Whoever designed the kitchen of this house clearly did not think of convenience and only prioritized how to save space.
A man named Josh shared this frustrating kitchen design on TikTok, and demonstrated how the puzzle works. In order for him to open the dishwasher, he must first open the oven. And in order for him to open the drawer between the two, he must first open the oven, and then the dishwasher, in that order.
If that doesn’t frustrate you, I don’t know what will.
Photo-editing software programs like Photoshop are usually used to create posters or banners composed of photos and text. But these programs are not just for professional use, as they can also be used for fun. And creating funny photos can be a great pastime once you get the hang of it.
I have to say, though: this uncle had too much time on his hands when he created this one.
IG user @al.heng submitted this image over at Awkward Family Photos, and this is what she had to say:
“Uncle Steve was having fun with photo editing and sent these out to our family. I’m in the pot on the back burner on the right. And please note the detached arms flailing in the rear pot.”
Thankfully, this man did not take this photo seriously and did not make it realistic.
What is this crowd chanting? TikToker Kegan Stiles gives us nine options; which do you hear? What's really weird is that you can read down the list while listening to the audio, and it sounds like every one of them... except there are nine options, and only eight lines to the chant. When you hear the line you are reading, it's an example of the McGurk Effect. Once you've decided what you are hearing, you can go to the original video to find out what they are really saying. There is a parental warning for explicit lyrics on that one, although I don't understand why. This audio clip illustrates how we often hear what we are primed to hear. -via Boing Boing
Hear more examples of the McGurk effect here and here.
Every parent is concerned about their kids getting proper nutrition. Vegetables are packed with nutrients, but how can they possibly compete for your child's palate when the competition is breakfast cereals, chicken nuggets, and chips? Food scientists have tackled this problem in many ways, and one experiment may be promising.
Researchers have come up with a new way of getting kids to follow a healthy diet: putting more vegetables on their plate.
Larger portions of veggies resulted in kids chomping down 68 percent more of them on average (an extra 21 grams, or 0.74 ounces per day), in a 4-week experiment involving 67 children aged from 3 to 5.
The research team used broccoli and corn as their test vegetables, doubling the amount served – from 60 grams to 120 grams – to see how this would change the eating behavior of the children.
Of course, there's more involved, including what other foods are served and the proportions on the plate. You can read more about this experiment at Science Alert. In my opinion, anyone will eat vegetables if you sauté them with onions, garlic, and spices, but that's setting them up to never eat vegetables from a school cafeteria. -via Damn Interesting
Brazilian musician Johnatha Bastos was born with limited arms, but that doesn't limit his musical ability. He can masterfully play a guitar with just his feet. In this video, he takes on the iconic Guns N' Roses song "Sweet Child O' Mine."
In July 2016, David Cameron announced his resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and stated that Theresa May will be the one to replace him. Before heading into 10 Downing Street, however, Cameron hummed a rather strange tune before completely disappearing from the camera.
The music is still unidentified to this day, but Thomas Hewitt Jones used Cameron’s tune (now known as Cameron's Lament) to create this dramatic track called “Fantasy on David Cameron”.
Sounds like something you would hear from a documentary film.
Powdered or glazed, dog nuts are probably one of the most delicious treats out there, along with ice cream (just ignore the calories). It doesn’t matter if it’s cinnamon or chocolate, jelly or cream-filled; a dog nut would still be good to eat, and even better if served with either coffee or milk.
If you don’t know where to eat good dog nuts, try going to Krispy Kreme, Tim Hortons, or Dunkin’.
Check out these people who tweeted about their love for dog nuts over at Sad and Useless.
The pangolin is the most trafficked animal on Earth. It is said that over a million pangolins were trafficked in the past ten years, and this is only a modest estimate.
Similar in appearance to armadillos, pangolins are the world’s most heavily poached and trafficked mammal—and three out of four Asian pangolin species are critically endangered.
Because their scales are believed to cure everything from asthma to cancer, pangolins are heavily used in Chinese and Vietnamese traditional medicine. While pangolin scales are a perfect defense against predators, when stressed or threatened, pangolins curl up into a ball, making them an easy target for poachers.
Thai Van Nguyen knew of the pangolin situation in his country, and he decided to help these vulnerable animals in any way he could. And so in 2014, Nguyen established Save Vietnam’s Wildlife, and from that year to 2020, the organization has rescued over 1,500 pangolins from the illegal wildlife trade.
Nguyen also established Vietnam’s first anti-poaching unit, which, since 2018, has destroyed 9,701 animal traps, dismantled 775 illegal camps, confiscated 78 guns, and arrested 558 people for poaching—leading to a significant decline in illegal activities in Pu Mat National Park.
This year, Nguyen received the Goldman Environmental Prize award, an award given to environmental activists.
