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PARROT with a mohawk painted on the side of a friend's face.

Mimi's EXTREME MELT, inspired by Salvador Dali.

HOLE IN THE FACE, inspired by Salvador Dali.

Mimi calls this her LAYERED FACE makeup illusion

We've never seen an artist quite like Mimi Choi. The 31-year-old Vancouver-based makeup genius creates optical illusions so startlingly realistic that they render us speechless in a mix of terror and awe.

What you see hasn't been Photoshopped or otherwise digitally altered. Mimi uses basic makeup to create the stuff of nightmares (a hole in the face, anybody?), and uses paintbrushes instead of makeup brushes to decorate her "canvas."

She gleans inspiration from art, namely surrealist Salvador Dali. “When I do illusions now, I draw my inspiration mostly from my surroundings, photography, paintings, and emotions. I try not to look at other makeup artists’ work too much and challenge myself to produce original, unique work,” she said.


https://www.oddee.com/list/10-amazing-optical-illusions-makeup-artist-mimi-choi/

Ayanna Williams set out to break the world record for longest fingernails over 20 years ago. Last week, her dedication paid off, and her tentacles were crowned the champions by the people at Guinness World Records.

The Texas native’s nails measure a combined total of 18 feet and 10.9 inches on both hands. (It’s important to note that Williams set the mark for nails on both hands. The world record holder for a single hand is still Shridhar Chillal, who hasn’t trimmed his talons in over 60 years .)

It should come as no surprise that Williams is a nail technician. When she isn’t caring for the nails of her customers, she’s working on her own record-breaking talons. It takes Willams over 20 hours to paint them, and the job requires over two bottles of polish. She washes them three times a day and rests them on a pillow on a pillow whenever she can.

So how does Williams get anything done with such massive hooks at the end of her fingers? She shared some of her secrets in an interview with AOL.

“‘Sometimes if I’m eating popcorn I use a spoon,’ she said. She also uses ‘a pencil or one of her knuckles’ to text on her cell phone or computer. Luckily, she says, family members help take care of chores around the house as to not damage her nails.”

Williams claimed the “longest fingernails on a female” record after the previous title holder, Chris “The Dutchess” Walton, cut her nails after they’d grown to a total length of 23 ft 11 inches. She plans to hold onto the crown for as long as possible, although she probably couldn’t hold an actual crown for long, so she’s probably speaking metaphorically.

Asked if she’d cut them anytime soon, Williams told the people at Guinness, “They’re a part of me, so they’re here to stay!”

Williams and her super nails are featured in the upcoming book, Guinness World Records 2018.

https://www.oddee.com/longest-fingernails-female-new-record-44656/

drunkcow:
Am i the only one seeing MIA KHALIFA in the fifth pic

This guy don watch PORN no b small see as he identified d IndecentStar without hesitating I bow 4 una o haha

Space elevator

It’s been a good idea for more than a century. A space elevator would be a cheap alternative to rockets for carrying cargo, and even humans, into space. These days, the dream machine takes the form of a cable anchored to Earth’s surface and stretching 35,000 kilometres, beyond geostationary orbit. Gravity and centrifugal force would keep it taut and lasers on the ground would beam power to “climbers” that would crawl up the cable with their load. Unfortunately, some big problems still need to be overcome before the first space elevator achieves lift-off.

For a start, there are currently no materials strong enough to handle the strain on the tether. Carbon nanotubes might work if we could make them longer and purer. Second, gravitational tugs from the moon and sun, and pressure from gusts of solar wind, would cause the cable to shake. It would probably need thrusters to keep it in line and stop the elevator crashing into satellites or space junk. Also, as a climber ascended, its motion would cause the Coriolis force to pull it and the cable in the opposite direction to Earth’s rotation. Fixing that problem could require ridiculously slow trips lasting nearly a month, or the careful choreography of multiple climbers. Space elevators might still become a reality, but don’t hold your breath.

