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The male nursery spider faces a dilemma – the female spider is much bigger and likes to eat male suitors while mating.
So, it develops a clever strategy: it brings a dead insect to distract the female spider, then it plays dead. Then when the feame is busy munching on the gift, it revives, creeps under her and begins mating. Link(via Aberrant News) |
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In the Florida everglades, they found a dead carcass of a 13-foot Burmese python whose stomach had burst from trying to swallow a 6-foot alligator whole. Link |
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Susie Lockheed’s 15-year old dog Sam, a purebred Chinese Crested Hairless, has won the World’s Ugliest Dog competition for 3 years in a row. Link |
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Blur Studio made this 2002 Academy Award-nominated short animation about an old lady who hears music all the time but can’t figure out where it’s coming from. Link (click on the Quicktime icon) |
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Honda has created a dog-friendly concept car called WOW. (for Wonderful Open-hearted Wagon, although I think it stands for bow wow).
Anyways, the car has a special crate for dogs in the glove compartment that allows the owner to interact with the dog while driving. |
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Japanese company Murata Manufacturing has created a robot that rides a bike without falling!
The robot, tentatively named Murata Boy, has gyro sensors to detect velocity and inclination, an ultrasonic sensor to detect obstacles, and a shock sensor to detect rough surfaces. The picture shows the robot riding its bike down a thin balance beam. Link |
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Ron Grant chooses a canvas unlike any other artists – he paints on tooth!
After establishing his own dental lab 25 years ago, he became interested in painting on dental crowns. His first design was a painted molar for his mom. Now he’s famous. Link (via Aberrant News) |
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Next year, for the first time in nearly 100 years of having presidents looking somber in coins, the US Mint is trying something different: a new nickel with Jefferson half-smiling (really? That’s a half-smile?). From the website: "It isn’t a silly smile or a smirk, but a sense of optimism that I was trying to convey with the expression," says Jamie Franki, an associate professor of art at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. His drawing was chosen out of 147 entries. Link (via BoingBoing) |
