Pet cats are already troublesome enough when they are indoors. But pet cats who are able to roam outside cause much more trouble, both to their owners, and to the animals in the neighborhood. It is said in a recent study that pet cats kill 390 million animals annually, and this number is just for Australia alone. In other words, they are a risk for native wildlife.

With this in mind, it is suggested that cats should always be kept inside homes. But of course, cat owners should put in the effort to keep cats entertained so that it doesn’t see the need to go outside. The Conversation lists some tips on how to keep a cat happy indoors. See them over at the site. For now, here are some of them.

• cats have a higher thermoneutral temperature than dogs and people, so they seek out warm places. Place some baskets in the sun, or a basket in front of the heater

• cats like windows so they can check out what’s happening outside. Have stands located so they can look out

What are your thoughts about this one?

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For gamers new to survival horror, games like Resident Evil 3 would come up as really spooky. Aside from the dark streets and sewers of Raccoon City which are filled with countless zombies and other monsters, the player is also occasionally chased around by a monster known as Nemesis.

But if you want to decrease the horror factor in one’s gameplay experience, one could apply mods to his copy of the game in order to make the game less scary. Check out this mod which replaces Nemesis with Shrek.

The mod could be downloaded via the link in the video’s description.

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South Carolina — Six-year-old Knox Brewer loves to go magnet fishing with his parents Jonathan and Catherine. The boy and his parents do this to help pass the time. On Mother’s Day, however, as Knox cast out his magnet fishing line at the Whitney Lake, his magnet attracted something big and heavy. A nearby stranger helped Knox fish out the thing he just caught, which turned out to be a locked metal safe.

The safe contained items including jewelry, a notebook and a checkbook.

The Brewers contacted police and soon discovered the safe had been stolen from a neighbor's home eight years earlier.

"She got some missing charm bracelet pieces that were still left in there," Catherine Brewer said. "She said all the expensive stuff was gone, but at least she got closure and some of her pieces back."

Good job, kid!

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Lysol kills germs. It would seem that there are hundreds of ways to use a cleaning product that kills germs, but early in its history, Lysol manufacturers worked hard to get women to use it as a douche, mainly by preying on their fears of displeasing their husbands. The very thought makes us cringe. Gynecologists now tell us that a woman's reproductive tract is self-cleaning, and douching with even plain water is not recommended. But advertising is powerful, and women can be rather susceptible to guilt trips.  

Unfortunately, by 1911 there were 193 Lysol reported poisonings and 5 deaths due to “uterine irrigation”. However, the disinfectant companies knew they were still backing a winner and the aggressive advertisement of Lysol as a “gentle and trustworthy” feminine aid continued.

Why with the threat of injury and death was the product still so vehemently loved by women? Well, first of all, the tragic tale of those affected were covered up, and secondly, perhaps even more important than “feminine daintiness”, the biggest reason thousands turned to such an extreme method of downstairs maintenance was contraception.

See, birth control for women was illegal at the time, and advertisers knew which words could be used to spread the idea that Lysol was the answer. Read how that worked at Messy Nessy Chic.

Even though Minecraft was released eleven years ago, its popularity hasn’t dwindled. Minecraft has reached 200 million sales, with 126 million people playing the game monthly. The interest in the iconic game surged due to the pandemic, as The Verge detailed: 

Minecraft saw a 25 percent increase in new players last month and a 40 percent spike in multiplayer sessions.

Minecraft sales previously topped 100 million back in 2016, and the game hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down. A surge in interest from YouTubers and nostalgia-induced playing saw Minecraft remain king of YouTube viewership stats last year.

Microsoft acquired Minecraft maker Mojang nearly six years ago for $2.5 billion, and at the time, it had sold more than 50 million copies across PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and other platforms. It was a smart purchase by Microsoft, and the incredible sales growth and momentum ever since has kept players returning to the game for years.

Minecraft started off life as a bedroom project, distributed initially as a Java applet on a web forum. The game quickly captured the imagination of thousands of gamers who loved the indie game’s concept of allowing players to shape an environment by crafting and building constructions out of blocks. It has spawned a giant community that creates replica objects and YouTube tips on how to play Minecraft that are regularly shared with millions of viewers.

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Many of us now probably just spend days talking with friends or with our colleagues via video calls, and then spend nights watching random videos on YouTube. As a result, we wake up deprived of sleep, which causes many undesirable effects on our body. With this in mind, YouTube launches their new bedtime reminder feature, which will remind you that it’s time to go to sleep.

To set this reminder on an Android (starting today) or an iPhone (in a few days), just go to settings and turn on “remind me when it’s time for bed.” Then, you pick a start time and end time. You also choose if you want it to interrupt the video you’re watching or wait until it ends. And like the real-life alarm clock that bookends your day, you can snooze the reminder for 10 minutes.

