To the lucky people who discovered these remarkable pieces of meteorites, I thank you for being at the right place at the right time. Absolutely stunning! 

Ha ha ha haaaaa! This will make your day. And what make this dog more awesome when playing drums is that he's on beat the entire time.

Matt Shirley asks, "What's the most annoying fruit?" According to his chart, it would be avocados. You keep an eye on those things, because there's about a 15-minute window at one point where they will be perfect for eating. He seems to be a bit confused by pineapple, which is understandable. Like all fruit, a pineapple is at its sweetest right before it falls apart. Knowing when that is before you cut into it is a matter of experience. I like to cut them when they are showing quite a bit of yellow outside. Yeah, that means trimming some brown parts from the flesh, but what's left is very sweet!

Fandom Games gives us an overview of Ghost of Tsushima, from its graphics, story, and gameplay mechanics, all while dissing the game itself, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise, and Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series, as well as The Last of Us Part 2.

And the fun doesn’t stop there, as the honest trailer also gives us a haiku at the end of the video.

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Millions of people have used their lockdown time to recreate works of art. Designer Lydia Cambron went a step further and recreated a movie! Well, a part of a movie, anyway, but she chose well. Here she is, remaking the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, copied shot by shot in her apartment. At first I thought the monolith in the bedroom was a guillotine, but I think it may be an exercise machine. Stay for the credits. -via Nag on the Lake

Deep in the Queensland rain forest, the ruins of a hand-built castle begun almost a hundred years ago still stand, slowly being resurrected from the ravages of time and nature. Paronella Castle was a labor of love the first time around, and also the second.   

It was the impossible dream of an ambitious Spanish immigrant who sailed to Australia in 1913 to make a life for himself and his fiancé waiting back home. José Paronella worked for over a decade worlds away from his homeland, first as a labourer cutting sugar cane, and then slowly building his wealth, buying, improving and selling cane farms. In his first years of travelling around Queensland, he discovered a virgin forest land alongside a waterfall and knew at first sight that he would one day call it his home. Over a century later, the ruins of his incredible story remain in the jungle…

Paronella and his wife Margarita spent ten years building a beautiful castle in the jungles of Australia, complete with fountains, a movie theater, tennis courts, 7,000 exotic trees, and a hydroelectric plant to power it all. They opened it to the public as Paronalla Park in 1935. They endured floods, cyclones, fires, and the creeping jungle, until the Paronellas died and the jungle eventually won. But that's not the end of the story. Read about Paronella Castle and see plenty of pictures at Messy Nessy Chic.

If your house has an incredible air conditioning unit, or a good cooling system that can make you ignore the hot weather, then good for you! But what if your fan or AC isn’t enough to subdue the heat? Is getting sleep still possible? Yes! All it takes are some tweaks to your daily routine, as inews detail:

Firstly, keep your curtains or blinds drawn during the day to block out the heat. Open windows and doors throughout your home to get a through-draft.

Making sure you are hydrated throughout the day is also very important and keeping a glass of water by your bed is advised. Also, avoid spicy foods and eating too late at night as this can raise your body temperature.

Keeping your extremities, such as your head and feet, cool can also lead to a more restful night.

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After four long hard years of catching mice, Palmerston, the chief mouser at the U.K Foreign Office, finally decided to retire from the institution.

Palmerston made it official in a letter sent in his name to Simon McDonald, the office’s permanent under-secretary, which explained that he wanted more time “away from the limelight.”

“I have found life away from the front line relaxed, quieter, and easier,” a letter signed with two paw prints said. It was posted on Twitter.

The letter from Palmerston, or @DiploMog’ as he is known on Twitter, said his service showed that “even those with four legs and fur have an important part to play in the U.K.’s global effort.”

He really is deserving of retirement.

Learn more details about his career at the Foreign Office over at AP News.

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Sushi is a very healthy meal on its own, but Japan isn’t content with that. They want to make it even healthier. This sushi restaurant will make you sushi specially made for you.

Welcome to Sushi Singularity, a sushi restaurant from Japanese company Open Meals. Here, you won't be eating regular sushi. Instead, each piece of sushi you put in your mouth is tailor made to your specific body and health requirements.

But how?

For starters, you can't simply walk into the restaurant and expect to be seated right away. You'll have to send them samples of your DNA, urine, and other bodily fluids first. They call this your 'Health ID'.

These samples will then be analyzed, and the results of the analysis will then be used to process the customized sushi, which will be 3-D printed.

You'll get a good dose of raw vitamins, as well as other ingredients that benefit your specific health requirements.

And that’s not all. The customized sushi is also appealing to the eyes.

More details about this over at Mashable.

What are your thoughts about this one?

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Short answer: We don’t know. Maybe breakfast is just a persistent illusion.

Bacon, eggs, oatmeal and avocado toast, along with some hot coffee and a newspaper. This is a typical picture of “breakfast.” But what makes this scene a breakfast scene? Is it the bacon? Is it the eggs? Is it the oatmeal or the avocado toast? This problem is referred to as The Hard Problem of Breakfast.

