We've posted videos of professional skier Candide Thovex before, and they are always impressive. But the amazing Alpine skier doesn't even need snow to impress us!
Watch him ski over sand, dirt, grass, volcanic ash, rock, bricks, brush, and water in some of the most beautiful places on earth. And he gets serious air when the mood strikes him. All for a car ad. But when you've got a sponsor who'll send you to such places, you go! -Thanks, Ken D!
Finding out your dog eats poop is one of the most disgusting discoveries a dog owner can make, and most owners can't look at their dog in the same light, or let their dog lick their face, after seeing them snacking on a turd.
Some studies say dogs eat poop out of boredom, others say dogs who have an enzyme deficiency, pancreatic sufficiency or parasites are more likely to be a poop eater, but a new study shows there more be a more ancient reason:
A new study in the journal Veterinary Medicine and Science, spotted by The Washington Post, presents a new theory for what scientists call "canine conspecific coprophagy," or dogs eating dog poop.
Since their poop has a high chance of containing intestinal parasites, wolves poop far from their dens. But if a sick wolf doesn't quite make it out of the den in time, they might do their business too close to home. A healthier wolf might eat this poop, but the parasite eggs wouldn't have hatched within the first day or two of the feces being dropped. Thus, the healthy wolf would carry the risk of infection away from the den, depositing the eggs they had consumed away in their own, subsequent bowel movements at an appropriate distance before the eggs had the chance to hatch into larvae and transmit the parasite to the pack.
Domestic dogs may just be enacting this behavior instinctively—only for them, there isn't as much danger of them picking up a parasite at home.
The Action Figure Therapy Store sells custom built but unlicensed mini figures. As such, they cannot use the real names of the characters, or the set of building blocks that they fit into, but you know them. The newest is the Calm Bearded Tree Enthusiast Painter Dude. Hmm, I wonder who this is modeled after? He joins other fabulously-named products like Wisecracking Burned Up Cancer Survivor Assassin Guy Minibrick Figure and Space Orphan With Daddy Issues And Green Laser Sword.
Oh, you've got to read the description on the Worst “Bring Your Kid To Work Day” Ever Minifigure Set.
It’s like all you were trying to do was bring your kid up to the fancy, planet-killing space station where you work, show him off to some of your co-workers, and see if had any interest in pursuing the family business.
Then the next thing you know he’s trying to decapitate your boss with his green laser sword, things get crazy, and you get into huge battle.
That's just the beginning. The rest of the story is there, if you can decipher it. -via Boing Boing
I recently shared a video with a little yellow bird who wasn't afraid to dine next to two dachshunds, which was kind of an odd sight but not too strange considering some dogs don't see birds as prey.
On the other hand cats usually see birds as prey, so you'd think any bird dumb enough to go around bunch of house cats during mealtime would become an additional entree.
But redditor AusSpyder discovered birds and cats can actually coexist peacefully when they recorded this amazing footage while visiting the home of their friend "Doctor Doolittle":
This crow showed up at my friends house one day. It had an injured wing and couldn’t fly at first, but It’s been like 3 or 4 months now and the crow can fly again though not quite as good as it originally could. It’s just chosen to hang around and it still eats with the cats or my friend if she eats outside. He will happily sit on your shoulder and eat biscuits if you have any. It’s not exactly a pet, like it isn’t stuck in a cage and could easily fly off any time it wanted, it just chooses not to and for some reason the cats never chose to attack it.
-Via Laughing Squid
Although slavery continued in the United States until the end of the Civil War, the importation of slaves from Africa was banned in 1807. By the 1850s, the practice was dead, but Mobile, Alabama, businessman Timothy Meaher commissioned the ship Clotilda, captained by William Foster, to bring in slaves to Mobile.
With the nation edging closer to civil war over the slavery issue, Alabama steamboat captain and plantation owner Timothy Meaher made an infamous bet that he could sneak slaves into the country, right under the noses of federal troops at the twin forts that guarded the mouth of Mobile Bay. Historian Sylvianne Diouf traced the evolution of the wicked scheme and the resulting journey in her excellent book, Dreams of Africa in Alabama, published in 2007. Attempts to contact Diouf were unsuccessful.
