And it's not just fear. Dogs can sense or read different kinds of human emotions and moods through smell. The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Naples and the results were published in the journal Animal Cognition.

They found that when owners smelled happy and fresh, their dogs were happy and inquisitive, and much more amenable to strangers. However, when they were afraid, the opposite was true. The dogs could smell their owners fear, and they were generally much more guarded and afraid themselves, sticking close to their owners, and not interacting with humans.

Even more studies were carried out, using samples from the movies The Jungle Book and The Shining. Owners were placed in a room, with their dogs and a stranger, after having watched each of the movies. Then sweat samples were included from the owners from each of the movies when the owner was feeling either fear or joy. It turned out that the behavior of the dogs actually mirrored that of their owners.

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When the first suspected victim of bubonic plague died in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1900, the whole 12-block neighborhood was quarantined even before the tests came back. While outsiders were angry when their servants did not show up for work, Chinatown residents had more urgent problems, like getting needed supplies and health care. One young girl risked running a police barricade to seek help for her sister dying of appendicitis. Agents from the Board of Health entered to vaccinate residents against plague, using a killed bacteria formula that was known for severe side effects. Residents also feared the fate of Honolulu's Chinatown, which was burned to the ground when plague was found a few months earlier. Ng Poon Chew, who founded one of the early Chinese language newspapers in San Francisco, reported the news from inside the quarantined zone.

The city’s English-language papers expressed skepticism that the plague was real (their businessmen owners and advertisers, after all, stood to lose tourism dollars if news of a plague outbreak in San Francisco became known) and criticized the Board of Health for overreacting.

By contrast, Chew’s urgent articles reflect the unnerving experience of working in an area ringed by police. The rumors of controversial mass inoculations had “plunged the town into disorder,” reported Chung Sai Yat Po. From the start, the paper questioned the quarantine itself: “According to the epidemic prevention laws a yellow Flag should be planted in front of an epidemic-afflicted house, or a house should be encircled by tapes to warn people off. But never have we heard of blockading a whole town.” (Chew surely knew of the quarantine of Honolulu’s Chinatown before its devastating fire, so perhaps he ignored that recent incident to make his point.)

Read about that scary episode in California's history at Lithub. -via Nag on the Lake

The more we become aware about something that we had no previous knowledge or proper understanding about, the more we begin to empathize with what people deal with.

For many people, ADHD probably seems like an excuse. That those who suffer from it are annoying and a drag to deal with. But they don't see what kind of struggle people with ADHD actually go through. They simply dismiss and label them as "problem children" or "difficult people".

To give a little bit of clarity to what people with ADHD actually feel and go through in their mind and with their emotions, read the story of Andrew Askins who has had ADHD and only knew about it at 20. And the illustrations by Dani Donovan can also help explain the thought process of a person with ADHD.

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This cute little pit bull loves his pillow. Wherever Draco goes, his pillow follows. However, one cannot avoid incidents from happening to such a delicate plaything and when one thing led to another, the pillow got ripped.

Luckily, Draco’s grandmother saw what was happening and leaped into action. “We think [the pillow] was so worn out it just easily ripped,” O’Cain said. “My mom freaked out and grabbed it and yelled, ‘I’ll fix it, Draco!’”

Once the pillow was fixed, little Draco rushed to cuddle his favorite pillow and all was well again. Despite the possibility of such incidents happening again, the O'Cain family says they will continue putting the pillow back together until Draco moves on.

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Anyone who has ever watched the original Warner Brothers cartoons will recognize the image above. It's Tweety, the avian equivalent of Bugs Bunny, created in 1942 by cartoon director and animation genius Robert Clampett, whom we last saw in here as the creator of Beany and Cecil.

Seldom has a more appealing and beloved cartoon character ever been created. Tweety was my mother's and sister's favorite, and I have to admit that Tweety kind of grew on me too, even though I was a Yosemite Sam man myself. Maybe it was because Tweety was such a badass bird - just ask Sylvester the cat.

A larger version of the above image is available here. See the nude baby in the lower left corner? That's Robert Clampett, and it was his gazing at this, his own baby picture, that inspired him to create Tweety, an original character if ever there was one. Robert Clampett at the time of Tweety's creation is seen in the upper right corner.

