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I’ve always been impressed with dollhouses, but this particular one owned by silent filmstar Colleen Moore is truly amazing. Its opulent interior includes a mural of Cinderella painted by Walt Disney himself and chandeliers with real diamonds and emeralds. Read more about it over at Mental Floss.
The story started simple enough: an undefeated high school softball team was absolutely obliterating a team that had never played before, led by a coach who hadn’t ever seen a game, and supported by not enough equipment.
Instead of walloping the inner-city team, the undefeated team stopped playing, forfeited the game, and then spent two hours teaching the newcomers how to actually play the game.
After two hours of training, they collected money for new equipment, acquired them a new coach, and professional contacts to get even more for the school’s brand new softball program.
“One wrong attitude, one babying approach from our players would shut down the Marshall team, who already were down,” wrote Traylor. “But our girls made me as proud as I have ever been. … [By the end], you could tell they were having a blast. The change from the beginning of the game to the end of the practice was amazing.”
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What is this? It’s like a holographic Rube Goldberg machine! Just creative use of an iPod, a TV, 2 computer monitors and precision timing. They say there were no special effects used, which must mean there was no cheating in the making of the video, because the overall effect is special.
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Since the beginning of modern science we have been solving the great mysteries around us. Because of recent advances in science and technology
we now have the ability to unravel some unknowns like never before.
The Ancient Theater of Epidaurus near Athens Greece was constructed in the late 4th century BC and is one of the best preserved ancient theaters. Even in ancient times, the theater was considered to have great acoustics. The actors can be perfectly heard by all 15,000 spectators without amplification. To demonstrate the theaters great acoustics tour guides have their groups scattered in the stands and then show them how faint sounds can be heard at center-stage. How this sound quality was achieved has been the source of academic and amateur speculation for many years. One of the theories suggested that prevailing winds were carrying the sounds. It turns out that that answer is in the seats. In 2007 researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that the limestone material of the seats provide a filtering effect suppressing low frequencies of voices, thus minimizing background crowd noise so the seats act as natural acoustic traps. It is still unknown whether the acoustic properties are the result of an accident or the product of advanced design.
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Check out this awesome DIY art using sheep and LEDs. Watch as the sheep make wonderful array of geometric lines on the field in the dark.
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