The first time I ever heard of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I had to laugh, and thought of course, a little boy thought that one up! You know, kind of like Axe Cop. Well, the story of the actual origin of TMNT is told in an article by Rob Lammle at mental floss, along with all the steps they went through to be comic book, TV, and movie stars. Link
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The first time I ever heard of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I had to laugh, and thought of course, a little boy thought that one up! You know, kind of like Axe Cop. Well, the story of the actual origin of TMNT is told in an article by Rob Lammle at mental floss, along with all the steps they went through to be comic book, TV, and movie stars. Link
The cutest wrestling match ever occurs when a kitten goes up against a bunny rabbit. I'd call the rabbit as the winner, but both seemed to enjoy the tussle. -via Daily Picks and Flicks
Did you see the transit of Venus this week? Even if you did, you didn't see it like the joint US-Japanese Hinode space mission did! But we can see the amazing picture it took. Link
Jeff Broz and a group of his teenage friends went out to the desert where George Lucas was filming Return of the Jedi and recorded what they saw. Thirty years later, we are all jealous! -via The Daily What Geek
Red Mango Frozen Yogurt has a new flavor: Honey Badger. It's only being promoted on social media, which makes sense as it is a play on the Honey Badger meme that people who don't use the internet would not be familiar with anyway. Let's just hope the flavor is more honey and less badger! Link -via Laughing Squid
A post at Buzzfeed has some recipes that use simple and cheap ingredients to make interesting dishes. Some readers misinterpreted the title and complain that these recipes aren't all that healthy, but that's not the point. Imagine you are in a new entry-level job, and you have rent and student loan payments to make, plus you are used to eating in a school cafeteria, so cooking is somewhat new to you. What is offered sound so much better than ramen noodles every night! Shown here are Greek Mahogany Potatoes. Link
StoryCorps presents its latest story animated by the Rauch Brothers. Samuel Black talks about his hardworking father who may remind you of your own. Link -Thanks, Krisi!
Unreality magazine discusses movie plane crashes and how terrifying they are. Of course, they are never as terrifying as a real crash. Pictured here is the airline about to crash in the film Castaway. I hate to admit it, but I have only seen one of these movies, and that was once in a theater many years ago. Which movie do you consider to have the most fearsome plane crash? Link
Artist Max Miller was moved by the passing of author Ray Bradbury and quickly drew this tribute. Link -Thanks, Max!
There's a possibility that Andrew De Leon, who says he's never sang in public before, may follow in the footsteps of Paul Potts and Susan Boyle. This clip is his audition in Austin, Texas. -via Metafilter
Hamlet the piglet is lured by a bowl of oatmeal to negotiate the steps, each of which is taller than he is. By the time he reaches the bottom, he's an expert! -via Metafilter
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website.
Hollywood movies are famous (often notoriously so) for embellishing the truth. This is, of course, a polite way of saying filmmakers often lie. In the interest of entertainment, it seems justified. A down-and-out (but good-looking) young guy without a nickel meets a gorgeous girl, who falls for him, and despite all the warnings and their parents being against it and ...well, you know what I mean. It's fiction, it's fluff. And that's basically what movies do for us; they carry us out of our own mundane, unglamorous lives and into the land of make-believe. And that is fine. But there's another kind of cinematic embellishment. This is the distortion of actual events, real-life occurrences being changed and modified for the sake of "entertainment." This brings us to the foremost example of this second distortion: the "Old West gunfight."
First off, it's not all the fault of Hollywood and the movies. Many years before cinema was even invented, dime novels were printed up, enthralling their eager and avid readers. These pulp novels were extremely popular and carried the written accounts of legendary Old West gunslingers Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill, Bat Masterson, etc. The authors would simply dream up fictional accounts of the exploits of these famed heroes and embellish things that actually did occur. It wasn't only the authors doing this embellishing, as many of the actual participants themselves would "color" their own stories for the sake of a good story. Newspapers, too, would dress up the tales of Old West gunmen in order to boost sales (no kidding? A newspaper not telling the truth? Gee, I'm mortified at that one!).
The fact is, Old West gunfights were few and far between. In popular Western television shows like Bonanza, The Big Valley, Have, Will Travel, and Rawhide, the gunfight is a routine event, taking place about as often as we currently witness a politician being dishonest or your luggage being late coming on the carousel when you arrive at the airport. In some seasons of the longest-running Western TV series ever, Gunsmoke (1955-1975), a formal Hollywood gunfight takes place during the show's opening credits.
The newest episode of The Cute Show from VICE shows us the Super Wan Wan Dog Circus of Tsukuba City, Japan. Many of the dog performers, all adopted from shelters, hold world records for various trucks! -Thanks JE!
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We learned that humans evolved from earlier primates in Africa and then spread around the world. But what about those earlier primates? Where did they originate?
Find out more about this new, yet very old, ancestor at Hominid Hunting. Link
(Image credit: Nancy Perkins/Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
We learned that humans evolved from earlier primates in Africa and then spread around the world. But what about those earlier primates? Where did they originate?
Until about 20 years ago, the answer seemed obvious: Africa. That’s where the earliest fossil evidence was found, mainly from Egypt’s Fayum Depression. Starting in the 1990s, however, relevant fossils started popping up in Asia. Paleoanthropologists now consider a 45-million-year-old primate discovered in China, called Eosimias, to be the earliest anthropoid, the group of primates that includes monkeys, apes and humans. Eosimias was tiny, weighing less than half a pound. But it possessed certain dental and jaw characteristics that link it to living anthropoids.
The newly discovered species, named Afrasia dijijidae, dates to roughly 37 million years ago and was found in Myanmar. So far, all that’s known of Afrasia is based on four isolated teeth. But the nooks, crannies, crests and bumps on those teeth reveal a few things about where the ancestors of today’s monkeys and apes came from.
Find out more about this new, yet very old, ancestor at Hominid Hunting. Link
(Image credit: Nancy Perkins/Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
Ray Bradbury, author of classic works of fiction such as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man, died this morning in Los Angeles.
His grandson, Danny Karapetian, shared these words with io9 about his grandfather's passing: "If I had to make any statement, it would be how much I love and miss him, and I look forward to hearing everyone's memories about him. He influenced so many artists, writers, teachers, scientists, and it's always really touching and comforting to hear their stories. Your stories. His legacy lives on in his monumental body of books, film, television and theater, but more importantly, in the minds and hearts of anyone who read him, because to read him was to know him. He was the biggest kid I know."
Bradbury was 91. Link -via Metafilter
(Image credit: Flickr user By California Cthulhu (Will Hart))
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