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- Qi Zai, the World's Only Brown Panda in Captivity, is Super Cute!
- The Perfect Getaway Car, According to a Former Jewel Thief
- Cats Being So Weird, You Have to Take a Picture
- Scientific Papers Are More Likely to Be Cited if They Have Funny Titles
- Give Peas a Chance
- Woman Hears A "Swishing Sound" Coming from Her Breasts
- Pulp Sabotage: Making Book Covers More Fun
| Qi Zai, the World's Only Brown Panda in Captivity, is Super Cute! Posted: 31 Mar 2022 12:19 AM PDT
🐼 Meet Qi Zai, the world's only Qinling or brown panda in captivity. He's one of about 100 brown pandas in the world, so he's not only cute - he's quite rare, too! 🚀 All eyes are on NASA's fancy new James Webb telescope, but while you weren't looking good ol' Hubble Space Telescope spotted the farthest star ever seen: Earendel, which is now 28 billion light-years away. "A large portion of downtown Indianapolis remained evacuated. Report are sketchy at this point but we do know that apparently there are terrorists holed up in the downtown part of our city with nuclear devices." 💣 Fortunately, that wasn't real: the fake newscast was part of a 1986 training video developed by the Nuclear Security Administration, the federal agency that's responsible to avoid nuclear catastrophes in the United States. The video was part of "Mighty Derringer," a multi-agency exercise in which a large city was devastated by a nuclear blast. 🕹️ Atari's 1970 prototype of "Home Pong" sold for $270K. Image: He Xin
🍔 Great food, terrible service sounds like a bad Yelp review, but it's actually the motto of Karen's Diner in Sydney, Australia. The retro 50s themed restaurant features rude waitresses who expect you to go full Karen at them. 🤔 Can a piece of furniture be creepy and absolutely gorgeous at the same time? 🎸 Got a bad experience at a local business? Most of us would just grumble but not Layne Barton. When he got a bad experience at his local Western Dental & Orthodontics clinic, he rocked his protest: he set up his amp on the sidewalk in front of the dental clinic and shredded his guitar.
🖥️ My favorite link of the day: Clinton Jones challenged his fellow artists from around the world to design CG art on the theme "Infinite Journeys" and 2,448 of them answered the call. Jones featured the Top 100 3D renders in this fantastic clip. Don't miss this one! ✋ Have we reached peak Will Smith news yet? If you're tired of hearing celebs give their take on the infamous Oscar slap, consider what people who just happen to share the same name as the actor must be feeling. They're the wrong Will Smith, and they're taking abuse online. See also: Will Smith Slap Meme Generator 🐦 When Hannah Bourne-Taylor found an abandoned baby finch, she not only nursed it back to health but also let it nest in her hair for 3 months. More neat posts? We've got you covered with our new sites: Laughosaurus, Pop Culturista, Homes & Hues, Pictojam, Infinite 1UP, Supa Fluffy and Spooky Daily. Check 'em out! Image: Clinton Jones/YouTube
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| The Perfect Getaway Car, According to a Former Jewel Thief Posted: 30 Mar 2022 08:11 PM PDT
Larry Lawton had quite a career in jewelry heists that netted millions dollars in the 1980s and '90s. But he was finally caught, and served ten years in prison. Now he explains the importance of the getaway car. Lawton knows a lot about getaway cars, which are crucial to his former occupation, and not at all like what you see in movies. In the movies, the car stands out so we can follow it. In real life, that's the opposite of what you want. Lawton explains how he would select a getaway car and made it as untraceable as possible. No high-speed chase necessary, if everything goes as planned. |
| Cats Being So Weird, You Have to Take a Picture Posted: 30 Mar 2022 07:22 PM PDT
We've long loved looking and laughing at other people's cats on the internet, but since the rise of smartphones, the supply has grown exponentially. When you see a cat doing something really weird, you no longer have to run and get a camera only to find that the moment has passed; you just aim the phone that you are already holding. The strangest ones end up on the Twitter account cats being weird little guys. That's one you might want to start following.
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| Scientific Papers Are More Likely to Be Cited if They Have Funny Titles Posted: 30 Mar 2022 11:20 AM PDT
(Avogadro take my number t-shirt on sale at the NeatoShop) Aside from ordinary compensation issues, such as paying rent and eating occasionally, scholars prioritize getting published and getting their published works cited by other scholars. Therefore any means to increase citation rates should be considered. Scholars Stephen B. Heard, Chloe A. Cull, and Easton R. White report in bioRxiv the results of their recent study in the correlation between the humorous nature of titles among ecology and evolutionary biology papers and the citation rate of those articles. The authors conclude that, at first glance, having a humorous title tends to correlate with lower citation rates. But this is only because scholars tend to give less important papers humorous titles. When the importance of an article is corrected statistically, it would appear that humorous titles correlate with higher citation rates. So try cracking some jokes and maybe you’ll get a full-time appointment. -via Marginal Revolution |
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| Woman Hears A "Swishing Sound" Coming from Her Breasts Posted: 29 Mar 2022 07:04 PM PDT
Do breasts normally generate sound effects? I mean outside of anime, of course. The answer, in my admittedly limited experience, is no. Nonetheless, one woman reported to her physician that her breasts made a "swishing sound". Weird Universe shares her story, which was reported in a 1994 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. She had saline breast implants and asserted that the swishing sound generally came when she was at high altitudes. Why? Dr. James J. Bachman attributed the noise to Boyle's Law, which provides a formula for the expansion and contraction of gas that varies with temperature and pressure. The woman's breast implants contained a quantity of air, which expanded when the woman was at higher altitutudes and thus lower air pressure. Photo: Docteur Spitalier Philippe |
| Pulp Sabotage: Making Book Covers More Fun Posted: 29 Mar 2022 05:40 PM PDT
Novelist Richard Kadrey decided to have some fun on Twitter by giving book covers more interesting titles. Or designing new book covers for whatever subversive title you can come up with. This is #PulpSabotage. It's been going on a couple of years now, and the hashtag itself has fans.
You can see his Twitter collection under the hashtag #PulpSabotage, just be aware that some titles are NSFW. -via Metafilter |
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