Ethan Hall is just seven years old. He had been given an important task: singing the song of his people before a crowd watching him at the beginning of a baseball game.
It was the worst possible time to get hiccups. But Ethan did.
This took place at Cooper's Stadium in Adelaide, Australia. Ethan started hiccuping at the beginning of his performance of "Advance Australia Fair." But he kept right on going, maintaining his composure and the dignity of his homeland's national anthem.
As the color commentator for the game says at the end of the video, Ethan's performance was "absolutely priceless."
Come over to the Dark Side, but please leave some thigh meat or at least one drumstick for the rest of us.
Etiquette tips: we all know that Lord Vader makes a mess when he tries to eat with his mask on. Just act like you don't notice. And also ignore Uncle Palpatine when he goes into one of his political rants.
Paul, the man behind the blog Then & Now Movie Locations, travels to and photographs the original locations in which scenes from famous movies were shot. For his most recent expedition, he journeyed to Sedona, Arizona and several towns in southern California where The Karate Kid was shot.
The University of Houston includes the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management. As a result, the archives of the University of Houston Libaries include a variety of old menus that show what hotel and restaurant patrons long ago could eat. You can browse high resolution images of several menus here.
One thing that I found surprising was the concept of "breakfast wine." Barnum's City Hotel in Baltimore had a wide variety of options. Drinking spirited beverages before noon? How scandalous!
For his home Christmas light display this year, Bob Clagett made a pair of giant lightsabers. The hilts are made of cardboard cylinders painted silver and accented with duct tape. The blades are made of clear plastic roofing material and fixed inside the hilts with drywall screws driven through 2x4s. The actual light comes from Christmas decorative lights mounted just inside the hilts.
Clagett found the lightsabers surprisingly sturdy. You can even duel with them!
Mark Poulier, an Australian artist, specializes in drawing architecture in ink. Lately, he's been experimenting with coffee cup art, a trendy medium. The two practices blend perfectly in this Leaning Tower of Pisa. The detailed work was demanding and, Poulier says, "took many cups of coffee to complete."
A person who's high on cocaine, heroin, or marijuana may not realize how impaired he is. That's why the Ford Motor Company created this suit that simulates the effects. Jalopnik reports that it has goggles that induce tunnel vision, headphones that play distracting noises, vibrators that induce hand tremors, and weights that throw off balance.
The result is that even professional drivers, let alone everyday amateurs, become very dangerous on the road. In this video, Ford placed the suit on two drivers. They found it impossible to perform simple tasks, such as catching a ball, let alone driving a car safely.
Go ahead and step through the ropes into the ring. It's completely safe, even though this sideboard is designed to look like a boxing ring. Emmanuel Gonzalez Guzman, a Chilean designer, calls his eye-catching design Cuerda (translation). The ropes hold inside and partially conceal whatever is stored there.
Junior is a French Bulldog. Walter Ledermüeller is his human. They like to sing together and have a YouTube channel filled with their car-based performances. They're often joined by Walter's partner Emanuel.
In the past, they've made covers of hits such as "Let It Go" and "Love Is an Open Door" from the movie Frozen. In their latest music video, the duo sings a version of the song "Diamonds in the Sky."
If a man goes out with his guy friends to an all-you-can-eat buffet, he'll eat to satiate his hunger. But if he's with a woman that he's trying to impress, then he's likely to overeat as a way to demonstrate his virility.
This is the conclusion of a study conducted by Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab and published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology Science. A press release from the university explains:
Men who dined with at least one woman ate 92% more pizza and 86% more salad than men who dined with only other men. The amount that women ate didn’t differ when eating with other women or with men. When they ate with men, many women indicated feeling that they overate and were rushed through their meal.
“These findings suggest that men tend to overeat to show off – you can also see this tendency in eating competitions which almost always have mostly male participants,” explains lead author Kevin Kniffin, PhD, of Cornell University. The study was conducted by Kniffin, Ozge Sigirci, a former visiting scholar at the Cornell University Food, and Brand Lab and Brian Wansink, professor and director of the Food and Brand Lab.
Well, guys, now you know what it takes to get the ladies interested. Get to it.
What does it mean to be stupid? That's not a dumb question. In fact, it's important to know what, precisely, is stupidity. Psychologists Balazs Aczel and Bence Palfi of Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary and Zoltan Kekecs of Baylor University in Waco, Texas decided to find out.
They compiled a list of 180 stories of people acting stupidly, then asked 154 undergraduate students to read 15 of these stories. The participants then rated the stupidity of the actor in the story from 1 to 10 and explain why the action was stupid.
From the study results, the scholars formed a comprehensive definition of stupidity and published their findings in the journal Intelligence. Real Clear Science quotes their article:
The first situation in which people call an action stupid is when the actor takes high risks while lacking the necessary skills to perform the risky action. A typical story for this is when burglars wanted to steal cell phones, but instead stole GPS navigation devices. They didn't switch them off so the police were able to track them easily. We named this category ‘Confident ignorance’. The second cluster consisted cases of ‘Absentmindedness – Lack of practicality’... A typical story here is when someone inflates more air in the car tires than allowed. Here the person either forgot to pay attention to the action or he or she doesn't know something essential about tire inflation. The third category is ‘Lack of control’. Cases here are thought to be the result of obsessive, compulsive or addictive behavior. For example, one of the stories in this category described a person who canceled a meeting with a good friend to instead continue playing video games at home.
Stereotank is a design firm in New York City. We've previously seen their little free library that is cleverly designed to protect books from the elements. More recently, it's converted a skateboard into an elegant lap guitar. The designers describe it:
The instrument is built out of a blank wood skateboard deck, a 1/4" input jack, an electric guitar bridge, one guitar pick-up, one volume knob, one lock nut and six tuning pegs.
The guinea pig is in the cat tree, resting quietly where the cat normally parks himself. Oh, the spot doesn't have the cat's name on it. But everyone knows that that space is for Cat, not Guinea Pig. So, move little piggy!
Pictured above are the Vasquez Rocks, a remarkably scenic rock formation outside of Los Angeles. They're part of a public park that you can visit. They are most widely known as being the location of Captain Kirk's battle against a Gorn officer in the classic Star Trek episode "Arena."
In this video, Screen Rant tells us more about the Vasquez Rocks and other landmarks that you've seen over and over again in movies, perhaps without even knowing it.
Eric Molinksy is not the first artist to show what the cast of Rugrats might look like when they weren't babies, but full-grown adults. But he doesn't care for how those characters are interpreted when older. He was a storyboard artist for that show and drew them to look like "lumpy babies." They were ordinary babies and so, Molinsky claims, they'd likely look like ordinary adults:
It really bugs me — not the quality of the artwork, but the interpretation. We referred to them as lumpy babies for a reason. If we ever drew the Rugrats as being too cute, our executive producer would scold us. […]
So no. The Rugrats did not all grow up to be fashion models or self-confident hipsters. Especially not Chuckie. They probably grew up to be average if not slightly lumpy looking people — just like their parents. My best guess? In 2015, the Rugrats would look look something like this…
