Huang Yong Ping (b 1954 in Xiamen, Fujian province, China) – Wu Zei, 2010. A 25 metre wide Octopus from the exhibition Mediterranean Sea at Monaco’s Oceanographic museum — via Red Lipstick Gets Sick and Dies
Derrick, Thomson and Thompson, Magnum and Poirot are the newest recruits at a Dutch police department. These Rotterdam rats have been trained to keep the streets clean and are expected to save the police both time and money.
Police inspector Monique Hamerslag is in charge of the project, which is overseen by Mark Wiebes, head of the police innovation
centre. In a statement to AFP, Wiebes said, “As far as we know we’re the first in the world to train rats to be used in police investigations”.
Detective Derrick and his rat partners cost just £8 each and are capable of being trained to identify an impressive range of odours — including drugs and explosives — within ten to 15 days. In contrast, a police dog costs thousands of pounds and requires a minimum training period of eight months — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Jaeger-LeCoultre presents the 180th Anniversary Film with a narrative voice of Clive Owen, actor and a friend of the brand.
180 years have passed since Antoine LeCoultre founded the Manufacture with all crafts under one roof in the Vallee de Joux in Switzerland.
Since 1833, creations by Jaeger-LeCoultre have been laying milestones in the history of Fine Watchmaking: the Atmos clock, the iconic Reverso watch…
Born in the Vallée de Joux, these unique creations encapsulate the expertise of the men and women of the Manufacture guided by the enduring quest for excellence, and yet this is only the beginning — via Youtube
Eerie beauty of the squid: Underwater photographs which capture spectacular colours of sea creature usually thought of as ugly. Bobtail squids use thousands of cells in the outer layer of their skin to change colour. They transform to attract a mate or blend in with their surroundings. Underwater photographer Todd Bretl — via Wil Wheaton dot Tumblr
The Float table is a matrix of magnetised
wooden cubes that levitate with respect to one another. The repelling cubes are held in equilibrium by a system of tensile steel cables. It’s classical physics applied to modern design. Each handcrafted table is precisely tuned to seem rigid and stable, yet a touch reveals the secret to Float’s dynamic character.
RPR Float Table from RockPaperRobot on Vimeo
— via Octopuns
Ballet dancers develop differences in their brain structures to allow them to perform pirouettes without feeling dizzy, a study has found.
A team from Imperial College London said dancers appear to suppress signals from the inner ear to the brain.
Dancers traditionally use a technique called spotting
, which minimises head movement.
The researchers say their findings may help patients who experience chronic dizziness — via redwolf.newsvine.com
British photographer Jason Sheldon has won a settlement of £20,000 (about $32,300 US) over a stolen image of his, after initially being offered less than one percent of that.
The dispute centred around a backstage photo Sheldon captured in July of 2011 of pop star Ke$sha partying with rap duo LMFAO. Daybrook House Promotions grabbed the image and used it in an ad last year for a Nottingham nightclub, reasoning that since the picture had been posted on Tumblr, it must be free to reuse at will.
Sheldon tried to explain that copyright doesn’t work that way and sent the company an invoice for £1,351 ($2,200). In response, Daybrook said they never would have used the image if they had realized it was not free to use, and therefore would pay him only £150 ($242).
Instead of accepting that paltry offer, Sheldon decided to take the case to court, and after several rounds of preliminary judgements that went the photographer’s way, Daybrook agreed to an out-of-court settlement of £20,000 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US federal judge allowed a class-action suit against Google to proceed, saying the company’s terms of service are unclear when describing how it scans Gmail content in order to deliver advertisements.
Google had filed a motion to dismiss the suit, which alleges that the company intercepted and read email while in transit in order to deliver advertisements and create user profiles and models since 2008. The plaintiffs alleged the company violated federal and state wire-tapping laws.
The suit, which is being heard in US District Court for the Northern District of California, further contends non-Gmail users who sent email to Gmail users were also subject to illegal interception.
In her ruling Thursday, US District Judge Lucy H Koh wrote that Google’s terms of service and privacy policies do not explicitly say that the company intercepts users’ email to create user profiles or deliver targeted advertising.
Although Google revised its terms of service and privacy policy in 2012, Koh wrote that a reasonable Gmail user who read the Privacy Policies would not have necessarily understood that her emails were being intercepted to create user profiles or to provide targeted advertisements
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
No time to read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time? In just two and a half minutes, Alok Jha explains why black holes are doomed to shrink into nothingness then explode with the energy of a million nuclear bombs, and rewinds to the big bang and the origin of the universe? — via Youtube
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In my head, an exploding TARDIS would look like this… — via Neil Gaiman
Photo: Doors by Patrycja Makowska
The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Cancer Centre at Duke University has the largest experience on the East Coast with my sort of tumour, so I went there for further consultation and treatment.
As doctors there examined me, it was obvious that my tumour had already grown again; in fact, it had quadrupled in size since my initial chemo and radiation. I was offered several treatments and experimental protocols, one of which involved implanting a modified polio virus into my brain. (This had been very successful in treating GBMs in mice.) Duke researchers had been working on this for 10 years and had just received permission from the FDA to treat 10 patients, but for only one a month. (A Duke press release last May explained that the treatment was designed to capitalize on the discovery that cancer cells have an abundance of receptors that work like magnets in drawing the polio virus, which then infects and kills the cells. The investigational therapy… uses an engineered form of the virus that is lethal to cancer cells, while harmless to normal cells. The therapy is infused directly into a patient’s tumour. The virus-based therapy also triggers the body’s immune system to attack the infected tumour cells
) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sandworm from Dune in plush form — via deviantART
Jason Freeny does it again with his latest toy dissection of one of the most nostalgic medical games of our childhood, Operation. In production since 1965, Operation tests a players’ steady hand as they attempt to pick out iconic ailments and anatomical parts without buzzing and setting off Cavity Sam’s red nose. Jason recreated the game board and replaced Cavity Sam’s fake innards with real anatomy. Not such an easy game anymore huh? — via Street Anatomy
Expertly handcrafted borosilicate glass cuttlefish pendant. It measures 1.25 inches wide, 2 inches long and come with a fancy adjustable cord/lace necklace — via Etsy
Triple purpose… main lamp, soft light, candlelight, or any combination. This lamp measures approximately 4′ across. Each detachable tentacle has lights inside and would be about 30? long if you stretched it out straight. Recently SOLD, but I am making another soon. $18,000 — via Mason’s Creations
Revell Westinghouse Atomic Power Plant — via Steve Niles Tumblr
This gigantic Cthulhu is made from old clothes in tones of green. He is quite heavy (4.5 kg) and is more an element of interior design than a toy — via Etsy
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