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Photographs were meant to immortalize unforgettable moments — funny, shocking, historic, and romantic moments that you could look back from. Of course, we don’t just photograph ourselves. We photograph nature and animals, too, and their moments could also be as funny and as shocking as ours.See the pictures over at IFL Science.(Image Credit: Christina Holfelder/Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020) There are times when you don’t need to make your child hold the real thing for him or her to understand how you use the object. Sometimes, a creative approach, and a child’s highly imaginative mind, is enough. It has many benefits, too. Not only do you put your child away from harm and the danger of breaking the real thing; you also give him or her a toy to play with.Sydney Piercey recycles and repurposes her excess cardboard into delightful replicas of everyday items for her children to enjoy. Starting as a few projects (a quarantine hobby) for the amusement of kids in her neighborhood, it soon shifted as Piercey’s young daughter drew interest in the creations as well. Piercey’ love of creativity and engineering kicked in further as she started brainstorming different types of items to construct and materials to use.“We buy dog food, beer, baby wipes and the like in bulk, and these boxes turned inside out become perfect for creating appliances out of,” Piercey tells My Modern Met. The pieces not only afford her with ample opportunities to continue in a day to day practice of sustainability—something that she’s committed to—but also adds an entertaining spin on early childhood education.Check out Piercey’s creations over at My Modern Met.(Image Credit: My Modern Met) Being drunk is such an interesting state to be in. I believe that no one has experienced the same thing when they were in this state.Perhaps what’s interesting about this is how people reveal a different side of them when they are drunk. Some people become creative, while others become apathetic. But if there was something common to drunk people, it’s the way they give the people a reason to laugh.See 50 of these funny drunk people moments over at The Mind Circle.(Image Credit: The Mind Circle) Phosphine can be created in the lab, but as a naturally-occurring chemical, it is usually formed by the decay of organic matter. At least here on earth. It appears that astronomers have detected phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus. It's too early to say what that really means, but the news is exciting. The presence of phosphine is seen by many astrobiologists as a "biosignature" i.e. an indicator of the possible presence of life. The detection was made by the Atacama (ALMA) array located in Chile and the James Clerk Maxwell telescope located in Hawaii. The research team includes members from the University of Manchester, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Cardiff University. A paper will appear in the 14 September issue of Nature Astronomy.From what we're told the researchers have concluded that abiotic mechanisms (i.e. ones that do not involve life) that might produce phosphine cannot account for the large amount that they have detected. The phosphine has been detected in the region within the atmosphere of Venus that is considered by some to be potentially habitable.Much more research is needed to detect whether this might mean that microbial life forms are floating in Venus' atmosphere, or possibly that some life existed long ago. Or maybe it means that some mechanism for producing phosphine exists on Venus that does not exist on Earth. See a video on the subject at Astrobiology. The announcement from the Royal Astronommical Society is here. -via reddit (Image credit: NASA) Angels, in some paintings, are portrayed as strong creatures, radiating majesty and glory. In other paintings, angels are portrayed as cute innocent babies, blowing bubbles and playing harps, displaying beauty and goodness. But I believe that both of them are inaccurate portrayals.If the qualities in both of these portrayals are true, then angels should radiate majesty and glory, but at the same time display beauty and goodness. And these qualities are present in the humble cat.Well, what do you think?Image via Who’s your kitter, senpai? On Facebook This simple science experiment/DIY can be the perfect at-home activity (with or without company). If you have kids at home, this will be a great bonding time with them! ABC News’ Ginger Zee made a lava lamp with her kids at home, and was able to wow and entertain her kids without much of a hassle. The lava lamp recipe only requires four ingredients!Image screenshot via ABC News Have you ever wondered why your dog’s nose is cold and wet? Don’t rush your furry companion to the vet for this one, as it’s a normal trait! Most of the time, that’s how a dog’s nose is, and the only time it gets warm and dry is when it's asleep! Livescience talks about the possible cause of this odd but normal phenomenon in dogs. Check out the full piece here.Image via Wikimedia Commons There are two kinds of people in autumn: those who consume pumpkin spice in every form possible, and those who blow up pumpkins. Lauri Vuohensilta (previously) is squarely in the second category. Here he experiments to find out whether gunpowder or dynamite is better at making a pumpkin explode. Either will do the job, but these guys employ a high-speed camera to get a real good look at what they have wrought. -via Digg JunsKitchen decided to teach his adorable cats how to ring a bell, and the hilarity that ensued brought joy to my heart. He shows us that training your pets to do a certain task is difficult, and takes a lot of effort and patience. His cats ringing the bell everytime they would want something just makes Jun a big butler for his cats. If genetically-engineered mice can keep their muscle mass in space, does that mean we don’t have to worry about our weight when we go up to space? Assuming we get a chance to do so, of course. Microgravity can make people’s muscle mass and bone density wither away. It can take months for astronauts to recover their muscle density after a six-month stay on the International Space Station. Bone density? It can take years to recover that. Ouch. In an experiment