This Asiatic black bear resides at the Laos Wildlife Rescue Center after being saved from a bear bile farm in China. His relative freedom looks as if it's really agreeing with him as he casually strolls through the park on two legs. -Via Tastefully Offensive
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An incredible 26 grams of protein and 155 calories | The recipe is here | Image: dashingdish.com
One great tip from people who try to eat healthy or keep their weight down is to have snacks at the ready that won't break the calorie "bank" for the day. Everyone gets to the point in which they're hungry and don't feel like or have the time to make something. But if you have something stashed away in the fridge, freezer or glove compartment for such occasions, you can grab that instead of absent-mindedly eating a bag of chips or the like while tuned out and staring at a screen.
This article has some great ideas for low-calorie snacks, many of which are packed with the fiber and protein necessary to keep you full. Are many of these foods off your radar or not something you buy at the store? Give them a chance once or twice — you might be surprised at how satisfying they are.
Delicious and refreshing in summer. One serving is 100.5 calories and 7.4 grams of protein.
The recipe is here.
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Watching an entire television series requires an investment from viewers- an investment of time, of mental energy, and sometimes an emotional investment in the characters we come to know and love/hate.
The creators behind our favorite shows know full well about viewer investment, and they like to toy with our interest by leaving us dangling from one season to the next.
They employ the time tested cliffhanger tactic and delight in watching us squirm as we struggle to figure out how the next season will begin, and what the return will be on our investment.
From the shooting of a fictional oil tycoon to the shooting of an animated billionaire that poked fun at the cliffhanger trope, these are the mysteries that had TV viewers talking and gave rise to the idea of spoilers.
Read 11 Unforgettable Television Cliffhangers at mental_floss
We take cleanliness for granted in this modern age, and consider personal hygiene to be an integral part of civilized society, but the definition of acceptable cleanliness levels vary by culture and country.
Even though we can’t agree on the average number of times people should bathe in a week we can all agree that going without a bath for sixty years will make you one stinky human being!
Amou Haji doesn't adhere to societal norms in any way- he's over 80 years old (7 years older than the average Iranian lifespan), he smokes animal feces and drinks water out of a rusty oil tin, his favorite food is rotten porcupine, and he hasn't taken a bath in over 60 years because he believes bathing will make him sick.
Maybe Amou is on to something with his Bizarro health regimen? Nah, it's probably just the luck of the draw...
-Via VeryViral
The Hulk is one of the most far-fetched superheroes in terms of believability, because a billionaire might be able to afford a suit of power armor but no amount of gamma rays will turn an average scientist into an eight-foot-tall wall of muscles.
Brazilian bodybuilder Romario Dos Santos Alves is one of the Hulk’s biggest fans, but his love for Marvel’s mega-sized superhero nearly cost him his arms.
Romario began injecting synthol (a mixture of oil and alcohol) into his arms to make them swell to titanic proportions, and these injections began to calcify his muscles, causing the muscle tissue to turn into "rocks".
Doctors thought they might have to amputate his arms due to the hardening of the muscles, but they were able to remove some of the "rocks" from Romario's arms, teaching Romario a hard lesson about trying to inject his way to Hulkiness.
-Via Fox2Now
Arnold Schwarzenegger is far from the most diverse actor in Hollywood, and aside from Twins and Jingle All The Way his IMDB page consists of pretty much nothing but action flicks, but he has played some pretty iconic roles during his 40 years in the biz.
From the Terminator Model 101 to the merc Dutch who took a mudbath to save humanity to the totally chill Mr. Freeze, Ahnold definitely knows how to play a man of action, but can the mighty muscleman reprise every role he’s ever played in five minutes?
With a little help from James Corden, the former Governor of California proves he's still got what it takes to awe an audience and deliver quoteworthy one-liners like a total boss!
-Via Polygon
No matter how you look at it, the placebo effect is strange. Not only is the basic idea of feeling better through simply taking a sugar pill odd, but the fact that it even works when people know they're taking a placebo even weirder. Even stranger -it's getting stronger somehow.
Learn more about the placebo effect in the video above or read about it in this cool TopTenz article. In the meanwhile, I'll be over here taking some Altoids and pretending they're happy pills -that should help my mood, right?
We've seen art depicting the Catvengers and corgis imitating them, but this is the first time we've ever had the privilege of seeing these furry fighters in action. What will they do when Furrtron has them by the tails? You'll have to watch to find out, but one thing's for sure: these superkitties aren't to be played with.
Via Nerd Approved
Image: Tony Hisgett
British writer and playwright Robert Shearman, responsible for the writing of the "Dalek" episode from the first "New Who" season, granted this interview in which he discusses the show, his new show, The X-Files and more. Shearman, in NYC to put on his 1992 play Easy Laughter, will also appear at Brooklyn's Who-themed bar The Way Station for a screening and discussion of "Dalek." One question and a partial answer from the interview follows; read the rest of his answer and the full interview here.
