When Bob Ross said, “you can do anything you want to do. This is your world,” he wasn’t joking. A Tumblr user named mochachild just proved that what Bob Ross said was true when she used the legendary boredom-killing program to paint.
Magnificent!
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It’s important to be healthy. I believe we all know that, but more often than not, we don’t know how to get there. And there are many factors that contribute to this.
One of the factors that hinder us from achieving a healthy lifestyle is the cost of living a healthy lifestyle itself. For example, we have to pay a monthly subscription to a gym near our respective homes. Aside from that, we also have to buy the proper clothes, proper supplements, and proper water. In a way, “being healthy is a luxury,” or at least, that’s what the marketing industry would like to show us.
Thankfully, there are ways to be healthy without a cost. We just have to look around.
More of this over at Medium.com.
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They don't blink, which is unfortunate. That would really ramp up the fright factor. But they do look a lot like humanoid eyes.
Not Quite Nigella was inspired to make these rhubarb pies after a conversation with a friend:
"I'm so hungry I'm going to eat someone's face off!" she said with madness in her eyes, while kneeling dangerously close to my face.
"How long have you been on this diet?" I asked.
"A day," she said solemnly.
If you're going on a face-eating diet, these pies should have a place on your menu.
-via Nag on the Lake
Climate change surely have changed the world that we live in in many different ways. Storms, fires, and droughts now have worsened over the course of time. Climate change not only affects the physical world, however, as it also affects the mental health of people who witness it.
It was recently declared by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) that climate change is a health emergency. Other medical bodies around the world also reflect similar positions as the AMA.
The AMA’s statement highlights the significant impacts climate change is having on physical health, including an increase in climate-related deaths. The World Health Organisation regards climate change as “the greatest threat to global health in the 21st Century”.
Climate change can affect people’s mental health in a number of ways, both directly and indirectly.
We know experiencing extreme weather events is a risk factor for mental illness. And many thousands of people around the world are displaced from their homes as a result of climate events, putting them at perhaps even higher risk of mental illness.
More generally, people feeling distressed about the state of the planet may find themselves in a spiral of what’s been termed “eco-anxiety”.
More details of this over at The Conversation.
What are your thoughts on this one?
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Scientists have discovered a milk which is four times more nutritious than cow’s milk, and they have been eyeing this milk to become the new superfood that could be the key to feed our ever-expanding population. However, you might this a bit shocking. It’s cockroach milk.
A team from the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in India has sequenced a protein crystal from the gut of Diploptera punctata (Pacific Beetle Cockroach), the only known cockroach to give birth to live young. To feed its offspring, the roach also produces a milk-like substance with protein crystals which have three times the energy of buffalo milk.
So are we to milk a cockroach now? Thankfully, that’s not necessarily the case.
Before you start imagining how you can milk a cockroach, the scientists have dismissed such an option and are instead sequencing the genes responsible for the production of milk protein crystals.
Whew! Thank God.
More details of this over at Big Think.
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Can you guess the movie based on its foreign title? It may be perhaps one of the hardest (but fun) tests that I took online. Out of the 14 questions, I only got four (that’s not even half!). But perhaps you’ll fare better than me in the test.
Try it now on Mental Floss.
What’s your score?
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The housing affordability crisis — which is most acute in the Bay Area, but stretches up and down the West Coast — has greatly contributed to the homelessness crisis in states like California, Oregon, and Washington. Those who can’t afford or find stable housing anymore are forced to spend their nights inside their cars, the only major asset they have left.
California has about a quarter of the country’s homeless population, with almost 130,000 people experiencing homelessness, according to estimates from one night in January (known as a “point in time” count) from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. The state’s neighbor Washington has just over 22,000 people experiencing homelessness, and Oregon has almost 14,500. Nearly half of all unsheltered people are in California, according to HUD statistics from 2018. In Los Angeles County alone, there are some 16,500 people living in vehicles. (Note that New York State has about 92,000 people experiencing homelessness, which is 17 percent of the national total).
“These folks by and large have not made any choice to experience homelessness,” said Cassie Roach, the program coordinator and senior case manager at New Beginnings Counseling Center in Santa Barbara. “They haven’t chosen to do drugs or make poor financial choices, and they’re not all alcoholics or any of those biased and ignorant assumptions people make. It tends to be folks that are dealt a really difficult hand; they’re making the best of a bad situation.”
More information about this saddening news over at Vox.
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Windsor Castle, the queen of the United Kingdom’s grand estate, has opened a new area for public viewing. The public can now visit the Inner Hall, a historic space inside the castle, which has been sealed since 1886. The historic hall has been home to George IV’s grand entrance for guests, until it was sealed and used as a fancy storage space. The entire restoration of the space took two years to complete, as Vogue detailed:
But the space was restored thanks to the Royal Collection Trust. Paint was chipped away to uncover the original ceiling design: the work of the famous Regency-era ornamentalist carver Francis Bernasconi. A view of Windsor Castle’s leafy-lined, two-and-a-half-mile Long Walk—the final stretch of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s fairy-tale carriage ride after their royal wedding—can be seen from the antique windows.