Moving sidewalk

The first moving walkway was unveiled at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1890. Invented by engineer Max Schmidt, it consisted of three concentric rings, the first stationary, the second moving at 4 kilometres per hour and the third at 8 km/h, allowing walkers to adjust to the slower speed before moving to the faster one. It proved a huge success at subsequent expositions in Berlin and Paris, where in 1900 the trottoir roulant circled the fair in a 3-kilometre loop. Nearly 7 million visitors hopped on. A few even brought folding chairs.

Persuaded by this success, officials in New York proposed several high-profile moving walkway schemes for the city including one over Brooklyn Bridge and another running down Broadway. None materialised, perhaps because they were scuppered by established transport providers. It would be half a century before moving walkways started to appear in sprawling airports and railway stations. However, these single-track conveyor belts are a pale shadow of the original idea. The modern moving walkway is not a transport system in its own right, more a minor supplement to other forms.

Gyro monorail

On 10 November 1909, Irish inventor Louis Brennan gave the first public demonstration of his gyro monorail in the grounds of his house in Gillingham, Kent, UK. The track was designed to show off the cornering ability of a vehicle balanced by two vertical gyroscopes mounted side-by-side and spinning in opposite directions. Although he had filed his first monorail patent in 1903, Brennan was rushed into this unveiling when German philanthropist August Scheri announced he would soon be showing off his rival gyro monorail at the Berlin Zoological Gardens.

Brennan’s proper public debut came the following year at the Japan-British Exhibition in London. There, a monorail car carrying 50 people at a time traversed a circular track at over 30 kilometres per hour. Winston Churchill was among the passengers and expressed his enthusiasm. Even so, government funding for the venture soon dried up and Brennan’s monorail was abandoned. Just two vehicles had been built. One was scrapped, the other was repurposed as a park shelter.

Ithacus

It seemed like a good idea back in 1966 when the cold war was hot. To reduce the need for overseas US army bases, why not build an intercontinental rocket capable of carrying a battalion of 1200 soldiers? Ithacus Senior was conceived as a 6400-tonne behemoth, standing 64 metres tall and powered by eight hydrogen drop tanks . Aeroengineer Phillip Bono saw it as a practical application for his orbital launch vehicle ROMBUS (Reusable Orbital Module, Booster, and Utility Shuttle). Its rocket-powered vertical take-off and landing would provide a rapid-strike capability for “rocket commandos”. What could possibly go wrong?

Well, for a start, flying Ithacus home would be impossible without a custom-built launch pad. A convoluted solution was dreamed up. It entailed flying the rocket in short, low-powered hops to the coast, transporting it onto a barge and sailing it back to the US. The smaller, nuclear-powered Ithacus Junior, launched from an aircraft carrier, posed even more logistical problems. Perhaps unsurprisingly, neither made it past the drawing board.

Transit elevated bus

China’s “straddling bus” is the latest in a long and glorious line of failed mass transport. Conceived in 2000, and road tested last year, the Transit Elevated Bus came to the end of the line this July amid allegations of financial shenanigans . Not surprisingly, this bizarre prototype attracted considerable attention when it made its maiden voyage in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province. China badly needs green transport solutions, and a huge, electric powered, traffic-jam-skipping bus has obvious appeal. There was even talk of linking four carriages to create a mega-train capable of carrying 1600 passengers.

Unfortunately, funding wasn’t the only obstacle. The bus would probably have needed to recharge at every station. And with a clearance of just 2.1 metres, it would do damage to a large car, let alone a truck. Rails would need to be fitted; bridges, lampposts and road signs moved. With a projected cost of $4.5 million per carriage, you could buy 11 regular electric buses for the same price. And as for cornering – don’t even mention it.