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Sudoku is a tricky puzzle, and that’s a fact. As a number should not be repeated on the same column, row, or the 3 x 3 subgrid that it belongs to, this game really will make you think hard about where to place the numbers. Thankfully, there are other numbers present in the grid that will help you solve the 9 x 9 number puzzle.

Sudoku is already a hard game on its own, but what happens when you make it harder by giving players new rules along with the normal rules and giving fewer numbers. Mitchell Lee does just that in his sudoku puzzle named “The Miracle”.

With only two numbers present in the field, and with new rules that constrict the player’s movements, is this puzzle still solvable by a human being? You might be surprised that it still is. Watch as Simon Anthony surprisingly solves Lee’s puzzle in under 25 minutes.

Via Vice.com

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Illustrator Ed Harrington gives us IKEA-style instructions for building or conjuring movie monsters, specters, and villains! They include a list of parts and tools needed, although you probably won't get them all in a kit. Some include a warning that will be understood by anyone who has seen the movie.



See 26 of these horror (and not-so-horror) movie icons in a gallery at Bored Panda, and with his other artworks at Instagram.

Some of Harrington's designs are available at the NeatoShop!

Let's take a short trip back in a time machine, to 1987. Do you remember where you were or what you were doing? It will be easy while you're listening to fifty songs from that year, mixed down to three minutes by The Hood Internet (previously). You might want to clear some room for dancing.

When somebody advised Glenn Embrey to post pictures with filters (as this will make him more attractive to ladies) he does just that. He literally posted pictures of him with various filters in his hand. Now if the ladies still won’t find him more attractive, then I don't know what will.

See his pictures over at Bored Panda.

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When it comes to choosing from classical and jazz music, rats overwhelmingly prefer classical over jazz (but they preferred quiet the most). The question is, can you change their preference? This controversial 2011 study suggests that you can. How? By introducing these rodents to drugs.

These are the results of a controversial 2011 study by Albany Medical College, in which scientists exposed 36 rats to ‘Für Elise’ by Beethoven and ‘Four’, a brassy jazz standard by Miles Davis. The rats overwhelmingly preferred Beethoven to Davis, but they liked silence best of all.

In the second part of the experiment, the rats were given cocaine and played Miles Davis over a period of a few days. After that, the rodents preferred the jazz even after the drug was out of their system.

The said study was met with criticism months after it was published, with some saying that the study was wasteful.

More details about this study over Classic FM.

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If you ever feel tired of the countless complaints made by your employees, then consider putting up this sign and see if the number of complaints decreases in the upcoming days, as this sign shows how friendly you are as a boss. After all, there’s no harm in having your employees hanging around with you. It would surely be a good time.

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Isabel Green began her artistic journey by taking a class at the McDermott Glass Studio in Massachusetts. Now she's working there, studying and developing a traditional Scottish style of glass blowing. She makes little sculptures of sea animals, many of which she fills with miniature beach scenes, complete with sand and shells.

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Well, it’s about time Google. Even though it’s late to the party, the Google search app finally has a light-on-dark option. All those late night Google searches under the mercy of the light background of the app will finally cease, as Engadget details: 

Dark mode starts rolling out today and will come to more and more phones throughout the week, so if you don’t see it now, you may have to wait a few days. The feature has been part of the beta version of the app for a few months, but now it’s ready for a wider release.

When you get the update, you shouldn’t have to take any action to enable dark mode -- the app will detect a device’s display settings and follow suit -- at least if it’s running Android 10 or iOS 13. (iOS 12 users may have to turn the feature on manually.) You can turn off dark mode from within the app if it’s not to your taste. The darker interface should help create a more unified look across your smartphone’s apps, and could also be a way to ease some eye strain.

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Otters are now the subject of scientists’ curiosity. Scientists are trying to find out why these cute creatures love to juggle pebbles. Researchers at the University of Exeter studied 48 otters across three wildlife parks and zoos. It seems that the answer to the scientists’ question will continue to evade them, as Mental Floss details: 

The otters were observed lazing around on their backs, tossing pebbles around. (For an otter, “juggling” means moving a stone around their chest, hands, and mouth.) While clearly adorable, the question for scientists was whether this was a form of play or a behavior tied to something else.

It could be an expression of hunger, as the otters tended to juggle more when they hadn’t eaten for two or more hours—the otter version of banging silverware on the table. It’s also possible the otters were playing with the rocks because it mimics the effort of foraging. The Asian small-clawed otter uses dexterity to find shellfish, while the smooth-coated otter eats fish. Both were observed to juggle, however. And after being given food in containers that needed to be tampered with, it didn’t appear that the otters were using the same skills exhibited in the rock-tossing.

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