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Edinburgh goes bananas for cult show with
a gorilla costume, a rocking chair and little else
Back for its 15th year, this festival favourite finds a bespectacled primate sittingsilently on stage for 56 minutes – to wild applause
Edinburgh goes bananas for cult show with a gorilla costume, a rocking chair and little else
"Potatoes are better than human blood for making space bricks, scientists say"
Potatoes are better than human blood for making space bricks, scientists say
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A 70-year-old woman from Gedney Hill, Lincolnshire, has finally solved the mystery of why her application for her dream job as a motorcycle stunt rider in 1976 went unanswered.
Tizi Hodson, a lifelong daredevil, recently received her original job application letter—48 years after it had been stuck behind a post office drawer.
Ms. Hodson, who applied for the position in January 1976, was stunned when she opened her mail and discovered the letter, accompanied by a handwritten note that read: “Late delivery by Staines Post Office. Found behind a draw [sic]. Only about 50 years late.”
Reflecting on her life, she expressed amazement at how the letter found its way back to her after all these years. “How they found me when I’ve moved house 50-odd times, and even moved countries four or five times, is a mystery,” she said.
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UK Woman Receives Reply To Job Application After 48 Years - Inshort
A 70-year-old woman from Gedney Hill, Lincolnshire, has finally solved the mystery of why her application for her dream job as a motorcycle stunt rider in 1976 went unanswered.
Tizi Hodson, a lifelong daredevil, recently received her original job application letter—48 years after it had been stuck behind a post office drawer.
Ms. Hodson, who applied for the position in January 1976, was stunned when she opened her mail and discovered the letter, accompanied by a handwritten note that read: “Late delivery by Staines Post Office. Found behind a draw [sic]. Only about 50 years late.”
Reflecting on her life, she expressed amazement at how the letter found its way back to her after all these years. “How they found me when I’ve moved house 50-odd times, and even moved countries four or five times, is a mystery,” she said.
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UK Woman Receives Reply To Job Application After 48 Years - Inshort
Utah Officials Tell People To Stop Brining Turkeys In The Great Salt Lake
"A properly brined turkey should be fully submerged in the brine, either in a sealed bag or a cooler. The Great Salt Lake has waves, which are less than ideal for any meal.
Strong waves can quickly turn a turkey into a castaway waterfowl, which is what Sylvester thinks might have happened to the turkey found on Silver Sands Beach.
Of course, there is another possible explanation. Sylvester hasn’t ruled out the possibility of the turkey artillery theory.
“Some people will shoot turkeys into the lake with a turkey cannon, like many people use a potato cannon,” he said. “I'm not sure if that's the case here, but I know people occasionally do things like that.”
"A properly brined turkey should be fully submerged in the brine, either in a sealed bag or a cooler. The Great Salt Lake has waves, which are less than ideal for any meal.
Strong waves can quickly turn a turkey into a castaway waterfowl, which is what Sylvester thinks might have happened to the turkey found on Silver Sands Beach.
Of course, there is another possible explanation. Sylvester hasn’t ruled out the possibility of the turkey artillery theory.
“Some people will shoot turkeys into the lake with a turkey cannon, like many people use a potato cannon,” he said. “I'm not sure if that's the case here, but I know people occasionally do things like that.”
Canadian Spa Hopes Hair-Freezing Contest Can Continue for Another 12 Years – SEE the Hilarious Winners
"In the town of Whitehorse, a 10-hour drive from Juneau, Alaska, bathers dip into the naturally warmed waters at Eclipse Nordic Hot Springs. If the outdoor temps are cold enough, people can make their hair freeze into wacky shapes.
Temperatures need to drop below -4°F (-20°C) for an extended period to get the best frozen hairstyles that could win the $2,000 prize money.
Contest categories include best female and male, best group, best facial hair, and a people’s choice award, and every category winner receives a $2000 cash prize."
"In the town of Whitehorse, a 10-hour drive from Juneau, Alaska, bathers dip into the naturally warmed waters at Eclipse Nordic Hot Springs. If the outdoor temps are cold enough, people can make their hair freeze into wacky shapes.
Temperatures need to drop below -4°F (-20°C) for an extended period to get the best frozen hairstyles that could win the $2,000 prize money.
Contest categories include best female and male, best group, best facial hair, and a people’s choice award, and every category winner receives a $2000 cash prize."
Strange.
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In a ground-breaking experiment, scientists have discovered a brand-new colour, one they say has never been seen before. Dubbed ‘olo’, the colour is described as an intense blue-green that sits outside the usual range of what the human eye can see.
A study, published in the journal ‘Science Advances,’ details how a team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Washington pioneer a new technology called Oz. This innovation allows scientists to stimulate individual photoreceptor cells in the human retina using laser light.
“The Oz system represents a new experimental platform in vision science, aiming to control photo receptor activation with great precision,” the study says.
During their experiment, researchers shone a laser beam into the pupil of one eye of each of the study’s five participants, three of whom are the study’s co-authors. All of the participants have normal colour vision.
The human eye typically sees colour by combining signals from three types of cone cells—S, M, and L cones—each sensitive to blue, green, and red light. Normally, light that activates one cone type will also activate others, which limits the range of colours we can perceive.
The Oz system, however, breaks this rule by selectively targeting only the M (green-sensitive) cones with laser light, leaving the neighbouring S and L cones unaffected leading the participants to see a colour that doesn’t exist in nature.
“By activating only the M cones, we elicited a colour beyond the natural human gamut,” the researchers wrote. They describe the colour as a blue-green of “unprecedented saturation.”
The team believes Oz could one day help improve tools for studying colour blindness or lead to new technologies for creating colours in digital imagery.
“This new class of programmable platform will enable diverse new experiments,” the study noted, including possibilities for probing the plasticity of human colour vision. END QUOTE
Scientists unveil a colour never before seen by the human eye
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In a ground-breaking experiment, scientists have discovered a brand-new colour, one they say has never been seen before. Dubbed ‘olo’, the colour is described as an intense blue-green that sits outside the usual range of what the human eye can see.
A study, published in the journal ‘Science Advances,’ details how a team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Washington pioneer a new technology called Oz. This innovation allows scientists to stimulate individual photoreceptor cells in the human retina using laser light.
“The Oz system represents a new experimental platform in vision science, aiming to control photo receptor activation with great precision,” the study says.
During their experiment, researchers shone a laser beam into the pupil of one eye of each of the study’s five participants, three of whom are the study’s co-authors. All of the participants have normal colour vision.
The human eye typically sees colour by combining signals from three types of cone cells—S, M, and L cones—each sensitive to blue, green, and red light. Normally, light that activates one cone type will also activate others, which limits the range of colours we can perceive.
The Oz system, however, breaks this rule by selectively targeting only the M (green-sensitive) cones with laser light, leaving the neighbouring S and L cones unaffected leading the participants to see a colour that doesn’t exist in nature.
“By activating only the M cones, we elicited a colour beyond the natural human gamut,” the researchers wrote. They describe the colour as a blue-green of “unprecedented saturation.”
The team believes Oz could one day help improve tools for studying colour blindness or lead to new technologies for creating colours in digital imagery.
“This new class of programmable platform will enable diverse new experiments,” the study noted, including possibilities for probing the plasticity of human colour vision. END QUOTE
Scientists unveil a colour never before seen by the human eye
Interesting made my living measuring controlling colour guess retired too early. metallics and other effects were fun
too bad.
too bad.
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