Tweety's debut is available on YouTube and is embedded below. In case the young'uns here don't know, the two cats are caricatures of Abbott and Costello, comic actors that were popular about the time your great-grandfathers were in short pants. And the bit at the very end is a wartime Air Raid Warden reference - it was 1942.

The 2019 Preakness was the first since 1996 in which the winner of the Kentucky Derby did not run, and the first since 1951 in which none of the horses that finished "in the money" at the Derby competed. However, it was memorable for a very different reason- Bodexpress ran the entire course without his jockey.

The legendary architect of several famous edifices, including the Mesa Lab in Colorado and the Louvre Pyramid standing at the entrance of the Louvre, has passed away a few days ago at the age of 102.

His career spans over 60 years and his name has already been etched in the annals of modern architectural history. Much of his work was mostly likely influenced by his mentors, the two Bauhaus masters Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. In a way, his death marks the end of an era.

Though he has made much success in most of the projects he has done, there were a few failed projects as well including Boston's John Hancock Tower and New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Despite that, the legacy he left will live on for generations to come. To see a list of his most notable works, check here.

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Presumably Dr. Rafal Klajn, a chemist and biological engineer at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, will not make this mistake again. As fellow scientist Rob Martin quipped, the loss was catastrophic to scientific research:

The whole Twitter thread is filled with great jokes by scientists (or jokes by great scientists--one of the two) about the research, publication, and tenure processes.

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For those who have watched the penultimate episode of the critically acclaimed series Game of Thrones can understand the ire over the final season and its latter half. 

After eight seasons, we have reached the climax of the almost decade-long series and we all want a satisfying end to this political, fantastical saga. And a lot of people feel that the latest episodes have not been on a par with the rest of the series.

A Change.org petition started last week titled "Remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with competent writers," has surpassed one million signatures from fans who feel that "This series deserves a final season that makes sense."

The petition was first posted on Reddit's r/freefolk page, following the airing of episode 4 of Game of Thrones of the show's last season, with an impressive audience of 17.2 million viewers.

A week later, and after the airing of the penultimate episode which drew harsh criticism, the petition had already been signed by over one million of the show's fans.

Of course, it took two years from the previous season to produce the final season. To be fair, the writers did not have any source material to adapt from. But then again, the producers have also deviated on several plot points from the book so there's no surprise that we got what we got.

The petitioner for the show's final season remake also concedes that they don't expect HBO to cave in to the fans' demands but they simply wanted to send a message about their dissatisfaction. On Monday, we get to see the finale of the whole series. Hopefully, the final episode gets to redeem the rest.

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A man (played by Eka Darville) encounters a talking tree (played by by John Ventimiglia). You can imagine how surprising that would be, and he's inspired to make the most of the situation. Why was he chosen to hear a tree's thoughts, and what great wisdom can come from it? This short by Stefan Hunt is awesome in ways you don't expect. -via Laughing Squid

Fame doesn't insulate people from criminal charges all the time. And people don't change their underlying character because they've become part of pop culture. Plenty of successful actors, musicians, and sports stars have run afoul of the law even after they made good. Take the cast of the TV series The Sopranos, who may have been typecast, or may have been inspired by the characters they played.

Anthony Borges played Larry Boy Barese, and in 2011 he pleaded guilty to extortion charges. His fictional cousin Albert was played by Richard Maldone, who was arrested as part of a drug ring operation that was selling cocaine, meth, and ketamine. Meanwhile, Lillo Brancato Jr. played Matthew Bevilacqua, and he ended up being sentenced to ten years in prison while narrowly avoiding a charge of second-degree murder back in 2005. Brancato and an associate were trying to rob a house that happened to be next to the home of an off-duty cop, Daniel Enchautegui. He came over to investigate and Brancato's partner fatally shot him. Both men were arrested, but Brancato was only charged with the burglary. He got out of prison in 2013.

And those weren't the most bizarre crime stories that came out of the Sopranos cast. Plus you'll read stories about celebrity crime that had nothing to do with The Sopranos. Cracked named the article 4 Celebrities Whose Fictional Crimes Turned Real, but since we'e already named almost that many in one paragraph, let's just say you can go read plenty more of them.   

