It's that time of year! Time to announce the 11th annual Minnesota State High School All Hockey Hair Team. The YouTuber known as Game On! Minnesota considered retiring from making the list, but the hair pulled him back in. Minnesota high school hockey players had worked too hard on their flow. There were ramen noodles, dirty mullets, and many teenage attempts at mustaches, and the top ten players have truly magnificent salad. We also get a look at some spectators and coaches with notable hair.     

See the Minnesota State High School All Hockey Hair Team from previous years.

please tell me about an extremely niche section of twitter that you never knew existed until you made them angry. one time i made Feed Swans Bread Twitter angry after i suggested food alternatives. FOR MONTHS I got angry tweets, until I finally deleted it. YOUR TURN.

— Elizabeth May (@_ElizabethMay) March 6, 2020

There are hundreds of millions of Twitter users, so you know that whatever you say, someone somewhere will have a problem with it. And they will find you and make your life miserable. Elizabeth May asked for stories of obscure Twitter communities that people have discovered by offending them. Her example confused me, because I tried to recall if I was familiar with Swan's brand bread. It turns out there are people who have strong opinions both for and against tossing leftover bread to waterfowl. Metafilter has a sampling of the best responses to May's query.

Elle Maruska: "Outdoor Cat Twitter has been more violently aggressive in my mentions than Literal Nazi Twitter tbh"

Charlotte Grubbs: "The most vitriolic replies I ever got were in response to a tweet about how it's fine for adults to read children's books."

Dr Philip Lee: "Oh there was one time, there is a subset of people who don't believe in the legitimacy of the French Government, because they believe the revolution was illegal, and they still have a pretender to the crown of France and everything."

Gretchen: "I found out Bee Movie Twitter exists by once randomly tweeting that the Bee Movie is nonsensical since all worker bees are female. Furious responses for days"

Kelsey Lewis: "I tweeted some joke once about how the new guy at work was always leaving the office toilet seat up. And wouldn’t ya know there are a handful of people who use Twitter dot com as a platform to tell the world that actually women should be putting the seat UP for men."

Not sure if the original thread is online but I found a screenshot I took pic.twitter.com/l4DW6ACwES

— Byron C Clark 🍠 (@byroncclark) March 8, 2020

While I do not doubt that some people actually have strong feelings about these subjects, you have to wonder about the people who scan Twitter looking for something, anything, to argue about, or are else ready to tell you are doing it wrong. You can read a collection of the best responses at Metafilter, or peruse the entire thread at Twitter.

Being a photographer is a difficult job. You’d have to go to uncomfortable places and shoot at inconvenient angles just to capture the perfect shot. This was the same experience that the brothers Pierre and Granville Pullis had when Pierre was tasked to document the building of the first underground transit line in New York City.

Along with his slightly younger brother, Granville, Pierre took tens of thousands of photographs of stations, equipment, construction sites, and the people who built the stations, as well as the pedestrians who would eventually wedge themselves onto the trains.

See the photos and know more about their story over at Atlas Obscura.

(Image Credit: Granville W. Pullis/ Lundin Collection/ Courtesy New York Transit Museum/ Atlas Obscura)

Caffeine is popularly known to enhance creativity. It seems that this claim is not true, however, according to this new study. But while it may not enhance creativity, it significantly enhances our problem-solving skills.

This is news, given how strongly we associate coffee with creative occupations and lifestyles. The study, published today in Consciousness and Cognition, followed 80 participants after they consumed either a placebo or 200 mg of caffeine—the equivalent of 12 ounces of coffee—and then tracked their problem-solving, creative idea generation, working memory, and mood. While problem-solving abilities improved significantly, the caffeine had no effect on memory or creativity. Subjects also reported feeling “less sad.”

So I guess, at the end of the day, drinking coffee is still good, but not in the way we think it is.

(Image Credit: Pexels/ Pixabay)

On his laugh reveal, Italian YouTuber Davie504 announced to his followers that on reaching 6 million subscribers, he will be eating pineapple pizza, which, as you may know, is something Italians really hate. True to his word, when he finally reached 6 million subs after two months, Davie does eat a pineapple pizza.

How did he find it? And why do Italians hate pineapple pizza, by the way?

Watch the video to learn the answers.

(Video Credit: Davie504/ YouTube)

When Tracey McNamara was a veterinarian at the Bronx Zoo, she was part of the team that discovered West Nile Virus. Later, she was tapped as a science advisor for the 2011 movie Contagion. McNamara, now a professor and veterinary pathologist, is one of the reasons that the movie came so close to describing what the world is like today as the COVID-19 illness, caused by a coronavirus, spreads.

“The movie really rang true, and now that we’re dealing with coronavirus, it really captured when you're dealing with something unknown,” McNamara said. “Just like with the West Nile virus, you're going to hear a lot of people making all sorts of proclamations and announcements, and whenever someone says something about a brand-new, previously unknown virus, I think, You should choose your words carefully. You may have to eat them.”

The realism in Contagion is why so many people are seeking out and re-watching the movie now. Read more of what McNamara has to say at Buzzfeed.

Oh man, they sent a camera-equipped robot otter out into a river to film a colony of real otters! The otters are kind of baffled, but soon get used to the weird stranger. The BBC TV series Spy in the Wild got some really neat otter footage this way. Or, maybe I should say, "otterly neat." -via Boing Boing

This cat named Ziggy loves to sit on his owners’ laps and snuggle them. But when Alex and Rebecca (Ziggy’s owners) became busy as they transitioned to working at home, Ziggy snuggling them became a bit of a problem as they can’t be productive with Ziggy on their lap. And so, Alex created a fake lap for their cat.

