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Who Is Lying?

Everyone lies every day. One study came to a conclusion that acquaintances and strangers lie to each other at the rate of about three times in a ten-minute conversation. It was also concluded by several studies that most of us receive around 200 lies every day. That’s twelve lies an hour!
 Lies are to human interaction as bacteria are to food: they’re all over it and you have no idea.
 The good news is that most of the time it doesn’t matter.
 But what if something big is at stake, like your money or your heart?
Here are some facts to keep in mind!

 

Wounderland

Welcome to the weird and wonderful surrealistic universe of Mothmeister, called Wounderland.

 

Study for an Elephant

Jan Gulfoss 

 

Dying baby orangutan who was snatched from his mother in the Borneo rainforest is rescued

A traumatised baby orangutan who was snatched from the wild to be sold as a pet was locked up alone in a dark cage and left to die. It is thought tiny Udin was clinging to his mother when she was killed by poachers in the Borneo rainforest and torn away from her body to be sold to a local farmer. When he arrived at International Animal Rescue's Orangutan Centre in Borneo, his tiny body was malnourished and dehydrated, but he had no interest in eating or drinking. The vets looking after him believe he had given up on life and 'tried to die several times' following his rescue.

 

Edward the baby sloth gets teddy as a replacement mum at London Zoo

Zookeepers were forced to step in to help Edward, a seven-week-old two toed sloth, after mother Marilyn stopped producing milk. But sloths build their muscles as babies by clambering over their mothers and keepers were worried that without a surrogate Edward would never gain enough strength.

So handler Kelly-Anne Kelleher customised his sloth-teddy from the London Zoo gift shop with carabiners so that it can be hung from a branch, enabling the youngster to climb on and strengthen his limbs.

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When A Coffee Spill Turns Into A Masterpiece

Ever splashed yourself with coffee? Then you know its staining powers. But where some see a ruined shirt, others have found a canvas.

 

Meteors and a Blue Moon Compete for Attention

This skychart shows the Delta Aqaurid meteor shower radiant in the constellation Aquarius, which is now visible above the bright star Formalhaut in the southeast late night skies. 

 The annual Delta Aquarids meteor shower is at its peak. The night of July 30 into the pre-dawn hours on July 31 will be a great time to watch for shooting stars, and the Aquarids are something of a pre-game show to the iconic and much bigger Perseid meteor shower that will arrive in mid-August.
But another celestial phenomenon may make catching the show a bit tough.
On Friday, July 31 the second full moon of the month will rise into Earth’s skies—the first was July 2. The near-full moon at the time of the meteor shower’s peak will make viewing challenging as the fainter shooting stars will be washed out by the lunar glare.
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The moon seen over The Beatles statues on Penny Lane, Liverpool

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1000 musicians play Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters to ask Dave Grohl to come and play in Cesena, Italy

This is amazing.

Steven Spazuk’s Drawings Made From Smoke

Artist Steven Spazuk really is a master of smoke and mirrors. Well, definitely of smoke. He literally makes his unique images from the burning grey stuff. Using an open flame candle, Spazuk places paper above the heat, collecting deposits of carbon and leaving marks of smoke on his canvas. He then uses feathers, brushes and scraping tools to build his incredibly detailed images of gas masks, dying birds, weapons and soldiers. His new series of work has just opened at Reed Projects Gallery in Stavanger, Norway (runs until Aug 23rd) called Smoking Gun and Feathers.

 

Why Russian Cosmonauts Pee on a Bus Tire

The story goes that on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was about to launch into space, becoming the first human being to do so. At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Gagarin took a bus to the launch pad. When he arrived, he sensibly decided to relieve his bladder one last time.
So he peed on one of the bus's tires. Specifically, Gagarin peed on the back right tire. Ever since, Soviet and Russian cosmonauts faithfully peed on the back right tire of the shuttle bus before blasting off into space.
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The Colours Underwater

Massimo Giorgetta

 

Humpbacks filmed gatecrashing orcas’ fish feast

Killer whales have always followed herring to its wintering grounds, but the appearance of large numbers of humpback whales and even fin whales is a new phenomenon.

 

Buddy The Therapy Dog!

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No obligation.

Mina Tolouei Azar

 

How to get over anything in two steps

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Are we there yet?

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Great Aspirations

Words and Pictures by Grant Snider

 

one of those days

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what we are reading

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American dentist in hiding as world outraged at killing of 'beloved Cecil'

The American hunter unmasked yesterday as the killer of Cecil the lion has gone into hiding as the angry response spread across the internet and to Walter Palmer's Minnesota hometown.

 

Scientists in Israel have discovered how ants co-operate to move big chunks of food back to their nests.

A large team of ants does the heavy lifting but they lack direction, while a small number of "scouts" intervene and steer for short periods. They appear to have a mathematically perfect balance between individuality and conformism, the researchers said. The discovery was made by analysing videos of ants carrying oversized food items, including Cheerios. Published in the journal Nature Communications, the study used a very common species known as the longhorn crazy ant.
The only communication in the system is the forces that they feel through the object Dr Ofer Feinerman, Weizmann Institute of Science The species' name refers to the way the little creatures dash about, frequently changing direction with apparently aimless abandon. But the new findings suggest that the level of aimlessness in these ants' behaviour is in fact very finely tuned.

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This Isn’t a Photograph

These incredibly detailed images are actually hyperrealist pastel drawings.