The first gold medal for the U.S. in the Pyeongchang Olympics has been won by a 17-year-old in an event you probably haven't seen before. Red Gerard came from last place to gold in his final run in the snowboard slopestyle event. He is the first American born in the 21st century to win gold at a Winter Games. Watch him soar in this crazy sport.
Do you reckon maybe that therapy isn't the best time for dad jokes? The therapist must be a dad. but the tire came in with a pun, so you can't blame the doc for taking advantage. This is the latest comic from Extra Fabulous Comics.
London was a city full of clashing cultures in the 1960s, with the Mods, Swingers and Hippies facing off against the squares and the staunchly aristocratic Brits who wanted to keep England properly uptight.
This clash often spilled out onto the streets of Piccadilly Circus and Soho, where the swinging scene was all "yeah, baby, yeah!" while the button down Brits muttered "oh no" to themselves and scowled at all the freaks.
But then Twiggy came along and put London fashion on the map, forcing the button down Brits to admit the new subculture-inspired modern fashions could be quite pleasing to the eye.
In the end diversity made London a better place, and even though they hated to admit it uptight Brits actually learned a thing or two from the Swingers about loosening up, having fun and not taking themselves too seriously.
Binging with Babish (previously at Neatorama) is the video series where Andrew Rea recreates the food seen in your favorites movies and TV shows. If he's going to do Breaking Bad, you'd expect him to cook up some blue crystal methamphetamine. No, he's not going to do that ...exactly. He's making some dipping breadsticks.
When Pope Benedict XVI was elevated in 2005, people the world over noticed his swanky red shoes made by Italian designer Adriano Stefanelli. Neither the preceding nor the following pope wore such expensive shoes, but Benedict was only continuing a papal tradition that goes back to the Byzantine era, when kings and emperors alike wore red shoes.
Now, historically speaking, Vatican life was pretty luxurious. Pope Martin IV spent a fortune to import his favourite delicacies of melon, and eels boiled in wine. Pope Leo X had a pet white elephant named “Hanno.” Extravagance was standard, and not even the Pope’s shoes escaped it. They became more and more ornate, and were even kissed by visitors just as one kisses the ring of the papa today…
The styles and requirements of each pope have been different, so their shoes have been different, but many stayed with the tradition of the color red, whether they were comfy slippers or dress shoes. Read about the red shoes of the pope at Messy Nessy Chic.
Kids love to check out all the cute little crabs when they go to the beach, but you'd better keep a close eye on your little ones when you're at the shore- or else they may learn crabs are clawful jerks the hard way!
That being said, it is fun to see their wheels turning as they watch those strange little sea creatures scuttle around, and I'd give anything to know what kids are thinking about when they see a crab for the first time.
Crabby Day is a super animated short by Sara Ho that captures the imaginative fun kids have when they hit the shore, but it also teaches parents a good lesson- keep an eye on your kids or their imagination may get them into trouble!
Most predators use stereoscopic vision for depth perception, including cats, dogs, and humans. We have two eyes facing forward, and the difference between the images that are perceived by each eye give us clues about how far away an object is. But what about predatory insects? To find out, researchers put tiny little 3D glasses on praying mantises. Really.
Birds and mammals can see in 3D using the differences between the images observed by each eye. But, the researchers at Newcastle University found, praying mantises have evolved a system that’s based on how each image changes. More importantly, as I said before, this involved attaching teeny goggles onto teeny mantis faces with beeswax.
So if you are an insect and a praying mantis is watching you, your best bet is to be very, very still. See a video of how they did this experiment at Gizmodo.
A new documentary, Three Identical Strangers, tells the tale of Robert Shafran, Eddy Galland, and David Kellman, who met each other as adults and found out they were identical triplets who had been adopted by three different families. The young men moved in together and attended the same college. The delight of their reunion masked the more sinister story of how they came to be separated in the first place.
The most significant twist was yet to come. After doing some research, the boys soon came to realize that their separation had been deliberate as a sinister social experiment by Peter Neubauer, a psychiatrist in New York. In fact Dr. Neubauer was responsible for the separation of dozens of newborn twins, scattering them among similar families to study their upbringing. The doctor used the children to explore the theory of ‘nature vs. nurture’.
Neither the doctor nor the adoption agency ever informed the adoptive family of each boy that they were separated triplets, only that their child was part of a developmental study. Dr. Neubauer had chosen the families because they each had a daughter around two years old at the time of adoption, but had varying levels of wealth.
The triplets were then monitored closely throughout their lives.
Everybody knows Jabba is a jerk, but it turns out he's a bigger jerk than anybody thought because he helped orchestrate the merger between the big D and the one they call Lucas- all so he could add more slave princesses to his harem. But it turns out the joke is on Jabba, because all of the princesses who come from the land of D are tough, fearless and most of them have already taken on foes way bigger and badder than that slimeball Hutt. So now instead of a small struggle against Leia Organa the Hutt is about to go to war against a dozen or so proud and powerful cartoon princesses led by Leia- and they're gonna turn Jabba into space slug stew!
