Beer for dessert? That's when the sweet, creamy Mlíko pour tastes best. Try it and let us know what you think! pic.twitter.com/ny6o7ezQvG

— Pilsner Urquell (@Pilsner_Urquell) November 20, 2019

Gastro Obscura introduces us to a particularly Czech way of pouring beer. Mlíko, which means "milk", is usually served as a pilsner, but the type of beer is less important than the way in which it is poured.

Pouring a beer from a tap is more than just flipping the toggle from off to on. It's an art form and the Czechs have mastered it. The mlíko is poured by opening the tap slightly and letting the beer foam into the mug.

When done properly, it tastes like a creamy "cloud of beer" rather than just airy foam. It's essential to drink this cloudy substance quickly before it settles, so it's not for slow, casual drinking while chatting.

Having a giant rabbit around the house isn't quite like the movie Harvey or Donnie Darko. It's more like having a long-eared dog that eats vegetables. Guus is a Flemish Giant rabbit. He is two years old and lives in Amsterdam, where he goes for walks on a leash and loves hopping around the garden. Guus weighs 10 kilograms (22 pounds), but looks looks even bigger because he is so fluffy. He loves to cuddle with his impossibly gorgeous humans, Danielle and Onno. Guus has identification tattoos in his ears indicating his birthplace and date. He can be quite destructive, but they've learned to work around that. See more of Guus at Instagram. -via Boing Boing

See more adorable pet and animal posts at Supa Fluffy.

Happy Birthday @DeMar_DeRozan! https://t.co/tTjRY1JR1G

— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 7, 2022

The world has collected and photographed thousands of beautiful works of art going back to antiquity. But that documentation pales beside sports photography, where dozen of professional photographers are catching every minute of every game, race, or other competition. This extreme documentation is what makes a unique Twitter account like ArtButMakeItSports possible. For every classical painting, there will eventually be a sports action photo that accidentally recreates the scene. Sometimes they are spookily close.

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, by Mattia Preti, 1675, 📸 Brad Smith/ISI Photo pic.twitter.com/gMR6YK1JSe

— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) July 5, 2022

You have to wonder at the work that goes into finding and recognizing these matchups. The person that runs the Twitter account is taking submissions, so that must be a great help.  

The Mocking of Christ, by Carl Bloch, 1880 pic.twitter.com/e2Jj0bpaFm

— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) August 5, 2022

Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1618-19, 📸 via @MattMoylansLegs pic.twitter.com/Eudu5ZJ2jz

— ArtButMakeItSports (@ArtButSports) July 30, 2022

You can follow the Twitter account ArtButMakeItSports here, and see an archive of past matchups at Instagram. -via Everlasting Blort

Jalopik shares this terrifying video with us (content warning: foul language). It takes place at Cotswold Airport northwest of Swindon, UK.

That private and general aviation airport is an old RAF facility that can house aircraft much larger than the Piper PA-28 Cherokee seen in the crash. The airport is used for storing and salvaging old jetliners, which is why you see a line of commercial jets parked on the tarmac.

Accident investigators think that the pilot overshot the runway while attempting to land. Although one wing caught on the landing gear of one jet, no one was killed. The pilot and passengers were taken to a local hospital to receive treatment for their injuries.

Here's Lubbock, Texas, whose favorite son is the late rock star Buddy Holly. The people of Lubbock do, of course, honor him. The other famous names are mostly country and western stars, as well as a few football players, since this is west Texas. They're Waylon Jennings from nearby Littlefield, Texas.

We've previously looked at interactive maps of famous people in the United States. What sets this project apart is that it covers the entire planet by making use of a database of birthplaces of famous people from 3,500 BC to 2018 AD. Here's eastern South Africa. You may recognize some famous names.

Explore the map. Antarctica is especially interesting.

I am, though, a bit skeptical about the accuracy of data. The man that the map says was born at the North Pole was, as far as I can tell, born in central Mexico.

