EVOL: love in a backwards world [video short]

Chris Vincze shot EVOL: Love in a Backwards World in only one day, just off Oxford Street, one of London’s busiest shopping streets. The 5 minute film tells the story of a couple who spot each other across a crowded street and fall in love. Although everyone else in the world around them moves backwards, the couple moves forward as they find each other.
Clever idea but it gets a little boring after the first half.

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random pictures

Porpita porpita

Porpita porpita has a small disc like body and floats freely in the water column. Related to the jellyfish, this species measures just one inch in diameter.

Armadillo Lizard

The Armadillo Lizard adopts a curious defensive posture when threatened by rolling itself up like an Armadillo, with its tail tightly held in its jaws, presenting a spiny ring to the predator and protecting the softer, vulnerable belly area."
girls and math

So true... (that they are perceived that way...)
Death of angry Bob

The wisdom of pig
Larry in the bush

You have to do what Simon says.
nano explosion

This image of "Nano-Explosions" won first prize in this year's "Science As Art" competition. Fanny Beron from the École Polytechnique de Montréal used an electron scanning micrograph to record the explosion that happened when a CoFeB magnetic array was overloaded.
Yes indeed..

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I wanna be the guy [most insane game ever]

I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game is a sardonic loveletter to the halcyon days of early American videogaming, packaged as a nail-rippingly difficult platform adventure. Players fill the role of The Kid, a youthful, vaguely Megaman-esque protagonist on a quest to become The Guy. This inscrutable plot, however, is just a vehicle for a wide variety of inventive, well-designed and frustrating jump-and-shoot challenges that pay homage to many of the games you loved as a child. The ever-fragile Kid explodes in a shower of red pixels at the slightest brush from the game's many obstacles, from traditional spikes and bottomless pits to more unconventional killers, such as plantlife and puzzle pieces.

Using a multiroute layout not unlike a Metroidvania, the game grants a degree of deadly exploration, without those extraneous upgades meant to make life easier. The game provides players with a choice in terms of their deathrate, thanks to a variable difficulty setting that changes the number of save points from frequent to nonexistent. IWBTG is open to all players; knowledge of videogaming history is optional, and may not help against the frequently ironic and always sadistic deathtraps located herein. And so, the question is left up to you...

Do YOU have what it takes to be The Guy?

Don't count on finishing the demo unless you have serious patience skills.

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myoats [artistic creation]

Fun to fool around with whatever your artistic ability.

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Safe baby handling tips [humor]

Everything that you need to know about good parenting.

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Vector TD 2 [game]

The year is 2108 and Earth is under attack from a race called the Vectoids. The only way humans can survive is to strengthen its defensive capabilities using Vector TD, a computer simulation of Vectoid attack scenarios. Deploy and upgrade towers to zap foes as they walk by, preventing them from reaching the end point(s) on each map. Earn cash by defeating foes and keep your defenses strong to stave off the increasingly powerful hordes!
A fresh new style for a tower defense game.

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Running the numbers

Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.


Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.


Depicts 29,569 handguns, equal to the number of gun-related deaths in the US in 2004.


Depicts 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every six months.


Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.


Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.
That's a lot of cell phones...!

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Oscilloscope hack

...they don't only make boring waveforms.

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Spray paint art

How does he do that so quick?!

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some sciency facts

Octopus Beats Grinch, Heart for Heart

The Grinch (that green fuzzy guy who stole Christmas) became an official good-guy when his heart grew three sizes one day. The octopus does even better - he has three hearts!

Most Of Your Body’s Cells Aren’t Yours

Strange but true. There are more microbial cells in your body than cells that have your own DNA. As NPR’s Robert Krulwich reported in 2006, the human body has 20 times more microbes than cells! I guess that pretty well justifies the “Imperial We.”

That’s Heavy, Man!

If a piece of a neutron star the size of a dime landed on earth, it would weigh about 100 million tons.

What Did He Say?

Radio waves travel so much faster than sound waves that a person listening to a campaign speech by radio broadcast can hear the words 18,000 kilometers away before a person sitting at the back of the convention hall where the politician is speaking!

Those Notorious Killer Coconuts

It’s a fact. More humans are killed every year by falling coconuts than by shark attacks. When is Hollywood going to produce THAT blockbuster horror film?

My, That’s a Funny-Looking Chicken

If the brain stem is left intact after beheading a chicken, it can continue to live (with some care in feeding). There is one documented case of a headless chicken living on for 18 months after he was supposed to have become Sunday dinner!

And Don’t Drink the Water

97% of the water on earth is undrinkable. An estimated 20% of the world’s surface fresh water supply is contained in Lake Baikal in southern Siberia (the world’s deepest lake at more than mile in depth).

That's the last time I walk under a coconut tree!

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