Santos is an ocelot cub living in the nursery of the Cincinnati Zoo, where she's being bottle-fed because her mother did not produce enough milk. Santos found a great friend in Blakely, the dog who helps look after zoo babies. Soon, Santos will leave the nursery and join the zoo's Cat Ambassador Program, in which well-trained (and leashed) wild cats of various species visit schools and other groups to get kids interested in wildlife. -via Time Newsfeed
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Nichelle Nichols played Nyota Uhura on Star Trek. She didn't like television work and wanted to get back to the theater. So she told the producer, Gene Roddenberry, that she planned to leave the show after the first season. He begged her to take the weekend to reconsider.
She agreed. Later, Nichols attended a fundraiser. Martin Luther King, Jr. was there. He approached her and expressed that he was a huge fan of her work. When she informed him that he planned to leave the show, King implored Nichols to stay. Lt. Uhura, King argued, wasn't a servant or some other black stereotype, but a professional and a leader.
Watch the above video as Nichols tells the story of how Martin Luther King, Jr. persuaded Uhura to remain on the Enterprise.
-via The Geek Twins
Papercraft modelers who work in offices have discovered a nearly unlimited resource sitting in the file cabinetsall around them- manila folders. These lightweight yet strong tan colored folders make for great papercraft models, as is evidenced by this amazing model of a Boeing 777 airplane created by Luca Iaconi-Stewart.
The 1:60 scale model took him over five years to build, and features working cargo doors and landing gear, full interior details including bathrooms and overhead bins, and meticulously detailed thrusters that look like they might roar to life at any moment.
Not only has Luca paid attention to every little detail you can imagine, he’s posted an exhaustive amount of process photos and showoff videos so we can all bask in the glory of his mighty manila model plane.
Via io9
There was oleic acid in my breakfast! Should I rush to the hospital?
Probably not. Graphic designer and chemistry teacher James Kennedy warns against what he calls "chemophobia"--the fear of harmless if not beneficial chemicals. A lot of the ingredients in completely natural, healthy foods sound frightening.
Kennedy created ingredient lists for several other foods, including passion fruit, blueberries and chicken eggs. You can view them here.
-via Marginal Revolution
Photographer Jeremy Cowart did a photo shoot of the cast of the TV series The Haves and Have Nots. One of the stars of the Oprah Winfrey Network show is John Schneider, who you remember from The Dukes of Hazzard. After a pleasant session shooting all the cast members, Schneider asked if Cowart could do a few additional pictures. I don't want to give the story away, but it's short and touching and well worth reading at Cowert's blog. -via Metafilter
(Image credit: Jeremy Cowert)
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In Litchfield National Park near Batchelor, Northern Territory, Australia, you can find two unusual species of termites. Amitermes meridionalis and Amitermes laurensis colonies build their mounds in elongated wedge-shaped forms. Usually these mounds are aligned along a magnetic north-south axis.
Why? To find out, one researcher nudged a few with his off-road vehicle. This tilted the mound out of alignment. The interior temperature of mound rose significantly.
So by building their mounds on a north-south axis, the termites increased the amount of surface area directly exposed to the sunlight as the sun travels from east to west across the sky and thus increased the rate of heat loss. Aligning their construction in this fashion keeps their mounds cooler.
-via Amusing Planet
Two middle school basketball teams faced off against each other. The score was tied. In the final few seconds of the game, eighth grader Easton Gamoke hurls the ball the full length of the court. While it is in flight, the buzzer rings. The ball neatly slides through the net. The Winona Running Rebels of Winona, Minnesota are victorious.
It was an amazing shot and attracts a lot of local press attention. The next day, a reporter asks Easton to demonstrate how he made the winning throw. He obliges and nails a full court basket again.
-via 22 Words
(Whisper of the Pines by Serkan Çetinkol--Turkey)
(Way to Heaven by Dmitriy Parshin--Russia)
I've just discovered a medium of art previously unknown to me: aquascaping. That's landscaping inside aquariums. It's a highly competitive field. The International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest is an annual event where you can see the finest examples of aquascaping. The Grand Prize winner gets ¥1,000,000. That's about $9,560.
Some participants try to duplicate terrestrial environments--even deserts--under the sea. Others make full use of the water to create elaborate, delicate forms out of living plants. You can view more examples at Colossal.
Recently we showed you what life was like inside Brooklyn apartments circa 1978, and now thanks to the Museum of the City of New York you can see what life was like all over the Big Apple during the 70s and 80s by perusing the 1200 historical photos taken by Edmund V. Gillon which they recently added to their collection.
The images capture everyday moments, structures that are probably long gone by now, and give an overall feel of life in NYC from a street photographer's point of view. Whether you love the city so nice they named it twice, love vintage photography or dig old school style do your eyeballs a favor and check out these cool pics!
Via Gothamist
Dr. Jim Withers goes out on the streets of Pittsburgh at night to serve the medical needs of homeless people. He's been doing it for 22 years now. Other people joined him, which led to the organization of Operation Safety Net. The program became a model for similar outreach programs in other cities. In this video, Dr. Withers explains how he began his mission. -via Viral Viral Videos
A 6-second vine video is the perfect place to show off some complicated special effects without the magic getting lost in exposition. When you put a lot of those great 6-second videos together, it's a non-stop barrage of delight that doesn't have to hang together or make sense. That's fine with me!
Film student Zach King (previously at Neatorama) has been having a lot of fun making short clips at Vine to blow your mind with one "magic" effect in each. Here's a compiliation of them to make it easy for you to enjoy. -via Daily Picks and Flicks
It's a tradition for the outgoing governor of Virginia to leave some surprises behind to prank the incoming governor in Virginia. Terry McAuliffe was recently sworn in, and outgoing Virginia governor Bob McDonnell left the executive mansion in fine shape for the new residents. In addition to an alarm clock hidden in a desk drawer that woke Mrs. McAuliffe, this stuffed bear was in the bathroom, which no doubt caused a second of panic. -via Buzzfeed
(Image credit: Joe St. George)
Aren't these little beauties adorable? They look just like Cabbage Patch Kids! Well, to be honest, the real babies are much cuter than the toys, but their yarn hats that resemble wigs go a long way toward making them into little dolls. It works best if your child is chubby-cheeked already. The patterns for these knit and/or crochet caps come from several sources, which you can find at Diply.
And twenty years from now, after they get over the humiliation, these kids will post the pictures on the internet where everyone will laugh and pass them around until they are viral all over again. -via Geeks Are Sexy
The last time we checked in on the MUSA underwater art museum, it was under construction. The concrete sculptures were set eight meters under water to act as a natural reef and to draw divers away from the delicate natural reefs nearby.
Mike Powell and Jürgen Horn, who are living in Yucatán for 91 Days, took the opportunity to explore the Museo Subacuático de Arte off the coast of Isla Mujeres in Mexico, now finished and open to scuba divers. As you can see, organisms, including coral, are beginning to grow on the statues, just as planned. You can see more pictures plus videos of the MUSA dive and another to Manchones Reef at Yucatán for 91 Days.
Three guys by the name of Josh, Mikey and Joel created this massive papercraft ghost ship in only five days using nothing but cardboard and hot glue, with pictures shared via Reddit by a guy with the unfortunate name of PooPatrol, and the whole thing looks so good bands of pirates are lining up to take this thing for a trip around the bay!
The best part of this gigantic cardboard model is the figurehead, which is in the shape of a screaming female spectre who looks ready to reap the souls of any pirates brave enough to attempt a raid on this hauntingly beautiful ship.
Via DesignTAXI
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