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Little Boy Has Adorable Reaction to a Butterfly Landing on His Nose

At first it's horror, then it's delight. This little boy wants to help his insect friend fly away and be free. The butterfly says goodbye with a kiss on his nose before flitting away.


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-via Tastefully Offensive


Ice Cream-Filled Donuts

(Photo: Baker's Donuts)

Baker's Donuts is a bakery in Sacramento, California. Susie and Randy Hem, the owners, call their latest treat "ice glazers." It's an adaptation of a simple treat that she used to make for her children on hot summer days: ice cream wrapped in ordinary bread. This can be only improved by replacing the bread with donut dough.

Every day, the Rems make eight dozen glazed donuts for ice glazers and inject them with ice cream when customers buy them. They often use exotic flavors to entice interest. Sactown magazine reports:

The unique ice cream flavors come from Pittsburg-based Magnolia Tropical Ice Cream, which uses California milk and fresh fruit in their recipes.

“We have an Asian-American background, and we used to eat [Magnolia ice cream] when we were younger,” Douglas Hem says. “A lot of Asian-Americans and Filipinos love that brand, because it’s very rich and creamy and not watered-down.”

The shop has also fulfilled customers' requests for other wild and crazy spins on the ice glazers, like red velvet doughnuts stuffed with vanilla ice cream, ice cream-filled cronuts topped with Trader Joe’s cookie butter, or tropical-flavored ice glazers sprinkled with Fruity Pebbles cereal.

-via That's Nerdalicious!


Doctors Find a Tooth Growing inside a Man's Nose

(Photo: Dr. Hamed O. Al Dhafeeri, et al.)

A 22-year old man in Saudi Arabia had recurring nosebleeds from one nostril. He went to a hospital to find out why. Doctors stuck a camera up his nose and found the source of the problem: a tooth had grown inside his nose!

Sometimes people grow extra teeth, such as the teenager in India who had 232 of them. These doctors at the King Fahd Military Medical Complex found and removed only one, after which the nosebleeds thankfully stopped.

-via Nerdcore


11-Year Old Cancer Survivor Invents a Chemotherapy Bag

When she was 8 years old, Kylie Simonds of Naugatuck, Connecticut was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer of the connective tissues. She is now in remission and recovering from the ordeal. Kylie is also putting her hard experience to good use:

“I used to have to use the I-V poles and I always tripped over all the wires,” she said. “It was hard to walk around, and I always had to have someone push it for me because I was kind a weak when I was in chemo.”

Her response to this problem was to design a backpack that would carry the equipment necessary to deliver chemotherapy. She calls it the I-Pack.

Kylie's design won a prize at the Connecticut Invention Convention. She has secured a patent and is trying to raise money to put the backpack into production.

(Photos: Courage for Kylie)


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-via Huffington Post


I Need This Parenting Multi-Tool

Charlie and Andy of How to Be a Dad have designed the ultimate parental multi-tool.

There are multi-tools and pocket knives for different purposes and lifestyles, such as outdoor survival, electrical work, bicycling, traveling--everything. It's an industry that increasingly provides specialized sets of pocket tools.

Now we have one that is perfect for parents. I'm a fan of the Daddy Juice opener. But I'm not sure of the dried food chisel. Sometimes you need explosives to blast that stuff off the table.

-via 22 Words


Brawl in the Ukrainian Parliament Neatly Illustrates the Golden Ratio

The Golden Ratio or Fibonacci numbers is a sequence of numbers consisting of the sum of the two previous numbers. It is found in nature and has long been a standard of beauty in Western art and architecture.

Now behold this stunning photo of a fistfight that broke out in Ukraine's national parliament. Manzil Lajura noticed what makes this image so elegant and the combatants so graceful: their bodies fit neatly within the Golden Ratio.

-via Blame It on the Voices


Hey Girl, Check Out This Ryan Gosling-Themed Restroom


(Photo: crazycow7)

If you're feeling a bit constipated, will this restroom help or hurt you? If the former, then head to the Bang Bang, a bar and sushi restaurant in San Diego. Lauren Zupkus of the Huffington Post tells us that one restroom there is covered with pictures of actor Ryan Gosling. Sit down and stare into his dreamy eyes.


New Exercise Gadget Promises a Perfect Smile

Turn that frown upside down with the Facial Fitness Pao, an exercise device from Japan. All you have to do is stick it in your mouth and shake it for, oh, let’s say a couple hours a day, and you’ll have a muscular smile. I guarantee you that if you walk around with it in your mouth, people will notice how different you look.


