When James Fox of Apex, North Carolina, checked the footage of his home security camera, he saw something that looked like a flurry of snow ... only that it wasn't snow. It was actually ... pollen.

"I think it was dramatic last night because of the wind," he explained. "Driving home from our farm last night it actually impacted visibility. At times it was pretty dense, like fog, or smoke," Fox said to ABC11. "I just noticed they (cameras) were getting triggered from the movement and thought it looked cool"

Oh, my allergies! My nose stuffed up just looking at the video clip!

Tinykittens is a cat rescue project that practices TNR (trap, neuter, release) on feral cats in British Columbia. You can read our previous posts about them. Last year, we told you about their rescue of the elderly feral cat they named Grandpa Mason, who turned out to have a real soft spot for kittens. Tinykittens founder Shelly Roche told Global News that Grandpa Mason was lonely after his latest litter grew up and found homes. They had spayed and neutered 90% of the local feral cat colony, and were looking for kittens that might need a grandpa's love.

However, since then, Tinykittens has captured feral cats Chloe, Rula, and Ramona, all pregnant. Grandpa Mason has already made friends with Chloe. Tinykittens has a live webcam on their three pregnant cats, and expect them to deliver in the next few days. You might want to bookmark the link to check on them. -via Metafilter

(Image credit: Grandpa Mason and his kittens)

Move over, cronuts! Here's something new: a cube croissant from San Francisco's Baker Doe.

SEWER PIPE TEENS: MORBID-LEO-BESE by BeastPop

It's sad to see how so many stars from the 80s and 90s have let themselves go over the years, but Leonardo's decline into obesity has hit his now middle aged turtle brothers really hard- because his doctor says Leo doesn't have long to live. Ever since Splinter passed away those ninja heroes has found it hard to keep the group together, and while Michaelangelo turned to drugs and Raphael became a violent drunk Leonardo has been drowning his sorrows in extra large pizzas and donitz. Where's a celebrity weight loss challenge when you need one?!

Fatten up your geeky wardrobe with this SEWER PIPE TEENS: MORBID-LEO-BESE t-shirt by BeastPop, it's a tasty way to show love for your favorite teenage mutants and show the world how they look now!

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To celebrate the 67th anniversary of the LP being released in Japan, the Panasonic corporation assembled 37 renowned DJs to create the world's first turntable orchestra. Enjoy!

Psst! Want some free money? Artist Blake Fall-Conroy can hook you up - all you have to do is turn the handle, and some coins will fall out of this nifty "Minimum Wage Machine."

The catch? Turning the crank will yield only 1 penny every 4 seconds thus giving you only $9 per hour - the minimum wage in the state of New York (as of 2016).

You've seen the letter 'g' in books and magazines countless of times (in fact, there are two in the sentence you just read) - but do you know how to write it?

Easy, right?

Well, not so fast. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University found that many people actually can't pick out the typeset form of 'g' out of a lineup:

"We would say: 'There're two forms of g. Can you write them?' And people would look at us and just stare for a moment, because they had no idea," said first author Kimberly Wong, a junior undergraduate at Johns Hopkins. "Once you really nudged them on, insisting there are two types of g, some would still insist there is no second g." ...

"They don't entirely know what this letter looks like, even though they can read it," said co-author Gali Ellenblum, a graduate student in cognitive science. "This is not true of letters in general. What's going on here?"

After the massive scandal in which they were discovered cheating on vehicle emission testings, Volkswagen has spent over $7.5 billion buying back about 350,000 diesel cars.

So where did they put all those cars?

In 37 "graveyards" of cars, with tens of thousands of parked cars stretching as far as the eyes can see ...

In the Southern Italian region of Puglia, there are over millions of olive trees - many of them ancient with knotted and gnarled barks. This particular one, named the Thinking Tree looks stumped.

When he was only seven years old, Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja was taken to the mountains by his parents and abandoned. But he wasn't alone: a pack of wolves adopted him and raised him as one of their own.

Twelve years later, the Spanish Civil Guards found him and brought him back to civilization. Now in his seventies, Pantoja reflected upon his experiences living amongst humans and wolves, and told us that living with wolves was actually better:

His last happy memories were of his childhood with the wolves. The wolf cubs accepted him as a brother, while the she-wolf who fed him taught him the meaning of motherhood. He slept in a cave alongside bats, snakes and deer, listening to them as they exchanged squawks and howls. Together they taught him how to survive. Thanks to them, Rodríguez learned which berries and mushrooms were safe to eat.

Today, the former wolf boy, who was 19 when he was discovered by the Civil Guard and ripped away from his natural home, struggles with the coldness of the human world.

Silvia R. Pontevedra of El Pais has the full story (Photo by Oscar Corral).

Who'd ever guess that skating on thin ice could be so ... (dangerously) fun?

Hear how skating on black ice - a precariously thin layer of ice that forms on a recently frozen lake - can produce otherworldly, laser-like sounds in this fascinating video clip by Nat Geo.

Swedish photograher and filmmaker Henrik Trygg and mathematician Mårten Ajne, both ice skating enthusiasts, explain how black ice makes those weird sounds:

Why is black ice so good at producing those amazing, laser-like sounds?

In the video, the sounds are created by me skating on it. There is a distinctive sonorous tone and the noise from cracks striking.

Black ice doesn’t expand and contract because it’s kept warm by the underlying water, even when it’s cold out. Isothermal would be the technical word for it—in a narrow temperature range.

The sonorous tone is the song of black ice, best heard (and recorded) from a short distance. The layman explanation would be that the tone is inversely related to the thickness of the ice. The thinner the ice, the higher the tone. Intriguingly, the ice is about to collapse at high C, the supposedly highest note of a soprano opera singer, for example in Puccini’s Turandot.

Image: Texas Medical Center

When hand tremors made it difficult for musician Anna Henry to play her flute, she decided to undergo brain surgery. The procedure, called deep brain stimulation, involves inserting small electrodes in the brain to deliver electric current that reduces tremors.

After the procedure, doctors at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center gave Henry her flute to see whether her hands were stable enough to play. The result? An operating room solo performance of a lifetime!

Image: Sekaiminzoku - via My Modern Met

Tired of making shiny mud balls, some (very patient) people of Japan have moved on to making balls from aluminum foil (YouTube link). Oooh, shiny!

Pray that they don't ever discover Baby Bell wax as a substrate.

Image: Fu, F., et al. ScienceRobotics 28 Mar 2018 Vol 3, issue 16, eaar8580

When we hear the word "robot," usually we think of a mechanical being made of metal and electronics - but that's not what a team of researchers at Southeast University in Nanjing, China, made. Instead of metal, they use a combination of heart muscle cells, hydrogels and colloidal crystals to create a biohybrid hydrogel structures that can move.

In the image above, the wings of the biohybrid butterfly flaps due to the rhythmic contractions of the heart muscle cells. Cool, huh?

I, for one, welcome our new soft robotic overlords.

You Gotta Fight by Rocky Davies

When the Beastie Boys sang "you've gotta fight for your right to party!" they were speaking to their young human listeners and not the gremlins who were using their rebellious brand of rap music as the anthem for their spree of destruction. Still, the song does fit their monster-iffic orgy of madcap mayhem quite well, and at least the Beasties know those creepy little critters won't go after them since they're the gremlins' favorite group since 1984!

Rock out retro style with this You Gotta Fight t-shirt by Rocky Davies, it's a freaky fun way to declare your love of the greatest decade, the greatest rap group and the greatest movie ever at the same time!

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