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Nov 8, 2019
Adventure World in Japan has a program raising emperor penguins. In order to prevent parents from crushing babies, the staff cares for newborn chicks. But to prevent chicks from imprinting on humans as their parents, which would discourage them from mating with other penguins when they mature, staff wear penguin disguises on their heads and one of their hands:
(Via Mulboyne.)
Researchers compared the sprays of droplets we spew out of our mouths when wearing a one-layered cloth mask, two-layered cloth mask, surgical mask, and no mask at all — while talking, coughing, and sneezing. Mashable sums up the findings succinctly: The study’s big takeaways are: • When talking, wearing even a single-layer mask significantly limits […]
Florida man Vincent Scavetta, 28, was charged with aggravated assault with a firearm after threatenening a fellow shopper with a handgun. The two were arguing in Walmart over Scavetta’s apparent refusal to wear a facemask. Scavetta was also charged with brandishing the firearm; both charges are felonies. Christopher Estrada of West Palm Beach, told deputies […]
Animator Takahiro Shibata made this delightful facemask that turns fogged-up eyeglasses into a fun feature of the design. “I made a mask for people with glasses,” reads Shibata’s translated tweet. “The more clouded your glasses are, the hotter you can see the ramen.” 眼鏡の人専用マスクをつくりました。眼鏡が曇るほど、ラーメンが熱々にみえます。使いにくさ、この上なし。 pic.twitter.com/rSV0tmlleA — しばたたかひろ | Takahiro SHIBATA (@iine_piroshiki) July 13, 2020 (via […]
Part of the reason WordPress is the undisputed king of website creation is its open-source framework, allowing anyone to create plugins offering levels of functionality to WordPress sites that were unprecedented. So where do you find all the great ideas that are pushing WordPress forward? You can sample a heaping spoonful of that innovation with […]
If you’re a photographer, videographer, or graphic designer, you’ve got a lot of competition charging up behind you. Because while you’ve been trained as a content creator, the task of snapping brilliant images, capturing well-composed video, and posting effective social media is now part of literally everyone’s skill set. For years, Adobe and their ubiquitous […]
After years of hearing a steady drumbeat about the necessity of surfing the web under the protection of a VPN, even the most technophobic among us are starting to come around. But even knowing the dangers one can face from cybercrooks phishing for information from unsuspecting victims online, those last holdouts still have some fears. […]
