Simulation
- Watch The Journey Of NASA’s New Mars Rover In Real Time
- Celebrate Mario’s 35th Anniversary With, Uh, Glue?
- This Google Drive Flaw Can Let Hackers Trick Users To Install Malware
- Updated Lab Safety Signs
- The Worst Attraction In Every State
- Unrelated Movies Described with the Same Sentence
| Keep Your Cash Safe by Hiding It inside Firewood Posted: 25 Aug 2020 01:35 AM PDT
Instructables member XYZ Create has a brilliant way to hide your valuables. First, hollow out the core with a bandsaw. Then attach neodymium magnets to hold the pieces together. Put inside your valuables, such as cash, bearer bonds, or essential papers, then leave the safe on a pile of firewood. Your most important pieces of property are then hiding in plain sight! It's a foolproof plan. -via Dave Barry  |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2020 11:40 PM PDT
Asbestos is now known to be a dangerous substance which can cause various diseases such as asbestosis and pleural disease. People exposed to this substance could have higher risks in developing certain cancers. But before asbestos was known to be a material dangerous for one's health, it had different uses for different kinds of people. Kings and nobles have used asbestos to display grandeur, while scammers used it to create false relics. According to legend, Charlemagne liked to lay out his lavish banquets on a sparkling-white tablecloth spun from pure asbestos. After his guests had eaten their fill, the king would pluck the tablecloth off the table and fling it into the hearth. In the blaze, the cloth turned fiery red, but did not burn. When it was plucked out, it was cleaner than ever, with the debris of the meal roasted away. [...] The wondrous properties of the material made it a prime tool for the creation of false relics: its incombustibility served as proof of authenticity. Scammers passed off chunks of asbestos as fragments of the True Cross, and the monks of Monte Cassino bought an asbestos towel under the impression that it was the cloth Jesus had used to wash his disciples' feet. Asbestos has always been a strange substance in history. Where you find it, however, is even stranger. More details about this over at JSTOR Daily. (Image Credit: Aram Dulyan/ Wikimedia Commons) |
| Using Smartphones To Track Health and Disease Posted: 24 Aug 2020 11:40 PM PDT
Smartphones indeed have evolved through time. Before, these devices only had limited functions, but now, they have proven to be indispensable, because of their versatility. With only a smartphone, you could already do lots of things, like make music, edit videos, and take amazing photos. But those are not the only things that we could do with our smartphones Scientists have experimented with the smartphone, and they found out that we could use smartphones to help us monitor our health, such as gauging fertility (if you're female), and even detecting serious diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cancer. Learn more about this over at New Atlas. (Image Credit: deeptuts/ Pixabay) |
| A Brief History of Animals Launched Into Space Posted: 24 Aug 2020 11:40 PM PDT
You might have heard of Laika as the first dog to be launched in space, but did you know that she was not the first animal to be launched there? In fact, there were already lots of animals who have been into space over a decade before her, from fruit flies, to mice, to numerous monkeys. Know more about the animals launched before Laika, as well as the animals launched after her, over at Amusing Planet. (Image Credit: NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center) |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2020 11:40 PM PDT
We all know that giant pandas are already endangered, and so it is always nice to hear news of them giving birth to their cubs, which would increase their numbers. On August 21, at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C, a 22-year-old giant panda named Mei Xiang gave birth to a giant panda cub. Currently, the newborn panda was about the size of a stick of butter. The cub's sex will be determined after neonatal exams are completed at a later date. The cub will also be named after 100 days. Mei Xiang "picked up the cub immediately and began cradling and caring for it," according to a Zoo release. "The panda team heard the cub vocalize and glimpsed the cub for the first time briefly immediately after the birth." Awesome! (Image Credit: smithsonianzoo/ Instagram) |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2020 10:13 PM PDT Artist Katrina Herrndorf explains that "what started out as a simple study in ceramic sculpture class of the form of my bra drying on a doorknob has evolved...." For her exploration of the bra, she made examples from unusual materials, such as baseball gloves, and inspired by usually non-mammary themes, such as Canada Day. |
| Cut Your Hair With Nail Trimmers Posted: 24 Aug 2020 06:18 PM PDT
Well this is a different approach to trimming your hair. If your local salons or barber shops are closed due to the pandemic, you're probably considering cutting your overgrown locks at home. Micarah Tewers suggests a new method for cutting your hair, and it's by using nail trimmers. Not exactly the tool I'd use, but seeing her do it makes it a viable option. Will you cut your hair with nail trimmers? |
| AI Beats Pilot In A Dogfight Simulation Posted: 24 Aug 2020 05:07 PM PDT
