Eiffel Jumble This image [above] of the building of the foundation of the Eiffel Tower, which appeared in the Scientific American in 1888, appears both orderly and chaotic. There’s a fine, confusing quality to the jumble, with 90-degree angles everywhere.
The perspective, odd in places, gives the print a nearly Escher-like aura of impossibility. The observer’s point of view seems to vary.
Furball Fables shows us how to celebrate Easter as a crazy cat person. You don't really have to be crazy, just have cats and no children to make baskets for. I really like how she puts catnip into eggs and then has the cats hunt for them. It won't take long for an apex predator to find them by smell!
One part of the Cat's Guide to Easter is making the greeting card. That appears to be the most difficult task, since there are five cats and getting them to pose for a picture is like... well, it's like herding cats.
Common sense tells us that we cherish rain more after a drought, we appreciate a steady paycheck more when we know what financial stress is, and we take more pride in accomplishments that don't happen often. The same is said for happiness; how can we be truly happy if we never experience unhappiness? We sometimes employ psychological tricks to tell ourselves we are happy, but the real rush comes from novelty, meaning a change in happiness level. We know all this intuitively, but it's nice to have a breakdown from a neuroscientist. Professor Indira M. Raman explains that this novelty factor goes all the way down to our neurons. They don't so much measure all incoming stimuli equally, but the changes in those signals at the molecular level. When a stimulus is equal over time, it tends to be ignored.
The ability to get used to and ultimately ignore incoming information that is static, familiar, predictable, and non-harmful turns out to be helpful behaviorally; in other words, it offers an evolutionary advantage. Continuing to notice sensations like the light touch of our clothes on our arms or the mild fragrance of the laundry detergent we used to wash them would be distracting, to say the least, and might even interfere with our ability to detect and respond to a signal that mattered, like a tap on the shoulder or our toast burning. In fact, an inability to predict and thereby adapt may be a contributing factor to conditions like autism spectrum disorders.12 Besides, it’s wasteful to send brain signals to report information we already know about. When all those ions flow in and out of cells to send signals within our brains, they cannot just remain on the opposite side from where they started. It literally consumes energy to pump sodium back out of neurons and potassium back into them, so it is most efficient not to generate action potentials that don’t carry worthwhile information.
Many kids claim to be Hide and Seek champions but their claim is only supported by a few years of playground competitions, which is why they can't hold a torch to Bigfoot's title- because he's been the Hide and Seek champ since 1967. His title may go back even further than that, but nobody thought to look for him before he became a cryptozoological legend back in the 60s, and since then he has remained hidden no matter how many people seek him out. In fact, it's possible he'll hang on to his title for decades, if not centuries, to come!
Get dressed for some hair-raising adventure with this Hide And Seek Games t-shirt by JRBERGER, it's a hilarious way to show love for America's favorite cryptid hero Bigfoot!
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Netflix is killing it when it comes to creating cool original content and backing projects worth backing, and their original series' like Stranger Things, Jessica Jones and Orange Is The New Black became fan favorites as soon as they were released.
These series feature compelling storylines, complex characters and exciting Mature-rated content the networks would never touch, and at the core of each story are heroes and villains who keep fans hungry to see more.
This WatchMojo video focuses on the villains from Netflix's most popular series, featuring my favorite of the bunch at #2- David Tennant as Kilgrave in Jessica Jones.
April Fools Day falls on Easter Sunday this year, not a day you want to wet someone's clothing, hide the dinner entree, or mess with a child's Easter basket. But if you are determined to pull a fast one on someone, somehow, let's try some ideas aren't harmful or permanent to prank family and friends with. However, they can be temporarily annoying. For example, this person "subscribed" their friend to Daily Llama Images, which may or may not exist, but in this case it's just something they cobbled together for April Fools Day. It appears that the prankee didn't mind much; he'd just prefer his llamas to wear hats. I wonder how long they kept it up. There are 16 other April Fools Day prank suggestions at Buzzfeed.
A surefire formula for a viral video is to put all the cool things you can think of in a hat and pull two out. Combine them, and you've got a hit. Jetpack Samurai surely fills the bill.
Japanese designer Shota Mori came up with the sport he calls Jet Samurai and gives a demonstration of it to his technology class. While it seems like it may be a little dangerous, Jet Samurai could instantly have leagues and tournaments if jetpacks were a bit more available. -via Laughing Squid
Bad habits are often hard to break because they really seem like they bring us some sort of pleasure, and whether physical or mental we start to miss that little habit when it's gone.