Aérotrain

All the comfort and speed of a magnetic levitation train, but without the technical complexity and expense – that was the aim of Aérotrain, a hovertrain developed in France from 1965. Five prototypes were built. This stylish Aérotrain 02 engine carried a crew of two and was powered by turbojets. A later version, the I-80 HV, established the world speed record for air cushion vehicles on land when it reached 430.4 kilometres per hour in March 1974. American company Rohr Industries was so impressed that it licensed some of the technology in the hopes of making one of its own.

If Aérotrain had so much going for it, what went wrong? First, there was the death of its lead engineer Jean Bertin. Lack of funding was another problem. And the final nail in the coffin came when the French government decided to adopt the TGV for its high-speed rail network. Aérotrain was abandoned in 1977. Rohr had mothballed its version two years earlier. So, despite all the promise, the technology never went mainstream

Electric busses were poised to take the world by storm 100 years ago, if only their fate hadn’t been sealed by a bunch of crooks. Green vehicles are finally making a comeback, but there were plenty of other modes of transport that became buried in the annals of history.


Beach Pneumatic Transit

The first subway in the US was the brainchild of inventor and publisher Alfred Beach, and it was literally a blast. Tunnelling for the Beach Pneumatic Transit began beneath New York in 1869. By the following year, the first fare-paying passengers were being hurled in comfort along a 95-metre-long demonstration line running underneath Broadway. The carriage was propelled by a massive blower, dubbed the Western Tornado, and was pulled back by suction when the blower was thrown into reverse.

In the first two weeks, more than 11,000 New Yorkers rode the pneumatic transit. Some 400,000 tickets were sold in the single year it was operational. Beach had planned to extend the line by 8 kilometres, to Central Park, but had trouble getting permission. He finally succeeded in 1873, by which time public and financial support had drained away. Still, Beach’s vision had a practical legacy in the New York pneumatic tube mail system, which ran until 1953.


https://www.newscientist.com/article/2145972-7-crazy-transport-systems-that-didnt-go-the-distance/

In cancer surgery, the difference between recovery and relapse can be just a few millimeters. After solid tumors are removed, cancer surgeons and pathologists need to make critical decisions about how much marginal tissue to excise from the patient’s body and how much to leave. They know that leaving just a few cancer cells behind is strongly associated with recurrence. But in particularly sensitive cases like brain cancer, removing too much healthy tissue can result in paralysis or worse.

The current method for distinguishing between cancerous and benign tissue during surgery is to cut out and freeze small samples to be analyzed by pathologists. But the process still takes 30 minutes at its fastest, and an accurate diagnosis depends largely on the morphology or physical characteristics of the cells, which can be damaged in the freezing process.

In an effort to greatly improve the speed and accuracy of tissue analysis, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin created the MasSpec Pen, a handheld probe that can deliver a diagnosis in 10 to 15 seconds with 96 percent accuracy.

The pen itself is a very simple device. Principal investigator Livia Eberlin, a chemistry professor at the University of Texas at Austin, explained that it’s designed to gently extract small molecules from the surface of living tissue using nothing but a suspended droplet of water. The surgeon holds the tip of the pen against the target tissue for three seconds, then the water droplet is sucked through a long plastic tube directly into a mass spectrometer.

Inside the mass spectrometer, the water sample is analyzed for a host of molecules including amino acids, glutamine, glutamate, abscorbic acid, lipids, proteins, and fatty acids. Eberlin and her team analyzed hundreds of tissue samples from patients with lung, breast, thyroid, and ovarian cancers to create a database of molecular profiles.

“Now we knew the molecular profiles that are associated with cancer and the molecular profiles associated with normal tissue,” Eberlin told Seeker. “We used statistical algorithms to develop a classification system that can automatically look through the profiles and say, this is looking like cancer with this probability, or this is healthy.”

The MasSpec Pen isn’t the first handheld device to attempt to quickly and accurately detect the presence of cancer cells. The iKnife, developed in 2013 by researchers at University College London, is an electrosurgical scalpel that cauterizes tissue as it cuts. While such scalpels have existed for decades, the iKnife’s innovation was to analyze the smoke created by the singed tissues to determine if they were cancerous.

