Lavender Tentacle Dread Bead with Mustard Yellow Suckers — via Etsy
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Over the past few years, electronics have evolved way past the silicon wafer. Researchers have developed functional circuits that can meld with human tissue and dissolve when sprayed with water, and stretchable batteries that could soon power wearable gadgets.
Now, a group of Swiss scientists has revealed the latest in innovative electronics: a flexible, transparent circuit that is tiny and thin enough to fit on the surface of a contact lens.
The researchers put their new device on a contact lens as a proof-of-concept in a paper published today in Nature Communications—an electronically-enabled lens, they suggest, could be useful in monitoring the intraocular pressure of people with glaucoma, for instance—but they envision the circuitry someday being implanted in all sorts of biological contexts — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Centre is glazed in a bright aqua blue with a crystal crackle effect. Underneath is glazed white and the tentacle sculpture is left unglazed as the soft white exposed clay. The tentacle is hand sculpted so each platter will be unique — via Etsy
You can choose whether you want her displayed before or after the decapitation. Her head holds in place with two invisible magnets if you rather see her before this unfortunate ending. She’s made of soft alpaca wool and a high quality acrylic yarn and stuffed with a synthetic non allergenic filling. It’s approximately 14 cm tall — via Etsy
This image is a balloon race
. The higher a bubble, the greater the evidence for its effectiveness. But the supplements are only effective for the conditions listed inside the bubble. You might also see multiple bubbles for certain supplements. These is because some supplements affect a range of conditions, but the evidence quality varies from condition to condition. For example, there’s strong evidence that Green Tea is good for cholesterol levels. But evidence for its anti-cancer effects is conflicting. In these cases, we give a supplement another bubble — via Information Is Beautiful
The perfect crime is far easier to pull off when nobody is watching.
So on a night nearly 43 years ago, while Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier bludgeoned each other over 15 rounds in a televised title bout viewed by millions around the world, burglars took a lock pick and a crowbar and broke into a Federal Bureau of Investigation office in a suburb of Philadelphia, making off with nearly every document inside.
They were never caught, and the stolen documents that they mailed anonymously to newspaper reporters were the first trickle of what would become a flood of revelations about extensive spying and dirty-tricks operations by the FBI against dissident groups.
The burglary in Media, Pennsylvania, on 8 March 1971, is a historical echo today, as disclosures by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J Snowden have cast another unflattering light on government spying and opened a national debate about the proper limits of government surveillance. The burglars had, until now, maintained a vow of silence about their roles in the operation. They were content in knowing that their actions had dealt the first significant blow to an institution that had amassed enormous power and prestige during J Edgar Hoover’s lengthy tenure as director.
When you talked to people outside the movement about what the FBI was doing, nobody wanted to believe it,
said one of the burglars, Keith Forsyth, who is finally going public about his involvement. There was only one way to convince people that it was true, and that was to get it in their handwriting
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A wet felted chunky merino cuff constructed using shibori wet felting techniques to create a surface texture reminiscent of octopus tentacles — via Etsy
Police in Australia have rescued a naked man who got stuck inside a washing machine while playing a game of hide-and-seek.
The man reportedly hid inside the top-loading machine so he could surprise his partner.
But he became stuck and it took 20 minutes for rescuers to dislodge him using olive oil as a lubricant.
Firefighters, paramedics and a search-and-rescue squad were also called to help with the situation.
The incident took place on Saturday in Mooroopna town, north of Melbourne, in Victoria state — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I spilt some water on my desk and didn’t wipe it up straight away… Now look what’s happened — via Etsy
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While the clay way drying, a slimy, gross, tentacled monster slithered up from the deep and attempted kidnap! Using the magical freezing fire power of my kiln, I was able to save this poor, innocent bowl from the ravages of the sea monster. But not before a few of the vicious, viscous tentacles were fused by fire to the bowl’s sides. The End — via Etsy
Eight detailed tentacles twist together to form this solid bronze Octopus Tentacle Twist Ear Cuff. This fluid Tentacle Twist Ear Cuff has detailed suction cups and can be worn on either the left or the right ear — via Etsy
Trailer for the action/fantasy film The Monkey King (????) directed by Cheang Pou-soi and starring Donnie Yen. The film is based on selected chapters of Wu Cheng’en’s classical novel Journey to the West and will tell the story of how the Monkey King rebels against the Jade Emperor of Heaven — via Youtube
Little Maddie is a Cthulhu-themed My Little Pony designed by Bigshot Toyworks for Friendship is Maddness
, a project encompassing a series of animation shorts and toys — via Laughing Squid
In the Saratov region fishing wild fox came to us — via Youtube
The Abbey Mills pumping station is a sewage plant designed so elaborately it looks like an authentic Byzantine monastery. It was thus named the Cathedral of Sewage. Located in the Thames estuary, this one-of-a-kind pumping station was built between 1865 and 1868 to siphon London’s sewage from the low level sewers up to the high level plant which processes the waste waters. Designed by architect Charles Driver and engineers Joseph Bazalgette and Edmund Cooper, the Cathedral of Sewage has a cruciform layout with intricate Byzantine architecture, a special touch that earned it a place in the United Kingdom’s Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. Not to mention, the fascinating building got a starring role in Batman Begins (2003) as the Arkham Asylum Laboratory with the Scarecrow and Rachel Dawes — via When On Earth
Cephalopod anyone? This little critter is inspired by the fascinating (and adorable) Hawaiian Bobtail squid (order Sepiolida) — via Etsy
Too Adorable to Boot off Lounge, originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Illustration of a twisting knot of monster tentacles, printed with water-based inks in vibrant greens and purples — via Etsy
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