January 8, 2017
My very heart leaped with delight at the sound!
Horse with a rubber chicken [much squeaking]. Horse with a big silver bouncy ball [ambient noise]. Horse with a rubber chicken, again [not so much squeaking]. Horse with a pokey reindeer and a rubber duckie [talking and teensy squeaking]. [more inside]
Monkeys Mourn the Death of a Robot Baby Monkey in BBC Wildlife Series
A CHIMP adopting a pet kitten and a family of monkeys mourning the death of a robot baby are some of the scenes captured in a BBC wildlife series filmed by remote-controlled animals. Spy In The Wild has been shot using replica animals with cameras hidden inside. Scientists and show producers were amazed when a group of langur monkeys in India mistook a robot baby for one of their family.
And when the cyber monkey was accidentally dropped from a height, they were plunged into grief and began hugging each other for comfort
...at least until the icy patches form between their toes
Why do dogs love snow? Canine behavioral researcher Julie Hecht (Dog Spies) asked a bunch of experts why dogs go crazy for snow. Did you know that "dogs' ability to turn up their metabolism as the temperature falls means that snow will cause them far less discomfort than it can do for us"? [more inside]
"We need to talk about pockets."
"I wore men's clothes for a month and it changed my life": Motivated by Octieber and determined to combat the world of gendered clothing, Lucy Rycroft-Smith tries menswear for a month and documents her findings.
Burger Art
Fat and Furious Burger is a Tumblr dedicated to the burger art of Studio Furious. The about page claims that all burger art is edible. You can see their work in action with this burger art video.
Meanwhile in a country far far away.....
U.S.-backed Saudi War in Yemen Fuels 'Largest Food Security Emergency in the World'.
American Special Operations Forces Are Deployed to 70 Percent of the World’s Countries.
Related; The Political Rhetoric of Perpetual War. [more inside]
American Special Operations Forces Are Deployed to 70 Percent of the World’s Countries.
Related; The Political Rhetoric of Perpetual War. [more inside]
New light shone on the relationship between Minoans and Mycenaeans
Yet remarkably little is known of the beginnings of Mycenaean culture. The Pylos grave, with its wealth of undisturbed burial objects and, at its bottom, a largely intact skeleton, offers a nearly unprecedented window into this time—and what it reveals is calling into question our most basic ideas about the roots of Western civilization.—This 3,500-Year-Old Greek Tomb Upended What We Thought We Knew About the Roots of Western Civilization by Jo Marchant.
No Plan
Today would have been David Bowie's 70th Birthday, and he's released a transfixing new video, No Plan. [more inside]
The Pussyhat Project--knit, crochet, sew for women's rights
Currently over 111,000 people have pledged to attend the 2017 Women's March on Washington on Jan. 21. Meanwhile, thousands of crafters, some outside the US, are working to make sure there is a defiant sea of pink cat eared hats that day via The Pussyhat Project, which aims to reclaim the word pussy and make a bright visual statement about women's rights and strength in numbers--while keeping marchers' heads warm. You can download free patterns and knit or crochet a hat for yourself or to donate to others who will be marching. Hat donors can attach a personal note to the wearer describing a women's issue they are passionate about and contact info if they wish. [more inside]
No Horses Were Harmed in the Making of This Footage
CGI breakdown reel for the Game of Thrones episode Battle of the Bastards, from VXF house Iloura. [CW: graphic battle carnage]
Don't believe the height
Can you see a pattern forming here?
This guy makes sweaters of places and then takes pictures of himself wearing the sweaters at those places. No more inside; that's it. Sweaters. Places. You know you want to click.
I hate to brag, but...
Dutch babies were found to be more contented – laughing, smiling and cuddling more – than American babies. Dutch babies were also easier to soothe, while American babies displayed more fear, sadness and frustration.They raise the world's happiest children - so is it time you went Dutch?
Pathways to Civilization
The Origin of Cities - "It may seem odd to conduct the rise of cities to ritual, inequality, and debt, and yet they play a very large role in the urban revolution." (via) [more inside]
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