It's a sleek, elegant clipper pulling up to the shore. But this one is permanently docked, since it's a hospital building. Architect Vasily Klyukin designed this hospital and spa complex for an economic development zone on the coast of Tunisia.

It's called White Sails. Klyukin conceives of it as a hospital that people would be glad to visit because it's beautiful and you go there when you're healthy.

That's because it's also a spa. Klyukin thinks that integrating rest, relaxation, and wellness activities into White Sails will encourage people to use its facilities happily and willingly.

You can see more pictures of the design at Design Boom.

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The lions should consider themselves lucky. The mongoose let them live.

In 2011, wildlife photographer Jérôme Guillaumot was in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. He captured this incredible encounter. 4 young lions thought that the much smaller mongoose would make a good snack. But the mongoose's sheer savagery was frightening to them. It retreated into its den safely.

But that didn't end the encounter.

The mongoose wasn't satisfied to let the lions prowl around the surface. So it came out of its den and chased them away!

-via Twisted Sifter

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Martha Bellingham was going to work in London when she encountered this dog playing in a fountain. The dog bounds back and forth through the streams, taking full bliss in the simple act of running through the water.

May we all be as happy as this dog.

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(Unrelated photo by Shimelle Lane)

Meanwhile, in British Columbia, Twitter user @IamFane was waiting for the Canada Post to deliver a package to him. When he returned home after an excursion, he found this notice at his mailbox. The mail delivery person let him know that he had decided not to take the package to the front door. He had a good excuse:

Ok, fair enough @canadapostcorp that’s a decent reason to not drop the package off at my door. pic.twitter.com/ykAldpWpEP

— M Fane (@IamFane) September 24, 2014

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Call me cynical, but I'm beginning to suspect that the "Disney Princesses as..." meme may be played out. That's the point that Artist Kevin Bolk appears to be making with these six illustrations. He writes:

You’ve never seen them like this before. Mind blown!

I can think of a few other directions artists could take the meme. Artists could draw the Disney Princesses as:

• philosophical abstractions
• Sixteenth Century theologians
• elderly Hugh Heffners
• subatomic particles

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I admire this ice cream parlor for offering a different take on cones. Maybe it could also offer retinal, volcanic, and traffic. Now place your order.

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Communication at work or home would be very different for us if we took the canine approach. I'm not sure that it would be better. But I'm certain that blog comments would be even more interesting to experience.

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Kirk Damato of BuzzFeed had a brilliant idea. He recently attended the Rose City Comic Con in Portland, Oregon. While there, he asked artists to participate in a game that would result in a comic book story.

The process were simple: an artist drew on the whiteboard. Damato then gave the whiteboard to the next artist, who erased it and added his or her own content. As a result, each artist saw only the previous panel, resulting in a bizarre but amusing story:

(Image: Aubrey Aiese)

(Image: Wook Jin Clark)

(Photo: Zachary Sterling)

(Image: Kel McDonald)

You can read the other 22 panels at BuzzFeed.

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Now I have a new goal in life. It is to be cooler than this guy. I'm not sure how I'll pull it off. But it has to be more awesome than having a haircut that makes your head look like a pineapple.

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Here's a video that shows how this man pictured above--or possibly someone else--got his pineapple hairstyle. Jamie Jay Car Videos recorded Wayne Marshall visiting Kube Barbers in Clearwater, Florida to get pineappled.

If the photo shows someone other than Mr. Marshall getting a pineapple head, then there are at least two such gentlemen in the world, making my new life ambition even more challenging.

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How exactly is this armor supposed to protect a woman embarking on a dangerous quest in a fantasy universe? Well, you're missing the point. It is supposed to be, uh, a fantasy. It's not realistic, as Jeremy Whitley and M. Goodwin point out in this selection from Princeless Book 1: Save Yourself.

In this graphic novel series, Princess Adrienne plans to rescue herself instead of waiting for someone to save her. So she needs to be properly equipped for any contingency.

But she has no need to fear this armorer's wares. Stjepan Sejic has already explained how chainmail bikinis work.

Continue reading to read more from the scene.

It’s not necessarily the most popular food, but it’s the food that more people in that state are tweeting about than any other. In Texas, we talk about brisket because, well, brisket is awesome. Miss Cellania’s Kentucky is tacoland. In Wyoming, people want to share their thoughts about watercress.

The Twitter4Food research team at the University of Arizona published an online paper and a set of interactive data visualizations to share the results of their study of 3.5 million tweets published between October 2013 and May 2014.

You can search the United States to see who has an interest in particular foods, such as sheep brains (a traditional Southern delicacy).

You can also create heat maps for the entire world to see what regions are tweeting about foods, such as this map showing tweets about Scotch eggs.

-via First We Feast

Andy Clark saw a clock like this on a children’s television show and decided to build one. His Topsy Turvy Clock has stepper motors connected to two plastic gears which are guided by a microcontroller hooked into an electronic clock. When the Topsy Turvy Clock is turned on, the motors reset the time according to the electronic clock.

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Beardmaster James Myrick is an artist with his own facial hair. We’ve previously seen several of his truly beardly acts of beardism. Most recently, he inscribed the word “beard” into his beard, resulting in a beard beard. This inspired me to pose to him an even more beardly challenge:

@JohnCFarrier I'll think about it.

— James Myrick (@hospitalcup) September 22, 2014

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Rapper Kanye West is already the subject of a college course. Now he's teaching one. In March, he was sentenced to serve 250 hours of community service for beating a paparazzi photographer. To serve that time, he's chosen to teach a course on fashion at the Los Angeles Trade Technical College, a community college.

Professor West is discreet about his teaching, revealing little about his activities at the college. But a few photos from his students have leaked out.

-via College Insurrection

Redditor MDPPatrick snapped this photograph at just the right moment. His brother tossed the basketball into the air. When the camera shutter opened, the ball was blocking out the sun, creating the impression of a solar eclipse.

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