Scientists have created a single chart that illustrates the circle of life with every known species on Earth In 1582, Richard Mulcaster, headmaster of the Merchant Tailors’ school, wrote that “our English tung is of small reatch, it stretcheth no further than this Iland of ours.” It didn’t stay that way. Today, English is spoken by more than a billion people all over the world. It is a colorful, vibrant, and diverse tongue that long has picked up words from the many languages with which its speakers have come into contact. “English” The English language originates in the dialects spoken by the early Germanic tribes—the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who began to settle Britain following the departure of the Romans in the fifth century AD. Its ultimate origin is the Latin Angli—“the people of Angul”—the name given to an area of northern Germany (now Schleswig-Holstein) where the tribe originated. When Pope Gregory the Great (590-604 AD) encountered a group of young Angles at a Roman slave market, he remarked that they looked more like angeli—“angels”—than Angli, prompting him to send St. “Beef” “Tea”
20+ Cats Who Immediately Regretted Their Poor Life Choices We took a lot of heat from dog owners after our last post about dogs that immediately regretted their poor life choices, so we decided it was time to spread the heat: this is Bored Panda's ultimate list of cat-fails! Maybe cats are more agile, and maybe even more clever, but that just means that there's that much more trouble for them to get into. Have you ever caught your cat in a predicament? Show 119 more Add Image Recent submissions to this list Kiss My Ass Gotta Get That Spider! Zeytin şurup Samur Gümüş Ops! Stuck On The Ceiling Wwe Sink Catmania Drag Image Select File Rules: 1) no ugly watermarks 2) no borders 3) no low quality images Ooops!
How North America got its shape - Peter J. Haproff Want to learn more about North America’s geologic history and plate tectonics? Talk to a geologist! Visit our UCLA Tectonics and Structural Geology group site and check out ongoing research and published papers on the Himalayas, Tibetan Plateau, and even Mars. You can find excellent figures and explanations of North American plate tectonics from the U.S. Want to learn more about the San Andreas fault and other active faults right in our backyard? North America's range of national parks offers many opportunities for visitors to see these geographical and geological formations in person.
5 Reasons You Should Use The Deep Web And Ditch Your Dealer With a rapidly changing world, technology has improved almost all sectors of life,but the drug trade has remain backwards. Decades ago, the drug trade was much less violent and there was a friendly atmosphere, but with the rise of the War On Drugs and the militarization of the police, only people who were willing to deal with dishing and taking violence, stayed. This lead to a more violent and unfriendly atmosphere. Now, there is the deep web, a virtual black market, where drugs and all kinds of commerce flow freely. Quality Buying from a local dealer is usually a gamble. Unlike the street, in the cyber world of the deep web, you can message the dealer and have a conversation about the product before you buy. Not only are drugs of a higher quality on the deep web, but the review system, very similar to E-bay’s, incentives the dealers to provide better service. Safety The virtual and anonymous nature of the deep web allows there to be much more separation between the parties involved.
businessinsider We got a present from the Juan de Fuca Plate, which is subducting under the North American Plate: a slow earthquake! Did you even know an earthquake could be slow? We're used to thinking of earthquakes as events that happen over seconds to a few minutes and produce a lot of shaking, but some earthquakes actually mosey along over hours or days, their trembling so gentle only seismometers can recognize it. One of these earthquakes started in the Cascadia Subduction Zone on December 21st and has been making its slow way south from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada ever since. Shelley Chestler at the Pacific Seismic Network has an excellent article on it. It's a feast of helpful illustrations and a clear explanation of what's going on, and I encourage you to read it in full if you want to know more about what's going on around one of the most dangerous fault zones in North America. A map of the Juan de Fuca Plate, showing the subduction zone off the west coast of North America.