"Q. 10 years after "Dalek" debuted, the episode remains firmly entrenched in the hearts of Doctor Who viewers. How was the episode impacted your life, and why do you think that it continues to resonate with people on such a large scale?
A. It's the weirdest thing, that it's now ten years old. And that Doctor Who is still going! I think that was my principal concern, actually, looking back - I knew that what Russell was doing was extraordinary, but I had no reason to believe that Doctor Who itself would become terribly popular again. All my lifetime it had been this little show that had been a vague embarrassment to people, it seemed - when I was a kid, it wasn't the cool thing to like in the playground. And I thought that even if we had a hit on our hands, we'd never get the chance to have a run of stories that would mean Doctor Who could have the richness of the classic series - we'd never last long enough to get a regeneration, or a new producer. We'd have 'this' version of the show, but never 'that' version of the show. And it leaves me still boggled that it's still going so strong a decade later - that it really does now seem we could give the original 26 year stint a run for its money."
Villa Sbertoli was built in Tuscany in the 1800s by Italian businessman Augustine Sbertoli. One version of the story is that his son went insane, but another says he merely had a physical disability. Either way, in 1868 the wealthy Sbertoli converted his villa into a hospital, which housed his son and began accepting patients from all over Europe. The patients had ailments ranging from the physical (epilepsy) to the mental (alcoholism and various psychiatric disorders). With its stunning views, frescoes and palatial grounds, Villa Sbertoli was a remarkably beautiful location for a mental hospital.
Except for a time during World War II when it was briefly used as a prison, Villa Sbertoli remained a psychiatric hospital until the late 1970s, when Italy passed a mental health act that required such facilities to close. Even after the act was passed, the hospital provided a number of services until 1998, at which time it was abandoned.
See a large photo collection, including shots of what the hospital looked like in operation, here.
Images: Alex Doomer
View of Tuscany from Villa Sbertoli
Janne, a photographer in Finland, took this fantastic shot that looks like the moon is zooming through the night sky. It's a single exposure that was nearly 38 minutes long. Michael Zhang describes it at PetaPixel:
Janne was shooting with a Nikon D800 and 100-300mm lens at 300mm, f/8, and ISO 100. The trick behind the shot was a 10-stop neutral density filter, which greatly cut down the amount of light hitting the sensor and allowed Janne to shoot a 2258-second exposure — that’s a whopping 37.6 minutes!
-via Colossal
(Unrelated photo by Jenn Durfey)
Dp you want some suds on campus? You won't necessarily have to hide them at California Polytechnic University in Pomona. Like a growing number of schools, that college offers training on beer brewing. Student brewers can get immediate feedback from their peers because their beer is sold at campus dining facilities. The Associated Press reports:
“To make the beer here and sell the beer here and have a cafe and have an educational component, we’re the first to have put all those pieces together,” Aaron Neilson, director of dining services for the Cal Poly Foundation, said over a lunch of pizza and — of course — beer at the school’s new Innovation Brew Works.
A few feet away, senior chemistry major Stephen Moser was in the back room of this former campus bookstore, brewing up a batch of ale. In a few weeks, his work will end up in the glasses of patrons in the brew works’ cafe, where signs at the front doorremind people to drink responsibly.
-via Modern Farmer
(Photo: Portsmouth & District Angling Society)
Behold the glorious Grand Duchy of the Lagoan Isles!
The uninformed among you may think of it as Baffins Pond in southern England. It's not. In 2005, a school teacher named Louis Robert Harold Stephens (now addressed as His Grace, the Grand Duke Louis) realized that the three tiny islands in this pond had never been claimed by anyone. They were therefore open for settlement. He named them the Lagoan Isles, as the word "lagoan" means "pond."
His Grace does not reside on the islands, but non-resident lordship is a common practice. For example, the Queen of Canada visits that domain only occasionally.
The Grand Duchy of the Lagoan Isles is 1 of 10 strange microstates rounded up by When on Earth.
The Untenured Adjunct Fellowship of the Ring. #AcademicNovel
— Popehat (@Popehat) May 6, 2015
Ah, academia! Where, as they say, the fights are so vicious because the consequences are so low. On Wednesday, Twitter users riffed amusingly with the hashtag #AcademicNovel. Contributors made puns with famous book titles tweaked for the cloisters of university life.
Harry Potter and the University of Phoenix #AcademicNovel
— Chris Bohn (@DocBohn) May 6, 2015
So, bags of cheeseburger Goldfish crackers exist. Interestingly, it's not one flavor of cheeseburger in these bags, it's three flavors: ketchup, cheddar, and BURGER. Pepperidge Farm made the brown Goldfish in this product to simply taste like burgers.
That's a little strange, am I right? I mean, we're talking...meat crackers.
photo by The Impulsive Buy
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