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-via Geekologie


Somewhere, A Baker Is Wondering What Happened to His Day's Work

(Eugen Erhan, Tudor Muscalu/Fredo & Pid'Jin)

Sure, he could have just produced the fish and loaves ex nihilo, but wouldn't it be easier to just pick them up somewhere? It's a divine take-out order.

Bonus item: a classic Rowan Atkinson routine:


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How to Free a Rattlesnake Trapped in a Net without Dying


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My rule is to kill on sight any venomous snake if I can safely do so, but WildCare Bay Area in San Rafael, California takes a different approach. The staff met a rattlesnake that had become trapped in a plastic mesh. It was unable to free itself, so they restrained its head, then cut away the plastic net.

One of their more challenging tasks was to remove some of the plastic from the snake's mouth as it tried to bite them.

-via Huffington Post


Hero Teaches Ill-Mannered Brat and His Mother a Delightful Lesson


(Photo: Foodspotting)

Redditor thr111 performed a great public service while he purchased lunch at a Burger King. Although he has deleted the text, much of it remains at Consumerist. He purchased every apple pie at the restaurant to punish a rude child who wanted one. Harken to his tale of justice:

“When behind me comes this woman yapping on her cellphone with a little monster of a child,” he writes. “This kid was out of control, screaming, punching his mother throwing around a gameboy whenever something didn’t go right in the game.”

He says the mom paid more attention to her phone than to her kid, who was screaming about how much he wanted an apple pie.

The customer says his already bad headache got worse and so he asked the mother nicely to quiet her kid down.

“Immediately she gets up in my face telling me I can’t tell her nothing about raising her child and to mind my own business,” recalls the customer, who says the mom rubbed it in by calling her kid “sweety” and assuring him that he’d get his pie.

By the time the customer got to the front of the line, he says he could only think about how the loudmouthed brat and his mom had spoiled this little trip to BK.

“I then decide to ruin their day,” explains the customer who ordered all 23 pies the store had in stock.

“I take my order and walk towards the exit,” he recounts. “Moments later I hear the woman yelling, ‘What do you mean you don’t have any pies left, who bought them all?’ I turn around and see the cashier pointing me out with the woman shooting me a death glare.”

As the father of two young children, I have great sympathy for the parents of children who misbehave in public. But parents must act to either change the behavior or remove the children. That's the only way you get pie.

-via Iowahawk


Prancercise 2: The Second One


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"Why settle for mediocrity, when you can Prancercise your way to ecstasy?" Once again, Joanna Rohrback uses rhyming couplets to make the case for her now-famous exercise program. It was an internet sensation in early summer. Even Thor got into it!

Rohrback's exercise program is inspired by the movement of horses. So to demonstrate its clear excellence as a fitness activity, she performed it with a partner in a field with horses. Now put on some tights and go find a horse farm. Or, if you live in an area without horses, try a public library. Then get Prancercising!

-via Nerdcore


Ingenious Chef Combines Pizza and Chocolate Chip Cookies

Now it seems obvious: all pizzas should be cooked with a layer of chocolate chip cookie on top. But in the dark times that preceded Michael J. Hudson's discovery, we did not have such marvels.

It all began when the DiGiorno's brand began packaging its frozen pizzas with tubes of chocolate chip cookie dough. Like Bell with the telephone or the Wright brothers with the airplane, Hudson saw possibilities where others did not: the cookies and the pizza need not be baked separately.

Thank you, Mr. Hudson, our modern Prometheus. You have given humanity a great and delicious gift.

-via That's Nerdalicious!


Adorable Toddler Plays Peekaboo with Herself


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The daughter of Aaron Engler found a new friend--her own reflection! Watch this cute little girl pop up and down, catching herself in the window.

-via Huffington Post


The Great Hare

This is The Great Hare, a sculpture by Canadian artist Mary Catherine Newcomb. She made the 15-foot long structure from turf that she grew over shaped mounds of compost and soil. It was on public display in 2011 at the Cambridge Sculpture Garden for CAFKA, an art show in the Kitchener, Ontario area. She also made an 8-foot long indoor version in 2012.

Because of its construction, The Great Hare is, in a sense, a living object. In an interview, Newcomb described the creative process:

The process of making the Great Hare (my most recent piece) relates to the fibre arts in a specific way. The turf blanket is cut and sewn onto parts of a supporting frame so that it can grow into the supporting soil. As the grass grew, I would comb it and give the piece "haircuts".

-via Colossal


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