We all have our own aesthetic. This woman takes her aesthetic to a whole new level. It’s not just her way of dressing, this woman lives like her chosen aesthetic! Laci Fay lives like a woman in 1958. You can say her aesthetic is 1958! Her clothes, appliances, home, and car are influenced by the styles from that year!
Do you know what can break a peaceful night in a residential area? A couple hundred goats, maybe. Well, that’s what happened in a residential neighborhood near San Jose, California. Hundreds of goats from a hillside ranch near the neighborhood broke out of their enclosure and made a run for it! The goat stampede didn’t cause much damage, but it is something out of the ordinary!
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A new study found that drinking sugary drinks daily can increase one’s risk of contracting a cardiovascular disease. The study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, looked at data from 106,000 women over 20 years. The researchers discovered that women who drink sugary beverages daily had a 20% greater likelihood of being diagnosed with a cardiovascular disease, as Fast Company detailed:
The researchers relied on survey data from the decades-long California Teachers Study and inpatient hospitalization records in the state. They wrote that their findings “expand the literature on unfavorable effects of [sugar-sweetened beverage] intake.”
That literature includes a 2012 study from the Harvard School of Public Health, which found that men who drink one sugary drink per day have a 20% greater likelihood of coronary heart disease compared to men who don’t. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, meanwhile, continues to urge adults and kids to cut back on sugary drinks and instead turn to—you guessed it—water.
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Usually we avoid consuming content that can depress us, right? However, there’s something about reading or watching apocalyptic fiction. The Atlantic’s Sophie Gilbert wasn’t upset by reading Lawrence Wright’s The End of October. The novel is set in a global pandemic in which an unfamiliar virus works its way around the world, leaving economic meltdown, conspiracy theories, and mass death in its wake. Sounds familiar? Familiar or not, the premise of the novel wasn’t stressful at all for Gilbert as she writes on her article:
This particular kind of nightmare fodder would have been stressful pre-pandemic; now you might imagine it to be excruciating. Reading The End of October, though, I felt oddly soothed. When things in real life feel appalling, there’s some comfort in reading about all the terrible events that haven’t happened (yet): mass looting and food shortages in the United States, a power cut that wipes out all the data in the cloud, the unraveling of society. And for everything that Wright seems to have anticipated, he gets one thing strikingly, consolingly wrong. Human nature, in the novel, is inherently savage. “All the virtues—loyalty, patriotism, courage, honesty, faith, compassion, you name it—are just social constructs, patches to cover the naked barbarism that is at our core,” a government employee named Matilda Nichinsky thinks in one scene. Granted, Tildy is a cynic and a nihilist, but as Kongoli devastates the U.S., her take on human frailty is borne out. The scenes that haunted me the most in the book weren’t the ones with lungs frothily disintegrating into pink mush or world leaders bleeding from their eyeballs on camera. They were the moments when people took advantage of the chaos to liberate their most monstrous selves.
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Here’s a perfect way to cook your fried rice, supported by science! Physicists analyzed the chef’s movements and formulated the technique to avoid burning your fried rice. Will you try out the technique to perfect your fried rice?
Marcus Hutchins single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Hutchins saved the internet from a piece of malware called WannaCry, which destroyed data on hundreds of thousands of computers. Hutchins was able to find and trigger the kill switch in its code, stopping WannaCry from wreaking havoc on the world. To learn more about Hutchins life, including how despite saving the world from the cyber threat, he was still arrested by the FBI, head on to Wired.
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The pandemic has caused a lot of establishments to close. Gatherings, events, concerts, and graduations have been postponed as well. The current situation did not stop this Texas principal as he drove over 800 miles to visit all the graduating students of his high school. Check the full story on CBS News.
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Fugetsu-Do Confectionery is home to LA’s legendary mochi. The shop opened in 1903, making it the oldest shop in LA’s Little Tokyo. The Fugetsu-Do Confectionery is also the oldest Japanese-American business in the country. In this episode of Legendary Eats, Food Insider shares the history of the shop and how the current owner took ten years to master the art of making mochi.
