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Have you ever wished that reality was much simpler like video games, where you could respawn when you die? Where money is never a problem? And where difficulty could be adjusted anytime? But have you ever wondered what it would actually look like?
Cracked shares to us, in pictures, what reality would look like if it operated on video game logic, and if reality was reality like this, it “would be baffling on multiple levels.”
Check out more pictures over at the site.
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The Dating Game was a Chuck Barris game show that began in 1965 and ran in various versions up through 1999. Like The Newlywed Game, it owed its popularity to sexual innuendo that produced giggles at the time, but just seems creepy now. Adding to the cringe factor is the fact that a convicted sex offender on parole managed to become a contestant. And he later turned out to be a prolific serial killer.
The man born as Rodney James Alcala is maybe not as well known as some of the more notorious serial killers such as Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, but he is certainly just as bad. Throughout the course of his grim killing spree he would ruthlessly rape, torture, and murder at least seven young women in California and New York under the guise of being a professional photographer, quite possibly dozens more. He was known as being particularly sadistic in his killings, often strangling a woman until she passed out, reviving her, and then starting the process over again, until she was dead. He was a cold hearted monster, but by all accounts a very personable and charming fellow to those who had no idea of his secret life, and this is probably best illustrated by the time he turned up on an episode of The Dating Game.
Alcala appeared on The Dating Game in 1978 as one of three bachelors to compete for a date with a young woman named Cheryl Bradshaw. Alcala won that competition. Read about Rodney Alcala and his TV victory at Mysterious Universe. See clips from the show here. -via Strange Company
Before Serena Williams, before Althea Gibson, there was Ora Washington, an athlete you probably have never heard of. Born around the turn of the 20th century, Washington worked as a maid in Philadelphia. She honed her tennis skills at the Germantown YWCA in Philadelphia, a facility reserved for Black residents, and played in the American Tennis Association (ATA), which was also the result of segregation.
Washington’s natural athleticism was apparent from the beginning of her training at the Y. In 1925, her second year of tournament play, she captured the women’s doubles title at the ATA nationals. She went on to win eight singles championships, 12 consecutive doubles titles and three mixed doubles titles.
But the forces of segregation that provided Washington the opportunity to become the first Black female sports star also precluded her from becoming one in American society as a whole. The all-Black ATA formed in 1916 because the United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA) — which would eventually become the USTA — refused to allow Black athletes to play. Helen Willis Moody, the leading USTA female athlete in the ’20s and ’30s, never played Washington, says Carrington, even though the leading white male player of the era, Grand Slam winner Don Budge, played Jimmie McDaniel, the reigning ATA champ, in a historic match in July 1940.
But that's just tennis. Washington played professional basketball in the off season, starting in 1930, and eventually made the Basketball Hall of Fame. Read about the life of two-sport star Ora Washington at Ozy.
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I can’t believe this actually worked and yes this is a real story pic.twitter.com/X5KbBl0qIe
— Jeremy Cohen (@jerm_cohen) March 22, 2020
Jeremy Cohen, a New York City photographer, spotted a woman dancing on a rooftop across the street. He sent a message to her by drone, with his phone number. She texted him! Then he and Tori had a video chat, and he set up a date. For dinner. On separate rooftops. They had identical food and watched each other from their respective buildings. You can read the entire story at Bored Panda.
But wait! That's not the entire story, because since that account was published, Jeremy and Tori met in person, up close and almost personal. You can see a video of that over-the-top yet safe encounter here. What are the odds that this story will be a Hallmark movie before it's all over? -via Fark
One of the most iconic streets in the world just got a little makeover.
London's iconic Abbey Road, which is normally a tourist magnet thanks to its appearance on the Beatles album cover of the same name, is now empty as locals hunker down inside.
That has provided a rare opportunity for municipal employees in the UK capital to give the famous crossing a new coat of paint.
Stay home, stay safe, and let public works step in and beautify the place appears to be the new UK motto. Thank you municipal employees for brightening our day with a little paint.
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Andrew Cotter posted a video of his dogs racing to eat their food on Twitter. The video was livelier thanks to the sports announcer’s colorful commentary as he films his dogs. Cotter made his dogs eating food seem like a real sports game!
I was bored. pic.twitter.com/bVoC0hyNzC
— Andrew Cotter (@MrAndrewCotter) March 27, 2020
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A restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina, is allegedly selling $2 frozen pizzas for $18. Coquin also advertises the pizza as “gourmet Roman-style thin crust pizza, with house made marinara sauce and whole milk mozzarella.” The restaurant sells two variants of “gourmet pizzas”: a cheese pie for $18, and a pizza with toppings for $20. InsideHook has more details:
Chef and owner Chip Grimalda told the paper that the restaurant has sold about 20 pizzas a day. “Everyone who’s ordered it has given us rave reviews,” he said. “Right now, we’re still getting (the needed) ingredients in: That may change in the future, but we’re just trying to, you know, make it through to the next week.”