An AI designed by Heron Systems defeated a human F-16 fighter pilot in a VR trial system. This situation seems a bit too close to The Terminator. At DARPA's AlphaDogfight Trial, the AI was able to defeat the pilot with significant handicaps in place, like not being allowed to improve using information learned from its previous competition rounds, disabling its collision detection systems, and restricting weapons to only the aircraft's nose cannon, as Input magazine details: Heron System's AI system used what's known as deep reinforcement learning, which allows algorithms to quickly try out problem-solving options in a virtual environment to approach something akin to understanding. We're using the term "akin to understanding," because really we're too terrified to type out what it really is — that robots can pilot F-16's now, and are more than capable at it than any of us. "I think what we're seeing today is the beginning of something I'm going to call human-machine symbiosis," DARPA's director of its Strategic Technology Office told Defense One. "Let's think about the human sitting in the cockpit, being flown by one of these AI algorithms as truly being one weapon system, where the human is focusing on what the human does best [like higher-order strategic thinking] and the AI is doing what the AI does best." Image via Input magazine |
| Watch The Journey Of NASA’s New Mars Rover In Real Time Posted: 24 Aug 2020 01:33 PM PDT
You can now check the progress of NASA's new Mars Rover, Perseverance as it travels to Mars. NASA has launched a free online tool that lets anyone monitor Perseverance's journey in real time. You can also see the nearest celestial body to the spacecraft at any given moment! The Mars 2020 rover will arrive in February 2021, so people can monitor its journey for a few more months, as Slash Gear details: Using this new NASA tool, anyone can see the rover on its journey, nearby objects like the 81p Wild 2 comet, and the paths these various space bodies are taking. Clicking through an object will enable viewers to get additional information on each satellite, comet, planet, and moon. In addition to the direct view of the rover, users can also zoom out to view the wider region around the rover, including the orbit of each nearby planet and comet. Of course, this is all a visualization — you can't actually see the rover itself in real-time, only its journey and its digital representation from NASA's team. Image via Slash Gear |
| Celebrate Mario’s 35th Anniversary With, Uh, Glue? Posted: 24 Aug 2020 01:33 PM PDT
Mario's 35th anniversary is coming soon, and with no announcements on the rumored 35th-anniversary remasters, why not celebrate by getting some limited-edition goods? If the PowerA and HORI's new Nintendo Switch controllers or Mario's new LEGO line are out of your budget, how about some stationery? Nintendo teamed up with German manufacturer UHU to release Mario-themed adhesive products. Handy items like glue sticks, white tack, and correction tapes will have special designs to commemorate the anniversary. Image via NintendoLife |
| This Google Drive Flaw Can Let Hackers Trick Users To Install Malware Posted: 24 Aug 2020 01:33 PM PDT
Be careful! A Google Drive security flaw in its "manage versions" feature could let attackers swap a legitimate file with malware. The app's cloud storage reportedly doesn't check to see if a file is of the same type. For example, a cat photo may be a program in disguise. Users might not know that there's a problematic file until they've installed it, as Engadget detailed: Chrome seems to "implicitly trust" the Drive downloads even when other antivirus programs detect something amiss. The approach could be used for spear phishing attacks that trick users into compromising their systems. You might get a notification of a document update and grab the file without realizing the threat. Nikoci said he notified Google about the issue, but that it was still unpatched as of August 22nd. We've asked Google for comment. This would mainly be useful for attacking companies that rely on Google Drive for sharing documents, but that's increasingly common. The description also suggests that this would require a significant change to Drive's version control. For now, the best solutions may be to use antivirus software and be wary of Google Drive file update alerts, especially if you weren't expecting them. Image via Endgadget |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2020 01:33 PM PDT Cartoonist Tom Gauld has new signs that you can post on the walls of your lair/laboratory. When reality begins to warp as a result of your experiments with dark matter and Skittles, it's not enough to simply slap up a biohazard warning sign. |
| The Worst Attraction In Every State Posted: 24 Aug 2020 08:15 AM PDT
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| Unrelated Movies Described with the Same Sentence Posted: 24 Aug 2020 08:15 AM PDT
Have you ever read a one-line movie description before you read the title and assumed it was another movie? A recent Ask Reddit thread posed the question: "Which two unrelated movies can be summed up with the same sentence?" Summing up a film in only one sentence makes it overly simple, and only highlights that we have very few types of stories, and they are told over and over. The pair above can use the line, "A Bitter Old Man Loses His Wife, Befriends His Young Asian Neighbour Who Helps Him Overcome His Bitterness And Cyncism." That's pretty detailed. However, it's not only a similar plot that can be used this way- sometimes it's a joke. The line for the movies below is "A Bunch Of Dinosaurs Kill A Lot Of People."
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