-via Dave Barry

Once upon a time, mail would get to the right town with just a zip code. Once there, it was up to the local office to figure out exactly where the address was. These days, 99% of US mail is sorted successfully by machine with optical readers. But if your handwriting is so bad that the machines can't decipher it, or if the envelope got wet and the ink ran, it will be sent to the Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Or rather, a picture of it will be sent there. At this level of sorting, a combination of human and computer power will use a strange but effective system of comparison to figure out where that mail is supposed to go. If they can't do it, the last resort is completely human before the postal service gives up and returns it. Tom Scott give us a look inside the Remote Encoding Center to see how it's done.   

This plot of land, which measures just over a square mile, might be called the Pennsylvania Wedge had the boundary dispute between that state and Delaware not ended in Delaware's favor. But the Delaware flag defiantly flies above this strip of land, so we call it the Delaware Wedge.

How did this land dispute arise? In State and National Boundaries of the United States, Gary Alden Smith explains. In 1682, King Charles II separated the land of Penn's colony from that of what would become Delaware by a 12-mile arc extending around New Castle. This is why the northern boundary of Delaware is round. Maryland's eastern boundary was later defined with a right angle, leading to this small plot of land left unaccounted for.

Pennsylvania claimed it, arguing that Mason-Dixon Line surveyed in the 1760s allotted the land, by default, to Pennsylvania. U.S. military engineers surveying the area marked it as Pennsylvanian territory. 

But the people who lived in the area identified as Delawareans, voted in that state, and paid taxes to Dover. In 1921, Congress approved of this de facto border after both state legislatures approved.

This historical marker notes the dispute that, thankfully, never boiled over into open warfare.

We've been blown away by the images coming in from faraway galaxies taken by the Webb Space Telescope. The vivid colors are lovely, but how real are they? The telescope only collects infrared and near-infrared light, and humans can't see infrared light, so where are all those colors coming from?

Image developers on the Webb team are tasked with turning the telescope’s infrared image data into some of the most vivid views of the cosmos we’ve ever had. They assign various infrared wavelengths to colors on the visible spectrum, the familiar reds, blues, yellows, etc. But while the processed images from the Webb team aren’t literally what the telescope saw, they’re hardly inaccurate.

So while the colors are added, they are not added arbitrarily. You could call it a translation of sorts. And the colors are necessary to detect features of the original image that otherwise couldn't be discerned. It's our own fault, really, for not developing the ability to see light in its full range. Heavenly bodies shine in ultraviolet light, microwaves, and x-rays, as well as infrared light, which would all have to be translated for humans to see them. Read how and why this is done at Gizmodo.


(Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt visited the Panama Canal while it was under construction. He was photographed wearing a white straw fedora, the kind that the workers wore, and started a fashion trend in the US of wearing Panama hats. A hundred years later, those hats are still fashionable, but they aren't Panama hats. They were made in Ecuador. A hat company in Ecuador was shipping them out through Panama.

But Panama does have a unique hat with a long tradition. It is the sombrero pintando, which means painted hat in English, and it's known as the pinta’o. Despite the name, the pinta’o is not painted. The distinctive stripes are made of dyed natural fiber and are stitched into the hat as it is made. Five kinds of natural fibers are grown, harvested, sun-dried to make them white (or dyed), braided together, and then hand-stitched to make a hat. The tradition goes back 200 years, and the pinta’o is designated on UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. In Panama, men, women, and children all wear a pinta’o, and many people have an everyday hat plus a more expensive one for social occasions. Most are custom made for the wearer and can be quite expensive. Read how pinta’os are hand made in Panama at Smithsonian.

Jazz multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier always ends his concerts with an audience singalong, but this performance at O2 Academy in Brixton, London, last month is next level. He plays the audience as if it were an instrument itself. How can this crowd possibly sound so good? First off, Collier is known as a musician's musician. His performances draw people who are musicians themselves, or else technically aware of how music works. I wanted to know how he sets this type of thing up. One of the commenters at YouTube explained it.

If you want a more detailed breakdown of the mechanics of the process, he starts off by dividing the audience into 3 sections one at a time just by pointing at them, and giving them a note.  He points up the middle, then to his left, then to his right.  He has perfect pitch, so he can just hear the correct notes in his head.  The starting notes he gives are the root, third and fifth of a major chord, in this case, G major, G B and D.  From there, he then points at a section or sections, and points up or down, and that section goes up or down one step of the major scale from where they were.  Sometimes he controls just a single section, sometimes 2 at once.  Usually both sections go in the same direction, but near the end, one section goes up and the other goes down.  He's literally composing this 3 part harmony in his head as he's waving his hands.  Every show he does this it's similar, but each one is unique.  This one is especially long and complex in comparison to some of the other clips we've seen from his other shows on this tour.  Anyway, hope that helps.

