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Wally Conron bred the first labradoodle, which is a cross between a Labrador and a poodle, in 1989. He had an innocent reason- it was a special request that resulted in a bespoke dog.
Conron, who was a breeding manager, received the request from a blind woman in Hawaii. “She wanted to know if we could come up with a dog that she could use as a guide dog and her husband wouldn’t be allergic to,” Conron told Australia’s ABC News podcast.
At first, he thought a standard poodle would the answer to her quandary, but none of the poodles he trialed had the temperament necessary to be a guide dog. After three years of trying to help the woman, he finally came up with the idea to crossbreed “a dog with the working ability of the Labrador and the coat of the poodle,” he told ABC.
Conron's creation got out of hand because there were three puppies, and he went all out to find homes for the two that weren't needed. Now he says he feels like he's released Frankenstein's monster. Read about the birth of the labradoodle at Gizmodo.
By the time they are three, they'll be running through the grass barefoot with joy, but infants apparently do not want to come in contact with the earth's surface. Enjoy this compilation of clips showing babies doing whatever they have to, to avoid touching the grass (or water, or sand). -via Buzzfeed
Those of us who live in the USA can be completely unaware that people in other countries do things differently. In fact, there are many things we do that people around the world see as peculiarly American while we are oblivious as to how it's done elsewhere.
The Oktoberfest is here once again, as the 186th Oktoberfest beer festival opened in Munich, Germany over the weekend. Organizers expect around 6 million visitors over the next two weeks, with the last keg to be tapped on October 6.
Experts say that for those who plan to travel, the best time to start looking and booking for airfare is now, and by “now”, they mean today. This also applies for Thanksgiving.
She said the months-early approach means there’s still a lot of supply, or flight options and seats, available.
To be sure, the prices of flights will remain in flux as Thanksgiving and the winter holidays get closer. And there could even be some last-minute deals for those who wait until a week or two before their departure dates. But, experts say, those travelers will probably need to be willing to go at inconvenient times or under less-than-ideal circumstances.
“If you’re going to wait, be sure to be very, very flexible with both dates and time of day and layovers if you want to get a good deal,” says Hayley Berg, economist at the airfare prediction app Hopper.
Have you planned your holiday travel as early as now?
Canada — Two grizzly bears are on the side of a road, staring and growling at each other. Suddenly, the fight escalates, and both stand up on their hind legs, with one bear suddenly shoving the other. A wolf observes from behind as they fight. The intense moment was captured by Cari McGillivray, who posted the “rare and amazing moment” on Facebook.
NBC's Kerry Sanders, as part of the NBC News “Climate in Crisis” series, went to the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Florida, for a visit to observe how climate change and pollution have affected sea turtles, which are essential creatures within the marine ecosystem.
Before, millions of sea turtles swam the high seas. Now, they are only less than a million of these reptiles, according to scientists, and they are all considered endangered.
Many sea turtles end up getting caught in plastic waste or eating some form of plastic garbage, whether it's a fishing line, drinking straw, plastic bag or pieces of microplastic, because they mistake them for food. Their plastic encounters can cause physical injuries or health problems.
Loggerhead Marinelife Center is on the front lines of the conservation effort to protect and save the dwindling sea turtle population. The center took another small step in healing endangered turtles when they released a 265-pound turtle nicknamed Today back into the ocean on TODAY Tuesday, who was brought in when she became entangled in monofilament.
You can track Today’s progress via the Loggerhead Marinelife Center website. Scientists expect that the now 25-year-old turtle can live well into her 80s, should she remain healthy.
The latest song project from Playing for Change (previously at Neatorama) is the song "The Weight," originally recorded by The Band. For the song's 50th anniversary, musicians from five different continents collaborated, led by Robbie Robertson and Ringo Starr, to recreate the sound. -via Laughing Squid
There was a time when all the undertakers of Paris associated together in a cartel of sorts, and shared space at a huge building that became an even bigger complex. This was at 104 rue d’Aubervilliers, also called simply Le 104. The building, originally built as a slaughterhouse in 1849, was bought by the funerary syndicate in 1873. It comprised 35,000 square meters, and offered every service one could possibly need for a spectacular funeral. At the height of business, a thousand employees produced 150 funeral processions each day.
The subterranean level was accessed by two huge ramps, and was home to some 300 horses in over two-dozen stables. It’s the first thing you see when you step through the doors of Le 104 today, along with little reminders of its equestrian past.
The ground floor contained 100 funeral chariots, 80 hearses, and 6,000 coffins. On the periphery of the ground floor there were also public workshops and stores that specialised in funeral painting, ornament making, tapestry, and other crafts.
It was a veritable Parisian micro city powered by the business of death.
Long before online quizzes and the Myers-Briggs personality test, Robert Woodworth’s “Psychoneurotic Inventory” tried to assess the recruited soldiers’ susceptibility to shell shock. Shell shock was an incident wherein a private and two other soldiers survived a shell explosion, but eventually woke up in a hospital with a cloudy memory and an irritable auditory nerves.
According to Michael Zickar, a professor of psychology at Bowling Green State University, World War I was actually a watershed moment of psychological testing. After the shell shock incident, the soldiers were observed in a hospital camp after every war exposure.
Less than two years after the United States entered World War I, around 1,727,000 would-be soldiers had received a psychological evaluation, including the first group of intelligence tests, and roughly two percent of entrants were rejected for psychological concerns. Some of the soldiers being screened, like draftees at Camp Upton in Long Island, would have filled out a questionnaire of yes-no questions that Columbia professor Robert Sessions Woodworth created at the behest of the American Psychological Association.
What about the psychological and personality tests?
The questions on what would become the Woodworth Personal Data Sheet, or Psychoneurotic Inventory, started out asking if the subject felt “well and strong,” and then tried to pry into their psyche, asking about their personal life—“Did you ever think you had lost your manhood?”—and mental habits. If over one-fourth of the control (psychologically “normal”) group responded with a ‘yes’ to a question, it was eliminated.
Here are some of the questions that made the cut in the personality tests:
Can you sit still without fidgeting? Do you often have the feeling of suffocating? Do you like outdoor life? Have you ever been afraid of going insane? The test would be scored, and if the score passed a certain threshold, a potential soldier would undergo an in-person psychological evaluation. The average college student, Woodworth found, would respond affirmatively to around ten of his survey’s questions. He also tested patients (not recruits) who’d been diagnosed as hysteric or shell shocked and found that this “abnormal” group scored higher, in the 30s or 40s.
Andrew Booker (Bristol University, UK) and Andrew Sutherland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have found a big solution to a math problem known as the sum of three cubes which asks the question of whether an integer or whole number can be represented as the sum of three cubed numbers.
There were already two known solutions for the number 3, both of which involve small numbers: 13 + 13 + 13 and 43 + 43 + (-5)3
But mathematicians have been searching for a third for decades. The solution that Booker and Sutherland found is:
According to Booker, when a number can be expressed as the sum of three cubes, there are infinitely many possible solutions. And they’ve just found the third one!
There’s a reason the third solution for 3 was so hard to find. “If you look at just the solutions for any one number, they look random,” he says. “We think that if you could get your hands on loads and loads of solutions – of course, that’s not possible, just because the numbers get so huge so quickly – but if you could, there’s kind of a general trend to them: that the digit sizes are growing roughly linearly with the number of solutions you find.”
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You read it right. A company is planning to put up a snow park in Florida and they have already received approval from the Board of County Commissioners on the project. It seems far-fetched but the people at Point Summit Incorporated are looking to make it happen. Read more about it on Your Mileage May Vary.
