Laura Keeble, a British artist, takes stained glass from old churches and turns it into everyday objects. This McDonald's Happy Meal becomes a symbol of the Eucharist titled The Glass Supper. In other pieces, memorial church glass becomes a security camera and a phone booth becomes a confessional.
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My guess is that the bank is not going to get the money.
Sheila Henderson of Chicago Heights, Illinois recently examined the bank account of her mother, who died last month. Was there any money in it that she could use to pay for funeral expenses? No, not at all. In fact, the bank informed her, the account was greatly in arrears. ABC 7 News reports:
"Your checking account has a balance of $99,999,999,545.90," an automated message can be heard saying.
When Henderson heard that mind-boggling number Wednesday, she said she almost had a heart attack.
"I was in shocked. I couldn't even speak. I called it again," Henderson said. […]
"I called my brother to listen to it and the first thing he said, 'You have been hiding all this money from me. Why did you do this? Come on. Let's go.' I was like, 'No, it says it is a negative amount on it," Henderson said.
Chase Bank says that it is investigating the issue.
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Here's Peter Yarrow of the 60s folk group Peter, Paul, and Mary. What does he want? The answer is blowing in the wind, my friend: he wants you to get a colonoscopy. His was a very positive experience, for his "colon took first prize," as he recounts in this funny song.
This is 1 of 7 funny colonoscopy videos rounded up by VA Viper. It includes tales by Dave Barry, Damon Wayans, and Homer Simpson.
Question: why is there no Oscar category for colonoscopy video?
This is a Western Barred Spitting Cobra (Naja nigricincta). During molting, our little friend needs to drink water. So YouTube user Частный экзотариум feeds him water from a glass. Then, after he's back in his tank, he gives him pats on the back. So apparently cobras are like dogs in that they liked to be petted.
Despite the similarity, I think that I'll stick to dogs.
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Kirk, Spock, and McCoy discover the Batmobile from the 1960s-era Batman television show. Meanwhile, Batman and Robin find the Galileo II shuttlecraft from Star Trek.
YouTube user SpockBoy presents this perfectly edited mashup illustrating a crossover that should have been. Just imagine the Penguin teaming up with the Klingons to rob a bank and/or obliterate Gotham City!
Do you look good in open-toed shoes? For that, you need a proper pedicure with well-maintained nails. If that's not an option, then you may wish to try these stockings from the Japanese firm Belle Maison. They're built with toe-ends. The tips are painted to give the impression that you've just come back from a pedicure.
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Each pair costs about $10. They're available in a variety of colors and patterns for every occasion. You can see more photos at Bored Panda.
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(Photo: Draken Harald Hårfagre)
This ship is the Harald Fairhair, named in honor of the first king of unified Norway. Its 33-man crew has modern navigational tools, but are otherwise dependent upon 10th Century technology.
That's risky because the Harald Fairhair is attempting an extraordinary journey: crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Captain Björn Ahlander describes the journey and his ship in The Local:
And time is of the essence. Following in the historical tailwind of Leif Eriksson, the Viking thought to have discovered America centuries before Christopher Columbus, the ship has a long journey ahead, taking a route via Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland before it finally drops anchor in the United States.
"We've got one month because the only gap, if you don't want to battle low pressure and harsh winds, is May. That's your chance to make it across," Ahlander told the Swedish news agency TT on Monday. […]
An impressive 35 metres long, eight metres wide and with a mast height of 24 metres, Harald Hårfagre is the world's biggest longship built in modern times. Sponsored by Norwegian businessman Sigurd Aase, it was completed in 2012.
The planned launch on Sunday was delayed, but the official Facebook page reports that the longship is now on its way to Iceland. After Iceland comes Greenland, Canada, then the Great Lakes as far as Duluth, Minnesota.
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LeeAdianez Rodriguez signed up for a 5-kilometer race in Rochester, New York. But she arrived at the wrong starting position and ran a course set up for a half marathon.
LeeAdianez realized about halfway through that she must have been in the wrong race, but she decided to finish the race, whatever it was. So instead of running 3.1 miles, she ran 13.1 miles. Her finishing time was 2 hours, 43 minutes, and 31 seconds.
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They're made out of meat. And you can send electrical signals through that meat. Prof. Andrew Singer of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign explains:
“You’re a big bag of salt water, with some bones and some other tissues,” he says. “Communicating in the ocean and communicating in your body are very similar.”
So would it be possible to wirelessly control implanted medical devices, such as pacemakers, by sending signal through your flesh?
