Irene Suarez-Martinez, a scientist at Curtain University in Perth, Australia, studies "atomistic modelling of carbon nanoforms, such as graphene and carbon nanotubes, using ab-initio and semi-empirical methods."
Got that? Me neither. Fortunately, I'm just barely intelligent enough to grasp what she's made here. This skirt is a model of the structure of the Earth, with the hemline representing the crust and the waist representing the core. It's appropriately labeled with distances from the surface.
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Cosplayer Bernadette Bentley has played various creative versions of Xena for years. Her latest is one of her best: Xena as a warrior princess ready for the ball. The dress is hard to wear, so don't expect her to jump and flip like Lucy Lawless does:
First time I wore this I had 1 plastic hoop skirt and 2 giant crinolines to hold the weight of the skirt(it’s reeeeeally heavy!) and still have the princess poof ... the updated version has a much stronger and larger hoop skirt with only 1 crinoline that had to have 1 layer cut out and now it actually doesn’t touch the ground which makes it easy not to trip on 😂😂. It’s much easier to maneuver but still really heavy— but dang do the chains look amazing! .
When cartography enthusiast Cameron Bennett went into quarantine in March, he needed something to keep him busy. His solution was to build an accurate topographical map of Idaho using accurate data and cartographic software. To acquire the necessary blocks, Bennett used LEGO's precise purchasing system:
If you run out of pieces in one or more colors (as I did) and are too stubborn to downsize and start over (as I am), Lego offers the ability to order exact pieces using their Pick-a-Brick service. Be warned, shipping times were especially slow under COVID restrictions. Through some quick searches, I found a handful of Ebay vendors peddling pieces at slightly more competitive prices, with less control over piece and quantity selection.
The Plinthaster dentatus looks like a raviolo (I looked up the singular form of ravioli because I care about you, dear reader), but it's actually a starfish that lives in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It presumably goes well with marinara sauce and a good Moscato.
I imagine that a good chef has probably already looked at this video and reproduced the starfish in pasta form.
Twitter user Ross filled his desktop computer CPU with beans, then summoned a repairman to fix it. The technician was surprised (and so, obviously, was a novice in the profession) at what he found when he opened the case.
Ross's Twitter feed is filled with similarly wonderful pranks and inventions.
I love this simple stained glass piece by Colorado Glass Works. It's perfectly positioned to take advantage of the sun, water, and beach. Best of all for the artist, it was made with a friend, as the caption sentimentally explains.
Look, I'm not saying (out loud) that there's something necessarily wrong with being a cat person. But maybe keep that stuff off your dating profile. Wait until a lady friend starts to trust you before exposing a foible like that.
This handy tip is backed up by social science research. In the journal Animals, Lori Kogan and Shelly Volsche let us know that posing with a cat in your online dating profile may hurt your chances of finding female companionship:
Women responded to an online survey and rated photos of men alone and men holding cats on measures of masculinity and personality. Men holding cats were viewed as less masculine; more neurotic, agreeable, and open; and less dateable. These results varied slightly depending whether the women self-identified as a “dog person” or a “cat person.” This study suggests that a closer look at the effects of different companion species on perceived masculinity and dateability is warranted.
Emphasis added. Be yourself in your dating profile, but be your best self. So put the cat aside and change out of that brony t-shirt.
On Father's Day, Twitter user Justin Hart shared the story of how his father encouraged and supported him as he tried to become an Eagle Scout.
Hart had to submit his Eagle paperwork to the Boy Scouts before he turned 18. The deadline was 5 days away. The papers were in his father's office at the top of a skyscraper in San Francisco.
Then the 1989 San Francisco earthquake struck. The city was devastated. Hart's father knew that Justin's only chance of making Eagle lay in retrieving those papers from his office. So he climbed more than 50 floors up to retrieve them, then drove back home through the shattered city.
During World War II, US Army airborne forces needed a cheap dispatch vehicle that could be easily dropped by parachute into the field. The Cushman company, then producing scooters, quickly converted its line to fill military purchase orders with the Model 53 scooter. Harley Davidson and Indian picked up the slack to produce even more military scooters.
[...] it had a hitch to pull a model M3A4 general-purpose utility cart. By adding certain equipment, the cart could be converted to carry a .30-cal. or .50-cal. machine gun or an 81mm mortar, though the scooter often could not pull a heavy load. [...] Cushman made nearly 5,000 airborne scooters for the military beginning in 1944. The rugged, simple Model 53 could travel through a foot of water, climb a 25 percent grade and had a range of about 100 miles.
A surviving example of the Cushman airborne scooter was once featured on the reality TV show Pawn Stars.
Remove one of the Hippos from the tabletop game Hungry Hungry Hippos and let a dog step up to the table. Pour in the kibble and he'll out-eat any hippo in the jungle. For some dogs I've known, it might have worked just as well with the original plastic beads.
Johannes Vermeer's 1665 painting Girl with a Pearl Earring metamorphoses into an onion in this piece by Russian photographer Olga Pavolga. Perhaps, as one commenter suggests, the painting should be remade into Girl with an Onion Ring.
In 1925, the Green Giant brand of preserved vegetables began promoting its huge peas with a giant figure offering his fare to the world. There's a 55-foot tall statue of the company's mascot in Le Sueur, Minnesota.
In brightest day and darkest night, no hunger shall escape this giant's sight when cosplayer Gordon Buri is on the job with his Green Giant and Green Lantern mashup costume.
Marta Grossi lives in Milan, Italy--the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in her country. Locked down since March 8, she's needed space to be creative. She found it in her own bathroom sink, which she paints and repaints with colorful images of less confined life.
Few weeks ago I thought about the perception of things, about how many times we are reminded to wash our hands since we met the corona virus. The sinks of all the world are now becoming silent companions, we look out every day - and under this tragic circumstances - a simple piece of furniture is changing in front of our eyes.
It's easy to unfriend someone, even face to face. What's hard is befriending someone. It takes a lot more than a click. Doug Savage of Savage Chickens shows what works and doesn't work among the two platforms.
Alexi McCarthy, an art director, designed and built Face Shelving with his son. It's a cute look and easy to build with the step-by-step instructions that McCarthy provides. Screws hold the pieces together. McCarthy mounted the eyes with double-sided poster tape.
