A man from Sydney, Australia named William Williamson posted via Facebook a photo of what seemed to be a sushi-like spider sitting on his stairs. This “sparked alarm among some users who had never seen anything like it before.”
'Time to burn the house down,' one person said.
'At first glance I thought this was a piece of sushi,' another said.
The creature was identified as the Magnificent Spider. This is often found in Queensland and New South Wales. According to the Australian Museum, the spider is not harmful to humans.
A part of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Faroe Islands comprise of 18 rocky islands. Of the 18 islands, only one is left uninhabited by humans, and that is Lítla Dímun, the smallest of the Faroe Islands. Although it is uninhabited, some Faroese farmers still dare to the said island to take care of the little island’s rulers: the sheep.
These halo rings were first described in the 1960s and is now known as “grazing halos.” Now it has been investigated by Joshua and Elizabeth Madin, both ecologists and are husband and wife.The grazing halo theory says that the sea urchins and the fishes eat everything around the area. This leaves behind bare sand. But why “grazing halos”?
… these grazers are loathe to venture into the open, where they could be easily picked off by sharks, barracuda, snappers, and jacks. Their fear keeps them close to the reef, and their hunger keeps that zone free of greenery. Hence: grazing halos.
At least, that was the theory. No one had ever truly tested it, so the Madins decided to do so. As they waited for the weather to calm down, they waded through the waist-deep lagoon and sowed clumps of seaweed in various locations. Anything they placed within nine meters of a patch reef was quickly eaten; everything else was largely untouched. The grazer hypothesis was right. “We thought it would be a quick open-and-closed study,” says Madin, who is now at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. “But I fell down a rabbit hole. These halos are far more complex than we originally thought.”
Who could have made such things? The answer is not that simple.
With the dawn of the new Reiwa era coming on midnight at the 1st of May this year, the people of Japan take their time to commemorate the events that happened on the soon-to-end Heisei era, may it be personal achievements or general trends. And what more creative way to celebrate the closing era with a breath, or specifically, a can of air? This idea came from the city of Seki, Gifu prefecture.
Buyers can choose to open these cans whenever they like, so it’s up to you whether you’ll open it right when the Reiwa era starts or save it until later.
With the new procedure called abdominal etching, which uses liposuction to make a six-pack like appearance, having a six pack have never been this easy. However, this procedure won’t work on everyone. An ideal patient would be someone who has a healthy lifestyle and exercises regularly, but for some reason cannot make their fat disappear. Also, this procedure is not completely safe. Liposuction has its risks such as swelling and infection.
What do you think?
(Image Credit: American Society of Plastic Surgeons)
K-pop’s influence has spread around the globe. What started as a national sensation at South Korea now became recognized worldwide. However, the state-run media of China does not want any of that. Some Chinese also share the same sentiment, such as the Real Man Training Club founded by Tang Haiyan.
In order to fight against the influence of K-pop, he makes a call for the hinese men to be alpha males.
Tang, a former schoolteacher, founded the Real Man Training Club to combat what he and others in China see as a masculinity crisis — part of a backlash against the makeup- and earring-wearing male TV, film and pop idols who have gained immense popularity here.
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Influenced by K-pop idols in Korea, China’s boy bands and celebrities — with their delicate beauty, dyed hair and haute couture wardrobes — have a massive following among women here. But China’s state-run media condemns the young idols, calling them “sissy pants" and “fresh young meat.”
Don’t be fooled. They may look like fangs, but they are actually tusks. This is the Chinese Water Deer (or “Vampire Deer” if you want to call it this way), but despite its name it is found across Europe “and possess remarkable survival tactics that allow them to thrive in varied climates.”
When you look closely at the Chinese water or “vampire” deer, it is obvious that they are different from any other type of deer you’ve seen. The most noticeable aspect of its appearance is the two robust tusks that protrude from the edges of the Chinese water deer’s mouth followed by a relatively adorable set of teddy bear-like ears.
These unusual “fangs” have earned the water deer the nickname “vampire deer” and when combined with the soft round ears, give the deer’s otherwise cuddly appearance a goofy and somewhat intimidating look. Aside from their prominent tusks, the Chinese water deer appears harmless. But just like any other natural defense, its protruding tusks can cause serious damage against threats and other animals.
The fangs may indicate that this deer is a primitive type of the species.
The country’s space probe, Hayabusa2, has successfully made the first man-made crater on an asteroid, said Japan’s space agency last Thursday.
Hayabusa2 had shot a projectile at the Ryugu asteroid around 340 million kilometers from Earth as part of the probe's mission to explore the origin of life and the evolution of the solar system.
"The asteroid's terrain has clearly been altered," said Yuichi Tsuda, an associate professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Hayabusa2, which began its descent toward the asteroid Wednesday afternoon, captured images of its surface to determine the existence of the crater after it successfully shot a metal projectile at Ryugu on April 5 in an experiment deemed the first of its kind.
We know that males and females have minor and major differences in many aspects — attitude included. Generally, males of most species are more aggressive, while the females are less aggressive. Researchers from China, Taiwan, U.S, and U.K have found evidence that might suggest that aggressive tendencies may lead to a shorter lifespan.
