Sarah Hardy is chef with extraordinary abilities to create delicious desserts that look like things you normally wouldn't eat, such as a severed human head and a raw turkey. She's now applying her talents to paleontology with 1:1 scale models of teeth from frightening dinosaurs. But they're made of chocolate! The megalodon (left) is 14 cm long and is a truly luxurious chocolate experience:

These beasts are made in Satongo, 72% dark chocolate. Created from fine, aromatic cocoa beans from Africa and producing a well rounded flavour profile with a long finish, notes of red fruits, herbs and Bourbon vanilla.

The tyrannosaurs rex tooth (right) is similarly the product of a master chocolatier:

Created with cocoa exclusively grown in Ecuador from the Nacional cocoa bean. This single origin, milk chocolate offers a buttery, creamy, fudge taste with accents of nuts.

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HQ Architects designed this unique shade for pedestrians in Vallero Square in Jerusaelm, Israel. It's called "Warde." These flower sculptures are equipped with sensors and air compressors. When someone stands under them, the fabric blossoms unfold and inflate, providing relief from the sun. 

You can see more photos and a video at Contemporist. The flowers are especially lovely at night when the built-in lights activate.

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This bridge in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, is 230 feet above the surface of the Yangtze River. Bian Peng, a bus driver, noticed as he drove over the bridge that a woman had climbed over the railing and was about to drop down to her death in the water.

At the 0:26 point in this video, Peng stops his bus, leaps from the door, and wrestles the woman down from the railing. She screams "Let me die!"

Another man helps subdue her. Passengers from the bus drag her inside. Peng gets back in the driver's seat and takes the woman to the police.

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In this, the latest episode of the animated series Blank on Blank, Bill Murray talks acting obnoxious and other feelimgs and impulses in this interview with journalist T.J. English. Via Laughing Squid

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Animals eat, wander, then excrete. Their excretions contain essential fertilizers, notably phosphorus. Otherwise, the distribution of phosphorus tends to follow gravity and get washed into the ocean.

There are fewer large animals today then in centuries past, especially fewer wild large animals. Most large domesticated species, such as cattle, are fenced in. This impairs the spread of manure-sourced nutrients. Chris Doughty of Oxford University explained to the Washington Post that this trend could make it harder to find phosphorus in the future:

"Large free-ranging animals are much less abundant than they once were. Today, if scientists were to study the role of animals they would find that it is important but small," Doughty explained. "However, in the past, we hypothesize that it would have been at least an order of magnitude larger than today. Essentially, we have replaced wild free-roaming animals with fenced domestic cattle that cannot move nutrients in the same way."

The loss of whale poop is especially bad:

But today, the researchers estimate, whales only bring 165 million pounds of phosphorus up annually. That's just 23 percent of their previous contribution. Phosphorus movement by birds and fish that come inland after eating in the sea (like salmon, for example) are just 4 percent what they once were.

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The $3,999 Kiss Casket | Image: Brand Memorials

What crazy item might you be willing to buy if it had your favorite band's name attached to it? Or are you a hardliner who would cross the band off of your favorites list for selling their name in exchange for cheesy merch money? There are a ton of Internet salespeople who hope you're not of the latter category. They're betting on the "fool and his money are soon parted" contingent.

Want to see more of the strange side of band merchandise? Check out the things for sale highlighted by this article. 


U2 "Achtung Baby" Condoms | Image: Ebay

Joan Crawford, 1928 | Image:  George Grantham Bain collection / Library of Congress

The last words of famous people are of great interest to the public, as well as often hotly debated. In some cases, published reports vary. The linked collection of celebrities' last words is no exception. There, John Lennon's reported last words differ from this account by Eddie Dezeen, the latter of which is likely more accurate, since it's based on words Lennon supposedly spoke to paramedics in the ambulance. The words ascribed to Walt Disney have also been a source of contention, a story on which this article elaborates.

Maybe in the end, the words uttered during the final firing of the brain's synapses before death are given more weight and meaning than they should. Even so, it's likely that people will always be curious. See the linked collection of last words, including Bob Marley, Joe DiMaggio, Malcolm X, James Dean, Joan Crawford and others at Vintage Everyday.

