Kentucky Fried Chicken took their known tagline of finger lickin’ good quite literally as they released their own nail polish line in Hong Kong. KFC introduced two chicken-flavoured nail polishes, Original & Hot and Spicy. Food scientists at McCormick (KFC’s spice supplier) collaborated with the nail polish producer to create these polishes.
The polishes dry with a glossy shine, and are claimed to last for three days with regular licking. As for whether or not the nail polishes are finger lickin’ good, quite a few have said : “gross”.
Microplastics are defined as small plastic pieces that are less than 5 millimeters long. These tiny bits of plastic are thanks to the age of plastic that we currently live in. Researchers found that millions and billions of microplastics are shed into the environment in the last decade. In addition, a research team reported that 90% of bottled water sampled contained microscopic plastic fibers.
These microplastics contain chemicals that can potentially harm organ if released in high concentrations. But for now, the World Health Organization has concluded in a Wednesday report that the tiny bits of plastic in drinking water pose a low health risk to people:
Tiny bits of plastic in drinking water pose a low health risk to people — for now, concluded a Wednesday report from the World Health Organization, which called for a reduction in plastic pollution to limit the future dangers of such “microplastics.”
“We urgently need to know more about the health impact of microplastics because they are everywhere — including in our drinking water,” WHO’s Maria Neira said in a statement on the report.
“Microplastics in drinking water don’t appear to pose a health risk at current levels,” said Neira, on balance. “But we need to find out more.”
For quite some time, Realme has been teasing the world with its 64-megapixel camera. Now, the tech company finally unveils Realme XT, the world’s first 64 MP camera. The smartphone will also be coming with a 4,000 mAh battery, which means it will last long. The phone will be launched in India before Diwali.
Realme XT features a “3D glass hyperbola curve back design” with its rear cameras placed on the top left corner. Realme uses Samsung’s GW1 image sensor for its 64-megapixel rear camera. This image sensor is equipped to bring real-time HDR of up to 100-decibles. The sensor also promises brighter lowlight photos and crisper quality in daylight settings.
Realme XT features a dewdrop notch Super AMOLED display with 92.1% screen-to-body ratio. The smartphone also features an in-display fingerprint sensor. Realme says the phone will offer one of the fastest unlock speeds in the market.
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Realme isn’t the only company launching a 64-megapixel camera phone. Xiaomi is also slated to launch its 64-megapixel camera phone, Redmi Note 8 Pro in China on August 29.
Do you think the phone would be worth buying? What are your thoughts?
We now live in a time where we can talk to each other, almost instantly, no matter the distance. We can talk to our friends and family anywhere and anytime. Within the vastness of the Internet, we can find different messaging apps, such as Slack, Instagram, WhatsApp, Skype, and many more. However, we must also consider the security of the sites we use. We don’t know when an eavesdropper might try on eavesdropping on our conversations or try to peek at our message inbox.
With that in mind, which messaging apps are the safest? Find out on Engadget.
We know actors train with voice coaches to learn accents, they work out to buff up, and they study the lives their characters may have led. But every actor is different, and some go to extraordinary lengths for a role. You might still have a hard time wrapping your head around spending months in torturous living arrangements just to understand a fictional character's motivation, or learning an entirely new language even when the movie is in your native tongue.
These extreme measures may have paid off by contributing to a stellar performance, but at what cost? At least they made it into a Cracked pictofacts list. And you have to admit, some of these training regimens are pretty cool.
Even if you think you never want to hear "Let It Go" from the movie Frozen ever again, you'll love this video. Drag queen Katkat performs a lip-sync at the O Bar in Luzon, the Philippines, with special effects provided in a way you'll never forget. This is not an original skit, but they execute it oh-so-well. -via reddit
You are probably familiar with the fossil skeleton called Lucy, an intact example of a possible human ancestor called Australopithecus afarensis that lived between four and two million years ago. She was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. There were other species of Australopithecus, including one called A. anamensis, which was only known from a very few small bone fragments. In 2016, a nearly-complete skull was found in Ethiopia, not far from where Lucy was excavated. Two papers published Wednesday describe the skull they named MRD as A. anamensis, complete with a reconstruction of what this hominid looked like. More than that, research shows that he (the skull is from a male who lived a long life) and his kin could have lived concurrently with other species of Australopithecus.
