Reaching only about 1.6kg as adults, Black-footed Cats may be the world’s smallest felines. When these two little kittens were born 2 April at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, they weighed-in at just 200 grams. The kittens’ sexes have yet to be determined. They were born to mother, Godiva, and father, Wyatt — via ZooBorns
Mell Lawrence Architects designed the Watersmark 35 house in Austin, Texas — via CONTEMPORIST
Max Dalton’s pop culture prints have caught our eye on previous occasions so it’s exciting to see some new work from him, this time celebrating the 50th anniversary of James Bond.
The prints were created for a screening of eight of the Bond films in San Francisco but are pretty cool for any fans of 007 — via Retro To Go
Australian researchers have found that blocking a particular protein acts as a handbrake to stop the progression of multiple sclerosis.
An estimated 21,000 Australians have MS, a disease that can attack parts of the central nervous system such as the brain and the spinal cord.
Doctors from Monash University and RMIT have discovered the interaction of two proteins causes damage to nerve fibres, and when they blocked the interaction, the disease was halted.
Their findings have been published in Brain, a respected international neurology journal — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Latex display mask — via deviantART
This handmade skull ring was crafted out Fimo Soft Polymer Clay. I made this for a boy with a hardcore attitude!
I used pastel yellow for the base, carved out all the details and baked for 10 minutes at 230°F. When it was cool enough, I was able to push black clay in all the carved details, and added two little balls of red clay for the eyes.
Then I attached the skull piece to an adjustable ring blank with super glue. Along with the glue, I secured the Skull piece with a little bit more black clay and liquid polymer clay for added stability. There’s no way he’ll escape. Finally I put it back into the oven one more time for 25 minutes, and it was ready to meet its new owner — via Rokacola
The British firm Racefit creates beautiful titanium and carbon end cans, and full titanium exhaust systems for discerning sportsbike riders who still believe loud pipes save lives.
The company is based in Derbyshire—home to some of the best and most heavily policed riding country England has to offer. Co-owners Jon Keeling and Phil Atkinson have been immersed in high performance bike culture for years and this Spondon-framed Kawasaki is the latest in a long line of high-performance, four-cylinder specials — via Bike EXIF
Ghana has become the first country in Africa to start protecting children against two of the continent’s deadliest infant diseases with simultaneous vaccinations.
Rotavirus, which causes diarrhoea, and pneumococcal disease kill more than 2.7 million children worldwide each year.
The project is backed by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A fungus that has torn through frog populations worldwide kills by dehydrating the hapless amphibians, disrupting electrolyte balance and causing cardiac arrest.
The fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which is responsible for chytridiomycosis disease, has caused massive frog death on a global scale, threatening many species with extinction. When the fungus reached the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, it slashed mountain yellow-legged frog populations by more than 75 percent in only about four years. The frog (Rana muscosa) is now listed as endangered.
Laboratory experiments had established how the fungus operates, but a new study is the first to observe the disease in action in the wild. San Francisco State University biologist Vance Vredenburg and colleagues collected blood samples and skin swabs from more than 100 yellow-legged frogs over the course of the summer of 2004, the year the outbreak hit the Sierra region — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Horrific crimes, such as the Anders Breivik case, illustrate the misconceptions the public has about mental illness, a leading expert says.
Professor Simon Wessely, of King’s College London, said the simplest responses to mass killings were that the perpetrators must be mad
.
But he said the way Breivik carried out the killings suggested otherwise.
He said the idea a psychiatric diagnosis could help people avoid punishment was wrong too — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Ever since Apple asked Corning to build scratchless glass screens for the original iPhone, the development of glass has been a major focus of the technology world. Scientists have attempted to improve the glass-making process, devising new ways to make it thinner but stronger. Yet, glass suffers from a number of other inefficiencies: It doesn’t handle water well, it reflects too much light, and it creates glare.
On Thursday, researchers at MIT announced a major breakthrough in glass-making technology, which basically involves a new way to create surface textures on glass to eliminate all of the drawbacks of glass, including unwanted reflections and glare. In fact, this new multifunctional
glass is not only crystal clear — unlike all other glass, which is reflective by nature — but it also causes water droplets to bounce right off its surface, like tiny rubber balls
.
The glass is self-cleaning, anti-reflective, and superhydrophobic. If it ever gets to be as strong as Corning’s Gorilla Glass, MIT will have effectively created the perfect glass
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Birthday celebrations mean cake, so wow the kids with this impressive creation — via Taste.com.au
Nefarious search engine optimisers be warned. Google is coming for you — again.
Following previous changes to Google’s ranking and page layout algorithms, the search giant is pushing yet another update to its algorithm this week with the hopes of curbing black hat webspam
from creeping into search results.
The change will go live for all languages at the same time within the next few days, said engineer Matt Cutts in a blog post yesterday, and will affect roughly 3.1 percent of queries in English to a degree that a regular user might notice
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The HemLoft is a beautiful egg-shaped treehouse built on Whistler Mountain. It’s magnificent, but because it was built in secret on government land, the fate of the wonderful orb is uncertain — via Gizmodo
The Final Word (detail), originally uploaded by Kate Kretz.
Artist Katie Kretz currently has an exhibition of her unusual embroidery work at Hardcore Art in Miami. The image above is a detail of a work called The Final Word
, and consists of thousands of french knots on black velvet. Check out the photostream of the exhibition, which runs through 2 June, on flickr — via CRAFT
Reddit user BillyAppletini posted about this amazing CAT-AT (and AT-AT Walker cat house) that he made for a friend. His comment thread has a lot of fun information about the building process, and his image gallery contains pictures of the project in-progress — via CRAFT
Today, Cafe Racer TV releases its entire Season 2 on DVD, which is a good excuse to look back at the featured bikes. With the benefit of hindsight, one of my favourites is a low-key build: a Triumph Thruxton from British Customs. It’s a real world
build that’s within the reach of a competent amateur with a mid-range budget — via Bike EXIF
It is only a tiny device – a flat, pancake-like layer of 300 atoms hovering in space.
Yet it has the potential to provide insights into how materials behave at the quantum level that none of today’s conventional computers would be capable of calculating.
When fully operational, its performance could only be matched by an impossibly large machine, said Michael Biercuk, a Sydney physicist and member of the international team that built and tested it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Octopus, originally uploaded by Jonathon Narvey.
The project [ES-arch] plans the reconstruction of an existing building, respecting the same profile. The old building was distributed on two levels with different function, stable at ground floor and barn at first floor. On the outside the existing building is characterised by two overlapping doors on east elevation, a great entrance on south elevation, a little independent volume still on south — via ArchDaily
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