my hair and i have a very complicated relationship </3 — via c-cassandra
Makini and Tajiri are the proud parents of four new cubs! Two of the cubs were born on 25 June, and two were born on 26 June. You can tell them apart by their dye marks: Kataba has marks on both front feet, Mali has no dye marks, Msinga has a lighter mark on the left front foot, and Sabi has a mark on the left hind foot — via Youtube
Every other Monday this summer, our team of blacksmiths and craftsman will be taking some of your favourite characters and items to mash up into brand new hybrid weapons that you’ve never seen before. This week, they’re weaponising Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic by creating her a chamfron — via Youtube
New Zealand was preparing to conduct national covert surveillance last year, a US investigative journalist has said.
The claims by former Guardian newspaper reporter Glenn Greenwald were denied by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key.
The report was based on information disclosed by former US National Security Authority (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, who said the government had planned to exploit new spying laws.
The revelations come just days ahead of a New Zealand general election — via redwolf.newsvine.com
WikiLeaks has today released parts of the FinFisher surveillance suite, as well as a customer list that it claims includes the police forces of the Netherlands and New South Wales, and the intelligence arms of the Hungarian, Qatari, Italian, and Bosnian governments.
Based on the price list it released, WikiLeaks has estimated that FinFisher licence sales brought in between €48 to €98 million, with total revenue said to be higher with FinFly ISP licences not being counted, nor the costs for support.
Of the customers listed, the NSW Police is listed as having purchased €1.8 million in FinFisher software, as well as submitting support requests relating to wanting to categorise keylogged conversations to avoid hot water by intruding on legal privilege, asking for reporting features to meet warrant requirements, and problems with FinSpy updates — via redwolf.newsvine.com
New Bioinspired Approach to Sepsis Therapy from Wyss Institute on Vimeo
Harvard scientists have invented a new artificial spleen that is able to clear toxins, fungi and deadly pathogens such as Ebola from human blood, which could potentially save millions of lives.
Blood can be infected by many different types of organ infections as well as contaminated medical instruments such as IV lines and catheters.
When antibiotics are used to kill them, dying viruses release toxins in the blood that begin to multiply quickly, causing sepsis, a life-threatening condition whereby the immune system overreacts, causing blood clotting, organ damage and inflammation.
It can take days to identify which pathogen is responsible for infecting the blood but most of the time, the cause is not identified, while the onset of sepsis can be hours to days. Broad-spectrum antibiotics with sometimes devastating side effects are used and currently over eight million people die from the condition worldwide annually.
Even with the best current treatments, sepsis patients are dying in intensive care units at least 30% of the time,
said Dr Mike Super, senior staff scientist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, which led the research. We need a new approach.
To overcome this, researchers have invented a biospleen
, a device similar to a dialysis machine that makes use of magnetic nanobeads measuring 128 nanometres in diameter (one-five hundredths the width of a single human hair) coated with mannose-binding lectin (MBL), a type of genetically engineered human blood protein.
The study, An Extracorporeal Blood-Cleansing Device For Sepsis Therapy, has been published in the journal Nature Medicine — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A three-month-old fennec fox is full of energy and ready to play in the Children’s Zoo Nursery at the San Diego Zoo. The young male, who weighs just 680g, is in quarantine before training to serve as an animal ambassador for his species.
The nocturnal fox pup has spurts of energy, so animal care staff have been giving him lots of toys and food puzzles to help keep him busy. For example, meal worms are hidden in cardboard boxes or in his sand mound, which encourages the fox to use some of his natural searching and digging behaviours. The fox’s favourite toys to play with are small, plush toy mice — via Youtube
Costa Rica has begun to reform its postal address system, which uses landmarks and directions instead of street names and numbers.
According to a study from the Inter-American Development Bank, the country loses an estimated $720m (£440m) a year in revenue associated with lost and undelivered mail.
