This is Morestead, a professional race horse. He's been called "the Naomi Campbell of the modeling world." And you can see why. He's the very definition of a classic English gentleman in this bespoke 3-piece tweed suit.

Morestead is participating in the Cheltenham Festival, a major British horse racing event. To celebrate the occasion, fashion designer Emma Sandham-King sewed him a suit using Harris Tweed, which is the finest handwoven tweed fabric from the Outer Hebrides. The BBC reports:

Ms Sandham-King and her team of seamstresses and tailors spent four weeks creating the suit using more than 18m (59ft) of tweed.

The suit, modelled by race horse Morestead and champion jockey Sir Tony McCoy, required 10 times as much fabric as an equivalent human suit.

The horse-sized garment was commissioned by bookmakers William Hill.

Ms Sandham-King said: "Creating the world's first tweed suit for a horse has been one of the biggest challenges that I have faced in my career as a designer.

"Some models can be real divas, but veteran racing horse Morestead was calm and a pleasure to work with."

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All glory to the Hypnodog!

Floyd is a Siberian Husky in the UK who needs a home. Stare into his Hypnotoad-like eyes and think about his future in your home. You want to adopt him, don't you?

Floyd has heterochromatic eyes that stare into your soul. The Coventry Telegraph reports that staff at Dogs Trust Kenilworth thinks this puts "people off." He has a cheerful, friendly disposition that is so captivating that you won't be able to break eye contact with him, no matter how much you want to. Nonetheless, he's up for adoption:

And Dogs Trust supporter relations officer Helen Barlow said: “Even with his striking good looks and bouncy personality Floyd is often passed by despite his efforts to catch the eye of potential owners.

“He needs a patient adult owner who will give him plenty of time to help him settle in to family life.

“This energetic boy is looking for an active adult home and would prefer to be king of the jungle as the only pet in home.”

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He's a natural hunter. But right now, our pup wants only to play with his scaly friends. He eagerly jumps in. The fish respond enthusiastically, but I'm not sure that they're interested in a game of tag.

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This is no ordinary food truck. It's Pizza ∏, a floating pizzeria in the US Virgin Islands. Tara Bouis, a gourmet chef, and her husband Sasha, a computer programmer, left their busy lives on the mainland behind and operated a charter boat for a few years. Then they purchased an old 37-foot boat and personally renovated it into a floating commercial-grade kitchen. It even has a brick-lined pizza oven on board!

Now they anchor their boat offshore in the Virgin Islands and bake gourmet pizzas, made to customers' specifications. Last year, Bloomberg News reported on their extraordinary pizzeria:

The boat is anchored off the east end of St. Thomas in Christmas Cove, next to Great St. James Island. (Also nearby is Little St. James, the private island owned by billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein.) It’s an ideal location to snag boats from St. John and St. Thomas that are passing through on daytime snorkeling trips, as well as long-term charters. And you can order your pizza on your boat’s hand radio, call it in via cell, or even e-mail it. Then you can either pick up the pizza in your dinghy, or Pi will deliver it to you if you’re anchored in Christmas Cove.

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This little piggy did not want to go to market. But we all have to go to work. Sorry, pig. That means you, too.

He won't budge, even though he's about to be late to his job at the sausage factory. Only a cookie held in front of his sensitive snout can rouse him.

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(Photo of a pair of great tits by Highway 45)

Until recently, it was thought that only humans are capable of language that uses syntax--conveying the meaning of vocalization by order in sequence. But now, after much careful observation, scientists Toshitaka N. Suzuki, David Wheatcroft, and Michael Griesser have determined that Japanese great tits (Parus major) also demonstrate syntax in their chirps. They published their findings in the journal Nature Communications:

Here we report the first experimental evidence for compositional syntax in a wild animal species, the Japanese great tit (Parus minor). Tits have over ten different notes in their vocal repertoire and use them either solely or in combination with other notes. Experiments reveal that receivers extract different meanings from ‘ABC’ (scan for danger) and ‘D’ notes (approach the caller), and a compound meaning from ‘ABC–D’ combinations. However, receivers rarely scan and approach when note ordering is artificially reversed (‘D–ABC’). Thus, compositional syntax is not unique to human language but may have evolved independently in animals as one of the basic mechanisms of information transmission.

