Philip Traber isn't just a bartender. He's an artist with glass and liquor. His YouTube channel is filled with amazing trick shots of him making shots, such as these 14 Jägerbombs.

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Traber begins by stacking the glasses vertically, then pouring Jägermeister into the rims. He doesn't make a mess in the process, though I'm at a loss to understand how.

Then Traber pours the Jägermeister into what look like sherry glasses simultaneously from a horizontal position. Again, he doesn't spill a drop. With a tap, he sends these glasses into the beer glasses. You are now ready to drink.

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Queen's majestic song "Bohemian Rhapsody" turned 40 last year. To mark the occasion, the British newspaper The Guardian arranged this video showing interpretations of the classic song by the Trinity Boys Choir, the English National Ballet, and the Royal Academy of Music's string quartet. Their contributions are as beautiful as the original song.

I'm especially taken with this thrilling moment by the string quartet.

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Instructables member caitlinsdad has a wide range of interests and crafts, including jalapeño poppers with tails, a shelf that looks like the Enterprise, and a theremin bra that plays Star Wars music.

His latest project is equally fashionable and practical. This scarf measures and displays the temperature. It has a temperature sensor and a strip of LEDs that glow incrementally with an Arduino controller as the sensor indicates greater heat.

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Capture from the Changes One Bowie Cover Shoot, 1976 | Image: RCA

The world has lost one of its most esteemed musical and cultural influences in David Bowie, who died Sunday surrounded by family after an eighteen-month battle with cancer. He passed two days after turning 69 years of age. Bowie lived to see the release of his last album Blackstar, which dropped on his birthday, Friday, January 8, 2016. 

David Bowie was far from being just a talented and revered musician and lyricist. He was widely regarded as a fearless visionary whose continually progressive thoughts on theater, image, literature, self-reinvention, sexuality, fashion, celebrity, culture and more were closely followed by the public as well as creatives and decision makers in all branches of the arts. From a New York Times article on David Bowie's passing:  

Mr. Bowie wrote songs, above all, about being an outsider: an alien, a misfit, a sexual adventurer, a faraway astronaut. His music was always a mutable blend: rock, cabaret, jazz, and what he called "plastic soul," but it was suffused with genuine soul. He also captured the drama and longing of everyday life...

Mr. Bowie earned emulation and admiration across the musical spectrum: from rockers, balladeers, punks, hip-hop acts, creators of pop spectacles and even classical composers like Philip Glass, who based two symphonies on Mr. Bowie's albums "Low" and "Heroes."

Throughout Mr. Bowie's metamorphoses, he was always recognizable. His voice was widely imitated but always his own; his message was that there was always empathy beyond difference." 

Rest in peace, David Bowie. You will be greatly missed.

Unless you're an interior designer, house painter or someone equally concerned with adding color to the home you have very little use for those paint swatches they give out at the hardware store.

Typically people will bring a set of swatches home when they're repainting their space, and then when they're done with the recolor they throw them all away, but artist Peter Combe came up with a less wasteful use for swatches- he makes 3D portraits.

Peter takes standard paint store swatches in a full 1,100 colors and either punches them into discs or shreds them into strips before assembling them into these compelling 3D portraits.

The portraits look like a sea of swatches up close, pull back a bit and the portrait starts to take shape, but to really see how the gradation of color sells the illusion of depth you have to view them as a thumbnail:

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Is that chicken clucking at you seductively? It's no surprise. You're hot stuff. To chickens, that matters a lot.

A study published in the journal Human Nature found that chickens preferred to look at humans who were rated as beautiful by college students:

We trained chickens to react to an average human female face but not to an average male face (or vice versa). In a subsequent test, the animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences (obtained from university students). This suggests that human preferences arise from general properties of nervous systems, rather than from face-specific adaptations. We discuss this result in the light of current debate on the meaning of sexual signals and suggest further tests of existing hypotheses about the origin of sexual preferences.

Perhaps, instead of letting a computer assess our appearance, we should have chickens serve as beauty pageant judges.

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Everything becomes a game, except there are no save points and respawns. Oh, and those experience points won't pay the rent.

By the way: as you get older--er, I mean level up--it takes longer to restore hit points.

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I remember when, as a baby, my eldest daughter discovered that she had feet. For a few days, they were to her the most fascinating things in the world.

This week-old baby elephant at Chai Lai Orchid Eco-Lodge in Thailand has made a similar discovery: she has a trunk! Her immediate task is to explore it fully.