The current system also causes problems for delivery workers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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Everything you need to know about Beats by Dre — via Youtube
For the spirit of chaos and disharmony, Discord sure looks tranquil in the shower. A good hot soak combined with a good back scrub is undeniably relaxing after all and it seems he also relieves excess tension by belting out his favourite songs, behind the seclusion of bathroom tiles at least. Or maybe it’s from being granted freedom and making new friends after a long, long time of seclusion?
Discord, the bathtub, and stand are carved from Philippine mahogany while Discord’s horns and goatee, the gears, scrub brush, and shower are made of narra hardwood. They’re hand painted in enamel with a protective flat lacquer top coat. Discord sits up at 7″ high while the entire piece measures 13″ high, 4″ wide, and 11″ long. It took 155 1/4 hours to complete — via Youtube
These are new Halloween themed line of sculped drain stoppers. This ferocious Tentacle is Hungry for you. Coming up out of your drain… gonna get ya! Cast in hard durable plastic… comes complete with a silicone gasket to insure a nice deep bath… but who would want to submerse this collectible item? Stands about 4.5 inches tall — via Etsy
How to wrap a Pico Widgy Pry Bar — via Youtube
The Nether Regions from WÖNKY Films on Vimeo
Welcome to the Nether Regions; or by its offical title Hell – The Nether Regional Branch
Wielding untold power at the helm of a vast and mighty realm may sound glamorous but no one tells you about the sleepless nights and the unrelenting stress, but that’s what the Devil (Brian Blessed) must deal with on an eternal basis. Even in Hell, there’s no escape from bureaucracy but occasionally he does manage to slip away. With the most magical healing hands in all the nine circles of Hell and a sympathetic ear, it is Sven’s Massage Parlour to which the Devil makes his first port of call
Evan Kuester, like many students, found his course work to be less than inspiring. However, he did have access to some really cool tools, such as a large 3D printer that started his mind wandering. Evan had noticed a fellow student on campus a few times. The thing that he noticed was that she had no left hand. Knowing that he had a 3D printer at his disposal, Evan found the inspiration he needed to embark on something wonderful. One day he worked up the nerve to simply walk up and introduce himself and propose an idea: Why not 3D print an aesthetically pleasing prosthetic? From that point forward, Evan and Ivania Castillo have been friends — via MAKE
Tony Abbott, Australian Prime Minister
Originally aired on ABC TV: 11/09/2014 — via Youtube
Photo: Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project
A host of previously unknown archaeological monuments have been discovered around Stonehenge as part of an unprecedented digital mapping project that will transform our knowledge of this iconic landscape — including remarkable new findings on the world’s largest super henge
, Durrington Walls.
The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, led by the University of Birmingham in conjunction with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology, is the largest project of its kind.
Remote sensing techniques and geophysical surveys have discovered hundreds of new features which now form part of the most detailed archaeological digital map of the Stonehenge landscape ever produced. The startling results of the survey, unveiled in full at the British Science Festival, include 17 previously unknown ritual monuments dating to the period when Stonehenge achieved its iconic shape. Dozens of burial mounds have been mapped in minute detail, including a long barrow (a burial mound dating to before Stonehenge) which revealed a massive timber building, probably used for the ritual inhumation of the dead following a complicated sequence of exposure and excarnation (defleshing), and which was finally covered by an earthen mound.
The project has also revealed exciting new — and completely unexpected — information on previously known monuments. Among the most significant relate to the Durrington Walls super henge
, situated a short distance from Stonehenge. This immense ritual monument, probably the largest of its type in the world, has a circumference of more than 1.5 kilometres (0.93 miles).
A new survey reveals that this had an early phase when the monument was flanked with a row of massive posts or stones, perhaps up to three metres high and up to 60 in number — some of which may still survive beneath the massive banks surrounding the monument. Only revealed by the cutting-edge technology used in the project, the survey has added yet another dimension to this vast and enigmatic structure — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An orphaned Mountain Lion cub has a new home at ZooAmerica in Hersey, Pennsylvania — via ZooBorns
It’s Payback Time from Nexus on Vimeo
Their world is in the grip of a lethal outbreak. A mysterious blue substance is leading to catastrophic destruction. Who is behind it all?
Leg Pillow, originally uploaded by Red Wolf
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