Facebook will pay $52 million in a settlement for failing to protect its moderators. A court case alleged the company failed to protect its moderators from the mental health impacts of their job. Moderators will get a minimum of $1,000 each from Facebook, as The Guardian details:
As part of the settlement, which was announced Tuesday, moderators will get a minimum of $1,000 each from Facebook with the potential for additional compensation if they have been diagnosed with mental health disorders, including PTSD.
Moderators, who are generally contracted by third-party firms, are constantly exposed to graphic content including child sexual abuse, beheadings, terrorism, animal cruelty, and “every other horror that the depraved mind of man can imagine”, Steve Williams, a lawyer for the plantiffs, told the Guardian.
Workers may be eligible for additional damage awards of up to $50,000, lawyers for the plaintiffs said, and Facebook will change a number of policies to better address mental health.
More than 11,000 people who have worked as moderators for Facebook in California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida from 2015 until now will qualify for compensation under the settlement.
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology developed a new camera that can take seventy trillion frames per second. That’s right, a whopping seventy trillion frames. The discovery is called compressed ultrafast spectral photography, or CUSP. Popular Mechanics has more details:
Prior imaging developments based on silicon sensors have ushered in speeds up to millions of frames per second, Lihong Wang, a medical engineering and electrical engineering professor at Caltech, tells Popular Mechanics. But that still isn't nearly fast enough to observe and document some of the most fleeting curiosities in our physical world, from nuclear fusion, to ultrashort pulses of light on the order of picoseconds (10−12 second), to the fluorescent radioactive decay of molecules.
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Touchwood Design Inc. were inspired by World War II government public service announcements to create posters to address the current situation. The series of posters, called Repurpose With A Purpose, reminds people to wash their hands, observe a 14-day quarantine after travel, stop hoarding food, and to practice social distancing. Plain Magazine has more details:
The multidisciplinary design studio adapted the simple, visual and straightforward style of these recognised posters to our address our current situation. It’s a visual campaign that effectively gets the message across, taking the firm stance of its past purpose into the present. “We recycled them and gave new meaning to help educate, inform and remind us that we’ve faced terrible things before, and we’ll get through this together,” the studio says.
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Savannah-based Bethany Bickley breathes life into fiction through her creative paper sculptures. Bickley uses torn pages from books and magazines to create her sculptures. Her work represents imagined visuals in fiction, as Colossal details:
Among her bookish sculptures are the iconic pear tree from Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, a seated Esther Greenwood from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, and an amalgam of weapons and detective objects to symbolize the thriller genre. In a statement, Bickley said she merges narrative and imagery “to tell a story with impact and purpose. If there are no visuals, I create them.”
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Recycling in ancient times? Pompeii had it! New discoveries revealed that the ancient city sorted rubbish into different piles. Large piles of ancient garbage were found outside Pompeii’s fortification wall, and in and around the tombs of the city. Professor Allison Emmerson of Tulane University interpreted these piles as sorting systems, as Hyperallergic detailed:
“Since the earliest excavations of the eighteenth century, large piles of ancient refuse had turned out outside Pompeii’s fortification wall, in and around the tombs that Roman law relegated to the same area. Past interpretations had viewed these waste mounds as akin to modern landfills, signifying the separation between the zone outside the wall and the city within it, even going so far as to see nearby tombs as abandoned and no longer visited by friends and family of the deceased.”
Garbage turned up in association with monuments that were still in active use, where the living continued to bury their dead and return for regular commemoration. Discarded materials like mortar and plaster, and crumbled tiles and amphorae, were utilized to build walls; the piles of abandoned material were intended to be resold within the city.
“I began to realize that ancient attitudes towards garbage must have been quite different from our own,” said Emmerson. “That point became even clearer as I continued excavations in the city center (with the University of Cincinnati’s Pompeii excavation, directed by Steven Ellis).”
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It’s edible glue! Japanese designers have taken things to the next level with the honey liquid glue stick. The special-edition glue sticks are filled with honey, You can now spread your honey on your toast or pancake like glue! The makers of the product pointed out that the tube is made of food-grade plastic, unlike the typical plastic glue tubes. Don’t get any ideas on filling your glue sticks with honey!
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This knitted blanket took only two hours to knit. With modaknit’s huge tools and yarn, they were able to create a huge knitted blanket! The project took them two years to start, twelve hours to prepare the yarn, and two hours to knit. The dedication, time, and effort is truly admirable
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