I think I have a new hero.

The wife and I are off to Italy for the next 10 days!� So, no updates for a while.

God bless the internet.

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Turns out the “Green Fairy” is just another pink elephant.

German scientists put old bottles of the substance to the test and found that the liquid is 70 percent alcohol (140 proof) and 0 percent hallucination.

“All things considered, nothing besides ethanol was found in the absinthes that was able to explain the syndrome ‘absinthism’,” the researchers wrote in an open-access paper in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Don’t foward this to your friends. Buy some and watch ‘em fake their hallucinations.

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Tenacious D is here to come again in your ear pussies.

An immaculately preserved baby Mammoth was found frozen in the Russian Arctic. They have most recently done CT scans of the animal to learn more.

“We could see for the first time how internal organs are located inside a mammoth. It is pretty important from a scientific point of view,” said Alexei Tikhonov, deputy director of the Russian Academy of Science’s Zoological Institute, who has been leading the project.

“Her internal organs were well preserved — the heart was seen distinctly with all its ventricles and atria, as well as the liver and its veins,”

Pretty awesome stuff.

A Golden Eagle attacks and flies away with an entire goat. At least the goat gets a sweet ride before he’s killed and eaten.

Time for some un-learning. Columbus was a lucky moron, George Washington a liar, and despite what you’ve heard, I do not cry after sex.

The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are born from the bottom plate and move up, trembling and rotating around the edge of the iron spiral.
Each cone uses one electromagnet, and its iron core is extended and sculpted. The movement of the spikes in the fluid is controlled dynamically on the surface by adjusting the power of the electromagnet. The shape of the iron body is designed as helical so that the fluid can move to the top of the helical tower when the magnetic field is strong enough.

Bugs are awesome. Meet the Velvet Worm

Most common in the Southern Hemisphere, they prey on smaller animals such as insects, which they catch by squirting a sticky slime. In modern zoology they are particularly renowned for their curious mating behaviour and the fact that they bear live young.

I’d figure they were particularly renowned for shooting gooey shit like crazy. And they speak Spanish. Crazy. Just crazy.

I think I’ve posted this before, but this is version 2.0. Boston Dynamics has developed a new version of what they call “The most advanced quadruped robot on Earth.” This thing is both creepy and amazing to watch. It certainly isn’t sneaking up on anyone, though, as it sounds like it’s powered by a couple of Poulan 2-cycles.

I can do 2 of these things. But not the most important one.

I’ve posted a lot of high-speed camera slow motion clips on here. I think this one takes the cake. Might be NSFW.

Quizno’s Classic Italian
1370 calories
86 g fat
4490 mg sodium