Signer and his colleagues conducted experiments to find out. They transmitted signals through pork loin and beef liver. This was so successful that it would be possible to stream video from Netflix through a meat conductor. The New Scientist reports:
The team tested two different types of tissue: a pork loin and beef liver. They suspended the pieces of meat in the water tank and found that the ultrasonic signal passed through both types of meat at speeds of up to 30 megabits a second. That is 1000 times faster than existing implants, which send radio signals through tissue at a maximum of 50 kilobits a second. “You could stream Netflix through the pork loin,” says Singer.
This technology could be useful in order to stream live video from inside the human body for medical diagnostic purposes:
“For high-definition video, this is more than sufficient,” says Akram Alomainy, at Queen Mary University of London in the UK, who was not involved in the research. Alomainy thinks the technology could be particularly useful for wireless endoscopy, in which a person swallows a pill that broadcasts a video feed from inside their digestive tract. At the moment, wireless endoscopy requires a laptop-sized device placed on the outside of your body to pick up the feed. A system that transmitted using ultrasonic waves would be far less cumbersome.
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Paul Phillips of Skiatook, Oklahoma has built hundreds of houses over his long career. He's long dreamed of a special home of his own: one can fish from whenever he wants.
So Phillips dug a pond, filled it with water, and stocked it with hundreds of fish, mostly catfish and crappie.
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Now he can fish at any time. He doesn't even have to go outside. He can just open the hole that he built into the floor of the living room and drop down a line. You can watch a video of him demonstrating it here.
Would you like to own this house? Phillips is now selling it because he wants a bigger pond.
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A few months ago, Instagram member lollypoplocks held a contest inviting people to style their hair with Star Wars images. This helmet hair by Anya Goy was the winner. Goy, an expert on hair coloring, presents the bounty hunter Boba Fett as a fashion icon.
You can see more submissions to the Star Wars hair contest here.
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He'll not only exterminate you, but exterminate you 20% extra.
Jeremy Marbler made this amazing costume for his 6-year old daughter. The idea was all hers: a My Little Pony Dalek. It has movable wings and weapons. There's even a light and a fan inside so that the Dalek inside the Dalek shell feels comfortable.
Marbler plans to hook up lights, but I'd advise againt overpowering it. With wings, it can already defeat stairs. We don't need more dangerous Daleks.
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In the early days of spaceflight, doctors suspected that in microgravity, menstrual blood wouldn't flow out of the vagina, but remain inside and lead to infections.
But the experiences of more than 50 women who have been to space prove that assumption completely untrue. The New York Times quotes astronaut Dr. Rhea Seddon:
In a NASA oral history, Dr. Rhea Seddon, an astronaut who flew on three space shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s, said, “I’m not totally sure who had the first period in space, but they came back and said, ‘Period in space, just like period on the ground. Don’t worry about it.’”
There are, however, logistical difficulties with cleanliness, the management of menstrual blood, and the physical task of changing tampons in microgravity:
“The waste disposal systems onboard the U.S. side of the International Space Station that reclaim water from urine were not designed to handle menstrual blood, thus idealizing the minimization of breakthrough bleeding during menstrual suppression,” write the authors, whose review included discussions with the astronauts Dr. Ellen Baker and Serena Aunon, among others. Also, “the practicalities of personal hygiene while menstruating during spaceflight could be challenging, e.g., limited wash water supply or the task of changing hygiene products in microgravity.”
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Carly Cardellino, the beauty editor of Cosmopolitan, recently learned that you can pop popcorn with a hair straightener. This inspired her to see what else one could make with hair care tools. So she heated a curling iron and used it to cook scrambled eggs!
Cardellino says that the egg was both "edible and delicious." More importantly, we've all learned an essential survival skill that could mean the difference between life and death if we're ever besieged by zombies in a hair salon.
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Imagine your address as not, say, 750 Bel Air Road, Bel Air, California, but instead block.horse.happy.
It could be if the founders of the app what3words are successful. Their system divides the entire world into 57 trillion 9-square meter areas. It assigns 3 random words to each section. The sequences are unique for all 57 trillion sections. April Joyner describes it at The Week:
An algorithm generates each three-word phrase. It filters out profanity, avoids homophones to reduce the chances for mistakes when an address is spoken (hear vs. here), and safeguards for slip-ups with singular and plural words. If you accidentally type engine.door.cubs instead of engine.doors.cubs, you'll get a location halfway around the world — your mistake should be obvious.
what3words co-founder Chris Sheldrick says that the system is already in use:
It's key that the three-word phrases are easy to memorize, because many of the people who are served by what3words' system don't have a smartphone to look them up. Instead, Sheldrick says, once they've been given their address by an aid worker, or a neighbor who has a smartphone on hand, they can simply make note of the phrase for future reference. He gives the example of Rocinha, a slum in Rio de Janeiro, where residents are beginning to use what3words as an alternate address system to receive mail.
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