This is isn't living! I quit!

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The baby girl that has learnt to fly, fix Dad's car and even do the decorating before she can crawl

She's only a year old, yet Signhild Nystrom has mastered flying, can wield a sword like a ninja, and even do a spot of DIY. Yet, despite the photographic evidence, Signhild's prodigious skills are actually the result of the lengths her father went to to make his little girl smile. Swedish photographer Emil Nystrom and his partner Isabelle, both 25, wanted a family album with a difference.
With a little help from Photoshop, their daughter looks capable beyond her years.
 

May the force be with you, and your kitchen decor.

25 Ways To Make Your Home A “Star Wars” Heaven. 

 

Things got real crazy at the Lowder wedding last night.

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Radiation Makes a Manned Trip to Mars Impossible with Current Tech

Though Curiosity the rover can explore and see Mars up close, curious men and women of Earth will have to wait a bit longer. NASA reports that a manned trip to Mars is likely impossible with current technology because of radiation. Curiosity's Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) was able to measure the radiation of Mars from inside the spacecraft and found data that makes NASA reconsider the effectiveness of current radiation shielding. Specifically: The findings, which are published in the May 31 edition of the journal Science, indicate radiation exposure for human explorers could exceed NASA's career limit for astronauts if current propulsion systems are used. Two forms of radiation pose potential health risks to astronauts in deep space. One is galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), particles caused by supernova explosions and other high-energy events outside the solar system. The other is solar energetic particles (SEPs) associated with solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun. Right now, spacecrafts do a better job at shielding against SEPs than they do GCRs. GCRs are highly energetic and penetrate the shielding on current spacecrafts. In order to protect astronauts from being exposed to radiation, NASA might have to invent better shielding. 

Or invent better something.

Tingly projections make beamed gadgets come alive

 Projecting interactive outlines of devices has been done before, but it is a lot trickier doing it on a moving object. Ishikawa's system detects and maps the position of an object 500 times per second and projects an image onto it. more

 

Smile, hydrogen atom, you're on quantum camera

How on earth do you make an image of such an object?

 Measuring the position of a single electron "collapses" the wave function, forcing it to pick a particular position, but that alone is not representative of its normal, quantum presence in the atom. "Wave functions are difficult to measure. They're exquisite quantum objects that change their appearance upon observation," says Aneta Stodolna of the FOM Institute AMOLF in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her team decided to make a picture using a technique dreamed up 30 years ago that can be thought of as a quantum microscope. Rather than taking an image of a single atom, they sampled a bunch of atoms. This removes the quantum nature of each individual atom's electron, forcing it to choose a particular location from those it is allowed to reside in. Do it with enough atoms and the number choosing each spot will reflect the quantum probabilities laid out by the wave function. Stodolna's team made a beam of atomic hydrogen and zapped it with two separate lasers that excited the atoms' electrons by precise amounts. An applied electric field then pushed the excited electrons away from their respective nuclei, towards a detector about half a metre away. The electrons emitted waves that produced an interference pattern on the detector (see "An atom undressed"). Crucially, the pattern was a projection of the spacings of the energy levels in the hydrogen atom, as laid out in the wave function, with bright rings where electrons were present and dark lanes where they were not (Physical Review Letters, doi.org/mmz). "You can think about our experiment as a tool that allows you to look inside the atom and see what's going on,"

  Stodolna says.

 

“We live as we dream--alone....” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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A bird talks to a robot

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One Man’s Devotion To His Dog Will Make You Cry

Surprise!

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Bouncing Guru

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A science blogger claims to have spotted a lizard meandering around Mars.

The unknown spotter is from Japan and alerted the website, UFO Sightings Daily, of the unusual sight. The rather unbelievable and completely unsubstantiated claim has caused some excitable conspiracy theorists to fear that the NASA could be planting life on the planet for scientific testing. The creature, judged to be either a rat or lizard, appeared in photos that were released by the American space agency in March. The photos were captured by a camera on NASA's Curiosity Rover.

Hey babe, how's it hanging?

The revolutionary Babykeeper Basic is an infant seat that can be hung up on the go.

 

Let's just take things slowly

The two snails were trying to get past each other on this partly-submerged log when they stopped for a closer look.

 

Croat drummers back Woolwich victim and his family

The year's edition of Croatia's Drum Camp will be dedicated to British soldier Lee Rigby who was killed in Woolwich earlier this month in what is believed to be a terrorist attack. Petar Curic, the founding director of Croatia Drum Camp in the western town of Groznjan said: "Lee Rigby was not only a soldier but a drummer. "He was a member of the drummers ensemble of the 2nd Fusiliers Regiment. It was a bestial act and we send all our prayers and feelings to the Rigby family. No one should ever tolerate this", Petar Curic continued. Director Petar Curic announced that the 7th edition of the international event held in Groznjan will be dedicated to Lee Rigby. He said: "We'll spend some time during the event in Groznjan to talk about tolerance and harmony among people, as well as respect to human life. All of that in honour of Lee Rigby. "I promise also to donate part of the budget to the Rigby family. I'll make sure the money falls into the right hands". Petar Curic also called for other Croatian drummers and all musicians to undertake some actions showing to show they do not agree with terror. Croatia Drum Camp will take place in Groznjan, Croatia, from 18 to 25 August.
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I’m not saying I’m Batman…

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Trash Never Looked So Beautiful

Many people think of beach trash as an unfortunate eyesore. But Barry Rosenthal, who spends much of his time on beaches in gloves and knee-high boots, combing through glass, plastic, and other junk, finds artistic inspiration in what others leave behind.

 

Sick Dutch TV sketch mocks Lee Rigby murder

A controversial Dutch television show has screened a comedy sketch about the brutal butchering of soldier Lee Rigby. Langs De Leeuw, which last week showed the host sucking milk directly from a young mother's breasts, appeared to make light of the gruesome murder in Woolwich in a spoof Eurovision Song Contest sketch. The sketch showed two men who bore a resemblance to Drummer Rigby's alleged killers Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale - waving bloody knives and cleavers at the cameras.

 

Chinese baby is rescued from toilet pipe after being flushed away by parents.

Firefighters and doctors rescue an abandoned newborn baby boy from a toilet pipe by cutting away a sewage pipe piece by piece. The baby is now safe and stable in hospital while the police are treating it as attempted murder.

 

Always wear a seatbelt

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Viagra for women

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So basically every guy that owns a malamute is incredibly sexy?

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George Clooney Mustache Update

This has been a George Clooney mustache update. 

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Lazing around

"My family's wonderful late Irish wolfhound, Xavier, lived to one day shy of his 13th birthday," says Christopher Katz-Summercorn, from north-west London.
 "The Irish wolfhound is the tallest dog breed and one of the biggest of the giant breeds so, based on the calculations that were provided to work out a dog's human age equivalent, Xavier would have been somewhere in his 120s. To have reached the age that he did was a particular achievement because the breed average for a wolfhound is seven years. "In terms of the secret to such longevity, I think much can be attributed to Xavier being content to laze around for large quantities of time. He wasn't particularly active. The scene in the [above] photo portrayed a fairly typical day for him. Also, naturally, he was part of a loving family and was involved in everything we did. We were very fortunate to have had him with us for so long."

 

Listen To Music Through Your Cheekbones While You Swim Laps

It's hard to listen to music while you're swimming because even waterproof earbuds that actually stay on try to conduct sound through air to reach your eardrums, and there's not a lot of air underwater.
The FINIS Neptune works on this issue by sending sound waves straight into your face.