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Man charged w/resisting arrest by covering his head while cops beat him.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Protect yourself from ATM fraud
Organized gangs are pulling off sophisticated attacks, including at many bank-owned ATMs.
Also: Moves that make you look cheap
Requesting a refill is fine, but don't bring the cup back hours later asking for more.
Also: Macau casino mogul Ho bids $330,000 for 2 white truffles at auction
A Macau casino mogul bid $330,000 for a pair of white truffles, including one weighing about two pounds, matching the record price he paid at the same event three years ago for one of the giant fungi.
Catch may be play of the year
Oklahoma State's Broderick Brown vaults far out of bounds to reach a ball, and then surprises everyone.
Also: Attack Of The Vintage Toy Robots
Robot collector Justin Pinchot gives the backstory on Japanese tin toy robots and how they reflected the postwar psyche and values of both Japan and the U.S.
How not to ruin appliances
Even a small nick on a dishwasher's vinyl-coated rack can start rusting your dishes.
Also: Ford Mustang Station Wagon
Ford never offered the Mustang as a station wagon, but that didn’t stop car modders from creating their own:
The story goes that in 1966 Italian coach builder Intermeccanica built a Mustang station wagon for advertiser Barney Clark and designer Bob Cumberford which showed up in many car magazines of the day. Supposedly Ford had a Mustang wagon in design stages around the same time but scrapped the program shortly after the Intermeccania cars appeared. The Intermeccania cars are often mistaken for a factory concept.Pictured above is a non-Intermaccania conversion, currently on sale on eBay. You can view several more pictures here.
The Valley of the Moon
Ischigualasto, meaning “the place where you put the moon” is a remote valley in Argentina. It is studded with geological formations left by wind erosion, amazing standing stones and boulders that are so rounded they look like enormous marbles. The valley’s once-fertile ground is now arid and contains so many plant and animal fossils that paleontologists come from all over the world to study them.
The Science Of Color Theory
Color theory is a vast and complicated sphere of knowledge. It consists of different scientific elements, such as: optics, spectroscopy, human anatomy and physiology, psychology, art history and theory, philosophy, ethics, architecture theory, design and many other applied sciences.
This article shows the schemes of harmonic color combinations and the examples of their usage by a bunch of talented vector artists.
Fourteen Most Beautiful Jellyfish On Earth
Jellyfish have always drawn gasps at their beauty - and at times their venom, which range from mild to enough to kill a man. Found in every ocean and in some freshwater lakes and rivers, the jellyfish is one of the wonders of marine life.
The Top 10 Daily Consequences of Having Evolved
Sure, we’ve got opposable thumbs and larger brains, but was the path of human evolution all that it’s cracked up to be? At Smithsonian magazine, Rob Dunn points out ten problems that we face today as a result of the evolution of our species.Here’s one:
4. Unsupported intestinesOnce we stood upright, our intestines hung down instead of being cradled by our stomach muscles. In this new position, our innards were not as well supported as they had been in our quadrupedal ancestors. The guts sat atop a hodgepodge of internal parts, including, in men, the cavities in the body wall through which the scrotum and its nerves descend during the first year of life. Every so often, our intestines find their way through these holes—in the way that noodles sneak out of a sieve—forming an inguinal hernia.
Hunters May Have Delivered Fatal Blow to Mammoths
The eternal debate ...
During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia.
During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia.
Scientist's odd ice age hobby
Hairy beasts like Yakutian horses return to Siberia in a one-of-a-kind ecosystem experiment.
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Pegasus flies in for a quick visit
This bizarre beast looks like it's stepped out of a Greek myth. But the extraordinary mutation of antelope and bird is actually a one-off optical illusion. The amusing picture was snapped as the animal was being chased by the tallest flying bird in the world — the Indian sarus crane.
The antelope had stumbled upon the bird's nest and had quickly been shooed away by the protective mum at Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan, India. The spectacle was caught on camera by photographer Jagdeep Rajput, who said people had compared the mutation to Pegasus, a mythical winged horse.
The 49-year-old, from Delhi, added: "The crane had laid a single egg and when the bull got close she chased it away. I was hoping to get a picture of the interaction between the two animals but I never expected I'd get anything like this.
"When I show people the photograph their first reaction is that it must be photoshopped. Others say it looks like some new species of mammal or a bovine version of Pegasus." Pegasus is a mystical horse-god creature from Greek mythology.
The antelope had stumbled upon the bird's nest and had quickly been shooed away by the protective mum at Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan, India. The spectacle was caught on camera by photographer Jagdeep Rajput, who said people had compared the mutation to Pegasus, a mythical winged horse.
The 49-year-old, from Delhi, added: "The crane had laid a single egg and when the bull got close she chased it away. I was hoping to get a picture of the interaction between the two animals but I never expected I'd get anything like this.
"When I show people the photograph their first reaction is that it must be photoshopped. Others say it looks like some new species of mammal or a bovine version of Pegasus." Pegasus is a mystical horse-god creature from Greek mythology.
Dog bowl sells at auction for $27,450
A California auction house said a sale featuring designer dog bowls was topped by a $27,450 doggie dish created by Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha.
Bonhams auction house said the sale, on Tuesday, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, featured Ruscha's "Untitled (Fido) 2010" as the top bid-getter.
David Hockney's bowl sold for $6,710, a bowl by artist Kenny Scharf sold for $4,575, a dish made by Ross Bleckner sold for $2,074 and a Chuck Arnoldi work sold for $1,220.
The dog bowls were sold to benefit PAWS/LA, a non-profit aimed at benefiting low-income and elderly pet owners.
You can see the other dog bowls here.
Bonhams auction house said the sale, on Tuesday, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, featured Ruscha's "Untitled (Fido) 2010" as the top bid-getter.
David Hockney's bowl sold for $6,710, a bowl by artist Kenny Scharf sold for $4,575, a dish made by Ross Bleckner sold for $2,074 and a Chuck Arnoldi work sold for $1,220.
The dog bowls were sold to benefit PAWS/LA, a non-profit aimed at benefiting low-income and elderly pet owners.
You can see the other dog bowls here.
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