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On a stanley cup remote island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a bloodbath is underway. Unchecked hordes of gigantic house mice are devouring endangered baby seabirds en masse. Top image by researcher Ross Wanless shows an R.O.U.S. consuming the remains of a dead seabird chick, via National Geographic Writes National Geographic Rachel Kaufman: The massacre is taking place on Gough Island map , a stanley canada British territory almost smack-dab in between the tips of South America and South Africa. The only stanley cup humans living on the island belong to a small team running a weather station. Gough Island has long been recognized as an important seabird colony, since it hosts roughly ten million birds of more than 20 species. The island is also thought to be the only breeding ground for the Atlantic petrel-2 million breeding pairs produce 1.6 million chicks a year. The new study, though [published by researcher Ross Wanless and colleagues in a recent issue of Animal Conservation], reveals that the petrel chicks are in constant danger from house mice, which have grown to supersize proportions since being introduced to the island 150 years ago. How supersized are we talking Let put it this way: R.O.U.S.s do exist, and they ;re ravaging Gough island. Gough is a textbook example of what can happen when a nonnative species is introduced to an ecosystem devoid of predators and rich in resources. These mice are up to 50% larger than normal mice some measure up to ten inches in length w Jydx Underworld s throat-slashing vampires team up with humans in flat 3D
Captain Planet is getting his own live-action movie debut 鈥?which means we ;re getting a blue, mostly-shirtless superhero who sports a bright red caplet, hot pants, boots and a green mullet. SOLD. According to Kidscreen, Cartoon Network has inked a deal with Transformers producer Don Murphy to make a Captain Planet movie. Murphy, who worked on ALL of the Transformers films, now has the exclusive rights to the property, and can develop and package Captain Planet and the Planeteers as t stanley cup hey see fit. Wh stanley thermos ich could really go a variety of directions, can ;t it And they don 8 stanley cup 217;t just want one Captain Planet film 鈥?hopes are for this to become a series. Sucks for whoever has to play Ma-Ti 鈥?because the power of heart Not unless you get to ride a sleigh of lions wearing a meat dress, pal. Also we demand that Gaia have streaks. But seriously, this is fantastic news all around. We ;ve included the theme song at the bottom, in case you weren ;t already singing it with joy. https://youtube/watch v=VcJI87u3DoQ [via The Daily What] Image by MeWannaLearn on DeviantArt. Animationcartoon networkCartoonsMoviesnews
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Bryan Singer mentions some more original mutants that might return for X-Men: Days of Future Past, and two Captain America actors discuss possible returns. The CW three big genre shows all get renewed. Plus an update on the Twilight Zone reboot! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Man of Steel. Star Trek Into Darkness In what has to be the most unequivocal denial yet, Alice Eve 鈥?who is playing Dr. Carol Marcus in the sequel 鈥?stated during a red carpet interview that Benedict Cumberbatch is not playing Khan. It seems like a fairly matter-of-fact denial, but in case you want to watch the original interview and analyze for yourself whether or not Eve is telling the truth, the video is below. The key denial comes at the 0:58 mark. [Coming Soon] Here are some more highlights from Entertainment Weekly new cover story: 鈥?Abrams says he was keen to have more scenes where the audience gets out and about in a city setting on the future Earth 鈥?Uhura has a cooler part this time around: the Spock/Uhura romance is tested in new ways, and they struggle with the fact that they ;re not the same species. 鈥?Zoe stanley cup usa Saldana says: I told them to make su stanley puodelis re Uhura kicks more ass. And she does! 鈥?Zachary Quinto says of Spock: There are things that hap stanley water bottle pen to him 鈥?and things that he a part of 鈥?that are incredibly personal 8230; That was really exciting for me both physically and emotionally. Captain Ameri Plfz The Perfect Task Lamp Lets You Mold Its Light to Your Liking
It science! And it not just Swedes who Italians can drink under the table. It also Latvians, Lithuanians, and Estonians. A Swedish behavioral researcher studied 1,000 imbibers from each of the afore-mentioned countries and found that in the Baltic countries and Sweden, drinking led to both social such as violence and health such as liver disease problems much more often than in Italy. Jonas Landberg, a research stanley canada er at the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs at the Stockholm University found as he suspected that people in Italy drink regular stanley cups ly but more slowly. It part of normal life and people aren ;t usually drinking with the goal of getting plastered. In the other countries, people more often drink to get drunk. So at the end of the day folks might drink the same amount, but people in Italy are less frequently wasted. One potentially confounding factor in the study is the Italian attitude towards drinking influence over their lives as compared with the other countries. For example, in a country like Sweden, where drinking is seen as problematic, alcohol often gets blamed for problems when someone has been drin stanley cup king, while on the other hand, people may be less likely to blame problems on alcohol in a country like Italy, where alcohol is not regarded as problematic, but rather as a part of day-to-day life, said Landberg said in a press release. The results will be published in the January 2012 issue