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The moment Lyndsey Raby said yes to her now-husband’s proposal, she knew that she wanted to have her grandmothers involved in her big day, and were they ever involved! Raby chose her four grandmas to act as flower girls, dressed in matching lacy blue dresses and coordinating jackets. Now, we usually expect flower girls to be children, but the grandma flower girl squad was actually amazing! The flower girls were Raby’s 90-year-old great grandmother, Kathleen Brown; the groom’s 70-year-old grandmother, Joyce Raby; Lyndsey’s 76-year-old grandmother, Wanda Grant; and her 72-year-old grandmother, Betty Brown.
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After posing for a selfie by standing on a ship railing, this Royal Carribean passenger, along with her companion, was banned for life from the company’s cruises.
Photos snapped by a fellow passenger some distance away show the unnamed woman in a light blue bathing suit on the outside edge of the Allure of the Seas with her hands over her head.
The Royal Carribean emailed a statement to Fast Company and stated that “security was notified and the guests were later debarked in Falmouth, Jamaica as a result of their actions and are now banned for life from sailing with Royal Caribbean.”
Glad to hear that the woman did not injure herself during her selfie.
What are your thoughts on this one?
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Want to get excited about a job that's very, very hard? NASA has released a dramatic video to promote their Artemis program, which aims to put astronauts on the moon in 2024, with a longer-term goal of building a lunar station and then using it as a launching pad for travel to Mars. NASA is partnering with other space programs, both international and commercial, to achieve these goals. Read more about the Artemis program here. Now, if they could just build a spaceship that could carry people to the ISS and back... -via Laughing Squid
By the age of 22, Jane Scott had been surrounded by death. Her younger sister died when Jane was a teenager. Then Jane gave birth to three children over the next few years with two -and possibly three- of them dying in infancy. Her young nephew also died. Then her parents took ill on the same day in 1827, and Jane fetched a neighbor, Mrs. Cragg, who found the husband and wife writhing in pain.
Mrs Scott said, ‘I am poisoned by the porridge’. So did Mr Scott. Jane said she would get rid of the porridge and that nothing more should be said of it.
Mrs Cragg said she saw it whilst she was holding Mrs Scott’s head. Mrs Scott told Jane not to dispose of it, but, Jane, who was close enough to hear completely ignored her and disposed of it. Dr Brown, the surgeon, was immediately sent for and instructed Jane to put the tin pan used to make the porridge to one side, but not to wash it out.
Jane and a Mrs Bilsborough went to fetch Jane’s half-brother, David Graham, as she feared her parents were dying. On arriving at the house, David found the doctor busily using a stomach pump on his mother and immediately accused Jane of causing them to be unwell.
While records of Jane's earlier life were scant, the newspapers were avid to print the details after she was arrested for the murder of her parents. Read the story of the Preston Poisoner, filed under the tag of "difficult women," at All Things Georgian. -via Strange Company
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In our daily life, we are exposed to various stimuli. For example, when we walk to a town, we see lots of things: colorful clothes, shop windows, and expressive faces. As we get bombarded by the different information that we receive, we can only process so much. Thus, we filter this information into what we consider as relevant, which will then be reacted upon. Of all this information, our attention inevitably shifts from one thing to another.
“This shift in attention is often accompanied by a movement of the eyes,” says Kulke, a researcher in the Department of Affective Neuroscience and Psychophysiology at the University of Göttingen. In the current study, she combined two methods to investigate what happens in the brain during this attention shift: eye-tracking and EEG. With the Eye-Tracker, research volunteers sat in front of a device that records eye movements. Kulke then showed them standardised faces with different emotional expressions. At the same time, EEG measured brain waves via electrodes placed on their head.
What did she find out in this study, and what questions can be asked based on these findings? The answer is at Neuroscience News.
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In this land in Europe, techniques and recipes were honed and refined over the course of centuries. These have spread worldwide through the course of time, and millions of tourists are attracted to this land each year, as they seek the peak gastronomy. This land is Italy.
On the other hand, Italy’s international food scene leaves much to be desired. Justin Yip pulls no punches: “It’s the worst place in the world for non-Italian food.” Two years ago, he opened the first and likely only Malaysian food truck in the country.
In many ways, Yip’s truck, Sate & Sake, is the antithesis of Italy’s food culture. Selling traditional satays and currys to the robust student population of Turin, Malaysian-born Yip stands for fast-casual foreign fare in the home of three-ingredient masterpieces and the Slow Food movement.
While Yip opened up his business in hopes that he will be able to feed Asian exchange students, it’s the Italians themselves who became the backbone of his customers. In Yip’s estimate, over 90 percent of his customers are Italians. He says that he was hoping to win some Italians over, but he did not expect this many.
Know more about Yip’s life over at Atlas Obscura.
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What used to be a quiet spot in the Bronx, NY, now has been turned into a hotspot thanks to earnest fans of the Todd Philips film Joker.
The long stairway located at that address has recently become a tourist attraction thanks to the Todd Philips film, which features a scene where Joaquin Phoenix, decked out in his Joker costume, dances down the stairs as "Rock and Roll, Part 2" by convicted pedophile and registered sex offender Gary Glitter plays. Now, fans are flooding the Bronx to find the famous stairs and get that perfect Instagram shot denoting that they have seen a movie and liked it.
The people native to Bronx, however, voiced their distaste on social media.
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legally as a bronx resident you're allowed and encouraged to tax anyone visiting the joker stairs
— Desus Nice (@desusnice) October 17, 2019
