A very intelligent raven named Gosha quite cleverly used a stick to retrieve an elusive treat that his human stuck deep inside a tube.
Meet Gosha – a smart raven who knows how to solve complex problems and even use tools!
via My Modern Met
In a tense yet amusing segment of the German game show Schlag den Star (Beat the Celebrity), professional athletes Alexander Zverev (Tennis) and Silvio Heinevetter (Handball) faced off against each other to see who could perfectly cut vegetables exactly in half. After cutting, the halves were weighed to see who was more precise with their knife skills.
(translated) What about the cooking skills of professional athletes? Practice cutting vegetables could be beneficial in the Halve game. The task is to cut ..food into two pieces of exactly the same weight.
Celebrity against celebrity is the motto at Schlag den Star. Stars can compete against each other in up to 15 sports and thinking games and play for the jackpot.
Multi-instrumentalist Alex Melton reimagined what the Van Halen song “Jump” would sound like if it were written as an alt-pop indie rock song. Melton played all of the instruments on this cover, and in doing so, he found that he liked the results.
We all know the iconic synth line, but I had never really given this song a proper listen all the way through until I decided to do this cover. I loved the idea of slowing the verses waaay down and letting each line breathe, while keeping the upbeat pace of the pre-chorus intact.
via The Awesomer
During a fascinating episode of the One Song podcast, musician Luxxury and DJ Diallo Riddle spoke about the 1990 hit single “Groove Is in the Heart” by Deee-Lite, specifically noting the 1960s television origins of the song’s famous “I-I-I-I-I” sample, which came from Eva Gabor‘s character Lisa Douglas in Green Acres.
This is a really fun sample because it actually comes from this…This is the “Green Acres” theme from 1966 and that little moment is Eva Gabor, right here. (“I get allergic smelling hay”) and in the mix, they’ve done a kind of classic early sampling
A fluffy rescued calico cat named Blarn waddles around her apartment, dragging her favorite blanket with her, just like Linus from the famous Peanuts comic strip. Her human Caitlin says that Blarn has been doing this since she was a kitten, although she started off with smaller items.
Blarn constantly surprises me. She almost creates her own games. Like the blanket game. When she was a kitten she would bring me my robe belt …she would do the same sort of waddle, which always made my day.
Caitlin decided to treat Blarn and her feline sister Edna by building a fort out of blankets. Caitlin offered cat-friendly refreshments, so fun was had by all.
I decided to treat her and Edna, so we made a blanket fort. We made sure to include Blarn’s favorite blanket we got some catnip wine and we did all their favorite things and we just hung out and they loved it.
Max Miller of Tasting History explained how the Michelin tire company became known as an arbiter of fine dining with their prestigious restaurant star rating system. Miller talked about this while preparing a tasty historic chicken dish from La Mére Brazier, a three star Michelin restaurant in Lyon, France.
It began with brothers André and Édouard Michelin going on a road trip to make their bespoke tires known. The brothers also printed free guidebooks that included local maps, car instructions, filling station locations, car repair shops, and even a bit about restaurants.
That first Michelin guide was filled with maps and information on how to take care of your car, car and tire maintenance. …There were the locations of fueling stations, very few existed then, and auto mechanics in case you broke down. And then almost as an afterthought there was a list of quality restaurants that you could visit when you were going around the country.
Miller explained that the guide improved as it grew more popular. Expert cartographers were hired to create more intricate and professional maps.
Michelin hired some of the best cartographers in Europe to create the maps for their guide, and their maps were always up to date every year, it was redone and they were very detailed and supposedly some of the best available.
In fact, these maps were used during World War II. First by the Germans, who used them to invade European countries, and then by the Americans to help soldiers storm the beaches of Normandy.
The Germans were preparing for an imminent Allied invasion. They began destroying street signs and and anything that could help the the Allies know where they were going once they got into France. But someone in the U.S. had a 1939 copy of the Michelin Guide from France and so in Washington DC in 1944 they republished many of these old guides and gave them to the soldiers who were storming the beaches of Normandy.
After the war ended, Michelin went back to tires and their popular restaurant reviews, where they became an important part of restaurant history.
Michelin Guide was just for France and then for for parts mostly of Western Europe. It wasn’t until 2005 that a guide reviewing New York restaurants premiered, and in 2007, a Tokyo guide went on sale. Today the guide covers 37 countries. The guide is both prestigious and fraught with controversy, and earning or losing a star can make or break a restaurant and the chef but today a trip to a Michelin star restaurant is the promise of a unique culinary experience.
Comedian Matt Mitchell, who previously explained Southern Math, amusingly acted out what Harry Potter might be like if he came from Alabama instead of England.
Question? Who is this ‘He Who Shall Not Be Named’? Y’all talking about Jeff Gordon? I feel like all these paintings are looking at me wherever I go. It’s worse than that Jesus painting in my Meemaw’s house. ..This is from potions class, yep. It is, uh, shine of the moon
Ryan Phillips of the Life With Pigs Farm Sanctuary in Williamsburg, Virginia, was resting on the couch, when a pair of pigs decided to join him. After everyone got comfy, a third pig tried to join the group, causing a bit of noisy chaos to break out. Eventually, Phillips had to give up his spot to maintain the peace.
How do you fit three pigs and one human on a couch? A takes a little pushing, a lot of noise, and a complete lack of cooperation. Oh and a little luck.
via Boing Boing
An adorable English cream golden retriever puppy named Whalen has all his ducks in a row, literally. His bottom teeth look like tiny ducklings marching across his lower jaw. This discovery made such an impression that the folks at BarkBox sent Whalen a huge array of duck-themed toys.
The humans belonging to a golden retriever named Kensington Campbell have created a hilarious series of parody ads by personal injury law firms.
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