We know it's tasty and delicious but who knew flavor could be so beautiful? This audio visual installation by Schwartz Flavour Shots riffs off the explosion of flavors one tastes with spices by literally exploding those flavors. Several tons of black pepper corns, cardamom, turmeric, paprika, cumin seeds, ginger, chili and coriander were placed in explosive bags, rigged to explode on certain notes. Looks delicious.
Roddy Piper wants to fight Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania 30, and he’s taken to his Twitter account to try and generate interest in the match-up.
The 59-year-old wrestling legend took to the social media website to suggest getting back into the ring with the 60-year-old Hogan. He then sent out a series of tweets stating that Wrestlemania 30, which takes place on April 6, 2014, would be the perfect occasion for the bout.
The highly reputed Wrestling Observer Newsletter, which is run by Dave Meltzer, has confirmed that Piper has pitched the proposed tag team match to WWE officials. If it goes ahead it will not only be an homage to the very first Wrestlemania, but it will also feature two of the most popular WWE stars of the modern era too.
The publication wrote, “There continues to be internal discussion regarding a possible Hulk Hogan involvement at Wrestlemania 30. ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper has pushed for an idea of a Hulk Hogan and John Cena vs. Piper and CM Punk Wrestlemania match.”
However it doesn’t look as though the fight will take place, because “the company does not believe Hogan could pass a physical.”
On Friday evening, Rowdy Roddy Piper originally sent out a series of cryptic messages via his account, @R_Roddy_Piper, the first of which read:
I KNOW SOMETHING THAT YOU DON’T KNOW!! When you find out your going to love IT!!!! Take a guess!! THIS IS NOT A TEST, THIS IS REAL WORLD!
— Rowdy Roddy Piper (@R_Roddy_Piper) January 10, 2014
He then looked to tease the match even further by adding:
HINT! YOUR GOING TO LOVE IT!! HOT ROD IS NOT GOING TO LOVE IT!! #dangernojoke
— Rowdy Roddy Piper (@R_Roddy_Piper) January 10, 2014
Piper then finally explained:
Dare you to put Hogan vs Piper! Separate the men from the Boys!
— Rowdy Roddy Piper (@R_Roddy_Piper) January 11, 2014
This tweet caused a number of his Twitter followers to erupt with excitement:
@R_Roddy_Piper at WM30, the two guys that were the reason Mania has numbers!
— Ben Jones (@ben_jones1977) January 11, 2014
“@R_Roddy_Piper: Dare you to put Hogan vs Piper! Separate the men from the Boys!” Cena and Hogan vs Piper and Orton maybe? — True God ® (@TrueGodImmortal) January 11, 2014
Finally, Piper couldn’t resist having a dig at his old wrestling buddy too, and he even went out on a limb and predicted that he would demolish Hogan in the contest:
If I did WMXXX with Hogan, I’d train my ass off!, and from bell to bell I’d fight with everything I got! I’d WIN! — Rowdy Roddy Piper (@R_Roddy_Piper) January 11, 2014
Roddy Piper Wants Wrestlemania 30 Match With Hulk Hogan is a post from: The Inquisitr News
The Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul has been given a premiere date.
AMC has announced that the series will premiere in November, although the network has yet to set an exact date.
AMC also announced that Mad Men will return for the first half of its seventh season on Sunday, April 13. The second half will air sometime next year.
In an interview with The Wrap, AMC executive vice president of programming, production and digital content Joel Stillerman said that writers are “just starting to break story” on Better Call Saul, and that Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is excited about rethinking the conventions of a drama.
“You know, taking an inherently funny character and surprising people in both directions,” Stillerman said. “It’s an hour show, it will be a drama, but it will also be very funny, as Bob’s character was on that show.”
Stillerman also said that Bob Odenkirk turned in a surprising dramatic performance in Nebraska, and that he is excited to see what he does with Better Call Saul.
“I think we were all blown away when we saw his work in ‘Nebraska,’ because we all knew he was a great actor, [but] Bob is in the movie in a very, very uncharacteristic role … nothing comedic about it,” he said.
“And not only does he hold his own, he’s really terrific,” Stillerman added. “He’s got a lot of depth and a lot of real acting chops. It’s gonna be fun to see what these guys come up with, to stretch the boundaries of what it means to be a drama.”
Last month, Vince Gilligan said there was a possibility that Better Call Saul could serve as a prequel and a sequel.
“We think, by and large, this show will be a prequel, but the wonderful thing about the fractured chronology we employed on Breaking Bad for many years is the audience will not be thrown by us jumping around in time,” he said. “So it’s possible that we may indeed do that, and we’ll see the past and perhaps the future. Nothing is written in stone yet, we’re still figuring it out.”
‘Better Call Saul’ Gets A Premiere Date, Will Change TV Drama, Says AMC VP is a post from: The Inquisitr News
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A cancer cure may have been found metastasizing cells, with researchers at Cornell University in New York claiming their cancer treatment was 100 percent effective in mice.
As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the cancer research establishment was criticized by James Watson, discoverer of the DNA structure, and he believes taking antioxidants can actually increase the risk of cancer, not reduce it as popularly believed.
While surgery and chemotherapy are effective at treating solid tumor lumps, around 90 percent of those who die during cancer treatment do so because of metastasizing cells, which means tiny pieces of the cancer have broken off and spread to other portions of the body through the blood circulation system, creating even more tumors. So the trick to any cancer cure would be figuring out a way to prevent the spread of cancerous cells.
