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No Kisses

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This dog does not want any kisses from his man, and he goes to great lengths to make that perfectly clear. Maybe he has bad breath! The same guy, YouTube member inosemarine, has a great collection of videos showing this amazing dog doing extraordinary things, like calligraphy, wrestling, and even saving his master's life. -via Hypervocal


What Are These Huge Concrete Arrows in the Desert For?

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the US Department of Commerce created an air mail route between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. These enormous arrows helped pilots stay on course. The historical society of Washington County, Utah explains:

Large concrete arrows were constructed on the ground along the way as visual navigational aids for the planes flying the mail route. There were built at intervals of approximately 10 miles and were about 70 feet long. Typically, there was a 51-foot beacon tower in the middle of the arrow topped with a powerful rotating beacon light. Below the rotating light were two course lights pointing forward and backward along the arrow. The course lights flashed a code to identify the beacon's number. A generator shed, where required, stood at the "feather" end of the arrow. 

Link -via TYWKIWDBI

(Photo: Washington County Historical Society)


Who's Been Stealing the Paper from the Printer?

Students in a music class were perplexed as to who has been stealing their sheet music from the printer, so they set up a sting of sorts. Find out who the culprit turned out to be: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Mike!


Waffle Taco Filled with Soft Serve Ice Cream

The brilliant and aptly named redditor ILikeWhereThisIsGoin works at a Dairy Queen. Two days ago, he made history by pouring modified soft serve ice cream into a reshaped waffle cone and adding chocolate syrup.

I'd go to my local Dairy Queen and ask them to make me one, but I'm boycotting it until they get soft serve ice cream dispensers that I can fit my head under. That's just basic customer service.

Link -via Foodbeast


Night Diving with Manta Rays

Marine biologist and cinematographer Craig Musberger takes us on a fantastic journey few have gone before: night diving with manta rays. From UnderH2O by PBS Digital Studios:

Manta rays are one of nature's most graceful and eerie animals. In Episode 2 of UnderH2O, we go underwater off the Kona Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii -- in the dark of night -- to film these enormous creatures. When conditions are right, manta rays flock to this special area in search of giant mouthfuls of plankton which they scoop up as they spin and loop around the divers.

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Caroline!

After the jump, watch When A Volcano Erupts Underwater, also by UnderH2O:

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The Glowering Red Eye of A Saturn Hurricane

This picture, taken by the Cassini space probe, is a storm raging on Saturn's north pole. The swirling hurricane is 2000 kilometers (1200 miles) across! It's not really red; but false color gives us a better look at what's going on. Read more about the storm at Bad Astronomy. Link

(Image credit: NASA)


ISS Hit by Space Rock

The Universe has just sent humankind a warning shot: Earlier today, International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield tweeted an image of a hole in the ISS solar array. Hadfield called it "bullet hole - a small stone from the universe went through our solar array. Glad it missed the hull."

Next time, raise the shields, Commander Hadfield! Link


Full Moon Silhouettes

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Mark Gee shot a full moon rising over Wellington, New Zealand, from about 2k away from Mount Victoria Lookout, so he could get the silhouettes of the people who had climbed the mountains for a great view. -via Metafilter


Meet Maedir Eugster, Balance Master

Meet Maedir Eugster, a 58-year-old "balance master" of Rigolo Swiss Nouveau Cirque who can balance anything - and by anything, we mean a feather and 15 palm frond spines on top of one another until they become a giant kinetic sculpture unlike anything you've seen before.

View BALANCE, as directed by Tobias Hutzler: Hit play or go to Link [Vimeo] - via Co.DESIGN


Paintings of Walmart

Some artists paint still lifes, landscapes or nudes. Brendan O'Connell, however, paints the interiors of Walmart stores:
Works such as "Deli and Shampoo" capture Walmart shoppers in their natural habitat. In a few decades, such scenes may no longer be part of everyday life, O'Connell says -- just look at how quickly the bookstore is fading into nonexistence.
Early on, O'Connell, who lives in rural Connecticut, was kicked out of many stores. A man taking pictures of shoppers and bottles of mayonnaise seemed odd. Eventually store managers came to accept his research methods (positive press didn't hurt) and welcomed him back, sometimes even supplying a forklift for panoramic shots. The company also bought a painting he made of the original Wal-Mart store. Now fans can submit their own photos on Twitter and Facebook for a project O'Connell calls Everyday Walart. Any would-be muse whose photo inspires a painting receives a free, signed print of the work.

Gallery and News Story -via Weird Universe


The Root Cause of Men's Shame: Women

Why don't men talk about their feelings? Brené Brown, research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work and author of Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, knows the answer: it's all about how men and women deal with shame.

The surprising thing, as Brown found out in her research, is that men's shame is actually not primarily inflicted by other men. Rather, it is the women in their lives:

... for men, the overarching message is that any weakness is shameful. And since vulnerability is often perceived as weakness, it is especially risky for men to practice vulnerability.

What Brown also discovered in the course of her research is that, contrary to her early assumptions, men's shame is not primarily inflicted by other men. Instead, it is the women in their lives who tend to be repelled when men show the chinks in their armor.

"Most women pledge allegiance to this idea that women can explore their emotions, break down, fall apart—and it's healthy," Brown said. "But guys are not allowed to fall apart." Ironically, she explained, men are often pressured to open up and talk about their feelings, and they are criticized for being emotionally walled-off; but if they get too real, they are met with revulsion.

Andy Hinds of The Atlantic has the post: Link


Baboon Infestation

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The neighbor's house was locked, but a troop of baboons didn't care because they just went in through the upstairs windows. Howard Fyvie and his friends in Betty's Bay, South Africa, called police and got access to the house when the owner could not be reached. It doesn't take long for this many baboons to do a lot of damage! -via Arbroath  


Tattooed Eyelids

This man's eyes are closed in this picture. His eyelids are tattooed with images of eyes. Since he had it done, he's never lost a staring contest. He could sleep through a sermon or lecture and no one would ever know, but waking up next to him might be startling. Can you imagine his open casket funeral? There's got to be other parts of life that would be totally different for someone with this particular body art. Link


5 Animals That Take Public Transportation

In 2008, a wild coyote boarded a train at the airport of Portland, Oregon and took a seat:

[...] but wildlife specialists removed and released it before the train took off.

Even so, the sneaky interloper is forever immortalized in a song: Sleater-Kinney's "Light-Rail Coyote."

It was one of five animals known to have used public transit to get around, including a pigeon, a goat, a cat and a monkey. You can read about them at the link.

Link -via Marilyn Terrell | Photo: Dennis Maxwell, Port of Portland/AP


The Wheelharp

The wheelharp is a fairly new musical instrument that produces the rich sounds of stringed instruments. A keyboard controls 61 bowed strings, so one musician can sound like an orchestra- or at least the string section. The wheelharp was inspired by the hurdy-gurdy, and comes in two models: the radial model you see here, and one with a more conventional flat keyboard attached to the wheel. You can hear several sections of music played on the wheelharp at Antiquity Music. Link -via Metafilter


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