The cranium, in addition to revealing facial characteristics, is shedding new light on the origin of Australopithecus and the species that followed. Importantly, at an estimated age of 3.8 million years old, A. anamensis likely lived alongside A. afarensis for around 100,000 years, according to the new research. This unexpected overlap means some species within the Australopithecus genus didn’t evolve linearly, with one species tidily following another in an orderly fashion, a process known as anagenesis. Rather, this new discovery points to a different scenario, in which multiple species co-existed at the same time in a process known as cladogenesis. Evolution, as we’ve long known, is often messy and complicated.
The timeline of human evolution is further upended as MRD displays features that are more human than that of A. afarensis (Lucy), a species which supposedly lived later. Read what we are learning about A. anamensis through the skull of MRD, and see astonishing pictures of what he may have looked like at Gizmodo.
We live in a fallen, broken society. You can't just go about your business without someone trying to steal from you.
In the case of this man from Kennewick, Washington, that business was burglary. He parked his truck and, uh, liberated some items from a shop. Being a trusting soul, he had left his keys on the seat.
When the burglar came back to make a getaway, he saw someone driving off with it. This video shows him chasing after the truck thief at the 1:21 mark.
So the victim did what any sensible thief would do: he called the police.
When police reviewed surveillance footage, they found that their caller had broken into the shop. They arrested him.
According to KEPR-TV News, they haven't found his truck. So the whole burglary job has been a total loss.
The golfer, Steel Lafferty, who seemed to be too focused on hitting the golf ball, did not appear to mind the gator as it went along its merry way across the golf course. Amazingly, the gator did not seem to mind Lafferty as well — they both just minded their own business.
Steel Lafferty was at ChampionGate Country Club in Osceola County when the reptile tried to gatecrash his game on Wednesday.
The large alligator sneaked-up on the professional wake-boarder moments before he was about to hit the ball.
Despite being yards away, Laffety walked up and sent the ball flying over the creature who seemed relatively unfazed.
Lafferty told Fox35 that the alligator then walked around 100 yards before disappearing into a lake by the green.
These kids might be in the same classroom. Their individual experiences, however, are different from each other, as this new study suggests. To see how the class would look like from the children’s perspective, the researchers had the children wear a video camera on their head for two hours a day.
In this study, published recently in PLOS ONE, the researchers were interested in the linguistic environment – how were children exposed to language in the class?
“We found that the duration and frequency of kids’ interactions with teachers and peers was very different among kids,” said Leydi Johana Chaparro-Moreno, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in educational psychology at The Ohio State University.
“Overall, children interacted more with the teacher than their peers, but for some kids their peers were an additional source of hearing language.”
According to Chapparo-Moreno, the findings could not be easily learned from traditional studies, as most studies before this focused on how teachers behaved in class, such as how they interacted with children.
“What was missing was the perspective of the kids. Especially in preschool classrooms, each child may not be listening to the teacher at the same time or interacting in the same way,” Chaparro-Moreno said.
In a less civilized age, these signs might indicate when to go into a berserker rage. Now, they just tell pedestrians when to cross the street.
Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark, is celebrating its long history and association with Norse warriors and explorers. It is replacing signal images for 17 crosswalks with the icon of Viking warriors carrying axes and shields.
It began for Nadia Matievskaia, an artist from Belarus, when an art class assignment required her to paint with her breasts.
(That seems like a big deal, but I can't find any details about the incident.)
She enjoyed the experience and began using her breasts in addition to traditional brushes. This video shows how she does it (warning: nudity).
Matievskaia posts the results on her Instagram page (warning: artistic nudity). Considering the unwieldiness of her artistic implements, she's able to achieve a surprising level of detail and precision. I could certainly do no better.
Yuval Robichek’s illustrations come like a breath of fresh air in the often too heavy political climate of the Middle East. True to the mentality of the Tel Aviv “Bubble” where he now lives, Robichek’s subject is as a-political as can be. He takes his inspiration straight from the streets and the sea shores which he loves.
Romantic humor and relaxation are Israeli artist Yuval Robichek's greatest obsessions. His lovely perception of the examples of shoreline bums lazing in the sand and his every day cleanliness routine mix with both adorable and cutting observation of connections.
Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but before that it was part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. During the Yugoslav Wars, which led to the breakup of the federation in the late 20th century, Sarajevo was a war zone, particularly during the Bosnian War which included the Siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to '95. Constant shelling by enemy forces left thousands of holes in the city's streets and buildings.
Many of the explosive craters left behind by the shelling were filled with red resin to mark the casualties suffered at the spot. The explosion patterns reminds some of a flower leading to the memorials being named “Sarajevo Roses.” However many of them also resemble giant bullet wounds lest anyone forget their violent origins.