They stuffed a pair of pants with pillows, positioned it on the couch with ample sitting room, and even went through the added effort of giving their lap-decoy some shoes. You know, for authenticity. But we know this isn’t enough, if all it took was a pillowtop to satisfy Ziggy then he’d already be using his cat bed and they wouldn’t have to go to these lengths.

No, the key element here is warmth — so Alex, that sneaky genius, stuck a heating pad inside the pants too.

Incredibly, it worked like a charm and all the proof you need is right here.

Somebody give this man a Nobel Prize.

(Image Credit: Rebecca May/ UNILAD)

To some extent, humanity gets predictable. Scientists and psychologists are able to study the human mind to some extent, and they can map out some aspects of one’s behaviour or response to the environment. However, it doesn’t take a psychologist to see how humanity responds to the spread of sickness. Whenever a disease or illness spreads far and wide and becomes an epidemic, there seems to be a pattern in how every human institution (media, government, public-health systems) responds to the spread of contagious diseases. The Atlantic’s Karl Taro Greenfeld states that the pattern that an epidemic follows are denial, panic, fear, and rational response: 

If you want to panic, go right ahead. It’s what we do. It’s what your ancestors did. Then be afraid. Eventually, however, roll up your sleeves and get to work, scrubbing this bug back to whatever its host species happens to be. We’ll get there. Humanity has so far survived every microbe that has jumped the species barrier, and we will survive this one.

image via The Atlantic

BMW has revealed its new logo, updating it for the first time in two decades. The company has deviated from the heavily outlined to a more transparent logo, and some people found that change weird. The new logo doesn’t really look that bad, but if spray painted on specific colors, it might not be legible, as Jalopnik detailed: 

While I don’t think it necessarily looks bad, legibility does suffer, and it all feels a bit busier than it needs to be. Even if BMW is walking back its use on actual, physical badges, I’m still not convinced it’s the solution the company needs. Having one logo for “brand communication” and another for badges feels like somebody just didn’t get the basic logo right.

OK, so back to designing. I think the flatness works, but the transparent, bordered ring and lettering doesn’t, especially without the unifying black ring. Luckily, the solution is simple and obvious: Lose the letters.

image via Jalopnik

Sora News 24 introduces us to Natsume, a cat served by Twitter user @betelgeuse331. Natsume has a special talent: booping his nose will toggle on and off the lamp that he's sitting on.

What's happening here? Either it's magic or the cat's paws are resting on a touch sensor. The nose booping is causing him to jostle the switch.

Natsume is making full use of his internet fame. He now has his own celebrity Twitter account.

Why do people attend the funerals of people they don't know? Many are there to support the grieving family members that they do know, but there are people who regularly attend funerals of complete strangers for various reasons of their own. A 19th-century undertaker pointed out one of the ""amateur mourners" to a reporter.    

“Well,” continued the undertaker, with an appreciative smile, “she’s as fine a regular attendant as any establishment in this city can produce. I send her an invitation to all my nice funerals, and I have sometimes sent a carriage for her when I knew mourners would be scarce. She is never really happy unless she is at a funeral. She won’t touch weddings, as most women will; her sole amusement, so to speak, is a first-class funeral;” and the undertaker looked over to the old lady with a tender professional interest.

“I have some other nice people on my list,” he went on. “One of my most graceful mourners live in Forty-eight street, and seldom gets down this way, but she hardly ever passes a day without a funeral, and I never saw her at one when she couldn’t’ shed tears with the best of them. She’s one of the heart-brokenest ladies I ever had for a ‘regular.’ Does she really feel badly? Well, I should say she did, most decidedly. She always has a word to say to the family, if she thinks they need comforting, and is very careful to learn all the particulars. Why, she can tell me all the details about some of my own funerals that I had forgotten years ago. She’s as good as a set of books.

This undertaker also knew of mourners who were obsessed with one particular part of the funerary rites or who wanted to get into the business, some who came for the food, and a few who were looking for a newly-available spouse. Read about amateur mourners at the Victorian Book of the Dead. -via Strange Company

Folkoperan in Stockholm, Sweden, had a great promotional idea to appeal to children, and bring them into the opera house to enjoy the musical version of Coraline. They gave out bunches of broccoli to families with an invitation to choose "broccoli or opera." Understandably, most children chose to see the opera. And they loved it! No worries, though, children often change their minds about broccoli when they grow up. -via Nag on the Lake

March Madness is here, and it's not all about basketball! The Morning News is launching their 16th annual Tournament of Books. Have you read any of the books in the tournament bracket? This weekend, the tournament opens with a play-in round to see which novel will go into the lower right corner: Golden State, Oval, or We Cast a Shadow. A different literary judge determines the winner of each matchup and gives a review of each book. See which book won that round, and check out the schedule of future rounds in the right sidebar at the tournament site. Before the tournament is over, you could have a great reading list! Keep up with the tournament here through the championship round on March 31. -via Kottke

Ever wanted to have a home garage that's like a bespoke luxury showroom? Supercar Capsule, a UAE-based architecture and design firm, is here to bring your big boy's dream to life!

tailored to meet the desires of each client with premium quality materials, every supercar capsule provides a unique aesthetic experience. powered by an italian consultancy firm ASZarchitetti group, with over 20 years of experience in the luxury retail industry, supercar capsule takes comprehensive consideration of the clients garage space and the overall form of their supercar to produce the ideal showroom solution.

the company offers four different design alternatives — villa extension, box refurbishment, detached box and mechanized tower. villa extension allows clients to install a completely new ‘box’ garage, outside of the house, and merge it to the interior of the house; box refurbishment is for those looking to remodel their existing garage space; detached box is a great way for people to display their supercar in a sculptural way, detached from the house — either on their backyard or poolside; mechanized tower builds layers on top of the detached box, as an efficient way to optimize space for more than two cars.

Photos by Supercar Capsule