Surprise!: Deer Leaps Over Road Cyclist

Surprise!: Deer Leaps Over Road Cyclist

This is a clip from the helmetcam of cyclist Edwin Gonzalez Montoya while pedaling in the Hincapie Gran Fondo in Greenville, South Carolina, when a deer leaps over the road, and him in the process. Apparently Edwin wasn’t sure what it actually was until reviewing the video footage. Me? I would have known that was a deer before I even saw it. I can smell them from a mile away. And not just because I once spent three months in the woods covered in deer urine trying to befriend woodland creatures, but everybody spends their summer break differently.

Vacation Mode

Vacation Mode

HIYO, I’m on a family vacation this week and the beginning of next so posting will likely be light but it’s Thanksgiving week and most people only care about the Black Friday deals anyways and I don’t have any so I’m probably chopped liver, and who wants chopped liver for Thanksgiving besides my uncle? He eats squirrels, and not because he’s lost in the woods and desperate.

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Flame Bowerbird Performs His Heart Out For Pontential Mate

Flame Bowerbird Performs His Heart Out For Pontential Mate

Nature: it never ceases to amaze. This is a clip from the BBC’s ‘Life Story’ narrated by David Attenborough featuring the courtship practices of a flame bowerbird in Papua, New Guinea. Wow, it looks like a phoenix that’s risen from the ashes! How could you not be impressed? After first building a bower from which his potential mate can watch his elaborate display, he then proceeds the wooing, first expanding and contracting his pupils alternately to hypnotize her. Then, he waves his wings around like a matador’s cape, before some impromptu bobbing and trilling. I don’t know about you, but I would have been in love before the end of the first act. Unfortunately for him, right as he’s about to seal the deal, a rival shows up and startles his mate away. In the words of Sir Attenborough, “Sometimes, whatever you do, things just don’t work out.” Ain’t that the truth, David! Take my life for example.

Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name Of’ Played With SEGA Genesis Sounds

Rage Against The Machine's 'Killing In The Name Of' Played With SEGA Genesis Sounds

Because why not, this is a video from musician fxsnowy, who played a chiptune version of Rage Against The Machine’s 1992 protest song ‘Killing In The Name Of’ using SEGA Genesis sounds. He did a great job, although it lacks the evocative message of the original without any lyrics. Still, mod the original Sonic The Hedgehog with a chiptuned Rage Against The Machine soundtrack and I’d play it all over again. I mean I probably still will anyways, just not so loud that my neighbors come over and want to fight.

Wearable Plush Turtle Shell Designed To Help Reduce Anxiety

Wearable Plush Turtle Shell Designed To Help Reduce Anxiety

The Snuggle Shell is a real product that exists for adults, designed to be worn like a backpack and provide “the comfort of a soothing hug” and “help alleviate anxiety.” Or to pretend you’re a Ninja Turtle. The shells are available in two adult sizes ($50 S/M and $70 Megasize — wow, is that what we’re calling anything above medium now?!) and come in green, pink, and blue. According to the website, the shell allows a wearer to “Embrace the best of both worlds — its cozy warmth allows you to unwind while its flexibility ensures you can move freely and continue to conquer the day.” But does it really help alleviate anxiety? Not if that anxiety is about people asking you why you’re wearing a plush turtle shell.

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Rare Egg-Laying Mammal Spotted For First Time Since 1961

Rare Egg-Laying Mammal Spotted For First Time Since 1961

Named for famed British naturalist and personal hero David Attenborough, this is a picture of Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), snapped by a camera trap during an expedition in the Cyclops Mountains in Indonesia’s Papua Province. It is the first time since 1961 that scientists have managed to spot the elusive Pokemon.

It is considered a monotreme, or an evolutionary distinct group of mammals who can lay eggs. The platypus is also a monotreme and there are only five remaining species of these strange types of mammal on Earth.

“Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna has the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an anteater, and the feet of a mole. Because of its hybrid appearance, it shares its name with a creature of Greek mythology that is half human, half serpent,” University of Oxford biologist James Kempton said in a statement.

‘Oooh, I know, let’s try this!’ I imagine Evolution thinking aloud while creating egg-laying mammals after a night of unusually heavy drinking with Darwin. Now that guy — he can hold his liquor. My roommate? Never fails to pee the bed. “Don’t you live with your girlfriend?” Yes, and I always take the blame because I’m a catch.