So at most it will give you a paper cut.
Marco Ercoli is an Italian artist who lives in Rome. Among other media, he creates 1:1 scale sculptures out of stacks of sticky notes. His subjects include guns, a grenade, and even a full-size car. They're vibrantly colorful imitations of the originals.
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Well, now that my wife is a bit less angry over the tie-dye hair incident, it's time to do something new. Mistakes were made, but let's move on to the next newest and awesomest hairstyle trend: glow-in-the-dark rainbow hair. Yes, these are the magificent results of hair dye that glows under black light.
Police in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia arrested a man wanted for an assault and a string of car thefts. His last victim gave him a lot of trouble.
The owner pumped gas and went inside to pay for it. The thief then got inside the car and tried to drive away. The owner jump kicked through the open car window into the car. After some fighting, he was able to get fully inside.
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I grew up watching Star Trek from about the age of 6 or 7. It's existed in some form throughout my life and is the most prominent narrative lens for me. So I found myself nodding often as I read Charlie Jane Anders's arguments for the greatness of the Star Trek story.
Although Star Trek doesn't get a lot of respect from some science fiction purists, Anders argues that it is superior to many other major science fiction franchises. For example, the Star Trek universe is enormous. It's filled with countless worlds, species, and characters that have been fleshed out in detail:
Everybody’s doing shared universes nowadays, and to a large extent this is an attempt to imitate what Marvel and DC accomplished in their comics, decades ago. But on television and in the movies, Star Trek was one of the first series to create a universe in which different ships, and different crews, felt like they all belonged to the same basic setting without being just “spin-offs.” Add in the book-only series like New Frontier, Corps of Engineers, Vanguard, Seekers and so on, and you’ve got a capacious galaxy. Star Wars always comes back to being about the Skywalkers and their friends, in the main media series, but Star Trek is just about Starfleet, and any Starfleet officer could star in a Star Trek show or movie.
Only a few Star Trek episodes are truly brilliant. But there are 727 episodes of the various series and 12 feature films. With Star Trek, you can enjoy a steady diet of good storytelling for a very long time.
About once or twice a day, I'll get a mention on Twitter. But Demy de Zeeuw is different. He's a famous soccer player, so his social media following ranks in the millions. When he sets the Instagram app on his phone to push alerts, the result is a massive, continous stream of notifications. In a mere 2 days, his social media profiles gathered 13 million views. Zeeuw writes:
“When you post epic content on Instagram … this is [what] your push notifications will look like,” he wrote in the Facebook post.
(Photos: Scott Hein/Gothamist)
There are no signs or doors. You don't get a menu or a place to sit.
The mysterious proprietor known only as "Papa" has occupied the old newstand for several years. Knock at the right time--he has no posted hours--and he'll give you the best Caribbean food, such as this:
People in the know use Papa to get their fix of curry goat and chicken. Scott Heins of Gothamist visited and learned more about the secretive source of top-end Caribbean cuisine:
"Six or ten?" Papa asks each customer—his dishes of curry goat, marinated chicken, oxtail, and sauteed fish comes in only two prices, and are sized to match. Rice, beans, and chopped vegetables accompany each, and everything arrives piping hot in a styrofoam container. Your dining options are, of course, limited, but then the benches of Brower Park are only a 5 minute stroll away. […]
Despite a total lack of advertising and promotion in a neighborhood brimming with West Indian eateries, the chicken cavern has managed to keep its simple and tasty operation running. Papa opens the window when his morning prep work is finished, and closes up shop when the day's stock runs out.
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Jacqueline Sloan Ziegler's daughter, Kailyn, loves to do cartwheels. And she's good at them, too! Oakland the Pit Bull would like to get into the action, but he can't get the hang of the movement. Keep practicing, Oakland (warning: auto-start video).
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If you're a foreigner, then Norway's winter weather right now is brutal. But if you're Norwegian, then it's just a bit breezy outside. Trym Nordgaard illustrates the Norwegian attitude as he casually sips his coffee in the morning.
Content warning: foul language.
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You sank my noble gases!
Karyn homeschools 4 children. She's devised a brilliantly creative way to teach chemistry. It's a game modeled on the classic board game Battleship. Her materials are simple: 2 folders, 4 laminated copies of the periodic table of elements, and 2 dry erase markers.
The players first mark where their ships are. Then they call out elements, missing or hitting opposing ships. Karyn explains:
The kids can then mark where they want to place their ships by circling rows of 2, 3, 4, and 5 elements on the lower table.. They play by calling out coordinates. If they miss they put an X on the spot they chose on the upper table. If they get a hit, they circle it. They can continue playing until one person sinks all of another person’s ships.
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Now, which way do we turn to find Nazis? If you glance quickly at this sign in Kamakura, Japan, you might think that they're everywhere. Johnny of the blog Spoon & Tamago understands your confusion:
When we moved to Japan in the early 80s my dad, a Jewish New Yorker from the Bronx, quickly realized that he had made a terrible mistake. “We’re surrounded by Nazi’s,” he proclaimed, wide-eyed, as we all stared at a map of our local neighborhood in Koenji. He was, of course, looking at the manji symbol (卍), a reverse swastika that could understandably be mistaken for the symbol of Nazi Germany, instead of its intended representation of Buddhist temples.
Once foreign travelers have calmed down about the Nazi menace, they still have problems. A lot of the street signs common to Japan are non-intuitive to outsiders. That's why the country is changing many of its standard navigational signs:
In Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, the lovable rogue Han Solo is a dad. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I imagine that Han probably rags on his son Kylo Ren in an affectionate way. That's how dads build good relationships with their kids.
Ben, guess why your mother always picks where the rebels hide out Because she knows how to Leia low! Your mother is a treasure
— Dad Joke Han Solo (@dadjokehansolo) January 12, 2016
The movie has inspired Peter Chiykowski, the artist for the webcomic Rock, Paper, Cynic, to create a Twitter feed filled with Han Solo's lame dad jokes.
Lock Block Ltd. uses a mortarless stone concrete block system to assemble enormous and strong forms. The truck in particular in this demonstration video is a fascinating design. The back appears to be covered with rollers that serve as braces as the blocks are set into an interlocked arch. The roller back looks like it’s tapered, so the truck smoothly exits a section of tunnel by driving forward.
Also, the construction blocks look almost exactly like Lego pieces:
True crime murder mysteries, like Serial and Making a Murderer, are very popular these days. Would you like to compose a murder mystery that appeals to modern audiences? Then you need a hip way to have your protagonist knock off the victim—especially if you’re chasing the advertising dollars thrown at millennials.
Tom Gauld shows you how in this cartoon for The Guardian. I’m glad that my idea—bludgeoned to death by a gluten-free selfie stick—isn’t already taken.
Similarly, if you need to kill a werewolf, shoot him with a silver bullet. If that kills him, then you know that you knocked off a werewolf.
All you need is a command of basic science and logic to dispatch most hidden enemies in your midst. Charlie Higson illustrates this in an everyday life hack.
-via Geek Art Gallery
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Rocket News 24 accurately describes the story as “like something straight out of a Studio Ghibli film.” Kana Harada, a high school student, is the only passenger who uses the Kyu-Shirataki Station in a rural area of northern Japan.
Every school day, Harada’s parents drive her to the station, which is a few minutes from their home. She’s usually 1 of 10 students on the train at the time. From her station, it takes Harada an hour to arrive at her school. She uses that time to study, read, or listen to music.
Japan Rail Hokkaido recently announced plans to close that station. But after learning of Harada’s solitary use of the station, the company has decided to keep it open until she graduates this March.