Alternative title: How to Start a Kitchen Fire.
Mackenzie Carpenter plays a cooking guru who will burn down your house if you follow her instructions, especially the suggestion that you walk away after starting the toaster.
I'm curious about an egg packet, though. Perhaps this could be done in a toaster oven.
-via Swiss Miss
Lucky, a Siberian Husky, has a job: to guard this jewelry store in Chang Ma, Thailand. To test her protective abilities, owner Worawut Lomwanawong arranged for a disguised police officer to simulate an armed robbery of the store.
Lucky slept through the entire incident. Newsweek reports on the owner's disappointment:
[...] Worawut tried to rationalize why Lucky might not have reacted to the "robber." He said it could've been because the dog recognized the policeman who was posing as the crook. "I found it very funny to see that she didn't even try doing anything and continued to sleep," he said, adding that he was delighted to see the video go viral.
Worawut also mentioned that the local authorities wanted to do security tests for jewelry stores, and his was chosen for the study. He added that it was the "first serious security test" for his storefront.
-via Super Punch
Spain-based street artist David Villaécija has chosen the perfect spot for a camera mural. In an interview last year, Villaécija explained the magical experience of an evolving piece of art, such as this one:
Another factor, would be the illusion and magic, as well as the adrenaline sparks that accompany you during the beginning, development and liberation of the idea … until a point arrives in that that magic fades and that is where you know that the final.
-via Street Art Utopia
Mia Stålnacke, a photographer, lives in Sweden---an ideal location for photographing the aurora borealis. Her Instagram feed is filled with many images of the Northern Lights and, occasionally, the more terrestrial wonders of Sweden.
This photo suggests a celestial horse riding through the sky. Who shall attempt to ride it?
Filipe de Castro, an architect in Brazil, can find creative energy from objects lying around his home and office. Would you like to live in a house shaped like a baby rattle? Would you like to work in a building that resembles a chocolate sundae? de Castro has options for you.
Italian furniture designer Fabio Novembre calls his design "Adaptation." It urges users to adapt to the uncertainties of life. He explains:
Often we take the comfort acquired for granted, laying down as if it belonged to us forever. But this is a world where there is no revenue of a position, where is important to always find a new balance.
Adaptation is a seating system confronted with the uncertainties of our time, with the precariousness of the structures, suggesting that just a little adaptative [sic] capacity is needed to continue to live and to smile. History teaches us that those who cannot adapt are doomed to extinction.
I'd adapt by propping up one side with bricks.
-via The Awesomer
Rain Noe of Core77 says, "It's really sad that this exists, but this is the world we live in."
Well, I think that it's pretty awesome! The Smash My Trash trucks have crane arms mounted on the back and spinning, toothed barrels that reach into dumpsters and compact the trash inside.
The idea is that humanity needs an emergency repository of reproductive materials in the event that it becomes extinct on Earth. A facility beneath of the surface of the moon could provide a safe shelter for a restart of the human race, as well as other preserved species from Earth. The New York Post reports on the project proposed by Jekan Thanga and his colleagues:
The so-called “ark,” according to Thanga’s presentation, would then cryogenically preserve various species in the event of global disaster. “We can still save them until the tech advances to then reintroduce these species — in other words, save them for another day,” he said. [...]
The pits also are the perfect size for cell storage, according to Thanga. They go down 80 to 100 meters underground and “provide readymade shelter from the surface of the moon,” which endures “major temperature swings,” as well as threats from meteorites and radiation.
-via Dave Barry | Photo: Jekan Thanga et al.
I feel like I'm suffocating by just watching this video.
This particular deathtrap is located in the Devil's Sinkhole State Natural Area in western Texas. Can the explorers squeeze through the entrance and, more importantly, back out again? Let's find out. What's the worst that could happen?
The best part of this video is the dialog, as the joking cavers give their stuck friends helpful and unhelpful hints. It gets especially good when one caver decides to go in headfirst.
-via Born in Space
We need two things in life: food to eat and books to read. The Traveler Restaurant in Union, Connecticut offers both. Buy a meal and you get to pick a book from the thousands available on the eatery's shelves. Atlas Obscura describes the experience:
On the shelves edging the tables are westerns, cookbooks, pulpy paperbacks, children’s books, and romance novels. The vibe is decidedly comfortable diner meets community book sale. Owner Marty Doyle, an avid reader, started bringing books into his restaurant in the mid-1980s as a way to thin his oversized collection and find new homes for old books. Now, after finishing a meal, diners take time to wander the stacks looking for their perfect new read.
Over the years, Doyle also collected a number of autographed photos from many well-known authors including John Updike and Michael Crichton, and these are also on display at the Traveler. Under new ownership since 1993, the restaurant’s books are now mostly donated by area libraries and community members, and the take-home amount has been upped to three books a person.
Photo: Traveler Restaurant
Arrange two watering cans so that they overflow into each other. Fill them both, then add water to one of them. The excess water will flow into the other, then back again.
I'm not a science person, but video seems fishy to me. If real, wouldn't this be a perpetual motion machine?
-via Laughing Squid
This dog in Brazil knew exactly where to go. Google Translate renders the Portuguese video description as follows:
Injured dog enters veterinary clinic alone and receives treatment in the interior of Ceará
Street animal had a wound on his paw and was diagnosed with a tumor after entering the establishment located in the Center of Juazeiro do Norte.
I have been unable to confirm this story from other sources. But let us not permit an absence of verifiability to stand athwart cuteness of this degree.
-via Laughing Squid
Men are more likely to help a woman in need if she has erect nipples. That's the conclusion of a study led by Dr. Rebecca Burch of the State University of New York in Oswego.
For this study, the researchers asked 421 heterosexual college students to look at photos of women. For each woman, there were two versions: one with erect nipples and one without erect nipples. How likely were they to loan the women $100 or help them fix a broken-down car? The men were more likely to help the women with erect nipples. PsyPost reports:
The researchers found that men perceived women with erect nipples as more deserving of help compared to the same women without erect nipples. This was particularly true when the help involved greater interaction with the woman, such as tutoring her or stopping to provide aid if her car had broken down.
Male participants also expected women with erect nipples to behave more altruistically toward them and were more willing to include them in their social circle.
Female participants, however, were less likely to help women with erect nipples:
Female participants, on the other hand, were not more willing to help women with erect nipples compared women without erect nipples. The researchers also found that nipple erection made women less willing to include another woman in their social circle.
“Do women interact with women with nipple erection differently? Our research shows that they do; they want to avoid them,” Burch explained.
-via Dave Barry | Photo: Stock Snap
Greg Frehr, an artist in New York City, makes SwingTables. These table sets are designed to keep active people involved in conversation by encouraging them to move around, swinging back and forth. In an interview last year, Frehr explains:
They help people with ADHD concentrate on the work at hand, use movement to get creative juices flowing, and have a unique ability to bring people together for meetings or socially – there is something special about sitting next to a co-worker, friend, or stranger on a swing that brings out a shared child-like joy.
The model photographed above is a mere $6,450.
-via The Awesomer
This is Aogashima, an island about 220 miles off the coast of Japan. It takes its shape from the four calderas of its volcano.
That's an active volcano. Although it hasn't erupted since 1785, that eruption killed half the population. Still, the 170 people who live here are a hardy lot and are not inclined to let the occasional (by the standards of geological history) cataclysm disrupt their plans.
TYWKIWDBI points out that Aagoashima is governed by the city of Tokyo. I have verified this claim elsewhere. So it's technically correct (the best kind of correct) to say that that this photo depicts Tokyo.
Photo: Charly W. Karl
