If I could summarize it one word, it would be “noisy.” Think about it. Everything in anime has sounds, even those which shouldn’t have, like nodding, and, ironically, silence (which is usually represented as three dots). Voice actor Joe Zieja gives us a glimpse of what voice acting in anime is like in this funny short.

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We still have many things to understand in our Universe before we can say that we know much, and day by day we discover and learn new things around us. Just recently, a new study, led by professors Daniel Scheeres and Jay McMahon was published in the journal Science Adventures. The study contains findings from the OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft tasked to obtain a small sample from an asteroid named Bennu.

[The findings] suggest that the interior of the asteroid Bennu could be weaker and less dense than its outer layers--like a crème-filled chocolate egg flying [through] space.

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What the team has found may also spell trouble for Bennu. The asteroid's core appears to be weaker than its exterior, a fact that could put its survival at risk in the not-too-distant future.

"You could imagine maybe in a million years or less the whole thing flying apart," said Scheeres, a distinguished professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences.

Know more details about this asteroid over at EurekAlert.

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When one looks at the night sky above through his naked eye, he sees the beauty of the cosmos and learns to appreciate it. But one learns that it is more beautiful when he looks at it with more powerful eyes — through the lens of a telescope.

If you’re someone who wants to observe the Moon, the stars, planets, and nebulas in your backyard, then what you’ll need is a telescope. But what kind of telescope?

For the uninitiated, choosing a beginners' telescope can be a confusing affair — especially when you're bombarded with jargon. Space.com is here to make the search simpler for you.

The site recommends some telescopes that they believe are the best for beginners. Head over at Space.com to know more.

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One of the many emotions that we humans have is sympathy. But this emotion isn’t exclusive to us humans; animals can show sympathy, too. In a study recently published in Scientific Reports, researchers found out that birds share their food with other birds that are less fortunate.

They seem to [take each] other's perspective into account in their decision, and thus seem to show sympathy," said Utrecht-based biologist Jorg Massen in an experiment with azure-winged magpies.

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The researchers discovered that the magpies are inclined to share food with their peers. They differentiate, however, between whether others have food or do not have food, and subsequently cater to that lack. "Females mainly shared with the others if they had nothing. The males always shared. We think the latter has to do with 'advertisement': 'Look at me being generous.' With the females, it's mainly to help the other if they have nothing."

The azure-winged magpies are more inclined to share food as a response to begging, but it turns out that even without begging, the magpies share food with conspecifics that are less fortunate. This shows that azure-winged magpies might truly notice the need of others, even without begging behavior.

Amazing.

Learn more details about this study over at PHYS.org.

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It is a long-held belief that you can bond with your cat by giving them a slow blink. Now, this belief has been scientifically proven to be true. But it doesn’t just work on cats and their respective owners. People who are unfamiliar to cats can use this as well to make friends with them.

A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports… that you can bond with your cat by sending them a slow blink. By narrowing your eyes, you can generate the equivalent of a smile for a cat, which according to the authors makes the owner more attractive to their pet.

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Their findings revealed that felines are more likely to send their owners a slow blink when their owners do it to them, sending fewer cat “smiles” when their owners don’t interact with them at all. In the second experiment, researchers who had sent their new feline friends a slow blink before offering them their hand were more likely to be approached compared to those who maintained a neutral expression. Combined, the results show that slow blinking constitutes a positive communication between cats and humans and can be used to establish a bond both between pets and their owners as well as cats and strangers.

The more we know!

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You had fun with the initial release of Fall Guys. Now prepare for the 2nd season, as the game introduces new stages for you to play and have fun and get frustrated with. The game’s recent update adds four new mini-games: Hoopsie Legends, Egg Siege, Wall Guys, and Knight Fever.

Details over at Kotaku.

Sounds fun!

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Back in 2018, Elon Musk launched a car into space aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket. The car was, of course, manufactured by a company owned by Elon. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster. Now, two years later, the car makes its first close approach with the Red Planet.

“Starman, last seen leaving Earth, made its first close approach with Mars today,” the official SpaceX account tweeted, referring to the mannequin seated in the car’s drivers seat, who is wearing a prototype of SpaceX’s sleek spacesuit.

Don’t expect a pitstop, however. Though the flyby is considered close by galactic standards, it is still 5 million miles away.

The Roadster’s flyby with Mars won’t be its last.

The car is expected to be in orbit around the sun in a slightly off-center path that alternately intersects the orbits of Earth and Mars — for tens of millions of years.

Now that’s awesome.

