Look at the patty. That's not just beef. Inside that cow meat you'll find whole Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
It's ingenious.
I'm embarrassed that I didn't think of this first. Then it would be me, not The Works in Kanata, Ontario, that would be acclaimed across the world as a fountain of brilliance. Now all of the glory rightfully belongs to this restaurant. Its Reese's PBC Burger also has onion strips, bacon, and even more Reese's Peanut Butter Cups mixed in. Each one costs $15.98 Canadian Dollars, which is about $12 USD.
These and other constrictors can exert pressures dramatically higher than their prey's blood pressure, suggesting that constriction can stop circulatory function and perhaps kill prey rapidly by over-pressurizing the brain and disrupting neural function. We propose the latter “red-out effect” as another possible mechanism of prey death from constriction. These effects may be important to recognize and treat properly in rare cases when constrictors injure humans.
Sarah Hardy is chef with extraordinary abilities to create delicious desserts that look like things you normally wouldn't eat, such as a severed human head and a raw turkey. She's now applying her talents to paleontology with 1:1 scale models of teeth from frightening dinosaurs. But they're made of chocolate! The megalodon (left) is 14 cm long and is a truly luxurious chocolate experience:
These beasts are made in Satongo, 72% dark chocolate. Created from fine, aromatic cocoa beans from Africa and producing a well rounded flavour profile with a long finish, notes of red fruits, herbs and Bourbon vanilla.
The tyrannosaurs rex tooth (right) is similarly the product of a master chocolatier:
Created with cocoa exclusively grown in Ecuador from the Nacional cocoa bean. This single origin, milk chocolate offers a buttery, creamy, fudge taste with accents of nuts.
HQ Architects designed this unique shade for pedestrians in Vallero Square in Jerusaelm, Israel. It's called "Warde." These flower sculptures are equipped with sensors and air compressors. When someone stands under them, the fabric blossoms unfold and inflate, providing relief from the sun.
This bridge in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, is 230 feet above the surface of the Yangtze River. Bian Peng, a bus driver, noticed as he drove over the bridge that a woman had climbed over the railing and was about to drop down to her death in the water.
At the 0:26 point in this video, Peng stops his bus, leaps from the door, and wrestles the woman down from the railing. She screams "Let me die!"
Another man helps subdue her. Passengers from the bus drag her inside. Peng gets back in the driver's seat and takes the woman to the police.
Before her late husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, Joy Milne detected an odd smell coming from him. She tells the BBC:
She says: "His smell changed and it seemed difficult to describe. It wasn't all of a sudden. It was very subtle - a musky smell.
Scientists at Edinburgh University decided to test her. They recruited 6 people with Parkinson's and 6 without and asked Milne to smell t-shirts they had worn for a day. Milne scored an impressive 11 out of 12.
The scientists were already impressed. But then Milne insisted that one of the test subjects really did smell of Parkinson's, even though he was in the control group. 8 months later, that person was diagnosed with Parkinson's.
How does she do it? There may be something going on in the skin of a Parkinson's patient:
Scientists believe that changes in the skin of people with early Parkinson's produces a particular odour linked to the condition.
They hope to find the molecular signature responsible for the odour and then develop a simple test such as wiping a person's forehead with a swab.
Animals eat, wander, then excrete. Their excretions contain essential fertilizers, notably phosphorus. Otherwise, the distribution of phosphorus tends to follow gravity and get washed into the ocean.
There are fewer large animals today then in centuries past, especially fewer wild large animals. Most large domesticated species, such as cattle, are fenced in. This impairs the spread of manure-sourced nutrients. Chris Doughty of Oxford University explained to the Washington Post that this trend could make it harder to find phosphorus in the future:
"Large free-ranging animals are much less abundant than they once were. Today, if scientists were to study the role of animals they would find that it is important but small," Doughty explained. "However, in the past, we hypothesize that it would have been at least an order of magnitude larger than today. Essentially, we have replaced wild free-roaming animals with fenced domestic cattle that cannot move nutrients in the same way."
The loss of whale poop is especially bad:
But today, the researchers estimate, whales only bring 165 million pounds of phosphorus up annually. That's just 23 percent of their previous contribution. Phosphorus movement by birds and fish that come inland after eating in the sea (like salmon, for example) are just 4 percent what they once were.