Yeah, I think it helps. I have a fairly extensive history of music education, but I have the complete opposite of perfect pitch, meaning I can't get my voice to do the right thing even when I know what the right thing is. I have the utmost respect for people who can.  -via reddit

To say Arnold Schwarzenegger has led an extreme life would be an understatement. After a difficult childhood in Austria, he made a name for himself as a world champion bodybuilder at a rather young age. Then he landed movie roles even though no one could understand his English. Schwarzenegger became a huge action star in Hollywood, and then served as governor of California from 2003 to 2011. With highlights like that, you know there's a lot of details underneath that we don't already know.

 
Well, that one makes sense. It's impossible to duplicate the most extreme. Read more facts about Arnold Schwarzenegger in a pictofacts list at Cracked.

Misconceptions spread like wildfire on the internet, where you don't know who's an expert and who isn't. But many misconceptions about death go back hundreds or event thousands of years, because it's a subject that we tend to avoid discussing seriously. For example, you've probably been told at one point or another that fingernails and beards can continue growing after death. That's just not true, but there are some reasons people started to think so, and those people managed to tell a lot of other people. However, it is true that dead bodies can fart. That's the straight dope from people who have reason to know that, and not just from that Daniel Radcliffe movie. Mental Floss takes on eight common misconceptions about death to not only set the record straight, but explain why those wrong ideas persist. You can read them it in a list, or listen to a video at the same link.  

(Image credit: T. Bjørnstad)

The Golden Girls went off the air over thirty years ago, but the old ladies retain enormous cultural traction to this day. The fanbase remains very strong, even among people who were born after it went off the air. That's why the events company Bucket Listers created a pop-up restaurant that, the AP reports, brings the Golden Girls experience to Beverly Hills.

The restaurant is designed to resemble the famous kitchen set from the show. The Golden Girls Kitchen features lasagna--one of Sophia's favorite dishes--and a variety of cheesecakes. So bring a friend and bond over past loves or tales of St. Olaf or Sicily in the old days.

Photo: The Golden Girls Kitchen

The US Army has been rolling out a novel idea- getting the input of soldiers in developing new tools and equipment, because who else knows better how they will be used in the field? This part of military modernization is called touch points. One of the new projects grown from this is the Army Tactical Brassiere (ATB) program. Until last year, women in the military were expected to get their own underwear, and plenty of companies targeted them for sales. Now they are developing a military bra with specifications to make a soldier's work safer and easier.

ATB development began with seeking input from female Soldiers on what type of functionality and preferences should be considered during initial prototype design. Given that the ATB is a tactical rather than sportswear item, it will need to integrate well with equipment and body armor, providing enhanced protection and performance in addition to an ideal fit. This means that designers are evaluating options such as the inclusion of flame-retardant fabrics and expertly layered compression, structural and protective materials while also taking into account the importance of accurate sizing, reliable comfort, moisture management and breathability.

Project leader Ashley Cushon stresses the importance of those last four factors because it would "reduce the cognitive burden on the female Soldier." That's no laughing matter, because men in the military never have to think about whether their breasts are chafing under exertion or whether they will be blamed for too much male gaze. If the army can achieve all they want in a bra, they'd better make a ton of them because civilian women will want them, too. There are currently four types of bra in development that may be approved in the fall. -via Boing Boing

(Image credit: US Army)

Fabricio André Bernard Di Paolo is a Brazilian pianist who goes by the stage name of Lord Vinheteiro. He has a popular YouTube channel in which he performes musical stunts, such as doing a live soundtrack of his wife's daily activities or playing a piano from several feet away using strings attached to the keys.

In this video, Lord Vinheteiro plays the famously challenging "Flight of the Bumblebee" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It's an athletically demanding task that requires spectacular coordination, but Vinheteiro is able to complete his performance in less than a minute while using only one finger.

Some people allege that there's some video manipulation going on.

-via The Awesomer