Other surgical probes rely on infrared or ultraviolet lasers to “ablate” or vaporize the surface of tissues to analyze their molecular profile.

That’s where the MasSpec Pen stands out, according to Eberlin. It’s the first handheld diagnostic device that causes absolutely no damage to the target tissue, even at a microscopic level. Unlike with the iKnife or laser devices, surgeons can safely test marginal tissue without potentially harming healthy cells.

The MasSpec Pen hasn’t been tried yet in human surgeries. Eberlin and the study’s lead author Jialing Zhang, a research associate at UT Austin, used the pen to test more than 250 ex-vivo human tissue samples and even tried it surgically on mice with breast cancer.

“The overall accuracy for all four cancers — lung, breast, thyroid, and ovarian — is 96 percent,” said Zhang. “That’s pretty exciting both for us and our collaborators at Baylor University and the MD Anderson Cancer Center.”

The next step is to beef up the database of molecular profiles with many more samples of cancer tissue beyond the four varieties that Eberlin and her team studied initially, including types like brain cancer and melanoma. The more samples there are in the database, the researchers said, the more accurate and effective the MasSpec Pen will ultimately be when it’s finally in the hands of surgeons.


https://www.seeker.com/tech/gadgets/this-new-surgical-pen-can-diagnose-cancer-tissue-in-seconds

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Butterflies and moths

Many insects receive parental care, but not moths and butterflies. They lay their eggs on host plants and leave their offspring to fend for themselves.

“Some lay their eggs near ant nests and the ants take care of the caterpillars. “It’s like Moses in miniature,” says Katy Prudic, an entomologist at the University of Arizona.

The caterpillar of the large blue butterfly, for example, secretes a sweet substance attractive to a particular species of red ant and makes itself smell like an ant larvae so the ant takes it back to its nest with its own brood, which the caterpillar then eats.

Some young are protected from predators via toxic chemicals from their host plant—and others have pitch-perfect camouflage.

The common lytrosis of eastern North America, for example, is perfectly disguised as a twig. And if it happens to fall off its background branch, it can use its silk to attach a “life line” and pull back up.

Labord’s chameleon

One lizard species goes a step further not only do the young never see their parents, they never see any adults of their species at all.

At least one population of The
Labord’s chameleon of southwest Madagascar’s dry forests “will lay all of their eggs before winter. The eggs will then hatch just before the summer rains,” says Bouzid. The eggs spend eight to nine months developing and in the meantime, the adults will have aged and died.

The newly orphaned offspring “will grow where there are absolutely no adults of their species,” says Bouzid.

“You can imagine if they don’t get a chance to reproduce, the whole population is gone,” Bouzid says of the species, whose forest habitat is threatened by environmental changes.

Western Fence Lizards

Most lizards, on the other hand, “deposit their eggs, cover them, immediately forget they did that and move along,” says Nassima Bouzid, a PhD candidate at the University of Washington.

Because they have a cloaca, an opening for their reproductive, digestive, and urinary systems, Bouzid says, lizards like the western fence lizards of Yosemite which she studies may just think the eggs are “an uncomfortable and weird poop,” and never think about it again.

Bouzid says the lack of parental care in most lizards may simply be part of a strategy to have as many offspring as possible in hopes that some will survive.

We all need a push once in a while but hopefully it’s not a literal one.

WAQ reader Hannah wrote in asking, “Do mother birds push their babies out of the nest?”

Daniel Roby, an ornithologist at Oregon State University, says he’s never seen such behavior or documentation of it, though in some bird species, “parents call to their young in the nest to coax them into leaving when it’s time to do so.”

Hannah’s question made us wonder: What brave offspring do get pushed out into the world before they feel they're ready?


