Meet Moja, A Shiba Inu so large that you’d probably mistake her for another dog breed. But before you think that she’s big because she probably eats a lot and doesn’t exercise, then let me be the first one to tell you that for seven years, she has only been eating one meal a day. But why is she so chubby?
The reason why she looks chubby is that she has hormone disorder after getting neutered. So she can't lose weight even when she's only eating very little food.
She was also born with tracheal collapse.
To prevent her from getting any bigger, the vet suggested to her hooman to feed her one healthy meal a day, and her hooman did just that.
The 12-year-old doge lives with 4 shiba sister and a cat brother.
Tyler had an app on his phone which allowed the player to splat the bugs that would appear on the screen. Upon discovering this, Luna, Tyler’s pet lizard, would then spend many hours looking intently at Tyler’s phone screen. When Tyler realized what made Luna so interested in his phone, he decided to let her play with the app to see how good she was. And oh boy, was she good at splatting these bugs!
The reptile, from Kokomo, Indiana, used its quick reactions to virtually splat nearly every bug on the screen except a small ant which managed to scurry away.
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She stares at the screen and pays close attention to the bugs which crawl across . . . it and quickly jabbing them with her tongue.
In the video, recorded in January last year, her fun is short lived as an advert pops up on the screen and interrupts her game.
Her family said they 'got a kick' out of watching their beloved pet playing on the phone.
Hopefully she had real bugs to snack on after a tiring game.
Ramen noodles are usually eaten plain in other countries. In Japan, however, rarely does this thing happen, as they usually put toppings on it.
But what do you do when the toppings currently available at home are not suitable for the pack of ramen? This was the problem that the staff from SoraNews24 faced on one fateful day.
We didn’t have an egg to crack and stir into the broth, or even some chives to chop and sprinkle into the mix. As a matter of fact, aside from a pack of Nissin-brand Chicken Ramen noodles, all we had was some shredded cheese, a couple bell peppers, and a tube of zesty tomato sauce, which really are more like the toppings for a pizza.
And so they decided to do the unthinkable: make a pizza with the noodles as the crust.
Google Search users will finally be relieved as Google put a new trick up its search engine’s sleeve which makes searching way easier than it was.
Before, a person would put a search question on Google Search, and the search engine would then search the web to find the answer that the person is asking for. In some cases, aside from pulling up a massive list of search results, Google will also provide for the user a quick summary from one of the many results, and that is known as a “featured snippet”. The user, however, still has to find the exact text when he clicks on the site with the featured snippet.
And now, when you click through to that webpage, you'll be sent to the exact part of the page the snippet was taken from, and you'll see the text from the snippet highlighted yellow...
Kozo, a tattoo artist at the Bang Bang studio in New York City, makes ink with such precision that you'd swear that you're looking at a photograph or a digital rendering. He often uses figures from pop culture, such as this condensed image of the Last Supper.
I don’t really know what it is but there’s something fascinating about recreations of anything, from real-life objects to pop culture icons. Perhaps it is the fact that while recreations can give you a sense of familiarity, it still surprises or amazes you in ways you could not have imagined.
Check out the many balloon recreations of Japanese artist Ryo Kajiyama over at Laughing Squid. You may also visit his Instagram account if you want to see more of his recreations, which range from everyday objects like staplers and wheelchairs, to famous figures like Albert Einstein, and many more!
Hertha Ayrton was multitalented mathematician and engineer who filed 26 patents, but ran up against prejudice against women scientists all her life. She married her electical engineering professor, who was in awe of her genius. William Ayrton distanced himself from Hetha's projects, lest he be given credit for what she did, yet that happened quite a few times anyway. She came up with enormously useful breakthroughs and inventions.
In 1893, Hertha took over a project from William investigating the cause of an irritating hissing noise coming from the electric arc, which powered lamps in London at the time. The lamps consisted of two carbon rods with a charge running between them that produced an arc of light in the space between the rods. Hertha was the first to figure out that this loud hissing was due to the oxidation of the carbon electrodes. If you simply enclosed the whole contraption in a bulb so that it was not exposed to open air, the hissing stopped.
Hertha’s remarkable work on the electric arc won the attention and admiration of contemporary scientists. She was the first woman invited to give a paper at the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1899 and became the first woman elected to membership of that Institution. She spoke about her findings at the International Congress of Women in London and at the Electrical Congress in Paris. Her appearances convinced the British Association for the Advancement of Science to include women on scientific committees.
But even with all this success, she still faced barriers. In 1901, her paper on the electric arc was presented to the Royal Society by a man standing in for her, since women were not allowed admission. In 1902, her name was put forth for admission to the Royal Society but was rejected by a majority of votes because, simply, they were “of the opinion that married women are not eligible as fellows of the Royal Society.”
This decision held even after, in 1906, Hertha became the first woman — and only the second woman to date — to be awarded the Hughes Medal for outstanding research in the field of energy.
Naturally, Ayrton became a suffragist, and even led Marie Curie to come out of her laboratory long enough to support the cause. Read about Hertha Ayrton at Massive Science. Curiously, the article does not say much about her fan invented to clear WWI trenches, but you can read about it here. -via Damn Interesting
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. Even a melon can become more when Japanese food artist Etoni Mama gets to work. Most recently, she crafted this delicious display of Yoda. It would have been perfect to eat for a May the Fourth party.