Show the world the unexpected consequences of bringing stars from pop culture galaxies together with this Leia & Jasmine t-shirt by Nicole Graham Art, featuring a geeky scene sure to make your fellow fans cheer with delight!
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If the movie Labyrinth had taken place in the 21st century then Sarah would have had all the help she needs to find her baby brother right in her pocket- because her smartphone would have made the job fun and easy.
That's assuming, of course, that Sarah's smartphone could connect to a network in the Goblin Kingdom, and that her phone was fully charged and the GPS app updated before she headed in after baby Toby... never mind, she did just fine without a smartphone!
Two years before the infamous Kent State shooting, a Civil Rights demonstration on the campus of South Carolina State College, a historically black college in Orangeburg, led to the deaths of Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith, all age 18. Twenty-eight demonstrators were injured. The nine state highway patrolmen who fired into the crowd were exonerated of charges, and the only conviction was that of activist Cleveland Sellers. The incident received scant national attention. How did it come about?
By the winter of 1968, students at the two colleges set their sights on one particular target: All-Star Bowling Lanes, owned by white proprietor Harry Floyd. Despite the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin, Floyd continued to refuse African-Americans service. On February 5, a group of students went to the bowling alley and defiantly sat at the lunch counter until the police were called and the business closed early.
The next day, the students returned and again entered the bowling alley, whereupon 15 of them were arrested. Hearing word of the arrests, hundreds of students poured into a parking lot nearby. Orangeburg police officers and state troopers confronted the growing crowd. Tensions began to diffuse once the arrested students were told they’d be freed, but at just that moment a fire truck arrived, causing new pandemonium. As civil rights activist and university educator Cleveland Sellers wrote in his autobiography, the fire truck suggested to the crowd that the authorities were ramping up their efforts because the powerful hoses had been turned on them during a demonstration in 1963, causing injuries and illness.
Pushed against the front doors of the bowling alley in their panic, the students knocked in a glass pane and were immediately set upon by the police officers, who brutally beat several young women. As the students fled for their respective campuses, several broke shop windows and defaced cars along the way.
The demonstration moved to the campus, and as tensions escalated, the governor called in the National Guard. The shootings occurred on February 8. Read what happened that night and afterward at Smithsonian.
People always joke about magicians having no friends, which according to Davids Blaine and Copperfield isn't true at all, but maybe some magicians purposely avoid making friends so their friends don't reveal the secrets behind their tricks.
The magician in this video is Chinese internet star A Gan, and for some reason he doesn't mind bringing his assistant/buddy along with him everywhere he goes even though his friend keeps revealing all of his secrets.
They're like a vaudeville duo for the 21st century combined with a primer on how many basic magic tricks actually work, and despite his deadpan demeanor A Gan's friend brings a fun energy to these videos that would be otherwise absent. Plus he's keeping A Gan humble!
Sneaking bombs into a castle or village would be a wonderful way to surprise and defeat one's enemies. We do that with aerial bombing these days, but in the Middle Ages, it took thinking outside the box. A 15th-century German book called Feuerwerkbuch (Firework Book) included plans for sending bombs inside fortification by means of cats. The quote in the book is from Franz Helm in 1530.
If you would like to get at a town or castle, seek to obtain a cat from that place. And bind the sack to the back of the cat, ignite it, let it glow well, and thereafter let the cat go, so it runs to the nearest castle or town, and out of fear it thinks to hide itself where it ends up in barn hay or straw it will be ignited.
The illustration leads us to believe that bird bombs were also considered, but that would be an iffy way to deliver bombs, since there's a possibility they would explode in mid-air. The lack of documentation of cat bombs in the historical record gives us no reason to believe that this method was ever successful, nor whether it was even attempted. Attempts that failed were understandably less likely to be recorded. -via Cracked
Bulldogs are the laziest of all dogs, and they'd rather spend their lives laying around snoring and drooling than running around chasing critters and balls like their canine cousins.
But Bosco the English bulldog takes laziness to a whole new low, low energy that is, and he is such a sleepy pooch he doesn't even lift an eyelid when the Roomba starts "attacking" him for getting in the way of its cleaning.
In fact, Bosco seems to think of the Roomba as his own personal robo-massager!
The more the bats argue about whether they can be heard, the more the guy wonders what he is hearing. He's wondering what kind of murderous filthy critters are up there. He wonders whether they are able to get into his bedroom. He's also wondering if they will get louder when -and if- he ever gets to sleep. The good news for us is that the next time we hear strange noises in the attic, we know it's just the bats arguing about whether we can hear them. This comic is from They Can Talk.