Missing the feeling of that cig in-between your fingers, that ritual of lighting, inhaling and snubbing out is a big part of what makes it so hard for smokers to quit, well, that and the highly addictive chemicals added to cigarettes to increase their nicotine levels.
As this comic by Jacob Andrews shows us those chemicals make you want to come back from the dead for a smoke!
Finnish YouTuber Lauri Vuohensilta (previously at Neatorama) spends a lot of time dreaming up new ways to impress us with cool machinery. In this video, he checks to see if a jackhammer is better to break through a frozen lake than the usual chainsaw. But you know what would be cooler? If he heated up the hammer part. If you want to skip ahead to the fun part, the heating-up is at about four minutes in.
I don't want to give anything away, but it doesn't go exactly as he thought it would. Vuohensilta follows that with more ice stunts with the jackhammer, chainsaw, and axe. -via Digg
In my opinion reality TV is one of the worst things to ever happen to television, because it panders to those who like to watch people at their worst and encourages people to act like total jerks while on camera.
But the worst part about the reality TV takeover is the fact that it's ruining people's lives like no fictional show ever could, ruining their reputation to the point where some feel like suicide is the only solution.
And when these shows don't indirectly ruin lives by ruining reputations they literally cost people their lives by emboldening the people on camera to make risky moves, as was the case when a COPS crewmember lost his life when officers opened fire on a suspect with a toy gun:
If you didn't make it to Austin for SXSW this year, or even if you went and didn't have time for the film festival, Flavorwire has a recap. The bad part id that many of these movies won't be shown in theaters at all, unless you're in a big city. But they'll be available for those who really want to see them, so they're giving us reason to seek them out or not. Half the lineup consists of documentaries, and even one of the dramas "blurs the lines between documentary and narrative." Check out what was seen and what was thought of those films at Flavorwire.
Workers sometimes find it hard to leave their desks and eat lunch, so they have to come up with clever ways to fix themselves a meal at their workstation without pissing off the boss or burning down the office building.
But instead of buying a tiny microwave or using warm sink water to make noodles food vlogger Xiao Ye, aka Miss Yeah, came up with the most clever desktop cooking hack I've ever seen, turning Pepsi cans and some rubbing alcohol into a mini stove.
She then cooked up a bowl of bean sauce noodles using one very, very long noodle, some fresh veg she stole from the company fridge and some other ingredients she just happened to have in her desk.
Sadie Burkhalter of New Hope, Georgia, will never forget the day that a plane carrying 81 passengers and four crew members crashed in front of her house. The plane had hit ground about a mile away and skidded to her front yard, taking out cars, power lines, and gas station pumps along the way.
On Monday, April 4, 1977, Sadie was a young mother of three boys living in the small community of New Hope, Georgia. That lovely spring afternoon, she stood in her living room and witnessed a scene almost out of a horror film. A man was running across her front yard toward her, frantically waving his arms, his clothing ablaze. Behind him, downed electrical wires snaked around charred bodies. A traumatized young man with red hair and badly burned hands had taken refuge in the yellow Cadillac parked in Sadie’s driveway. Another man, engulfed in flames, was running blindly toward the creek behind her house. In the midst of it all, a shimmering blue line painted on a fragment of metal was all that remained to identify the mangled fuselage of a Southern Airways DC-9-31 passenger plane that had just crashed into the Burkhalters’ quiet front yard.
Crash survivors, injured, burned, and desperate for help, made their way to Burkhalter's home for refuge. The final death toll was 63 from the plane (including both pilots) and nine on the ground. Read an account of what Burkhalter saw that day from Samme Chittum, author of the book Southern Storm: The Tragedy of Flight 242 at Smithsonian.
Cheetos are far from gourmet food products, and yet cheesy crackers and cheese platters can be quite fancy so maybe the only thing holding Cheetos back from being considered fancy foods is a gourmet makeover.
With better ingredients and lots of experience creating gourmet versions of favorite snack foods Bon Appétit's Claire Saffitz definitely had what it takes to create a Cheeto for the sophisticated foodie. And her gourmet Cheetos look more delicious than the original!
Physicists aren't exactly the life of the party, but they do have some pretty good scientifical jokes to tell if you ask 'em when they've had a few- and they're chock full of physics guaranteed to keep you rollin' (your eyes) all night long. Some of their material may come off as a bit blue or edgy, but what is life without a little bawdiness and raunchy humor, right?
Show the world that scientists can be as funny as the less scientifically minded with this Physics Gives Me A Hadron Funny Science t-shirt by Happinessinatee, it's one simply funny design you don't have to be a genius to appreciate!
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