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Carles and Jesus Bel are the designers behind Bel & Bel, a studio in Spain. Their design philosophy is centered around upcycling. They take old machines and parts, mostly from cars and scooters, and turn them into not only functional but also luxurious pieces of furniture.

Lately, they've done a lot with the old Vespa scooter--that iconic symbol of mod style. They've remade the bodies of classic Vespas into chairs. You can see more photos of these chairs at Design Boom.

I would also encourage you to check out the entire Bel & Bel website, which is filled with similarly clever and beautiful works.

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(Photo: Elizabeth Esponnette)

Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia! It's the classic Chia Pet home decoration made into a garment. Elizabeth Esponnette, a product design professor at the University of Oregon, made this living vest. She spread chia seeds over a muslin garment soaked in water. They grew quickly and even attracted snails. It's a veritable ecosystem!

Esponnette wants to reinvent how we look at clothing. Ecoterre quotes her:

By manipulating materials we’re comfortable in, and those we are not, she seeks to explore new structural and performance possibilities for the products we use.

“Why it is that we are comfortable wearing cow, but uncomfortable wearing other materials like hot glue, chia, and crystal?” she asked. “Is there an optimum level of familiarity with a material for our comfort level?”

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The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists currently rests at 3 minutes to midnight. Randall Munroe of the webcomic xkcd provides yet another argument against Daylight Saving Time. Leave your clocks alone and we all get to live a little longer.

Daniel LaRusso from The Karate Kid

Cuyler Smith, an artist in California, creates trading cards for people you'd never expect, including atheltes from television and movies. He has framed copies on display at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. He includes some of the greatest screen athletes of all time, including Teen Wolf and Forest Gump.

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Phyliss Terrell, a great-grandmother in Washington, D.C., was trapped in her third-story apartment. She was getting ready to jump out the window when Truck 7 from the DC fire department arrived. Firefighter Danny Lovato reached her with a ladder.

Both of them were engulfed in smoke. Lovato had an oxygen mask, but Terrell didn't. So Lovato pulled off his mask and gave it to Terrell so that she could survive while other firefighters approached her position from inside the building.

Harshita Murudkar, Shivani Gulati, and Mehak Philip are students at the MIT Institute of Design in Pune, India. They took on a daunting challenge: to design and build a new type of chair in only 2 weeks. This is the marvelous result of their labors. It's a woven hammock set inside a circular frame. It rocks back and forth on two runners.

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This is Space Oddity, an anamorphic mural painted by Truly Design, an art firm in Turin, Italy. It sweeps over the walls of a hallway in the headquarters of the VF Corporation in Lugano, Switzerland.

The mural is certainly odd, for as you walk through it, the geometric forms distort your sense of space. It begins as a circle, but quickly changes into this:

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Are you frustrated that you lost an hour today? That's nothing compared to the experience of daylight saving time during World War II. The belligerent nations often thought that adding extra daylight waking hours would increase productivity and decrease electricity expenditures. Winning the war necessitated maximizing this possible gain to the fullest advantage. Atlas Obscura describes their sometimes extreme efforts to alter official time.

In 1940, the United Kingdom added an hour in the spring. But the government decided to skip the fall reversal. Then, in the spring of 1941, it engaged in the regular adding of an hour. This was called Double Summertime.

In addition to the standard advantages of daylight saving time, Double Summertime made blackouts to prevent air bombings more effective because it gave workers time to get home before they went into effect.The UK decided to keep the practice for the rest of the war.

Other nations used time changes for administrative convenience. For example, Soviet-occupied Germany was on the same time as Moscow:

In 1945, Berlin and Soviet-occupied Germany went on Double Summertime for one summer, putting it in the same time zone as Moscow. Basically, time in Europe was extremely confusing for a while.

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Tortoise wants a snack. The sleepy kitten's toes are a convenience food. Unfortunately for him, the meat is a bit too tough to get down easily.

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