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Would you believe me if I said Lynyrd Skynard song That Smell is actually based on a Russian children folk song about archaeological finds You shouldn ;t, but the smell of ancient animal remains is apparently so distinct, an 11-year-old boy in Russia just found what might be the most perfectly preserved mammoth ever. Zhenya Salinder was walking his dogs near his home in Siberia when an overpowering odor lead him to the grave of a 30,000-year old mammoth that very much intact鈥攊t included a skeleton, ears, a tusk, and wait for it 8230; a five foot long penis. Even better than the 10,000 year old mammoth found earlier this year. https://gizmodo/ stanley kaffeebecher 10-000-year-old-frozen-mammoth-found-perfectly-preserve-5899058 The mammoth is over six feet high, weighed around half a ton, and was likely 16 when it croaked. The St. Petersburg Zoology Ins stanley termohrnek titute excavated the beast, and is now en route to Moscow, where it will be studied more closely. Oh, that study stanley thermos might include the possibility of cloning the mammoth, and his giant dong! [BBC News, The Telegraph via PopSci] ArchaeologyMammothsScience Uwrm Why Eating When You re Depressed Makes You Eat More
A lot of parents who want their kids to grow up with an appreciation for great design, but that doesn ;t m stanley deutschland ake them any less disappointed that this minimal metal tube rocking horse is designed and sized specifically for the smaller set. Because most grownups would love to take it for a spin rock. Created by Rotterdam-based design shop Blooey, the Hobbel is made from just a handful of steel tubes botella stanley that have been bent into the beautiful curves that allow t stanley cups uk his piece of playful modern art to tilt back and forth with a pint-sized cowboy or cowgirl on board. It sadly doesn ;t seem like anyone on board to put it into production just yet, but if someone out there realizes its potential, hopefully they ;ll make a full-size version, too. [Blooey via designboom] Toyswish you were here
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It our chemical all-star team of death. We ;ve got historic poisons that have claimed the lives of millions in a sinister manner, along with a couple of chemicals that might be in your home. Contact with any of these, in the right dose, will send you running for a hastily scribbled bucket list. Before we start 鈥?a couple of rules concerning these deadly jumbles of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. Neither proteins sorry Botulinum toxin nor elements/radioactive isotopes my apologies to Polonium-210 were considered for the list, with a nod given to chemical compounds that you could come in contact with during your life. 10. Digoxin A purified extract of the foxglove plant. In proper quantities, digoxin increases th botella stanley e efficiency of the heart. Charles Cullen, a nurse and the angel of death, used pharmaceutical grade digoxin to kill over forty patients using the drug. 9. Hydrogen peroxide The hydrogen peroxide in your bathroom cabinet has a concentration of 3 to 6%. At higher concentrations, it a rocket propellant. Hydrogen peroxide is extremely volatile, with the merest nudge setting off an explosion in laboratory grade solutions >70% hydrogen peroxide . Th stanley cup e 2005 London subway bombers used concentrated hydrogen pe stanley thermobecher roxide as an explosive in the attacks that killed 52 people. 8. Ethylene glycol It in your car as antifreeze. It cheap. It looks so damn simple. It has a moderate toxicity level, however, the sweet taste can make one Vbnc A Video Game Designed to Help Doctors to Recognize Drug Abuse
When you get angry, throwing something at a wall is always the got-to solution that never works. Well, it might work at making you feel better for that split second before the horror sets in and components scatter across the floor. In college, I once split a phone in half by chucking at a wall for reasons that, I must admit, I don ;t entirely remember. There may have been alcohol involved and it ma stanley cup y have had more to do with my clumsy thumbs than the phone. In any event, my poor and new, at the time LG Cosmos did not survive, and split clean in two. I regretted it once I found myself searching for a cheap beater phone on eBay, but at the time, it was cathartic. At least I imagine it was. How about you I can ;t be the only stupid, impulsive one. Have you busted game controllers, shattered phone screens, summoned a burst of hulk-like rage to up and launch an entire monitor across the room stanley cup Or are stanley travel mug you a zen master, completely in control of your periodic urges to smash smash smash Image by Edw/Shutterstock GadgetsPhones
