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Some of the greatest discoveries were born of mistakes -- penicillin, the Slinky, and even chocolate chip cookies. Well, we've got another discovery to add to the list, one that derived from a recent Twitter transaction. It all started with a typo, and then it spiraled down a rabbit hole that ended with a Google image search for "bacon houses." And wow, ARE THERE BACON HOUSES. (Yes, we count this as a discovery.)
We love bacon in all its forms, so when we dream of bacon houses they feature wonders like bacon wallpaper that peels off in crispy strips, or maybe chandeliers with dangling shards of glassy candied bacon. (Um, will someone please make a bacon-based Willy Wonka film?) Here's what we do not imagine: Broken-down murder-scene shacks. But unfortunately, that's all that the bacon architects of the internet have mustered up so far.
$300,000 for a pickup truck?
“Definitely not for everyone, but for the right guy, it’s a home run.”
So says Jonathan Ward, founder and CEO of California boutique automaker ICON, whose modernized take on the 1965 Dodge D200 cost a fair bit more than the original to build.
Created for a Wyoming rancher, the retro-updated ride mates the crew cab bodywork of the original with the chassis of a heavy duty 2007 Dodge 3500.
Mother's Day is one of the biggest gift-buying days of the year, but too many people overthink it, spending too much on wilted flowers, melted chocolates and overpriced meals at crowded chain restaurants.
Why? Because they think that's what Mom really wants.
Your mom influenced you to be the person you are now and what you do is a reflection on her.
It means she probably would prefer a gift that's strange, bizarre, even peculiar more than something you grabbed without thinking because you thought she'd like it.
Face it: You're weird, and so is your Mom. Give her something that reflects that, like a wearable odor filter, a mooning gnome or even a contraption that makes it easier for her to poop in the woods.
She'll love you for it. She has to. She's your mom.
Women in Tucson and Phoenix are recovering after being stung by swarms of bees in separate incidents.
Phoenix Fire Department officials say a woman was hospitalized in serious condition after she was attacked by a swarm of bees Thursday morning near Thomas Road and 44th Street.
Landscapers sprayed water on the woman in an attempt to help and firefighters treated the woman for multiple stings before she was taken to an emergency room.
In Tucson on Thursday afternoon, a woman walking past an east-side amusement park on Tanque Verde Road was stung by more than a hundred bees.
Firefighters donned bee suits and used foam and water to get the bees off the woman.
Paramedics treated the woman before taking her to a hospital, where she's listed in stable condition.
Turkish Airlines has sparked debate following a move to ban female flight attendants from wearing brightly-colored lipsticks such as red or pink.
Turkish Airlines has changed its cabin crew dress code to prohibit red or pink lipstick following "complaints submitted by passenger," reported the Turkish Cumhuriyet newspaper.
AFP reported that the move is seen by more secular Turks as one way the government is trying to Islamize the country, and is the latest in a string of conservative measures adopted by the airline. Last year, Turkish Airlines banned the use of red-bleached hair, platinum blonde style, and flamboyant silver make-up for female flight attendants, AFP noted.
Numerous women are protesting the move and posted pictures of themselves wearing bright red lipstick on social media websites.
One Twitter user wrote: "Well, I certainly wouldn't choose your airline to get there anymore! I'll proudly wear my bright colored lipstick!"
A group of scientists in Uruguay have announced that they have successfully modified the genetic makeup of sheep to make them glow-in-the-dark.
Scientists from the Animal Reproduction Institute of Uruguay said they used a fluorescent protein from an Aequarea jelly fish to give a flock of nine sheep a distinct glowing green color when exposed to certain ultraviolet light.
So far, aside from their unique genetic modification, the animals are developing normally and roaming the fields like any other sheep.
One of the team’s lead researchers, Alejo Menchaca, said that the modification was done not out of medical research but the desire to “fine-tune the technique.”
Sheep are not the first animals to be modified to glow-in-the-dark.
Scientists have created a glow-in-the-dark animal trend using zebrafish, cats, dogs, pigs, scorpions, worms, monkeys, mice, and more.
These seemingly wacky experiments do have a purpose though.
It is the £200-a-time beauty treatment many women swear by to smooth out their wrinkled foreheads and crow’s feet.
But those relying on Botox to hold back the years could be wasting their money – because they are becoming immune to the injections, warn scientists.
They say the drug, a type of neurotoxin, is failing to freeze the facial muscles of some patients as well as it did before, or for as long.
Many women are even developing antibodies to some types of the treatment, meaning it stops working altogether.
A review by German researchers, published in the Journal of Neural Transmission, found that one in 200 Botox users developed antibodies, making the treatment less effective over time.
It's a conundrum, for sure. One minute your beloved pussy is over the moon with pleasure as you scratch her favorite spot and the next thing you know you're left staring at tooth marks on your arm.
After a series of tweets related to "Angry Birds" and "Star Wars" were sent out by the Forest Grove Fire Department Thursday morning, a spokesman said his 5-year-old was to blame.
A Kansas woman who was taking a bathroom break Saturday during the Isis Shrine Circus in Salinas says she came face to face with an escaped tiger when she opened the bathroom door,
The federal government is spending $152,000 to study “voice therapy” for transgenders, saying it is incumbent to being “accepted as one's preferred gender.”
Incomplete gender presentation can negatively impact the TG individual's job opportunities, relationships, and social acceptance...
A WOMAN has to go on a daytime diet because she eats up to 2,500 calories a night in her SLEEP.
Snoozing Lesley Cusack, 55, loves a night-time fry-up of bacon and ZZZs or bed and butter pudding - and has even munched on paint.
The mum-of-three, from Warrington, Cheshire keeps herself on a strict diet during the day but has no control over what she eats when she is in the land of nod because of a rare sleep disorder.
Lesley said: “I can only tell by the remains in the morning.
"I tend to find opened tins or packets and I’ve no idea whether I’ve eaten some of them cold or not.
“Sometimes I’ve found soup in pans, but also in bowls - it all can get rather messy.
Lesley added: “I’ve put alarms on my doors in the hope it will wake me up. It doesn’t work though. I simply turn it off in my sleep.
“I’m trying to lose weight but it’s a constant battle. I can follow a diet to the letter but it goes to pot at night."