Normally, when cells develop defects they will often trigger apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Apoptosis can be described as the “orchestrated collapse of a cell characterized by membrane blebbing, cell shrinkage, condensation of chromatin, and fragmentation of DNA followed by rapid engulfment of the corpse by neighboring cells.” In general, cancerous cells are normal body cells that have had portions of their tiny machinery break down and they’re now experiencing out of control replication and growth.
Cancer researchers have long known the cell functionality related to triggering apoptosis has fallen apart. Mike King says a protein that goes by the acronym TRAIL is the key to this partial cancer cure. When TRAIL comes into contact with cancer cells, they implode.
Initial tests of this potential cancer cure were not too encouraging. When introduced into a saline solution TRAIL was only about 60 percent effective at killing cancer. But King says what was missing was blood and white blood cells for the TRAIL protein to latch onto:
“We believe the fluid forces, the pressures and forces of blood flow help give the signals to the cancer cells. So basically the fluid flow pushes the cells together, the cancer cell and the altered white cell. And so now, in the blood flow, all of your white blood cells become essentially cancer-killing machines. And whenever they bump into a cancer cell that makes its way in the circulation, that cancer cell will go on to die within a few hours.”
Tests on mice with cancer have been very successful. But metastasizing cancer cells also spread through the lymphatic system, so King says their bioengineers are working on a cancer treatment that works in lymphatic fluid.
In related news, a cancer cure drug called AMD3100, or Plerixafor, may be within 10 years of helping pancreatic cancer patients:
“We want to get the clinical trial on humans started up as soon as we can as it was so successful on mice. By enabling the body to use its own defenses to attack cancer, this approach has the potential to greatly improve treatment of solid tumors. The best possible scenario is that it will cause regression to a large proportion against pancreatic cancer. And that is not just restricted to pancreatic cancer but would be effective in many forms, including ovarian and lung cancer because they react similarly. This could potentially cure cancer, and save all those lives lost each year to the disease.”
Steve Jobs famous died from this form of cancer, but it’s believed the cancer could break down the protective barrier surrounding cancerous cells.
Cancer Cure Found For Metastasizing Cells? TRAIL Treatment 100 Percent Effective In Mice is a post from: The Inquisitr News
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On our way back from CES, Gizmodo took a detour into the desert to explore a particularly bizarre aspect of the region's electrical infrastructure, the so-called Coyote Dry Lake Return Electrode.
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“Clowns are scary” is a well-loved idea in horror. One man who isn’t scared, however, is producer Eli Roth. He saw a trailer for a fake film called Clown and helped develop it into a feature. The full trailer for that feature, also called Clown, is now out. A father (Andy Powers) puts on a clown suit for his son’s birthday, only to find the suit is cursed and he can’t get out of it. Directed by Jon Watts, Clown premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year and is still waiting for distribution. Check out the trailer below.
Thanks to The Film Stage for the heads up.
And here’s the original fake trailer that got the attention of Eli Roth, thanks in part to use of his name.
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As the semi-furore surrounding Titanfall’s 6v6 maximum player-count reached its lukewarm fever-pitch, the game’s producer took to the GAFcave, saying – among other things – “our playercount is not 6v6 because of AI – AI play their own role in the game.” Despite that, the NPCs of the mecha-FPS will have an impact on proceedings. In an interview with Polygon, lead designer Justin Hendry revealed that – between man and machine – maps can contain nearly 50 combatants.
To break it down, each side contains not only 6 players, but potentially 6 Titans – one per player – and 12 AI soldiers helping out, for a total of 24 things per side. Given this, Respawn felt that higher player counts were breaking the game.
“The higher the player count, the more uncomfortable the game gets,” he said. “Unlike in most games where you can sit there and guard the two ways in, in Titanfall the guy can come in through the window right behind you, he can come from the window to your left, he can come from straight ahead, he can come in from the stairway and he can come in from the doorway, or whatever. Essentially there are five directions you can get killed from and the higher that player count, the more likely you are to get killed from behind and the more difficult it is to kind of manage your surroundings.”
“It just comes back to what makes the game fun,” Hendry later said. “If you’re making a game and you’re making decisions that’s not based on fun because you’re trying to please someone or trying to match numbers, you’re not doing the right thing.
“Why not make Call of Duty 256 players, or Battlefield 256 or 512? Maybe that would be awesome. Maybe that would be awesome for that type of game built around that, but you can’t just jam players into a game and say this is what is ordained.”
Part of the backlash seems to be about players wanting to define the parameters of their own fun, which – for the most part – is an entirely healthy and reasonable response. And, in a time when fewer games are allowing the potential mods, custom mutators or even dedicated servers, it’s perhaps natural that any form of restriction is met with hostility.
The problem comes when arbitrary numbers are used as a yardstick of quality before the game is out. If, on release, Titanfall does feel lacking, that’s a fair criticism to level at it. But until we get the chance to play the game and make that decision, we’re guessing based on assumed information. And yes, player choice should be encouraged, but if a higher player count actively works against the game, it seems unlikely that Respawn would want it to be raised. Ultimately, we’ll find out if that’s the right decision on the 13th March.
You can read Hendry’s full comments over at Polygon.
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The only thing more annoying than having to obey the speed limit when driving is having to frequently stop at red lights. So in a brilliant attempt to become the world's awesomest automaker, Audi has created a new in-dash system that tells you how fast or slow you need to drive in order to hit as many green lights as possible.
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