Kevin Kresen was trapped in his car for more than 10 hours after his car got buried underneath four feet of snow. The 58-year-old driver got stuck after a plow covered his car. A state trooper managed to find him and his vehicle after digging through the snow. He suffered from hypothermia and frostbite, and was taken to Lourdes Hospital for treatment.
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No, it’s not a way to manipulate time in general, it’s just your perception of time that slows down. A new study found that trying to conceal something can alter your perception of time. The study, which appeared in Biological Psychology, wanted to find how time is perceived during lying:
In line with previous research, the researchers observed stronger physiological arousal when a concealed item was presented on the screen. They also found that the display of all items in the guilty condition was perceived as longer than that in the innocent condition. Response times were also longer in the guilty condition than in the innocent condition.
“When you are concealing something, you will feel that time passes more slowly than usual, because you are in an aroused and highly vigilant state. Not only the very thing to be concealed but also other items are perceived as lasting longer than usual during this state,” Matsuda and Nittono told PsyPost.
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YouTube is a fun platform where you can find all kinds of videos. This one is one of them. Well, it’s also unusual. Would you actually cook a meal using Lego blocks? YouTuber I like home presents a reality where you can, through his videos. By the way, if you haven’t realized it: it’s not real-time cooking using actual Lego blocks! I like home combines the power of editing, stop-motion, and creativity to create these videos.
Aquaporin A/S, a Danish company that designed a water-purification system for the International Space System, has designed a new system that could provide more drinking water for humans on Earth. This new system uses proteins called aquaporins that could remove microplastics and micropollutants from wastewater, as CNN details:
Aquaporin's technology could help. The company is working with wastewater companies — including BIOFOS, Denmark's largest state-owned wastewater utility, and UTB Envirotec in Hungary — to remove micropollutants and microplastics from wastewater, preventing them from flowing into the sea.
A study conducted at BIOFOS showed that aquaporins remove over 95% of microplastics and micropollutants in wastewater, using much less energy than traditional systems.
"It has an enormous potential," says BIOFOS innovation manager Dines Thornberg, who led the study. "I think the Aquaporin system could lead the way in actually creating clean, affordable drinking water from wastewater in the future. I am really optimistic that we can meet the challenges of water scarcity in many parts of the world with technologies like this."
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Researchers from the University of Bristol have successfully reconstructed the brain of a dinosaur! The Thecodontosaurus was the size of a large dog in the late Triassic age (about 205 million years ago). Thanks to the help of advanced imaging and 3D modeling techniques, experts are now able to study the dinosaur’s fragile fossils in detail without destroying them:
According to Futurism, experts scanned the interior of a Thecodontosaurus fossil and identified anatomical details about the dinosaur’s brain that had not yet been revealed.
Antonio Ballell, a Ph.D. student at the University of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences, recently shared his team’s findings in a statement reported by CNN:
“Our analysis of Thecodontosaurus’ brain uncovered many fascinating features, some of which were quite surprising. Whereas its later relatives moved around ponderously on all fours, our findings suggest this species may have walked on two legs and been occasionally carnivorous.
“Our analysis showed parts of the brain associated with keeping the head stable and eyes and gaze steady during movement were well-developed. This could also mean Thecodontosaurus could occasionally catch prey, although its tooth morphology suggests plants were the main component of its diet. It’s possible it adopted omnivorous habits.”
CNN reports that experts also digitally reconstructed the dinosaur’s inner ears, revealing that the Thecodontosaurus had a high hearing frequency and could recognize noises from other animals.
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There are lists of the best Christmas movies here and there, and all are arguable, not only about how "great" they really are, but whether they are Christmas movies at all. Must a Christmas movie be about Christmas, or merely take place during Christmastime? What if there's only one scene that takes place during the season? By now, we've pretty much settled on the fact that Die Hard is, in fact, a Christmas movie, but there are plenty of edge cases in various Christmas movie lists. Gabriella Paiella is of the opinion that The Lord of the Rings trilogy is the greatest Christmas movie, despite the fact that it's three movies, and she makes a point of watching all 12 hours every holiday season. Her first argument is that they were all released to theaters in December, during her childhood, so viewers of her generation will always have that connotation. But there are other reasons to see The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King as Christmas films.
The most obvious is that there are elves. Yes, the elves are tall and lithe and have silky blonde extensions. And one of the main ones is now married to Katy Perry, one is Stephen Tyler’s daughter, one was in The Matrix, and the last one is angry and sexy Cate Blanchett. Sorry, where was I going with this? They’re still elves. But if you’re looking for the traditional Keebler cookie and Santa’s workshop variety short kings, there are hobbits. For more atmospheric holiday touches, the palantir are basically snow globes, Gandalf looks like Santa, and Saruman looks like the weird mall Santa you don’t want to let near your kids.
And there are more reasons that will cause you to squint your eyes and say, yeah, maybe you can see it, at GQ.
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Through a large part of human history, a monarch had absolute power over all his/her subjects. Under England's Queen Elizabeth I, that authority included conscripting the best singers from every social strata for the royal children’s choir, which equated to kidnapping. This power was delegated to the Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal, who could take any child he pleased to become part of the choir. In 1600, the Master was Nathaniel Giles. It was in that year that he took possession of 13-year-old Thomas Clifton as he walked home from school. On the surface, there wasn't a thing his parents could do about it, as Giles had the power of the throne behind him, and it was his job to fill the choir with promising young singers.
But they made a fatal error by selecting Thomas Clifton. His father was a nobleman, whose connections enabled him to bring the case before the Star Chamber Court. Plus, Thomas couldn’t sing, making it hard to argue that Giles and Evans had been acting in the interest of Her Majesty’s choir.
