New York’s water is some of the most delicious in the land, and it’s filled with teeny-tiny shrimp.
They’re called copepods. This is one a guy took photos of under a microscope after H&E staining the sample. They’re 1-2 mm long, transparent, have two sets of antenna, and feast on mosquito larvae. What are they doing in the water supply? Well, New York’s water is of such high quality that it isn’t required by the EPA to mechanically filter its H2O, which means you get to gulp down these cute little guys with every glassful. Bottoms up!
Ever get tired of that crappy song in your head and no matter what you do you can’t seem to get it out? Well someone has sought to find a solution to that, not that it’s a great solution, mind you.
Introducing Unhear It, where you will get an equally obnoxious song in your head. It may not be the best remedy but replacing Lady GaGa with Rod Stewart is a plus no matter how you cut it.
A man named Danny is diagnosed with a terminal cancer in 2006 and recounts his 27-year romance to StoryCorps with his wife Annie. Very moving and simple animations that bring the interview to life.
“These remarkable Brooklynites personify the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices of everyday people when we take the time to listen.”
Leave it to Texas. One of the finalists in the state fair’s fried-food competition has come up with a way to combine Texans’ obsession with deep fryers and their love of beer. That’s right — Fried Beer. Mark Zable’s creation is a ravioli-shaped dough pocket that’s filled with beer and plunged into a deep fryer. It’s a little messy — the beer pours out on the first bite — but you can always sop it up with the dough.
The new movie from the guy who brought you Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire. It’s based on the real life story of Aron Ralston, a mountain climber who gets trapped by a boulder for 5 days.
A man in China invents a machine that turns plastic back into oil. I’ve done a little research to see if this is fake and I can’t find anything that disproves it. Post it in the comments if you find anything on this. One of the few good Trashed Ideas.
Someone claimed this is Korean with American dubs, and I wondered at one point whether the dubs were overlaid by someone to put it in a different context, but such is not the case. It follows the tails of a worthless dog poo and it’s discovery of it’s greater purpose in life. Quite moving.
Probably one of the few somber videos I’ll ever post, I thought the music picked out was rather excellent. I admit I have a soft spot for the homeless and this makes me sad overall.