Reddit user MagicSP shared a fan art of KonoSuba characters Kazuma and Aqua which greets students as they enter the school's library to encourage them as they study for their upcoming final exams.

These shocked faces are some of the many wild expressions these two have over the course of the series' two seasons, and is likely a result of one of their mistakes. But in a roundabout way, this really is an inspiring image.

Due to Kazuma's incredibly high Luck skill, the series often sees Kazuma and the others fail upwards. No matter how big their mistakes are, they often come out okay in the end thanks to smart twists of their usual flaws. Each victory comes with a hilariously bad consequence, but there is a victory. So maybe these students will feel better knowing that they could still somehow make it through their exams no matter how bad they do. It works for Kazuma.

If you are feeling anxious or frustrated with stuff that you are going through, hopefully this will give you some encouragement and cheer you on to just keep going. If somebody like Kazuma get through life despite all the bad experiences they face every day, so can you. Ganbatte!

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For dogs, bees are adorable little creatures that you can eat. And of course, after hours of having fun chasing around these buzzing insects, they eat them, and their faces get swollen after. Lesson learned: don’t eat bees. It’s painful.

Here are some funny pictures of dogs having swollen faces.

Poor dogs.

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While tinkering with his lucky cat or maneki neko, Martin Fitzpatrick decided to go a bit further and play around with it a little bit more. What he produced is an amazing build of a lucky cat that displays a message with its spinning arm.

The display uses the persistence of vision effect to generate an image 'in the air'. By repeatedly outputting light at a specific point in the rotation, and with a short enough cycle time, the viewer's eye does not register any change in brightness.

Managing to generate a static image depends on hitting the exact same point on the next turn around the loop. By adding a slight over- or under-scan you can make the message display rotate.

He also explains his process of building and programming the lucky cat so that it shows the message "Hello Python".

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“There are no miracles. There is only discipline,” a sign in Danielle Steel’s office reads, and she does just that. With the number of books under her belt, you may think that what happened to her is a miracle. 

Danielle Steel wrote 179 books in a span of 5 decades. Now THAT’s hard work. How does she do it? Where does she get her inspiration?

Let's look at the numbers, shall we? The author has written 179 books, which have been translated into 43 languages. Twenty-two of them have been adapted for television, and two of those adaptations have received Golden Globe nominations. Steel releases seven new novels a year—her latest, Blessing in Disguise, is out this week—and she's at work on five to six new titles at all times. In 1989 Steel was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having a book on the New York Times best-seller list for the most consecutive weeks of any author—381, to be exact. To pull it off, she works 20 to 22 hours a day. (A couple times a month, when she feels the crunch, she spends a full 24 hours at her desk.)

Steel writes in her home office. Most of the time, that's in Paris, but sometimes she's at her home in San Francisco, where she writes on her 1946 Olympia standard typewriter, which she's nicknamed Olly. "Olly's a big, heavy machine and it's older than I am," Steel tells Glamour. "It has a very smooth flow to it . I have anywhere between 12 to 15 of them that I've bought over the years, but they're not good enough to work on. I keep them for parts in case there's ever a problem, because this is a very endangered species!"

Steel is a creature of habit. She gets to her office—by 8:30 A.M., where she can often be found in her cashmere nightgown. In the morning she'll have one piece of toast and an iced decaf coffee (she gave up full-throated caffeine 25 years ago). After lunch and as the day wears on, she'll nibble on miniature bittersweet chocolate bars. "Dead or alive, rain or shine, I get to my desk and I do my work. Sometimes I'll finish a book in the morning, and by the end of the day, I've started another project," Steel says.

She credits her boundless energy for her productivity and also her drive to push through moments when she's stuck. "I keep working. The more you shy away from the material, the worse it gets. You're better off pushing through and ending up with 30 dead pages you can correct later than just sitting there with nothing," she advises. Her output is also the result of a near superhuman ability to run on little sleep. "I don't get to bed until I'm so tired I could sleep on the floor. If I have four hours, it's really a good night for me," Steel says.

Talk about dedication and passion.

More about Danielle’s story at Glamour.

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