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- This Old Dog Always Visits Next Door Neighbor
- The History of Rice Cookers
- Caroline Ewen, the Wealthy Cat Lady of East Harlem
- 12 Facts About the End of World War II
- In My Particular Case
- Scientists Rename Genes to Stop MS Excel from Reading Them as Dates
- Non-Human Disney Characters as Humans
- SCAF's Optical Illusion Street Art
| This Old Dog Always Visits Next Door Neighbor Posted: 09 Aug 2020 04:39 AM PDT
Melissa first met Oliver, a golden retriever, when he was still five years old, which was nine years ago. It was the day when Melissa moved into the neighborhood. Fast forward to this day, the now 14-year-old Oliver still visits Melissa's house everyday, usually coming at around seven in the morning at the gate. "He's like a wandering old grandpa," describes Melissa. Oliver's mother, Sue, has no problem with Oliver wandering around. "From a puppy on, he's just had this spirit where he's wanted to kind of wander. And we've let him kind of do his thing because, at the end of the day, he always comes home," says Sue. More about this wholesome story over at The Dodo. (Image Credit: The Dodo)  |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2020 04:38 AM PDT
When Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng (previously), in his character named "Uncle Roger", criticized the egg fried rice video from BBC Food, he made a follow-up video on his Instagram account, showing how to cook rice the Asian way. And the Asian way? Cooking rice with a rice cooker. "World War II is over, use technology!" he remarked. Thanks to the power of modern technology, we can now cook the perfect rice through the use of rice cookers. But rice cookers aren't as great before, and many Japanese companies have raced to invent the perfect rice cooker. Know more about the history of rice cookers over at Atlas Obscura. (Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons) |
| Caroline Ewen, the Wealthy Cat Lady of East Harlem Posted: 08 Aug 2020 10:57 PM PDT
Caroline Ewen was a serious cat lady in New York City. An original member of the Society to Befriend Domestic Animals, she worked to support a cat shelter and a nocturnal project to euthanize stray cats. But her claim to fame was that she kept between 80 and 180 cats in her own three-story brownstone home. The neighbors weren't happy at all, mainly due to the noise. They complained for years.
Ewen was forced to move elsewhere, but she continued to advocate for stray and unwanted cats for the rest of her life, and even after her death. Read about the devoted cat lady of East Harlem at The Hatching Cat. -via Strange Company |
| 12 Facts About the End of World War II Posted: 08 Aug 2020 10:56 PM PDT
We are coming up on the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. The conclusion of the biggest event of the 20th century is celebrated on a specific day, which is different depending on where you are, but was actually a series of steps wrapping up the war. Still, the surrender of Japan on August 14, 1945, is a milestone we don't see in wars that have been waged since then. And you might be surprised at how much you don't know about how the war actually ended. For example,
You can't blame the Soviets for wanting a three-month breathing period -and it no doubt took most of that time to move troops across Eurasia. Read more about the many steps taken to officially end World War II at Mental Floss. |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2020 10:56 PM PDT
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| Scientists Rename Genes to Stop MS Excel from Reading Them as Dates Posted: 08 Aug 2020 10:54 PM PDT
What would be easier: adopting a new nomenclature in order to avoid spreadsheet errors or customizing MS Excel to accomplish the same? Exactly. So, The Verge reports, that's what geneticists are doing: "It's really, really annoying," Dezsล Mรณdos, a systems biologist at the Quadram Institute in the UK, told The Verge. Mรณdos, whose job involves analyzing freshly sequenced genetic data, says Excel errors happen all the time, simply because the software is often the first thing to hand when scientists process numerical data. "It's a widespread tool and if you are a bit computationally illiterate you will use it," he says. "During my PhD studies I did as well!" There's no easy fix, either. Excel doesn't offer the option to turn off this auto-formatting, and the only way to avoid it is to change the data type for individual columns. Even then, a scientist might fix their data but export it as a CSV file without saving the formatting. Or, another scientist might load the data without the correct formatting, changing gene symbols back into dates. The end result is that while knowledgeable Excel users can avoid this problem, it's easy for mistakes to be introduced. Therefore the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee has created a new system that has resulted in 27 new gene names in the past year. -via Marginal Revolution | Photo: Pixabay |
| Non-Human Disney Characters as Humans Posted: 08 Aug 2020 10:54 PM PDT Inspired by the great stories of Disney films, Isabelle Staub re-imagined non-human female characters as walking, talking, humans, losing fins and paws in the process. Staub is a remarkably skilled artist and her whole Instagram feed is worth exploring. The distinctive style of her women is captivating. -via Geek Tyrant |
| SCAF's Optical Illusion Street Art Posted: 08 Aug 2020 08:44 PM PDT SCAF, a French street artist, makes images that, when viewed from just the right angle, pop out of two dimensions and into three. Many show magical animals that seem to come to life and interact with passersby who are daring or foolhardy enough to approach. It's an exciting, surreal world inside SCAF's head. -via Street Art Utopia |
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