(via Fark)
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Quick Rescue of a Baby Elephant
A security camera at a South Korean zoo caught a scary incident when a baby elephant fell into the deep end of the pool. Its mother went right into panic mode as another elephant runs up to help. Both adult elephants rush around to the ramp, and walk the baby back to the shallow end. All's well that ends well. This goes to show that elephants are great parents, and not only to their own offspring. It takes teamwork to raise kids! (via Tastefully Offensive)
Monday, June 19, 2017
The Fountain of Youth
The moral of the story is: When you are handed a miracle, don't get greedy and ask for too much. This guy just Benjamin Buttoned himself out of existence. Besides, who would ever expect the fountain youth to be disguised as a regular town square water feature? This comic is from Chris Allison at Toonhole. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
WoodSwimmer
Brett Foxwell is an animator who uses stop-motion, time-lapse, motion graphics and other techniques, and he's always looking for a new method to experiment with. WoodSwimmer was made by photographing cut trees as layers were milled away from the wood. The effect is that of traveling through the wood itself.
“Fascinated with the shapes and textures found in both newly-cut and long-dead pieces of wood, I envisioned a world composed entirely of these forms,” Foxwell told Colossal. “As I began to engage with the material, I conceived a method using a milling machine and an animation camera setup to scan through a wood sample photographically and capture its entire structure. Although a difficult and tedious technique to refine, it yielded gorgeous imagery at once abstract and very real. Between the twisting growth rings, swirling rays, knot holes, termites and rot, I found there is a lot going on inside of wood.”WoodSwimmer is less than two minutes long, and you will be mesmerized the entire time. It's hard to look away from the ever-shifting wood images. The music is by Bedtimes. Read more about the video at Foxwell's website.
Killer Home Decor
I have an ongoing project to make posts for mental_floss articles I wrote way back when that I do not have an archive for. Here's one from back in 2007.
Have you ever had visions of living like The Addams Family? Or maybe you just want to make your family and friends wonder about you. No matter how normal your home decor is, it's fun to have something around to make people gasp, and then (maybe) laugh. But if you put all the products I found together, you'd have a truly scary home. Check them out in a list I wrote for Mental Floss.
Miss Cellania's Links
A yearlong investigation by the USA TODAY Network found that port trucking companies in southern California have spent the past decade forcing drivers to finance their own trucks by taking on debt they could not afford. Companies then used that debt as leverage to extract forced labor and trap drivers in jobs that left them destitute. (via Metafilter)
Some Incredible Things Your Pets Have Eaten. And let us know the most unusual thing your dog has eaten.
Twenty-five years ago, U.S. tech companies pledged to stop using chemicals that caused miscarriages and birth defects. They failed to ensure that their Asian suppliers did the same.
Read a Book, Gamble With Your Life. Literacy is power, and many times in history, that power was controlled rigidly.
Why Your Baby Doesn't Sleep Through The Night. Babies wake up during the night because they are hungry/wet/lonely, and because it's natural for them.
The Persistence of Prog Rock. Critics called it pretentious, you couldn't dance to it, but we loved the music anyway. (via Metafilter)
The Fiberglass Statue Graveyard of Sparta. Where bygone advertising mascots, both familiar and unfamiliar, are retired.
And now, the Bikini Bobbers of the Summer of 1961. It looks like fun -and a liability nightmare.
How American real estate went bananas. A place to live is too expensive for the majority of Americans, and the few are snapping them up.
Not Falling for It
Oiqlele's mother tried to pull a prank on their cat. She assumed the cat can't read, but the joke was on her. That's one smart kitten! Of course, it would have helped if the hole were a bit bigger, because judging from the size of the paw, the cat is a little large for it. She still got a viral photo out of it.
Sunday, June 18, 2017
Kittens and Rabbits
Kittens raised near rabbits learn to jump like rabbits pic.twitter.com/kixJx02nKj— Paul Haine (@paul_haine) May 24, 2017
I didn't know which ones were kittens and which were rabbits until they turned toward the camera. (via Everlasting Blort)
Tweet of the Day
Mum: "Have you got something nice to wear for your date tonight, love?"— Horacio (@HoracioMelvin) June 6, 2017
Me: "Mum, I'm 33. I know what I'm doing" pic.twitter.com/15V1SyymXb
(via Everlasting Blort)
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Is Your Cat Talking To You?
Simon Tofield presents a new episode of Simon's Cat Logic, in which we look at how cats communicate with body language. Body language is what the Simon's Cat cartoons are all about. Cat expert Nicky Trevorrow explains what certain cat postures mean. A cat meows to get your attention, then they move around to let you know what they want. For my cats, that means running to either their food dish or the door. They communicate quite clearly. I have one cat that will come and tell me when the others want in. At the end of this video, we get a chance to see the very first Simon's Cat video that went explosively viral in 2007.
Friday, June 16, 2017
Miss Cellania's Links
A Mexican Town Is Giving Americans Something Donald Trump Can’t: Affordable Dental Care.(via Metafilter)
How a Philly Ob-Gyn Ended Up Delivering a Baby Gorilla. Zoo vets thought Kira might need a cesarean section, but Dr. Rebekah McCurdy got the situation under control.
Being Too Clean Can Be Almost as Bad as Being Too Dirty. The balance of nature prefers a sweet spot somewhere in the middle.
The 19th-Century Book of Horrors That Scared German Kids Into Behaving. See illustrations from the rare 1845 first edition of Struwwelpeter.
Team Trump: Oval Office Tapes? Talk to My Lawyer. Or, how to look more guilty by the day.
A Pair of Rare Apple Sneakers are up for Auction. By the time the bidding ends on Sunday, the price is estimated to go to around $30,000. (Thanks, John Farrier!)
"Every summer, men head into the Siberian wilderness to hunt for mammoth tusks, I joined one expedition & watched tuskers get rich, get drunk & nearly die." Photographer Amos Chappie brings the adventure to us. (via reddit)
Sit'on back now kids and let me tell you the legend of Eric C. Conn.
Some Versions of "The Tortoise and the Hare" Messed With the Moral.
Crossing the English Channel in a Flying Car
Entrepreneur Jerome Dauffy wanted to build a flying machine that could travel around the world in80 days. He might not be there yet, but he designed a flying car he calls Pegasus that resembles a dune buggy crossed with a paraglider. On Wednesday, Bruno Vezzoli took off from Calais, France, and flew it to Dover, England, across the English Channel. The 36-mile flight came off without a hitch! Read more about the flight here. (via Nag on the Lake)
Thursday, June 15, 2017
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