The Exosuit allows humans to move like scuba divers at depths that would make scuba wildly impractical . It’s got all the benefits of a small submarine, but with more flexibility and freedom of movement.
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The underwater spacesuit that’s going to revolutionize ocean research
A hotel restaurant in Onitsha, Nigeria was reportedly shuttered after authorities confirmed it was selling dishes containing human meat. According to the Naija Zip , self-described as an er, “gossip news” site, police discovered two human heads on the premises along with weapons and ammunition. “I went to the hotel early this year, after eating, I was told that a lump of meat was being sold at N700, I was surprised,” a pastor who tipped off the cops was quoted as saying. “So I did not know it was human meat that I ate at such expensive price.”
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Nigerian restaurant busted for cannibal cuisine
At the Myrmecos blog, Alex Wild explains why all the baby ants are saying “YOPO” . (You Only Poop Once)
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And now, a post about ant poop
A man purchased a first-class ticket on China Eastern Airlines and enjoyed over 300 days of free meals and drinks at the airport’s VIP lounge at Xi’an Airport in Shaanxi, China. He kept changing the itinerary, which allowed him to feast without paying for nearly a year. When the airlines started to look into the matter, he cancelled his ticket and got a refund.
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Man uses first-class airline ticket to get free meals for almost a year
Choire Sicha reports on Mediaite managing editor Jon Nicosia, who turns out to be a con artist, Zachary Hildreth, with form. The “confession” . The fallout . On the internet, no-one know you’re a dog. But if they never see you because of “black ops”, well, you’d think some suspicion would kick in… [The Awl, Mediaite, Gawker]
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Top blogger scammed many
Starfish have eyes — not just light-sensitive “eye spots”, but real, honest-to-Poseidon eyes, one at the end of each of their arms. They probably see the world differently than we do (for instance, they’re likely colorblind and can’t see at near the level of detail), but they can see. And they know about that time you poked them with a stick.
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The eyes of the starfish
When the first excavations of the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum began in 1738, the diggers found what appeared to be charcoal and half-burnt logs . In reality, those blackened lumps were papyrus scrolls. Buried beneath the detritus of Mt. Vesuvius, a Herculanean villa contained a whole library of the things. And now, thanks to micro-CT imaging and other digitization techniques , researchers are finding ways to read those scrolls.
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How to: Read books buried 2000 years ago
This ancient Peruvian telephone was unearthed in the 1930s by by Baron Walram V. Von Schoeler, “a shadowy Indiana Jones-type adventurer.” The gourd-and-twine device, created 1,200 to 1,400 years ago, remains tantalizingly functional — and too fragile to test out. “This is unique,” NMAI curator Ramiro Matos, an anthropologist and archaeologist who specializes in the study of the central Andes, tells me. “Only one was ever discovered. It comes from the consciousness of an indigenous society with no written language.” We’ll never know the trial and error that went into its creation. The marvel of acoustic engineering — cunningly constructed of two resin -coated gourd receivers, each three-and-one-half inches long; stretched-hide membranes stitched around the bases of the receivers; and cotton-twine cord extending 75 feet when pulled taut—arose out of the Chimu empire at its height. There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections (Via Daily Grail )
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1,200 year old telephone
In 2005, scientists found some soft tissue in the fossilized leg of Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now, they can confirm that, yes, that is T. Rex collagen. What’s more, there’s preserved collagen in lots of other T. Rex fossil specimens. How’d it survive? Stephanie Pappas at NBC News explains .
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Bits of T. Rex tissue survived for millions of years
DIYer Warrior_Rocker wanted to make his classic SNES controller wireless, so he decided to hack in a USB Logitech receiver and transmitter so the controller could work with modern devices. Read more…
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Hack Wireless Into a SNES Controller with a Logitech Receiver