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Emma Jean Nolan is a midwife and photographer in Brisbane, Australia. Sometimes she gets to combine her trades. When Harper Hoani Spies was born, she took this photo of her along with her intact placenta. Nolan shaped the umbilical cord to spell "love."

Baby Harper is Maori--the indigenous people of New Zealand. In keeping with Maori tradition, her parents will take the placenta back to New Zealand and bury it. Nolan describes this tradition:

As a Maori baby his placenta will now be returned to the land. The word ‘whenua’ relates to the placenta and to the land. Whenua (placenta) is returned to the whenua (land) with the pito (umbilical cord) the link between the newborn and papatuanuku(mother earth). With this affinity established, each individual fulfils the role of curator, for papatuanuku (mother earth), which remains life long.

You can read more at BuzzFeed.

Luggage theft is incredibly easy these days as criminals just have to wait for a black rolling bag to pass by on the luggage carousel and snag it. If someone actually stops them, they just have to say "oops, it looks just like mine" and people will believe it.

You'll never need to worry about that problem with this amazing monster luggage from Etsy seller WaywardLeatherDesign. Sure it doesn't roll like you're generic black suitcase, but no one will "accidentally" grab your luggage ever again -at least not without worrying that your luggage might bite them.

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Nature is amazing.

Your uvula performs this ballet in your mouth daily. It gracefully flows back and forth in a fantastic display of coordination and power.

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The Slow-Mo Guys record unusual events with a slow motion camera, then display the results on YouTube. In the past, we've seen them slice through an egg with a katana, a show a face flapping in the wind, and a fire tornado.

For their latest video, Dan gargles water while Gav records the motion in his mouth. It's simply beautiful--from a certain point of view.

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Mogador is an island off the coast of Morocco. In 2014, Abdeljebbar Qninba, a biologist at Mohammed V University in Rabat observed falcons capturing smaller birds, plucking off their tail and wing feathers, then storing them in holes in rocks for later consumption.

Although scientists have seen birds storing dead animals for later meals, this is the first time that anyone has seen birds stocking live animals. New Scientist consulted other biologists on the reported behavior:

“I haven’t heard of anything like it in [non-human] vertebrates,” says Theodore Stankowich at California State University in Long Beach. “Perhaps this innovation of simply immobilising prey prior to caching has caught on and spread through the population.”

“Given the right circumstances – prey availability and habitat for storing the prey – it is reasonable to see how this behaviour could evolve,” says Michael Steele at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania.

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Movie stars don't come much more recognizable or badass than Samuel L. Jackson, the guy who somehow manages to be a Jedi and a Bad Mother...er at the same time.

Part of the reason he's so recognizable are all the infinitely quotable lines he's delivered with a little extra L. in movies like Pulp Fiction, Snakes On A Plane and, most recently, in Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.

But as you can see in this clip from The Late Show With Stephen Colbert not all famous movie lines and catchphrases sound cool coming out of Samuel L.'s mouth.

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Mr. Jackson also managed to come up with the perfect plot for Snakes On A Plane 2- Lions and tigers and bears on a plane, oh my!

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Being sick totally sucks, and yet we know winter is coming each and every year, bringing a new batch of sickness with it.

Get sick enough times in your life and you know exactly what to expect- fever, chills, tons of snot, coughing fits, some body aches, maybe even a little vomiting...or a lot of vomiting.

We also know all the normal human things we suck at when we're sick, like watching TV when we can't follow the storyline, going to the store to get medicine we could've ordered online, and drinking a little booze to "burn the cold out of our heads".

That one feels like it really works while we're buzzed, then we wake up sicker than before.

Read 5 Weirdly Specific Things Everyone Tries To Do When Sick here

Olly Oliver presides over Sainsbury's from his perch atop the shelves | Image: Nigel Thornberry

If you happen to be a regular shopper at the Brockley location of Sainsbury’s market in London, chances are that you're not hostile toward the idea of having a cat hanging out with your prospective food purchases. Because Olly Oliver, the six-year-old cat pictured above, is a fairly regular installment.

He may live in the house next door, but Olly obviously prefers the action, company and interesting smells of Sainsbury's to his quiet home. Though a spokesperson for the market calls the cat a health and safety risk and says he's been removed from the premises multiple times, Olly, who is popular with the store staff, still manages to accrue significant hang time.

See a video and more pictures of this unlikely food spokesman — including a shot of him curled up with his brother — here.