Alison Moritsugu is an artist from Hawaii who lives in Beacon, New York. For her log series, she composed idealized images of nature onto the cut surfaces of rough hewn logs. Moritsugu explains:

In my log paintings, I examine the contrivances found in landscape paintings of the 18th and 19th centuries. These landscapes, by artists such as Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church, were deeply rooted in the political constructs of the time and depicted the land as a bountiful Eden, a limitless frontier ripe for conquest. I take these images out of their familiar context, the framed canvas, and paint directly on wood slices with bark intact. These landscapes appear as an homage to the idyllic art of the Hudson River School yet, by viewing the painting’s surface, the cross section of a tree, any sense of nostalgia or celebration of nature is countered by the evidence of its destruction.

Several of her log paintings will be on display from Nov. 12 - Dec. 12 at Littlejohn Contemporary Art in New York City.

Agent 007 has travel all over the world while working for the UK's Secret Intelligence Service. The latest film, Spectre, takes James Bond to Austria, Italy, and Morocco. These may be great journeys for us, but for Bond, it's just another day at the office.

The Guardian offers an interactive map that shows where James Bond has traveled over the course of his 23 movies. It does not include space, where Bond spent some time in Moonraker. And, of course, it does not include any of his travels that remain classified.

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While attending the PAX Prime convention in Seattle in August, David Ngo shot these three ladies who are ready for an elegant evening at an 80s arcade. Thalia Cosplay wears Pac-Man, Peachy Molly wears the Tetris dress, and Mél Dee invades your space with her enormous Space Invaders gown. Mél Dee made these lovely dresses, which hopefully didn't cost too many quarters from the arcade consoles.

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Halloween is less than a week away, which means Halloweenies who are prepared for the big night already have their costume and event picked out, and the procrastinators have another week to decide what to do.

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But a week can pass by in a flash, and if you're still undecided come Halloween weekend you should check out BuzzFeed's 29 Halloween Costumes You Can Make With Three Things Or Fewer and get to work!

There you'll find costume ideas ranging from crappy (like the Hammer Time getup on top) to crafty (chocolate chip cookie in the middle) to downright creative and worthy of compliments (jellyfish below).

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See 29 Halloween Costumes You Can Make With Three Things Or Fewer here

Pikachu Shadow by PsychoDelicia

Pika is so cute and tiny that it's easy to forget he has the potential to evolve into a larger, and much more powerful, pocket monster. But shadows never lie, and the bigger the shadow the bigger the potential trapped inside, waiting to bust out and grow large along with the eyes of those watching the evolution. So while you're crushing and squee-ing on Pikachu for being so cute remember there's a Raichu lurking around inside that little guy too!

Bring the power of geeky imagination to your wardrobe with this Pikachu Shadow t-shirt by PsychoDelicia, it's big time fun!

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At San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences, the biologists at Steinhart Aquarium say that the octopuses there are at a level of intelligence that requires their brains to get a workout in order for them to be happy and fulfilled. This footage shows the ways trainers keep the animals challenged, using food-based toys, puzzles and other stimuli. Via Gizmodo

Last year we brought you some easy last minute costumes and this year we also had some ideas for simple DIY kid's costumes, but if you're looking for something a little more inspirational -even if it's only to awe at, we've got you covered there too.

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I'm willing to bet not many of you have seen someone pull off a costume like this. Brooklyn resident Serra used a lot of ingenuity to get this costume together, but the end effect was delightful and entirely unique.

Dragon Dog

This dragon dog is just about as epic as epic can get -he almost looks like he's ready to breathe fire.

Batman in the Batmobile

Wheelchairs often provide dedicated costume-makers with so much more to work with. Need proof? Just check out this amazing Batmobile that Connor's mother Karen made out of his wheel chair.

Hiccup and Toothless

For more proof of just how much a wheel chair can add to a costume, check out this amazing Toothless wheelchair created for little Hiccup by the non-profit Magic Wheelchair.

Cinderella in her Carriage

When a little one is of a certain age, sometimes you just don't want to take him or her trick or treating without a stroller -but it kind of ruins the effect of a Cinderella when you put your princess back in a modern-day stroller. That's why Danielle of La Port City, IA opted to turn her simple stroller into a magic coach fit for a princess.

Work Loader From Aliens

Don’t send that résumé off yet! First, run it through Kittify. This online application by Daniel Landry turns your words into a series of cat-themed puns and references. Here, for example, is the Gettysburg Address. You could also use the application to tweak a seductive love letter, an especially menacing death threat, or a simple shopping list.

Please leave comments—but first, run them through Kittify.

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