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Eva Mendes! Ryan Gosling! Jim Carrey! An incredibly drunk grown man who can barely slur his way through Twas the Night Before Christmas. There no Christmas like drunk Christmas, folks. And here your definitive proof. My first thought: I bet I could do better than that guy. My second: Only one way to find out! I suggest you all do the same with all due haste. Merry Christmas stanley cup to all, and to all a drunk night: The rest of this week top comedy videos, including a scary Christmas, a Santa election, and Mary-Kate getting in the holiday spirit, can be found over at Splitsider. Other highlights from the week in comedy: We wrapped up The 20 Specials of Christmas with Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Bob Newhart Show, Mystery Science The stanley cup ater 3000: Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, Garfield, and finally, Community. W stanley cups e studied the rancorous comedy beef between Weird Al and Coolio. We sang an ode to Christmas Vacation. We guided those who bravely dine alone. We humbly suggested an April Fool Day SNL show. We checked out Christopher Guest time on SNL. We gently eased your newbie toes into the warm waters of How I Met Your Mother. We suggested that you watch The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks. We nosed our way into the lost roles of Tom Hanks. We debuted our new series, Hitchin ; a Ride! Splitsider is a website about comedy and the people who create i Gcqp The world that only formerly-blind people can see
It amazing that you can travel thousands upon thousands of miles in a single day. But that doesn ;t mean it aways fun to do鈥攁nd if your job requires you to travel all the time, the strain can get to be awful. But having the right gear can really make this mobile lifestyle a little less hectic. Hey there! You might notice our gift guides look a little different this year. That because we ;re hoping to get yo stanley mug u more involved in them. All of our suggestions are posted in the discussion section. If you have experience or an opinion on one of our selections, let us know! Got a better idea Share it with us. We tr botella stanley uly want to make sure these guides help people buy epic holiday gifts, and many minds are better than a few. GadgetsGift stanley cups Guide 2012Travel
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The military newest digital training system is gonna open a can of whoop-ass on new recruits. And maybe a sonic blaster, too. The use of gaming technology, from first-person shooters to virtual worlds, is quickly becoming the military mode of choice for training the troops of this generation. But those digital proving grounds come with stanley cup usa one major disadvantage: They just don ;t hurt enough. That c stanley cup ould be about to change, according to a new request for proposals issued by the Army last week, which calls for technology to create an impulse force that simulates the feel of debris鈥?or bullet strikes. The request, called Haptic Feedback for a Virtual Explosion, certainly sounds like fodder for a new videogame blockbuster. At least until you find your virtual self on a mysterious, dark road, abandoned buildings to both sides, the wind whipping your hair and KABOOM! owwwwwwww, getting shot hurts! That kinda the idea: Make training as realistic as possible, by giving soldiers a taste of exactly what they should be bracing for in stanley cups uk combat. Bombs and bullets, unfortunately, need to be included. Already, the military has made a major foray into virtual worlds. They ;ve formally adapted more than 23 video games as training programs, announced plans to develop immersive training worlds and have even paid for a helmet that ;d allow trainees to navigate a 360-degree environment. And digital envi Bgca The Hilariously Scientific MinusIQ Pill That Makes Smart People Dumber Would Be Fun to Take
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Feast your eyes on this mind boggling view of the Northern Lights, captured in the pre-dawn hours of July 15th by photographer Brad Goldpaint. Goldpaint told io9 in an email that he photographed this particular display over Sparks Lake in Central Oregon. At latitudes that far south, it can be hard to spot aurorae this breathtaking, but conditions this weekend were ideal, as the solar activity responsible for stanley cup usa this light show was a powerful X1.4 class flare X being the highest possible classification for such solar explosions stanley cup ; stargazers as far south as Arkansas even caught a glimpse. Still, it hard to imagine many people had a better view of the lights than this. Just look at the combination of clouds, aurora, and points of starlight bouncing off the lake. All it missing is a waterfall and a lunar rainbow. https://gizmodo/feast-your-eyes-on-a-rar...-n-5859772 You ;ll find tons more stunning astrophotography on B stanley cup rad Goldpaint website. Top image used with permission from Brad Goldpaint. aurora borealisSpace Mywr Baraka: Our Ridiculous World Will Blow Your Mind
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