The book primarily focuses on the story of the captives, who were freed just five years after they were enslaved, thanks to the end of the Civil War. The group, 110 strong, originally asked their captor, Meaher, to pay for passage back to Africa. After he refused, they appealed to the U.S. government, again to no avail. Ultimately, some members of the group bought a small piece of land north of Mobile from Meaher and created a community called Africatown, where some of the descendants of the original slaves still live. They spoke their native tongue, farmed using traditional African methods, and ran their own school.
Upon successful completion of the smuggling operation, Foster burned and sank the ship to hide the evidence. The Clotilda wasn't seen again -until now. A reporter for Al.com believes he has found the wreckage of the Clotilda. Read the story of the Clotilda's last run and its rediscovery. -via Mental Floss
(Image credit: Leigh T Harrell)
Beekeepers normally use their colonies to make honey, beeswax, pollen and to provide starter hives to their fellow apairists, but beekeeper Bioni Samp does something unusual with his bees- he records their noises and makes synth music.
Samp uses recordings taken from the hives to create minimal synth music he feels represents the life pulse of the bees:
He records and analyzes the frequencies of his bees, such as the soothing “songs” queen bees chirp to their hives, and uses them in his compositions. He wields a hive frame “scanner” to pick up electromagnetic smog and sticks electrodes in his homegrown honey to reap its rich, viscous sound.
Samp’s gear is part function, part symbolic. For example, one of his setups has three oscillators, representing the hierarchy of a hive: one for the workers, one for the drones, one for the queen. Some of his other bizarre, original instrument creations include the Electronic Beesmoker, BeeVerb, BFX, and the Binaural Beeframe.
Bioni Samp creates experimental hive music to raise awareness about colony collapse disorder, and he feels his telling people about the bee plague in this way is better than being preachy:
“If I went around with a Greenpeace badge on and started shouting about deforestation, people quickly tire of that, it doesn't really connect with people,” Samp says over video chat. “So I worked around the idea of presenting something that's got an underlying ecological message, but it's put over in a way which interest geeks and people interested in electronic music and computing.”
His art and sound installations have travelled across the globe, performing at environmentally-conscious festivals and art galleries as far flung as Slovakia, Poland, Canada, Austria, and others.
Read The Beekeeper Who Makes Synth Music With His Bee Colonies here
We've told you that the most remote place on earth is Tristan da Cunha, because the island is so far from any civilized land mass and difficult to travel to. There is a different way of looking at inaccessibility. What is termed a Pole of Inaccessibility (POI) is the spot on a land mass that is furthest from any coastline. The term was coined in 1920, when even South Dakota had trains and cars, so it may seem like a nonsensical name. But the idea was developed around the exploration of the North and South Poles. The POI of North America is in Bennett County, South Dakota, 1639.623 km (1019 miles) from all three of the nearest oceans. Read about the development of the POI and where it is on all the continents at the ESRI Map Journal. -via TYWKIWDBI
When news reporters head out into the field to deliver their reports on the scene they generally assume the event they're covering is already over, or that the background will simply add a bit of color to their PSA.
But WSB-TV Atlanta's Tom Regan got more than he bargained for when he headed to an overpass over I-85 to warn drivers about the icy road conditions, and just as he said drivers seemed to be driving safely a car spun out behind him.
-Via TVSpy
The Philadelphia Eagles have officially made it into Super Bowl LII, and that means the city of Philadelphia has some work to do to get ready before their team takes to the field in February.
But they're not preparing to host the game, Super Bowl LII will be played in Minneapolis, Minnesota, they're just getting ready for the madness in the streets to ensue after the Eagles win or lose the game.
And how does a city prepare for packs of insane football fans? Why, by greasing the lamp posts, of course!
Good morning from Philly where crews from the city are greasing the light poles with Crisco to prevent #Eagles fans from climbing after the #NFCChampionshipGame tonight. #Vikings pregame coverage starts at 3 on FOX9. They call themselves the #CriscoCops pic.twitter.com/w1ZkYWZhYG
— FOX 9 Sports (@Fox9Sports) January 21, 2018
In Philadelphia they rubbed Crisco on lamp posts to prepare for the NFC championship game, so people won't climb the poles like drunken fools if there's a riot, and they'll surely grease the posts again before the big game on February 4th.