In 1897, Bram Stoker's novel Dracula introduced the world to the perfect villain, the terrifying vampire who defined horror monsters for more than a century -so far. Countless studies examine the various inspirations for the character of Dracula, many of them leading to Vlad the Impaler, although the historic Romanian ruler added little to the novel besides his name. Another inspiration came from Stoker's mother, whose childhood memories include a cholera outbreak in her hometown of Sligo in Ireland. The 1832 outbreak killed more than 10% of the town's population, but that wasn't the most horrifying detail. Marion McGarry of the Sligo Stoker Society explains.
McGarry says Stoker was inspired by a grisly account of that epidemic written by his mother, Charlotte Thornley, who hid from the plague in her home before she fled Sligo with her family. Thornley’s essay remained unpublished and buried in a Dublin archive until the Society studied the text and, last year, had it widely circulated.
“Bram as an adult asked his mother to write down her memories of the epidemic for him, and he supplemented this using his own historic research of Sligo’s epidemic,” says McGarry. “Scratching beneath the surface (of this essay), I found parallels with Dracula. [For instance,] Charlotte says cholera enters port towns having traveled by ship, and can travel overland as a mist—just like Dracula, who infects people with his unknown contagion.”
The strongest link McGarry found, though, was between Dracula’s liminal state—being simultaneously dead and conscious—and Thornley’s description of cholera victims who were buried alive. Stoker was morbidly fascinated by this detail. So much so that the working title for his novel was The Undead, before his publisher later changed it to Dracula.
Tucker the golden retriever is confronted with an entire roast chicken. How long can he resist taking a bite? Okay, how long can he resist a bite after he knows how it tastes? Longer than I expected. Remember this golden from an obedience challenge a few years ago. But no matter what, Tucker is a good boy. -via Digg
It's been a few years since we discussed the trend of restaurants serving food on something other than plates. Since then, restaurants have been trying to outdo each other in ridiculous methods of presenting your meal. They include a sink, the cook's hand, the diner's hand, rocks, a mousetrap, antlers, and food served right on the tablecloth. How about some broccoli served on a bed of barbed wire?
Simon De Thuillières (the appropriate pseudonym of artist Renaud Garcia), recasts the great stories of modern times with medieval tones. Although his text is written in French, it's possible for the non-French speaker to quickly see which film or television show has traveled back to the age of illuminated manuscripts.
In this case, Sylvester Stallone's character in Demolition Man is an object of ridicule because he doesn't understand how to use the three seashells instead of toilet paper.
These small birds might look bright and cheery, but they certainly pack a punch. Watch as TierZoo details on how overpowered this small bird really is. It makes me question my own dominant bird rankings. I might add parrots into the top five.
The Pure Nacional tree is an ancient cacao tree species that resides in Marañón Canyon in Northern Peru. The ancient cacao tree produces some of the world’s rarest cacao. Due to a disease that spread in the forests of Ecuador, where the tree was cultivated, experts declared the Pure Nacional tree extinct. But it seems that the tree wasn’t lost forever. Dan Pearson and his stepson Brian Horsley discovered a Pure Nacional tree in 2007, as BBC detailed:
In 2007, two Americans, Dan Pearson and his stepson Brian Horsley, were supplying gear and food to mining companies around the Marañón Canyon in northern Peru near the Ecuador border when they happened upon a strange-looking tree that had football-sized pods growing out of its trunk. Perplexed and unsure what they were looking at, Pearson and Horsley sent several samples to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to get some answers. To everyone’s amazement, the samples were confirmed to belong to the Pure Nacional tree.
Music and sound are universal methods to relax or find peace. They can be used in all sorts of ways, from podcasts, to songs, to the lo-fi beat music, and to white noise. Music and sound can be therapeutic, as they can modify our psychology and biochemistry, as The Guardian details:
“Music and sound have the ability to modify our psychology and biochemistry, influence our brainwaves and even synchronise and change physiology such as heart rate [and] breathing,” says sound therapy practitioner Nate Martinez. He works closely with sound and music to promote healing, relaxation and balance in his clients, and believes audio is “intrinsic to our human experience”.
Jennifer Buchanan, music therapist and founder of JB Music Therapy, compares music’s uplifting qualities to those of sex and food. “Humans crave pleasure from listening to music, and the positive feelings they associate with music are inextricably linked to their deepest reward centres,” she says.
And the positive effects run even deeper than dopamine.
“Groundbreaking research found that music creates pleasurable emotions that light up the mesolimbic pathway, the reward centre of the brain that gives us uplifting feelings,” says Buchanan, adding that music has also been proven to produce responses from the amygdala – the part of the brain that modulates our emotional networks. It has the capacity to trigger emotions and even reframe our mindset.
Music-based therapies and treatments, such as sound baths and meditation, have increased in popularity in recent years as people turn to the practice to try to achieve a more relaxed state. But if you’re stuck at home or otherwise unable to access a range of music therapies, how can you achieve the same outcome?
