Watch A Teacher Make Her 3rd-Grade Kids Hate Each Other For The Best Reason Imaginable. Water droplets on a superhydrophobic surface. Bleeding Tooth Fungus and Other Creepy Plants That Shouldn’t Exist. David Dietle wrote a highly entertaining post on Cracked about the 10 Creepy Plants That Shouldn't Exist.
The list starts off with a bang with this one: #10. Bleeding Tooth FungusThe bleeding tooth fungus looks kind of like a wad of chewing gum that leaks blood like a rejected prop from The Shining.They're also called the strawberries and cream, the red-juice tooth, and the devil's tooth. Whoever is in charge of naming scary bullshit seems really insistent that this thing looks like a tooth, while mostly skirting over the fact that it freaking sweats blood.Oh, and they are listed as "inedible," which implies that someone attempted to eat one at some point. On the other hand, the bloodlike substance has anticoagulant and antibacterial properties.
Read the entire list here: Link (some text NSFW) Mathijs1988. The Truth about Violence : 3 Principles of Self-Defense. (Photo by Pensiero) As a teenager, I once had an opportunity to fly in a police helicopter over a major American city.
Naively, I thought the experience might be uneventful. Perhaps there would be no crime between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. on a Saturday night. However, from the moment we were airborne, there was a fresh emergency every fifteen seconds: Shots fired… rape in progress… victim stabbed…It was a deluge. Of course, the impression this left on me was, in part, the result of a sampling bias: I was hearing nothing but incident reports from a city of 4 million people, most of whom would never encounter violence directly.
Just as it is prudent to wear your seat belt while driving, it makes sense to know how best to respond to violence. In my experience, most people do not want to think about the reality of human violence. But here are the numbers: In 2010, there were 403.6 violent crimes per 100,000 persons in the United States. Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. _sb. Potes. Espejoenigma. Open Lectures. Relax. DIY. FMX2012. Virtual Production Events/Sessions Opening The Virtual Production track at FMX 2012 is curated by a team from Autodesk, the 5D Institute, the Previsualization Society, the Virtual Production Committee, and Weta Digital.
In this opening session the curators will share the current thinking on virtual production from the point of view of their respective organization, and they will set the stage for the 16 presentations focused on Virtual Production that will take place over the next 3-days. It is a roadmap for the track that you don’t want to miss. World Building First, the world has to be built. Sessions: Upside Down - Worldbuilding for Independent movies Design for Virtual Production: Avatar, Tintin and beyond. Previsualization What will you do in the world once it is built? Previsualization - "The Last Stand"World Building & Previsualization - Featuring “War Horse”"Total Recall" Core Sessions Megasessions Wrap-up Dos and Don’ts of a Demo ReelTuesday, May 08, Raum Mannheim, 15:00 - 17:00. Espejoenigma. RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us.