done to find a way that astronauts can avoid those problems, genetically-engineered mice, called “Mighty Mice” spent 33 days aboard the ISS and was able to retain more muscle and bone density than the control mice that were not tinkered with, as ScienceAlert detailed:"These findings," the researchers wrote in their paper, "have implications for therapeutic strategies to combat the concomitant muscle and bone loss occurring in people afflicted with disuse atrophy on Earth as well as in astronauts in space, especially during prolonged missions."The target of the engineering was a protein called myostatin, which plays a significant role in regulating muscle growth. Mutations in the myostatin gene can produce something called myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy, resulting in mega beefcake muscling: this has been observed in some cattle, and this viral whippet.Image via ScienceAlert Circulatory Systems is an experimental short film described as "The major highways, the arteries and veins of our cities." Busy streets are layered in beautiful kaleidoscopic, even fractal, patterns. It's traffic, but it's pretty! -via Boing Boing Only two days after teenager James Hanger enlisted to serve in the Civil War, he was shot on the battlefield. To save his life, medics cut off his leg, making him the very first amputee of the war. He would not be the last- around 60,000 soldiers suffered limb amputation -most without anesthetic- before the war ended in 1865. Hanger went home and retreated to his bedroom, where his parents feared he was succumbing to depression. Meanwhile, the sheer number of soldiers coming home missing an arm or leg spurred improvements in prosthetic limbs. Dr. Douglas Bly developed America's first articulated prosthetics, designed to replace the standard peg leg of earlier times.  What made Dr. Bly’s prosthetic limb superior to earlier designs was his knowledge of human anatomy and specifically the way the leg works at the ankle. His limb allowed for side motion instead of simply forward and backward, and mechanisms at both the ankle and the knee allowed for more natural bending and flexing. In fact, Dr. Bly was credited with inventing the first curved knee. The ankle movement was obtained through the use of a polished ball inside a socket of vulcanized rubber. Unfortunately, Dr. Bly’s invention was considered too expensive for a government contract.Entered James Hanger — the 18-year old engineering-student-turn-soldier who had his limb shattered after just two days. It turned out that when he retreated to his room, he was not wallowing in self-pity, as his parents had feared. Rather, he took to heart the oft-said phrase “necessity is the mother of invention” and went to work fashioning a practical prosthetic limb. Three months later, by November 1861, he had developed The Hanger Limb. Like Dr. Bly’s prosthetic, it contained a hinged knee and ankle that allowed for greater mobility.The most important innovation of the Hanger Limb was that it was affordable for the veterans who needed it. Read that story and the development of artificial limbs both before and afterward at 3 Quarks Daily.  -via Nag on the Lake (Image credit: Flickr user National Museum of Health and Medicine) One fan in the video says, "What are we doing?" It doesn't look like football.But the complicated play does end in a touchdown that secures victory for Hillcrest-Tuscaloosa over Wetumpka (Alabama high school football teams) with only 2.9 seconds left on the clock.Believe it or not, this is actually what the coach planned. AL.com reports:The play “Bronco” is named after Adams saw Boise State run a similar scramble play years earlier.The play started with quarterback Ethan Crawford passing in the left flats to running back Marcus Wilkins. Nine laterals later, Crawford picked up a fumbled ball and ran untouched the final 46 yards for the game-winning touchdown.-via Dave Barry Larry Harnisch has spent the past 24 years researching the Black Dahlia murder case, in which the body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was found nude and dismembered. That was in 1947, and the case has never been solved. While researching the story for the 50th anniversary of the murder, Harnisch ran into so many loose ends, he couldn't let the story go. He found that the published accounts were so rushed by the journalists of the day that they often filled in the blanks with speculation and titillation.   Some writers claimed she was lured to Hollywood from the East because she was an aspiring actress. She wasn’t. Others wrote that the newspapers gave Short the sobriquet. They didn’t. A few have intimated she was a hooker. She wasn’t.  Or that, at the very least, she was promiscuous. She wasn’t.  Some writers contended the original detective team was inept. They weren’t. She’d been called a war widow. She wasn’t.Will Fowler, a reporter for the Examiner at the time, told Harnisch that he had been the first reporter at the scene and had arrived before the police. Fowler claimed there were no officers to prevent reporters and photographers from tromping through the crime scene and interfering with the evidence.  Shortly before police arrived, Fowler, who wrote a memoir, Reporters, told Harnisch that he had closed Short’s eyes and later helped load the bottom half of Short’s body into the coroner’s vehicle. Later, Harnisch tracked down retired LAPD patrol officer Wayne Fitzgerald who, along with his partner, were the first cops on the scene. He contradicted almost every element of Fowler’s account.  During an interview Fowler quoted Napoleon: “History is an agreed upon lie.” Fitzgerald contended that when he arrived there were no reporters or photographers.Harnisch's research over the years led him to a suspect he is convinced was guilty. "Was" guilty, because almost all the principles of the story are now dead. Harnisch is still researching the murder of Elizabeth Short for a book that has yet to be finished, but you can get a taste of what he found at The Delacorte Review. -via Strange Company (Image source: Los Angeles Police Department) Neatorama is the neat side of the Web. We bring you the neatest, weirdest, and most wonderful stuff from all over the Web every day. Come back often, mmkay?

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