TikTok is a place where new questionable trends appear on a weekly, if not daily basis. This time, TikTok users are putting yellow mustard on their watermelon slices. And thanks to Joel Kahn and Claire Lower from Lifehacker, we don’t need to try this trend on our own because they already did. Surprisingly, Lower stated that the combination is “not revolting, or even unpleasant.” However, it doesn’t taste good either. It’s just… edible.
The question is… Why would someone even think of doing this?
Located at the Burnside Fountain in Worcester, Massachusetts, is a statue known to the locals as “Turtle Boy”. Officially named as “Boy With A Turtle”, the statue is not something that you could say as “child-friendly”, and you would know this just by taking one look at it (see full photo here). But how did this statue come to be? The answer goes back to the early 1900s.
The Burnside Fountain was commissioned in 1904 after the death of Harriet Burnside, who bequeathed upon the city $5,000 from her will to build a fountain that could also serve as a drinking trough for horses and dogs. The design of the basin was left to Henry Bacon, who would later help architect the Lincoln Memorial, and the sculpture itself, our beloved "Turtle Boy," was assigned to Charles Y. Harvey. Burnside made no mention of turtles in her request, so the design's blame most likely lies with Harvey, who perhaps heard "a drinking trough for dogs" and thought that must be coded language…
But only a week after beginning to build the sculpture, Harvey started to hear voices, which he believed came from the unfinished sculpture, which told him to kill himself. Unfortunately, Harvey gave in to these voices.
Sherry Fry finished the statue but had Charles Harvey lived to fully realize his creation, perhaps Turtle Boy would look much different.
Many Singaporeans were prompted to go to the Pasir Ris MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) in the country after a TikTok user @seathebreezee posted a video of him claiming to have hidden S$1000 (about $742) in said place.
Posted on June 19, 2021, the first video shows the TikToker approaching the bushes before hiding US$742.85 (S$1,000), folded in a stack of smaller notes, somewhere on the ground.
The hiding spot wasn’t in frame.
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And before the video ends, the TikToker mentions that he will return to the exact location after three days, curious to see if anyone finds the cash.
Three days later, the TikTok user went back to the place where he hid the money, and was thrilled to see that someone found it, but left S$2.
He then posted another video claiming that he once again hid some money, but this time somewhere near a bus interchange station.
According to a Facebook post by Shin Min Daily News, at least seven people were seen gathering around the bushes, outside of the Tampines bus interchange.
However, after hours of searching, there was no money to be found, leading many to believe that the videos were fake.
Those who have experienced Windows on ARM know the feeling of not being able to find compatible apps on Microsoft Store. It seems that Microsoft has heard the complaints of many, and decided to integrate Android apps on Windows 11, the company’s latest operating system.
They won't just be limited to emulator windows on the software — the integration means the apps will be in the Start menu, show up with individual dedicated icons on the taskbar and launch with desktop shortcuts, too. They'll start to appear in the Microsoft Store, but you can also install them via the Amazon app store.
Panos Panay said during the keynote that Microsoft is using "Intel bridge technology" to bring this integration, making it "seamless and smooth." But that doesn't mean it's limited to Intel machines — Microsoft confirmed on a press call that Android apps will work on AMD systems as well. With the plethora of Android apps currently available, Windows 11 looks like it'll be a much more inviting OS for mobile, touch-centric workflows.
Computer scientists have shown in two recently published papers how mouse movements can be used to gain knowledge about your behavior. It is said that the information that could be acquired from said mouse movements could reveal sensitive details such as age and gender. Talk about scary.
Prof. Luis Leiva, the corresponding author of the two papers, provides further details on the study.
"We have demonstrated how straightforward it is to capture behavioral data about the users at scale, by unobtrusively tracking their mouse cursor movements, and predict user's demographics information with reasonable accuracy using five lines of code. For years, recording mouse movements on websites has been easy, however to analyze them one would need advanced expertise in computer science and machine learning. Today, there are many libraries and frameworks that allows anyone with a minimum of programming knowledge to create rather sophisticated classifiers. This raises new privacy issues and users do not have an easy opt -out mechanism."
To combat this potential risk, they developed a method to distort mouse coordinates which thereby prevent mouse tracking.
"It is inspired by recent research in adversarial machine learning, and has been implemented as a web browser extension, so that anyone can benefit from this work in practice," explains Leiva. The web browser extension called MouseFaker is available on Github.
Have you ever seen smoothies being served this way? I sure haven’t, and I’m looking forward to seeing something like this in person. It looks amazing. Every move just shouts experience and a long time of training.
When news outlets try to distill a complex story into a short blurb or a 30-second news bite, the details often get distorted. It doesn't help that so many people only read the headlines. The 1994 lawsuit against McDonald's over hot coffee became the ultimate example of a frivolous lawsuit, but when you dig into the details, it is revealed to have been anything but frivolous. LegalEagle explains what really happened. The McDonald's case takes only the first six minutes; afterward there are other cases of "frivolous" lawsuits that were more substantial than they appeared at first glance. -via Digg
