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Every Day, These Elderly Chinese Women Wake Up At 4AM To Feed 1,300 Stray Dogs

For the past six years, a group of five elderly women in China’s central Shaanxi Province have been looking after over 1,300 stray dogs at their very own custom dog asylum. At 4AM every morning, these lucky canines get treated with 400kg of tasty food. The shelter was established back in 2009 by 60-year-old local Wang Yanfang. This animal-lover has been relying solely on donations from generous well-wishers. Foregoing China‘s notoriously extravagant firework displays, Wang and her trusted colleagues even spent New Year‘s Eve with the abandoned strays. One of the ladies admitted that the dogs aren’t always the friendliest of pups, as they occasionally receive bites and nips. However, that’s never put Wang off her beloved dogs. Far from it, according to Tencent News, she remarked: “They’re like your children, you can’t bear to be apart from them, or to lose them.
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Obama leads tributes to Star Trek actor

"I loved Spock," said Mr Obama.
 Nimoy died in Los Angeles on Friday. His son Adam said he died of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which is often caused by smoking. His career took in acting, directing, writing and photography, but he was best known for portraying the half-human, half-Vulcan character Spock.
 Obama said in a statement: "Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy."

  "Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his time and talents. "And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the centre of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future." via

 

Leonard Nimoy’s telegram to JFK

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Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles.
 He was 83.

 

— Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) February 23, 2015

 

Backyard Banjo Buddies

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Sloths by Adam Batchelor

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The Cutest Guinea Pig Cosplayer Ever

Chikuwa is the cutest guinea pig in Tokyo--and the best cosplayer, too! She dresses like her favorite characters, such as Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon, Chun-Li from Street Fighter, and Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th.  more

 

Marathon Runner Wears A Tomato Feeding Robot On His Head

Yes, it is as strange as it sounds. Japanese ketchup company Kagome has taken product placement to another level. Unimpressed that most marathon runners rely on bananas as a fuel source, they decided to invent a tomato feeding robot that athletes can wear.

 

Are we there yet?

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Think about it

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Honey Hunters In Nepal

A series of incredible photographs on the life of Honey Hunters in Nepal, captured by British photographer Andrew Newey.

 

Highlights from the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards

The 2015 Sony World Photography Awards gathered some of the best amateur and professional photos around the world and showcased them in an epic collection of the year’s best photography.
The shortlist for this year’s competition is sure to please, featuring a series of beautiful and powerful images from a range of different categories.

 

Where do whales go to die?

On the northern tip of New Zealand's South Island, there is a long bar of sand called Farewell Spit. The area is famous, but for an undesirable reason. It's a hotspot of whale strandings.In February 2015, 200 pilot whales became stuck on the shore. It was the biggest stranding in the area in over a decade, according to local conservation teams. Rescuers spent hours trying to re-float them but 100 died. Beaches like Farewell Spit are perhaps the most conspicuous places that whales can die.
To all intents and purposes, it seems as though the whales have committed suicide by swimming too close to the shore.
So are beaches like this the places where whales go to die – or are there other graveyards that we don't know about? It's a mystery that has been around since antiquity.

Toilet Graffiti Battle

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Banksy in Gaza

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Talking husky puppy

Halp!

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Andy Murray beaten by Borna Coric in Dubai quarter-finals

Britain's Andy Murray was beaten 6-1 6-3 by Croatian teenager Borna Coric in the Dubai Championships quarter-finals.

 

Artist Carves Wax Crayons Into Pop-Culture Icons

Artist Hoang Tran creates your favorite pop-culture characters, from The Simpson’s to the Ninja Turtles, all out of wax…but not just any wax. Tran carves each character from a jumbo-sized crayon! That’s right, each intricately and meticulously detailed character is carved from your everyday Crayola crayon…the same crayons that you used to make your own “masterpiece” with at age three. Each pop-culture icon is carved from the color in which it dominantly possesses, but also has hints of other colors that make up the finishing touches of the character.

 

Disney Animation’s History In 54 Illustrations By Rafael Mayani

Here are some of  illustrations. 

 

Amazing Friendship Between A Boy And Labrador

By Jelena Simic Petrovic

 

Winter Lodgings

Photograph by John Warner, National Geographic Your Shot