However, The Post and Courier reports having witnessed Grimalda receive a pizza order on Tuesday, “go from the restaurant to his nearby apartment, then leave on a delivery run with corrugated cardboard boxes that read, ‘Fresh Pizza, Oven Baked.’” The publication also found four-pack boxes of Kirkland Signature Cheese Pizza with Breadcrumb Crusts inside the restaurant’s trash cans.
When asked if he was passing off frozen pizzas as homemade and selling them for marked-up prices, Grimalda said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s definitely not Costco, and that’s all I have to say.”
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Bruce Willis crashes into a house as Doraemon in a new SoftBank ad. The actor doesn’t look like the famous character in the commercial at all. He wasn’t wearing a proper Doraemon costume, he just had a blue hoodie and white t-shirt on. In the ad, the company proposes that 5G is another secret weapon Doraemon can use, along with the Anywhere Door and 4D Pocket. While Bruce Willis doesn’t resemble Doraemon, it’s still funny to watch him crash through a house as Doraemon for a commercial.
If you’re bored and have nothing else to do, try to pass time with adult coloring books! One hundred museums and libraries worldwide provided free coloring pages for download. This is thanks to the New York Academy of Medicine’s #ColorOurCollections initiative. You can choose from hundreds of coloring pages at colormycollections.org, as Book Riot details:
Each winter, the NYAM holds a week-long online festival where museums, libraries, and other institutions provide black-and-white downloadable PDFs for coloring and education. This year, the event ran from February 3–7. There were over 100 participating institutions, although you can still download coloring pages from past years’ participants.
Some of this year’s participants include Memoria Chilena (Chile), Kansai University Open Research Center for Asian Studies (Japan), the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg (USA), Trinity Hall at Cambridge University (UK), and Bibliothèque nationale de France (France).
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We know that washing our hands is the most powerful thing an individual can do to prevent the spread of pathogens. But it wasn't always that way. Up until close to the end of the 19th century, doctors went from patient to patient without washing their hands. Doctors were from the educated class, and therefore already cleaner than the patients they treated, and they had no reason to think otherwise.
Swimming against the tide, the first advocate of hand-washing, Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis [...] suffered the fate of many a pioneer—he was jeered at, ignored, and, finally, committed to an asylum at age 47, where he died, in a tragic irony, of sepsis in 1865. Before this end, however, Semmelweis, an obstetrician, took a systematic approach to the problem of “childbed fever,” trying to eliminate all of the possible reasons women died at far higher rates when doctors delivered their babies instead of midwives.
In 1848, he hypothesized that doctors, often attending births immediately after conducting autopsies, were transmitting “cadaverous particles” on their hands. Semmelweis had them sterilize their hands and instruments with chlorine, and deaths from childbed fever fell to 1% of cases. But the experiment did not produce a revolution. Semmelweis couldn’t explain his findings, and Miasma theory continued to hold sway, in part, because it did not implicate doctors or others from the higher orders of society in the spread of disease.
Semmelweis was right, but it was decades before doctors started to wash their hands regularly, and even longer before the idea caught on with the general public. Read how that happened at Flashbak. -Thanks, WTM!
Edna follows a routine when she goes to doggy day care. She plays hard, finds the fluffiest dog at daycare that day, and then uses them as a pillow. Edna does need all the rest after playing in her first three to four hours in daycare! Edna snuggles any fluffy dog, regardless of size, even tiny wiener dogs, as The Dodo detailed:
As soon as she decides it’s naptime, Edna finds the fluffiest dog at day care that day …
… and uses them as her napping spot. “All the dogs seem to enjoy the snuggling company,” Brianna Gottfried, one of Edna’s family members, told The Dodo. “Even the tiny wiener dogs.”
When she was a puppy, it was definitely easier to use other dogs to take naps …
When it’s finally time to go at the end of the day, Edna is usually still fast asleep on one of her friends, and it takes some effort to wake her up and get her home again.
“When it’s time to go home I always have to peel her off of another dog,” Gottfried said.
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Are these genome sequences? Paint swatches? Part of the fun is figuring out what this puzzle is in the first place -and then figuring out the answers in the second place. Give it a try on your own. I must confess I was clueless when I first scanned this, until I saw the last one. Then it all became clear.
When you have exhausted all possibilities by guess, you can go here and click on the spoiler bars to get answers. If you still haven't figured out what the puzzle is about, just click on one of them to get started. -via reddit
Did you know that we see colors the way they are because surfaces only allow a certain light to be reflected?
A butterfly's wing, for example, might appear blue because tiny grooves in the surface of the wing cause only blue light to be reflected.
But for colors black and white, this does not seem to be the case. If you see one of these two colors, then it’s most likely that the surface of the object you’re looking for has very disordered nanoscale structures which cause light to either be absorbed or reflected, which thus makes the object appear black or white.
A team of researchers led by the University of Birmingham has now found a way to control the way light passes through these disordered surfaces to produce vivid colours.
The team, which includes colleagues in Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, and Nanjing University in China, has compared the method to techniques that artists have exploited for centuries. Among the most famous examples of this is the fourth-century Roman Lycurgus cup, made from glass that appears green when light shines on it from the front, but red when light shines through it from behind.
More details about this over at PHYS.org.
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