So why was Clifton snatched from his family? Read about Giles and how he took advantage of the legal authority he was given at Jstor Daily. -via Strange Company
That’s creepy and invasive. Capella Space’s new satellite can peer right into any room in your house and snap a high-resolution photo at any time. The Capella-2 satellite has been launched in the atmosphere is a big leap in space technology, but also a big privacy risk, as Input Magazine details:
The Capella-2’s system of cameras and sensors is nothing short of magnificent. The satellite uses something called Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), a technology used by NASA since the 1970s, to detect the Earth’s surface through even the densest of clouds. SAR sends a 9.65 GHz radio signal toward the Earth and interprets the signal as it returns, using that data to form a visual.
It could also fuel the type of surveillance that privacy experts have panic attacks about. The Capella-2’s signal system is so powerful it can truly see through walls in many circumstances. And anyone — average people, the government, malicious organizations — can request these images at any time, no questions asked.
Capella already has contracts with government agencies, including the National Reconnaissance Office and the U.S. Air Force. It’s not much of a stretch to imagine high-resolution SAR technology turning into a tool for national surveillance.
Once Capella’s full squadron of satellites is airborne, the company will have the ability to quickly snap photos of just about any place in the world. That power could quickly be abused if left unchecked.
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Wow, this iPhone is sturdy as hell. Filmmaker Ernesto Galiotto dropped his iPhone 6 out of a plane from a 300-meter height. Fortunately, it wasn’t time for Galiotto to spend more money to buy a new phone, as his phone survived the fall. The phone was intact, with the screen’s protector the only thing damaged. That was already a wonderful miracle, but here’s the best part: his phone was able to film its descent!
"It is something that, if you tell someone, they wouldn't believe you," Galiotto told G1.
Since Galiotto was taking a video at the time the iPhone left his hand, the device continued shooting video during the fall. Unfortunately, the video isn't as beautiful as you might imagine; the phone was constantly spinning so the video it took is just one big blur until the phone hits the sand. Check out the video over at G1.
This is not the first time an iPhone has survived a fall from an airplane. In 2015, a Texas man dropped his iPhone from 9,300 feet and found it scratched by working, though his external battery was missing.
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You don’t have to go outside and plant saplings in your lingerie (please don’t). Have fun and help safe the Earth? Sounds like a win-win to me! Designer Bei Kuo’s lingerie line, The End is not only made with environmentally-friendly materials, but for every product sold from the line, they plant a tree:
Having The End be environmentally friendly was also key to her ethos as a designer, and so not only is every garment made using organic cotton (with 95% of the brand’s packaging constructed from recyclable and biodegradable materials too) but they work with non-profit One Tree Planted in order to plant a tree for every product sold. After all, the threat of the climate crisis can be a real mood-killer.
Of course, sustainability is about wearability too: making pieces that will be long-loved and well-worn. “Most of all, I wanted them to be able to mix and match with your day-to-day outfits,” Bei says. “Even though they are undergarments, my designs are almost meant to be worn as outerwear.”
With metal hoops and barbells that allude to intimate piercings, an abundance of industrial-style fastenings, and crotchless “easy exits” built in, it’s not your typical Victoria’s Secret-style fare and honestly, that’s exactly what we love about it. “Not gonna lie, I sometimes will go to those cheap fetish shops for inspiration,” says Bei. “The tackier the better.” 100% agreed.
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A major scientific milestone, that’s what officials are calling the amount of materials the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa 2 retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu.The materials were dropped by the spacecraft back to Earth in a pan-shaped capsule, as AP News details:
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said its staff initially spotted some black particles sitting on the bottom of the capsule’s sample catcher when they pulled out the container on Monday. By Tuesday, scientists found more of the soil and gas samples in a compartment that stored those from the first of Hayabusa’s two touchdowns on the asteroid last year.
“We have confirmed a good amount of sand apparently collected from the asteroid Ryugu, along with gases,” JAXA Hayabusa2 project manager Yuichi Tsuda said in a video message during an online news conference. “The samples from outside of our planet, which we have long dreamed of, are now in our hands.”
Tsuda called the successful return of the asteroid soil and gas samples “a major scientific milestone.”
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Do you know what’s sexier than the photos you see in fashion magazines? It’s a clean house. That’s right. A clean and organized house is much sexier than anything else, and this man is promoting that kind of sexy on social media.
Meet Corey Peters, a dad from Rehobeth, Alabama, who has decided to share his insights on what “sexy” means when you’re a family man.
No, it’s not about striking sexy poses for pics with fancy Instagram filters in exotic locations with a kid in your arms. It’s actually as simple as cleaning the house and showing a positive example as a husband who helps out around the house as well as a dad who’s showing what a clean and tidy home ought to look like. When you think about it, it brings a whole new meaning to “talk dirty to me”.
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“After being with a woman for 7 years, I promise you there ain’t nothing sexier than sending her some [hot flame emoji] pics like this…”
Now that’s hot.
See the photos over at Bored Panda.
What are your thoughts about this one?
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If there was a place on Earth you would go and ask yourself “doth my eyes deceiveth me?”, that place would be the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola in Rome, which is just a block away from the Pantheon.
The first thing most visitors do when they step inside this church dedicated to the founder of the Jesuit order is look up at the sumptuous frescoes that decorate the huge ceiling. The grandiose fresco painted by Andrea Pozzo depicts the triumph of St. Ignatius and the apostolic goals of Jesuit missionaries, eager to expand the reach of Roman Catholicism across the world. The ceiling appears to be a high and vaulted decorated with statues and populated with flying figures. In reality the roof is flat. Pozzo gave the ceiling an illusion of height using anamorphic techniques. A marble disk set into the middle of the nave floor marks the ideal spot from which observers might fully experience the illusion.
This isn’t the only illusion found in the church.
Learn about more of them over at Amusing Planet.
Amazing.
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