Archive for November 2nd, 2006
Movin' on Up?
According to a study reported in Scientific American, that “de-luxe apartment in the sky” could be hazardous to your health:
Poor people die sooner when living in higher-income neighborhoods than in poorer ones, a new report concludes. Researchers analyzed 17 years’ worth of data on thousands of people from four mid-size northern California cities to determine the death rates among different socioeconomic groups residing in the same neighborhoods. Higher rents or property taxes and limited access to free services may explain the paradoxical outcome for poor people with better-off neighbors.
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Numerical Symmetry.
From Non Stop Masti – via digg
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Five-Year-Old Boy Took Photo of Elusive California Condor.
Gabriel Gottfried’s picture of the elusive California condor flying the skies over Topanga Canyon, California, is remarkable … but what is more remarkable is that he’s only five years old!
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Gauss Pistol.
This badass looking DIY Gauss Pistol by William Harriss is a coil gun, which uses electromagnetism (instead of gunpowder) to fire a special bullet.
Link – via World’s Coilgun Arsenal and Unique Daily
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Man Stole 5,000 Shoes for Their Smell.
From the website:
A man suspected of stealing about 5,000 pairs of shoes in order to enjoy their odor has been arrested, police said Wednesday.
"I was enjoying their smell," Masashi Kamata, 28, a resident of Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, was quoted as telling investigators. "Indoor shoes for school sexually stimulate me. I couldn’t throw away the shoes I obtained."
Why do all the shoes look the same? Link – via Arbroath
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Turning Bomb into Coffee Maker.
A fine example of turning swords into coffee machine, er … plowshare. You know what I mean:
In his workshop in Mekele, just 120 km from Ethiopia’s border with Eritrea, Azmeraw Zeleke is turning burnt-out shells into cylinders used in coffee machines. …
He told me he got the idea nine years ago when he was doing maintenance work.
"I saw some shells being sold for a different purpose and I studied them.
"They were used for washing clothes or crushing things. After studying them I came up with the idea of using them as a cylinder for a coffee machine."
Link – via Boing Boing
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Bangalore, Bengalooru
Either way, it still means “boiled beans.” And you thought that was Boston.
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Early Cataract Surgery
This procedure is also known as “couching”:
Couching was perfected by Sustruta (the Hippocrates of India) in the 6th century BC. The procedure involved pressing down the afflicted lens (couch the cataract) with sharp instuments. The procedure lifted the veil of blindness in a matter of minutes though the patient is left aphakic [without the natural lens -- GH]. Post-operative complications such as endophthalmitis, severe uveitis and retinal detachment were likely to be high and the patients were unlikely to enjoy more than a few days of brightness.
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Pimp My Sneaker.
Yes, that’s a sneaker, all pimped out by a guy named Zoltron: Link – via Fazed.
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Funny Cat Pics.
See a large collection of funny cat pictures: Link – via Miss Cellania.
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Rubik's Cube Skateboards.
These decks are made with tiles from Rubik’s cube! Link
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Men of Mortuaries Calendar.
We saw Beefcake Marine Recon calendar before, so why not Men of Mortuaries calendar? Link – via mentalfloss
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Why Tuesday?
Do you know why US elections are always on Tuesday? Turns out that voting on Tuesdays is not required for the US Constitution, but instead was done to make it convenient for voters in 1845:
This Election Day, “the Tuesday after the first Monday of November,” was in fact established in 1845 by federal law. In those years, when we were a primarily agrarian nation, Tuesday was a convenient day for most eligible voters (rural workers and land-owning gentry) to journey to the county seat, vote, and journey back home- a trek that could take up to three days. Congress did not want this travel to conflict with days of religious observance, which left Tuesday and Wednesday. Wednesday was market day. So: Tuesday.
But now, this obviously no longer applies. Actually, voter turn out would probably increase if election day falls on a Saturday or a Sunday.
So, in a bid to get the move Election Day to the weekend, Get Out the Why is holding a contest: ask an elected official "Why Tuesday?" and get paid!
The first qualifying clip we receive of each U.S. Senator and each Governor answering the question will receive a prize of $500.
One clip of each Congress-person (Member of the House) will get a $300 prize.
And, best for last: if you get any U.S. Vice-President, sitting or former, answering the question you’ll receive $2500, and if you get any U. S. President, sitting or former, it’s $5000.
In addition to the above, three lucky winners will receive $1500 on the basis of a clip that’s particularly amusing, timely, or well executed.
So far, they’ve got: Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), Rep. Tim-Ryan (D-OH 17th), Sen Richard G. Luger (R-IN), Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack (D), and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) [all YouTube].
Links: Get Out the Why | Why Tuesday?
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Elephant Recognizes Self in Mirror.
Scientists proved that elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror:
… Reiss presented three elephants at the Bronx Zoo in New York City with a mirror. They began inspecting themselves with their trunks while staring at their reflections. One elephant, called Happy, also repeatedly touched a mark painted onto its head …
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