Amy's Baking Company From Kitchen Nightmares is now officially closed : television This Breathtaking Photo Shows Two Galaxies Merging Together See Kat Von D Transform with Projection-Mapped Makeup GIFs and screencaps by the author, via Kat Von D has stumbled upon yet another way to use her body as a canvas in this real-time face tracking and projection mapping performance that combines art, tattooing, and make-up artistry. The notoriously tattoo-breaking artist and TV personality stars in what Wildbytes co-founder Julio Obelleiro describes as their “most ambitious project to date.” The live audiovisual performance took place in Madrid on October 7th as a launch for her new makeup line. A bouquet of dark roses blossom from her face in a sort of beautiful gothic dream. See it in action below: Full Length / Live Face Projection Mapping with Kat Von D from Wildbytes on Vimeo. Click here to check out more projects from Wildbytes. Related: Tattoos Transform into Moving Images with Ink Mapping Watch A Model's Face Transform With Projection Mapped Makeup Become A Virtual Superhero Using Your Trusty Sidekick, Gesture-Based Technology Bright Eyes: Projection Mapping On A Human Face
uk.businessinsider The universe is so vast it's almost impossible to picture what it might look like crammed into one field of view. But musician Pablo Carlos Budassi managed to do it by combining logarithmic maps of the universe from Princeton and images from NASA. He created the image below that shows the observable universe in one disc. Our sun and solar system are at the very center of the image, followed by the outer ring of our Milky Way galaxy, the Perseus arm of the Milky Way, a ring of other nearby galaxies like Andromeda, the rest of the cosmic web, cosmic microwave background radiation leftover from the big bang, and finally a ring of plasma also generated by the big bang: Pablo Carlos Budassi Logarithms help us make sense of huge numbers, and in this case, huge distances. Budassi got the idea after making hexaflexagons for his son's birthday one year. He released the image into public domain, and has created a few other log scales, too.
Four Photographers Snuck into and Explored Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch On November 18, 2003, Michael Jackson’s 3,000-acre primary residence, Neverland Ranch, was searched by 70 police officers from the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department after accusations that Jackson had molested some children (The People of the State of California v. Michael Joseph Jackson). Following this, Jackson abandoned his estate, saying it had been “violated," and three years later the property went into foreclosure. While the Ranch floated in real estate limbo, a group of photographers snuck onto the grounds and explored the abandoned kingdom, returning several times between December 2007 and March 2008. I spoke to the photographers to see what they saw. VICE: What inspired you guys to explore Neverland Ranch? What was the weirdest shit you saw? Please. Oh my God. How did you guys get into his house? Was it difficult? Wow. Wait, you drank his juice? Was it actual grape soda? He did. Semi-artistic? What was the vibe in the house? That’s ridiculous. That’s OK. Pretty serendipitous.
This Is What Supercontinent Pangea Looks Like Mapped With Modern Borders Imagine traveling from China to Antarctica, crossing through Canada, Brazil and India – without setting foot in any water. Unfortunately, you’ve missed your chance long ago as the supercontinent of Pangea no longer exists. But thanks to the illustrative talents of Massimo Pietrobon, you can see how Pangea may have looked before the epic landmass started ripping itself apart 200 million years ago to form the continents and countries of the world today. Image Credit: Massimo Pietrobon Surrounded by a superocean called Panthalassa, the bulk of Pangea was in the southern hemisphere, unlike how the continents are spread out now. Evidence for Pangea has been found in similar fossils recently discovered in South Africa, India and Australia, such as the therapsid Lystrosaurus and similar rock forms seen between the eastern coast of South America and the western coast of Africa. [H/T io9]
Science Says: DANCE! A recent study done by The Conversation has drawn the same conclusion that music lovers have known for years: Dancing with others is good for your health. People are drawn to music for many different reasons. Whether it be spiritual, emotional, physical, or cultural, music has been a part of the human experience for thousands of years. While dancing can be taught and practiced to perfection, every single human has a natural ability to synchronize to a beat. The rave community is well-versed in this simple scientific fact. The Conversation took things one step further to test additional benefits of dancing in synchronicity with others. “Not surprisingly, those who did full-bodied exertive dancing had higher pain thresholds compared to those…in the low-exertion groups….we also found that synchronisation led to higher pain thresholds, even if the synchronised movements were not exertive. It’s good for you.