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holybazookas:

Just another day in the hood

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Some people wear swim caps to protect their hair from the ravages of water, to keep hair out of pool filters, or reduce water drag while racing. The first of these is, of course, a concern for men with high-grade beards. They don’t want their perfectly designed facial arrangements to be harmed.

So it was inevitable that Virgin Trains, a British railroad company, would invent a device to protect the beards of swimmers. The beard cap is a Lycra swim cap that includes a wrap for beards and mustaches. PSFK reports that it’s a necessity for bearded athletic swimmers:

Virgin Trains, the official train partner to the Great North Swim, commissioned research after reading debates on swimming forums about beards causing drag. The findings revealed that 12 percent of men connect their beard to slower swim times and nearly a quarter feel their beards hinder their sports performance. Sporting men reported the reasons for this, with 11 percent saying their beard is irritating, 32 percent claiming it is a source of discomfort, and 42 percent saying they find it distracting.

-via Hopes & Fears

Scientists at MIT have pulled up a very tiny curtain on their newest invention: a 1.7cm square robot capable of assembling itself like a piece of origami. The Untethered Miniature Origami Robot is powered by a small neodymium magnet and four electromagnetic coils underneath the robot’s surface that create magnet fields necessary for it to operate. The small robot can walk on different surfaces, climb, carry objects twice its own weight, swim in shallow water, burrow, and it even completely dissolves in an acetone solution leaving behind just the magnet.

So what can we do with super tiny self-folding robots? Researchers hope to develop even smaller autonomous robots with additional sensors that can dissolve in water. Such tiny devices could have a variety of medical uses when introduced inside of a human body, maybe zapping cancer cells or cleaning clogged arteries. You can read more about it over at IEEE and in this research paper. (via Laughing Squid)

telesilla:

awesome-picz:

Cats That Need Your Attention The Exact Moment You Start Reading  

Cats Against Literacy

malformalady:

Dracula Raven Orchid ‘Edgar’ (cross between ‘Dracula roezlii’ and ‘Dracula vampira), from the cloud forest of western Ecuador and Colombia, at elevations of 1800 to 2200 meters.

Photo credit: Eric Hunt

really-shit:

Timeout

Ty Foster explores the emotional and physical flaws of having a plastic “prison” (elizabethan collar) installed on your animal in this series.. Although these cones are meant to reduce scratching, they can be the cause of much discomfort.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

In a gesture of respect for the delicate morals of its angry, fear-obsessed viewership, a Fox News station blurred out the abstract breasts of Picasso's Women of Algiers (Version O), which sold for $179 million this week. New York magazine senior art critic Jerry Saltz called Fox5NY "sexually sick."

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remeanie:

The Unflappable Captain Kirk

Kirk redefines “unflappable.”

(Photos: Ameshin)

Spoon & Tamago tells us that amezaiku--the Japanese art of lollipop making--has thrived since the Eighth Century. Shrinri Tezuka is a master of the craft. He owns Ameshin, a studio and workshop in Tokyo. There, he produces wondrously realistic and completely edible lollipops that look like animals. He combines sugar, starch, and food coloring into the forms of fish, frogs, and snakes.

A taxpayer's ability to deduct expenses for a personal workspace depends on whether the Canada Revenue Agency considers it to be a legitimate home office. Be warned: the rules are strict.

Sunwing just dropped the price of some of their Toronto (YYZ) to St. John's, Newfoundland (YYT) flights in June 2015 down to $272 roundtrip including taxes. The flights are non-stop.

How to find this deal

1. Go to www.sunwing.ca

2. Select 'Flights'

3. Search for a flight from Toronto to St. John's. Use one of the following date combinations:

Departure:
June 17, 18, 19
Return:
June 19, 22

June 19 to 22 is a Friday to Monday flight.

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For live discussion of this deal, or to get some amazing travel advice from over 22,370 real travelers in Toronto, join us in the YYZ Deals Facebook Group

Thanks to Rishi, a member of the group, for spotting and sharing this deal.

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The world of digital media is wide open for new creators to share their vision with the world, and many people are choosing to self publish their stories these days instead of dealing with a publisher.

Putting your story out there by yourself is great, but choosing to also create your own cover art, which is still a big factor in whether people will buy your book or not, can negatively affect sales.

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If the cover art is lousy, offensive or too minimal it may turn customers off, but if it’s a total disaster it might end up on a Tumblr called Kindle Cover Disasters!

Like purveyors of fine literary cheese, the folks behind Kindle Cover Disasters are giving these bottom of the barrel works of cover art a home and an audience, so we can all savor the flavor!

-Via Dangerous Minds

Neat faucet. They need work on their marketing copy.

The Swirl Faucet focuses its attention on the flow of the water. It features beautiful flow with intricate swirls, giving you the kind of hand wash that makes you feel like the rich and famous, even if you’re not!

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Video: Grizzly Bear vs. Hay Bale

The Skystone Foundation has announced that James Turrell’s Roden Crater project near Flagstaff, Arizona will be opened from May 14 to May 17 with limited access reserved at five-thousand dollars per person.

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