The stubborn fact remains that, no matter how deeply we probe into the nature of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast—to say nothing of shakshuka, grits, bear claws, or dim sum—or the interactions between these fundamental building blocks and, say, orange juice or coffee and the morning paper, we simply have no convincing theory to explain how such disparate, seemingly inert components give rise to the phenomenon we subjectively experience as “breakfast.”

It has long been understood that no breakfast can exist in the absence of its constituent foods and their related supporting structures such as plates and bowls, utensils, and toasters. A breakfast must self-evidently be “of” something to be considered a breakfast at all. Yet despite technological advances that have enabled scientists to probe these components at the most minute levels, we have to date found no trace of the theorized Breakfast Particle or any other plausible mechanism by which breakfast could emerge from the underlying biochemical or nutriophysical activity.

More details about this problem over at Nautilus.

What are your thoughts about this one?

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For decades, scientists have been trying to create functioning human gametes (eggs and sperm) from stem cells, according to Vittorio Sebastiano. In doing so, they would be able to discover the secrets of human development, and be able to help infertile people to have children. Over the years, scientists were able to achieve some progress such as being able to create mouse pups from stem cell-generated gametes. They were also able to create immature human egg cells. But when it comes to creating babies from bone marrows, there is still a long road that awaits our scientists.

When the first baby conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) was born in 1978, it was a major step forward for reproductive science and a precursor to the stem cell research conducted by Sebastiano and others today, he says. But IVF is not an option for every individual or couple trying to have a biological child, including those who are born without gametes or who receive aggressive cancer treatments at a young age. This scientific technique would offer these individuals a new shot at reproduction.

The next major step came in the 2000s, with the creation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). These cells are taken from blood or skin cells and reprogrammed to behave like embryonic cells, which have the ability to develop into any type of cell in the body. Since then, researchers have been trying to figure out how to turn these embryonic-like cells into functional sperm and eggs.

More details about this topic over at Discover Magazine.

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The world’s most expensive mask is made of gold and diamonds, with a price tag of $1.5 million. Don’t worry about stocks of the mask, as the mask is a work in progress. The 18-karat white gold mask will be decorated with 3,600 white and black diamonds and fitted with top-rated N99 filters at the request of the buyer, as The Huffington Post detailed: 

Levy, owner of the Yvel company, said the buyer had two other demands: that it be completed by the end of the year, and that it would be the priciest in the world. That last condition, he said, “was the easiest to fulfill.”

He declined to identify the buyer, but said he was a Chinese businessman living in the United States.

The glitzed-up face mask may lend some pizzazz to the protective gear now mandatory in public spaces in many countries. But at 270 grams (over half a pound) — nearly 100 times that of a typical surgical mask — it is not likely to be a practical accessory to wear.

In an interview at his factory near Jerusalem, Levy showed off several pieces of the mask, covered in diamonds. One gold plate had a hole for the filter.

“Money maybe doesn’t buy everything, but if it can buy a very expensive COVID-19 mask and the guy wants to wear it and walk around and get the attention, he should be happy with that,” Levy said.

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It seems that the futuristic concept of watching shows on a television with a transparent display is close to hitting the stores! Xiaomi has revealed a brand new HDTV with a transparent display. The 55-inch OLED display can blend into the surroundings when turned off, as BGR details: 

The set itself boasts a 150000:1 contrast ratio, DCI-P3 93% color spectrum support, an extra-wide color spectrum, Dolby Atmos support, and a 120Hz refresh rate. The TV won’t come cheap and will set you back about $7,200 when it becomes available in China next week. The downside is that you probably won’t be able to pick this up outside of Asia.

Xiaomi calls the TV design itself a work of art, and from the promotional pictures we’ve seen so far, that seems to be accurate. That said, there’s no denying that the main selling point of Xiaomi’s new HDTV is its transparent display. When turned off, the HDTV appears to be nothing more than a sheet of glass. What’s more, the display can simultaneously show images while remaining transparent on other parts of the display.

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According to meteorologists, the cloud isn’t really rare, we just don’t notice its appearance quite often. What looked like a long plank-shaped cloud was spotted in Birmingham, which caused the public to be curious about the odd object in the sky. The object is called an undular bore cloud, as Al details: 

An undular bore is not especially rare, but getting such a good look at one is, according to Gary Goggins, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Birmingham.

“An undular bore is basically formed when you have rising air parcels on the front end of an old outflow boundary or gust front from thunderstorms.  When the air parcels enter more stable air, that causes the air parcels to sink once again, causing the wave-like pattern at the front end of where the gust front used to be,” he said.

”It’s almost like a ripple in the water. Over time it goes out to where it’s almost like a wave on the outside part of a dissipating outflow boundary from old thunderstorms.”

This one formed from thunderstorms that rolled across north Alabama early this morning and dissipated just north of the Birmingham metro area between 6 and 7 a.m., Goggins said.

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He's just being nice. Maybe a little too nice. If you're not used to "Midwest nice," it can start to seem a little creepy. And then more creepy. With the proper soundtrack, being welcomed into the neighborhood becomes a full-blown horror story. Charlie Berens wrote and stars in this Midwest Horror Film not coming to a theater near you. Check out the many references to earlier horror classics. -via Digg