Scientists have been theorizing about the reason for females of most species living longer than males for many years. Some have suggested it has something to do with the differences in hormones, others that it has to do with deleterious mutations in mtDNA passed down from mothers. But the strongest argument has been that it comes down to aggression in males—mostly due to competing for a mate. In many species, fighting for a mate results in both injuries and high stress levels.
An underground storage facility and protected by a 9-inch steel vault door, the Folger Shakespeare Library houses over 260,000 books, manuscripts, costumes, and documents that are historically significant. This library is a sanctuary for the things of the past that shaped the present day that we live in today. But, could this library have stored more than just the books and documents, but also the people behind these historically significant objects? Specifically, could this library have stored a fragment of one of the most influential figures in the history of literature — the remnant of William Shakespeare himself?
That possibility is the longest of long shots, but it’s one potential outcome of an ongoing effort at the Folger dubbed Project Dustbunny—so named because it involves analyzing human DNA and proteins harvested from dirt inside the Folger’s old books. Some microscopic bits could, in theory, have once dropped off of Western literature’s greatest genius, preserved for hundreds of years without anyone knowing they were there. So far, the results of Project Dustbunny have been much less dramatic. The experiment started in 2015, when the library asked NIH geneticist Julie Segre to test some gunk scraped out of a 400-year-old Bible in its collection. The process took almost a year, but eventually Segre was able to sequence mitochondrial and microbial DNA found in the sample. The person it belonged to was from Northern Europe, she determined, and had skin bacteria consistent with acne.
These were obviously not foundation-shaking discoveries. But while nobody much cares that a spotty European once dropped a skin flake into an old religious book, the fact that any concrete information could be extracted from centuries-old gutter dust was a revelation. “Just the answerability of some questions gets people excited,” says Folger director Michael Witmore. “It gets me excited. We don’t know everything yet. I want to always be learning that there’s more to know.”
It is a well-known fact that the Japanese love art. And we also know that they love to go the extra mile in what they do. Such is the case on this one.
A Kunsthalle (art gallery) in Munich is currently showing selected pieces from the Samurai Collection of Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller in Dallas, Texas. The selection has armors and weapons, but the most eye-catching and impressing of all are the majestic samurai helmets.
This day and age have brought much technology to us — faster Internet, smartphones, and other technological innovations. Life had not been much easier, and we take more of life today sitting down. Binge-watching and sitting down all day long are nothing new.
We are aware that anything too much is bad. Sitting down is no exception. It can lead to weak muscles, and an array of dangerous diseases. Have we become too much of a couch potato?
Americans of all ages increasingly take life sitting down, researchers found, but adolescents sit more than other groups. The study found adolescent Americans typically increased their total sitting time from seven hours to just over eight hours a day in the decade to 2016, the largest amount of time spent sedentary and the biggest jump of all the groups studied, experts said.
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Dr Yin Cao of Washington University in St Louis, the author of the study, said: “It’s very concerning when there’s such an increase in sitting time on a national level across all age groups, especially taking into consideration the health risks that come with this.”
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Such sedentary behavior is not only associated with obesity, but also related to increased risks of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and overall mortality, the authors warned.
Hopefully there is a way to avoid such dangerous consequences.
Parents are riled up with the new rule implemented by James Madison High School. The new rule was a parental dress code. The Houston Federation of Teachers President, Zeph Capo, also disagree with this rule, and stated that turning someone away because of her messed up hair is a little ridiculous.
Principal Carlotta Outley Brown wrote in a letter earlier this month to parents that they cannot enter school grounds while wearing pajamas or revealing clothing. The school is also prohibiting parents from wearing leggings, sagging pants, low-rider shorts, short dresses and low-cut tops. Women can't wear a satin cap, hair curlers, shower cap or bonnet on their heads.
The new policy was implemented "to prepare our children and let them know daily, the appropriate attire they are supposed to wear when entering a building, going somewhere, applying for a job, or visiting someone outside of the home setting," Outley Brown said.
BRAZIL — This “very obedient” parrot will shout, “Mum, the police!” at the sight of policemen. The parrot was captured by the cops on a Monday afternoon after they a busted a local couple who ran a drug den.
“He must have been trained for this,” one officer involved in the operation said of the two-winged wrongdoer. “As soon as the police got close he started shouting.”
A Brazilian journalist who came face to face with the imprisoned parrot on Tuesday described it as a “super obedient” creature – albeit one that had kept its beak firmly shut after being “arrested”.
The said parrot remained silent in the prison, even when lots of cops came by the place. In other words, it did not cooperate. Smart parrot.
It has been established that our sense of smell and our sense of taste are closely related. But who knew that it would get more than that? This new study shows that our tongues can somewhat smell, too.
Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, a nonprofit research institution in Philadelphia, grew human taste cells in a lab. Those cells contained several important molecules already found in olfactory cells, the cells found in the nasal passages that are responsible for sensing smells. And when they exposed the taste cells to odor molecules, the cells responded like olfactory cells do.
"The presence of olfactory receptors and taste receptors in the same cell will provide us with exciting opportunities to study interactions between odor and taste stimuli on the tongue," Mehmet Hakan Ozdener, the senior author of the study, said in a statement.
Aside from the tongue, olfactory sensors have also been found in other parts of the body, such as the hair.