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Isn’t it a wonderful thing when your partner in life also has the same job as yours? One of the best things in that scenario is that you get to be with your partner all the time. You also get to do the same thing with him/her. For Andrea Eldridge and her husband, they get to pilot airplanes.

My husband and I both fly for American Airlines. Passengers are sometimes shocked that a husband and wife are the captain and first officer of their flight. “Who’s in charge?” “Is that allowed?” “You’re not fighting today, are you?” Despite their professed alarm, no one has turned around and run back up the jetway to the terminal…yet.

So what’s it like to have your spouse as your co-pilot? Andrea shares her story over Air & Space Magazine.

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It seems like 2010 was only yesterday. It was a time when many of us posted stuff about our virtual farms on Facebook. Back then, we would brag about these farms to our friends. But those are now the good old days. FarmVille will soon be gone, but it seems that nobody remembers it anymore. At least, that’s what Ellie Gibson of Eurogamer believes.

Alright, let's be honest: FarmVille isn't officially gone till 31 December, but it's already forgotten. I just paid a visit to an old Facebook group where I used to hang out with a load of players, back when hanging out in Facebook groups wasn't just for old people.

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Oh yeah, I was in deep. I had forgotten how deep, in fact, until reading one of my old posts today. "Need two horseshoes and five harnesses. Also bottles and blankets," I wrote, on 23 July 2010. The eve of my wedding. Yep, I was still focused on horse admin, at a time when I should have been getting my nails done and cutting a hole in a sheet.

But what happened? Why did people suddenly forget about it? Ellie herself doesn’t know the answer.

Probably, we just happened upon some new distraction, as is the way of humans. Everything gets old eventually…

And to that, I agree. Everything does get old, and everything will disappear eventually. Before FarmVille is gone, Ellie writes her goodbyes to the game over at the site.

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You might not believe it, but there are no vegetables in this advertisement, except for the word “vegetables”, that is. (Peppers are considered fruits.) I’m afraid that’s the only thing that I can tell you about this. The poster doesn’t say much, either. So from here, just imagine that I said something meaningful, or something funny.

What would you add to this poster?

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You have probably seen pictures or videos of the PS5 in news sites and on video-sharing platforms. But what is usually shown in these videos is the PS5’s front, and you might be wondering how the video game console looks from the back. If you still are reading up to this point, then I think that you really are interested in looking at the PS5’s butt. So, what does it look like? Well, it looks like the butt that you’d expect from an electronic gadget.

What do you want me to say about it? It's the back of a console. It has two USB ports, an HDMI port, an Ethernet port, and a power connector. It also looks like there's plenty of ventilation so that the PS5 can run quietly, something that a number of recent previews have already confirmed to be the case.

Viewing the console from the back also gives us an entirely new perspective on the console's unusual shape...

And to that, I agree.

Well, what do you think?

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You’re looking for something and you can’t find it. Suddenly, something happens in your brain and you find what you are looking for. Turns out that object was right in front of you all along. What did just happen?

When it comes to searching for objects that are faint or difficult to find, a type of brain wave called traveling brain waves help us to perceive, and, eventually, find objects. This type of brain wave is what Professor John Reynolds and company discovered in their study, which is in the journal Nature.

"We've discovered that faint objects are much more likely to be seen if visualizing the object is timed with the traveling brain waves. The waves actually facilitate perceptual sensitivity, so there are moments in time when you can see things that you otherwise could not," says Reynolds, senior author of the paper and holder of the Fiona and Sanjay Jha Chair in Neuroscience. "It turns out that these traveling brain waves are an information-gathering process leading to the perception of an object."

More details about this study over at MedicalXpress.

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Because the competition is fierce, fast-food companies always create food products that will surely attract the eyes and provoke the taste buds of the customers. During the process, however, these companies sometimes create food products that are rather strange, if not gross. Many of these products were a result of combining foods that tasted great when eaten individually.

Cracked.com lists 16 strange fast-food products that were once served in popular fast-food restaurants. See them over at the site.

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Many have heard of the Excalibur, a sword which had to be drawn out from an anvil atop a stone. But only a few have heard of the Eggscalibur, a frying pan that has a hilt instead of a regular handle. It is said that whoever possesses this legendary item will have the ability to make perfect sunny-side up eggs.

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Many people love to post inspirational or motivational stuff on their Facebook or Instagram profiles. But not everyone loves these things. Some even feel like throwing up when they see these. Thankfully, Unspirational exists. It is an Instagram account dedicated to posting uninspirational, but realistic, stuff.

See some of its posts over at Sad and Useless.

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