-Via Yahoo! Sports
Sematary Here by Anderson Green Devil
Everybody has heard about what happens to animals, or humans for that matter, who are buried in the old Indian sematary by now, but what you don't know is the critters who resurrect are dead and loving life! They play all kinds of graveyard games, hang around and party all night long, and on Sundays they have drag races the likes of which no living human has ever seen! Imagine all those critter-sized cars zooming down the line, without fear of crashing because they're already dead!
This Sematary Here t-shirt by Anderson Green Devil is anything but a drag, and it'll make the perfect addition to any hot rod or King fan's wardrobe...unless you're too square to handle this tee!
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If you were around in the 1970s, you know that there were so many "good old boy with a vehicle" movies (and TV shows) that it was hard to tell them apart. Then in 1978, Every Which Way But Loose took that formula and added Dirty Harry and an orangutan. It couldn't miss. The movie was a light comedy, but it was an enormous hit. Even 40 years later, Every Which Way But Loose is on the list of the top 200 highest grossing films of all time. You might want to learn more about it.
8. The movie was originally intended for Burt Reynolds.
The film came almost right on the heels of Smokey and the Bandit and was geared to take advantage of that kind of success. But Burt turned it down.
7. This was Eastwood’s first pure comedy film.
Up this point his movies had a bit of comedy in them but it was coincidental and not the main drive of the film.
There's more from behind the scenes of Every Which Way But Loose at TVOM.
Not impressed with TV anymore? The problem might be that you watch too much TV. Maybe you should go to church, or a bar, or join a club. Or just watch a show about people who know how to make friends better than you do. That's impressive. This is the latest comic from Alex Culang and Raynato Castro at Buttersafe.
Would you drive across this bridge? It's one lane wide with no railings whatsoever, too narrow to allow for the slightest variance from the path. The surface is not at all smooth, and the wooden planks can get slippery when frost settles.
This is the Vitim River Bridge in Siberia. It once carried trains, which explains why it's so narrow. Not many drivers try it, but if you cross it successfully, you can join a Facebook group for those who have accomplished the feat. -via Digg
(Image credit: Flickr user Mark Gstohl)
Mardi Gras is February 13 this year, and the Carnival season is already in full swing with parades every weekend in New Orleans leading up to Lent. These famous parades are staged by krewes, or neighborhood social clubs. Some of them trace their history back 100 years or more, and have huge memberships. These super krewes, named Comus, Orpheus, Rex, Endymion, Bacchus, and others are responsible for the largest Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. But there are dozens of others, each with their own flavor. Lets take a look at some of these quirkier krewes and their parades.
1. Red Beans and Dead Beans
(Image credit: Flickr user Infrogmation of New Orleans)
The Krewe of Red Beans was founded in 2008 by Devin De Wulf, who is a fan of red beans, rice, and Carnival.
Devin created a dorky power-point presentation and invited a few friends to come over for dinner. . . enough people were convinced to join the parade and following halloween, people came together to "bean" each sunday night at Devin's house. He would cook up a big meal for the crowd and we would hang out and glue beans on stuff. . . after many hot-glue accidents and hours of "beaning" we were ready for our first parade.
The Red Beans Parade will be on Monday, February 12 (Lundi Gras). For the Red Beans Parade, many members hot-glue beans to their costumes. Skeletons have always been a motif of the parade, so this year, the inaugural Dead Beans Parade will feature members as skeletons, marching from a different location to meet up with the Red Beans Parade midway.
2. Krewe of Tchefuncte
What would you pay to have a custom scale model of your own home, in LEGO? Etsy seller Shari Austrian of LittleBrickLane will build one for you! You can have a model made showing the exterior only for $1500, or one with a custom interior as well for $2,500. That's pricy, but you spent a lot more on the one you're living in.
I use architectural plans and photographs to build home models with both exterior and interior details. I only build with brand new, brand name Lego pieces.
The construction will take eight to ten weeks, and your finished model can be displayed right in the home it looks like. -via Nag on the Lake