Here's Sgt. Casey Day showing how to use nunchucks to not only strike like Bruce Lee, but to restrain and control suspects without causing undue harm. He and his colleagues on the police department of Anderson, California hope to add it to their arsenal of non-lethal weapons. KRCR News reports:
He said they can be used to hit, strike, jab and take someone down. They can also be used as a restraint to lock someone's hand, elbow or ankle.
"These were kind of designed with a different goal in mind to be more of a control weapon, but like I said, it's not like we can't use these as an impact weapon," Day explained. "They work really good as an impact weapon, but we try to emphasis a control tool over impact."
Day stated he's replacing his baton with the nunchucks because they work well and are more universal.
Alison Moritsugu is an artist from Hawaii who lives in Beacon, New York. For her log series, she composed idealized images of nature onto the cut surfaces of rough hewn logs. Moritsugu explains:
In my log paintings, I examine the contrivances found in landscape paintings of the 18th and 19th centuries. These landscapes, by artists such as Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church, were deeply rooted in the political constructs of the time and depicted the land as a bountiful Eden, a limitless frontier ripe for conquest. I take these images out of their familiar context, the framed canvas, and paint directly on wood slices with bark intact. These landscapes appear as an homage to the idyllic art of the Hudson River School yet, by viewing the painting’s surface, the cross section of a tree, any sense of nostalgia or celebration of nature is countered by the evidence of its destruction.
Several of her log paintings will be on display from Nov. 12 - Dec. 12 at Littlejohn Contemporary Art in New York City.
Agent 007 has travel all over the world while working for the UK's Secret Intelligence Service. The latest film, Spectre, takes James Bond to Austria, Italy, and Morocco. These may be great journeys for us, but for Bond, it's just another day at the office.
The Guardian offers an interactive map that shows where James Bond has traveled over the course of his 23 movies. It does not include space, where Bond spent some time in Moonraker. And, of course, it does not include any of his travels that remain classified.
While attending the PAX Prime convention in Seattle in August, David Ngo shot these three ladies who are ready for an elegant evening at an 80s arcade. Thalia Cosplay wears Pac-Man, Peachy Molly wears the Tetris dress, and Mél Dee invades your space with her enormous Space Invaders gown. Mél Dee made these lovely dresses, which hopefully didn't cost too many quarters from the arcade consoles.
It's time for mandatory affection at Chai Lai Orchid resort in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Allie doesn't know that yet, but Ele the baby elephant will teach her. This is how you cuddle. At just 2 weeks old, she's already an expert.
Hopefully Allie will return for even more cuddles when Ele is full grown!
(Image: Columbia Pictures/Marvel Entertainment, via ComicBook)
Two actors have donned the red mask in recent years: Tobey Maguire in 2002 and Andrew Garfield in 2012. To honor their work, scientists recently named two real webslingers after them.
The Filistata maguirei and Pritha garfieli are newly-discovered species that live in Iran. Marusik et al. note in the journal Anthropoda Selecta that "They are venomous but do not pose a risk to humans." Of course not! They're our protectors.
I remember that after one of my pet rabbits died, the other rabbit, in a shocking display of strength, ripped the door off her cage and went out looking for him. She scoured our apartment, searching for her lost mate. She was, in her own way, mourning him.
Or am I just projecting? Joe Hanson, a biologist and the host of the PBS program It's Okay to Be Smart, reviews the evidence. For a long time, scientists assumed that only humans could mourn because only humans could intellectually grasp death.
But now it's clear that crows, chimpanzees, and elephants mourn in some capacity. Zoologists noticed that when one elephant under observation died, her family stopped and lingered near her for a while. For several days, five other groups stopped by and visited her body--even when doing so placed them in danger from predators.
They're called boaterhomes. I use the plural form because, surprisingly, this isn't a one-on-a-kind vehicle. There are many of them. Like the saucer separation procedure in Star Trek: The Next Generation, a boaterhome drives to the shore, then detaches a fully functional cruising boat.
This particular model, the AutoBlog tells us, is a 1987 Watercraft Sports King that rides a 1986 Ford E-class van. All it needs is helicopter wings to offer a full menu of transportation options.
