Nearly 1,900 people converged in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to bunny hop their way to claim the World's Longest Bunny Hop.
During the afternoon, 1,880 people joined in Lake Geneva's second attempt to hop for five minutes straight and claim the World's Longest Bunny Hop.
Organizers are hopeful that their latest attempt will break the current record of 1,501 participants jumping together in 2002 in Detroit Lakes, Minn., according to the Guinness Book of World's Records.
Wrangler, a capuchin monkey practices riding on the back of Bo a border collie rounding up sheep as part of his act in the Pro-Rodeo being held at the Hardeeville Motor Speedway
- Made of 1,700 pounds of fine milk chocolate - Sculpted on-site in four weeks - Pond is white chocolate tinted with food coloring - Unveiled July 1, 1997
Made by Len Libby Candies: http://www.lenlibby.com/lenny.htm (via Coolhunting)
Daoheng Sun of China's Xiamen University and Liwei Lin of UC Berkeley managed to create an improved electrospinning method to create nanofibers in orderly fashion. Above, grad student Chieh Chang wrote "Cal", UC Berkeley's nickname, using the technique. Link
I built a potato battery out of 500 pounds of potatoes. It powered a small sound system. With the help of the Red 76 crew I installed the battery and sound system in the back of a U-Haul truck and drove it around town inviting people to enter the truck and take a listen.
Batteries work by allowing electrons to pass from one electrode to another. In this case the potato provides phosphoric acid, which enables a chemical reaction causing electrons flow from copper to zinc. The zinc came from galvanized nails and copper came from small pieces of copper. You don't have to use potatoes; any acidic medium such as citrus fruit will work. I chose potatoes because they are traditional and cheap.
Each potato generates about 0.5 volts and 0.2 milliamperes. I connected groups of potatoes together in series to increase voltage and then connected these groups together in parallel to increase amperage. The entire 500 lb battery generated around 5 volts and 4 milliamperes.
Don't eat potatoes after using them for a battery.
Gaumard Scientific Co.'s $20,000 "pregnant" robot is used to train doctors and nurses deal with complications of pregnancy:
The full-sized, blond, pale mannequin is in demand because medicine is rapidly abandoning centuries-old training methods that use patients as guinea pigs, turning instead to high-tech simulations. It's better to make a mistake on a $20,000 robot
than a live patient. ...
She can be programmed for a variety of complications and for cervix dilation. She can labor for hours and produce a breach baby or unexpectedly give birth in a matter of minutes.
She ultimately delivers a plastic doll that can change colors, from a healthy pink glow to the deadly blue of oxygen deficiency. The baby mannequin is wired to flash vital signs when hooked up to monitors.
This particular one comes from Kevin Kelley's Asia Grace photo set, titled Dye Store, India.
From the website:
These colors are sold before the festival of colors "Holi". This festival marks the beginning of spring (mostly celebrated in March). People color each other with colored water and dry colors. The festival is marked by revelry, drum beating and crowds of people roaming a round the streets to color any unsuspecting individual. The festival is celebrated with great enthusiasm all over India.
As a young girl, Sukulen began having dizzy spells and hearing voices. She said she was very frightened and thought she was getting ill. Her grandmother assured her that she was healthy and was, in fact, very gifted. Sukulen is now a highly respected “predictor” in her tribe. Two months before I arrived, she had told several people in her village that I was coming, and had described in detail my appearance and the equipment I was using.
See more of Phil's amazing photos (don't miss the Tibetan Portrait!): Link
[Tony Robbin] was a founder of Pattern Painting, showing widely in the United States and Europe with this school, and committed, as were his colleagues, to the lyric fusion of color and the intellectual understanding of the symmetries of pattern, as in the vast tradition of Oriental arts. ...
... Robbin began to think more about his paintings as four dimensional knot diagrams:the flowing sheets are really hyperplanes that have not only thickness but an internal structure as well. The hyperplanes braid in ways that are impossible in three dimensions but are the natural consequences of projecting higher-dimensional structures into lower dimensional spaces.