Megapodes

Most birds receive parental care, but megapodes—a group of chicken-like birds native to eastern Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Philippines are a big exception.

These birds “do not even directly incubate their eggs,” Roby says. Instead “they build a large mound of decaying vegetation and lay their eggs in the mound.”

According to The Handbook of Bird Biology, the mounds can be “the size of a car.”

The parents do control the mound’s temperature “by removing or adding more vegetation,” says Roby, but once the offspring are born, they dig their way out of the mound and “run off into the brush without ever seeing their parents.”

The chicks can fly within 24 hours.

“Mother crocodiles give their young more post-hatching care than megapodes do,” Roby notes. Indeed, baby crocs are among the very few reptiles that receive parental care, including being carried around in mom’s gigantic mouth.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/go--baby--these-animal-babies-grow-up-without-any-help-from-pare/

BelieveTech:
can u bring it to my office so I can diagnose it

Where is ur office I reside in ib?

BelieveTech:
it might be a vga problem

So what am I to do now?

focuso1:
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What you need is just to take the previous one along to where u wanted to buy it....is possible to upgrade it..... If u have single 2 gig before u will just need to buy another 2gb making 4gig or buy 1gig making 3 gig .......concerning the price it depend the location.

Thanks a lot man really appreciate ur reply I stay in ibadan but d price should not be more than 3k for 2gig abi

sotall:
Is your Compaq presario an AMD laptop or Intel laptop

Am not really sure boss

horllamy:
Pls kindly replace the ram

Thanks but I have few questions do I just need to buy any ram and fix it into the laptop or are there specific ram for some laptops and also my current ram is 2gig and I want to upgrade it like 3 or 4gig is dis possible or do I need to change somethings in the laptop B4 I can upgrade d ram and lastly how much can I buy a ram I mean d price? Thanks again

sotall:
is your Compaq presario an AMD laptop or Intel laptop??

Boss I really don't know if it's AMD or Intel

My Compaq Presario laptop is not displaying when I switched it on like it's all blank on the screen(black) but I can hear the fan rolling and the caps lock light is on with the wifi light...so I Google search the problem online Sha and I was told to reset the ram which I did immediately I reset it it displayed the second day again it became blank I reset it but this time it didn't respond so I dumped it after like three weeks i did d same reset and again it displayed the second day again It became blank so my question now is is my ram weak or is it another problem entirely? I got d weak ram idea from a friend o he said my ram is weak Dat I need replacement but I want to hear from d experts B4 proceeding to buying a new ram pls reply asap and thanks in advance

My Compaq Presario laptop is not displaying when I switched it on like it's all blank on the screen(black) but I can hear the fan rolling and the caps lock light is on with the wifi light...so I Google search the problem online Sha and I was told to reset the ram which I did immediately I reset it it displayed the second day again it became blank I reset it but this time it didn't respond so I dumped it after like three weeks i did d same reset and again it displayed the second day again It became blank so my question now is is my ram weak or is it another problem entirely? I got d weak ram idea from a friend o he said my ram is weak Dat I need replacement but I want to hear from d experts B4 proceeding to buying a new ram pls reply asap and thanks in advance

My Compaq Presario laptop is not displaying when I switched it on like it's all blank on the screen(black) but I can hear the fan rolling and the caps lock light is on with the wifi light...so I Google search the problem online Sha and I was told to reset the ram which I did immediately I reset it it displayed the second day again it became blank I reset it but this time it didn't respond so I dumped it after like three weeks i did d same reset and again it displayed the second day again It became blank so my question now is is my ram weak or is it another problem entirely? I got d weak ram idea from a friend o he said my ram is weak Dat I need replacement but I want to hear from d experts B4 proceeding to buying a new ram pls reply asap and thanks in advance

CaroLyner:
my first read and it aint getting updated,antispexish welldone

HBD

icelordz14:
Don't submit finally yet.. It's a must for it to display although it isn't in the rules given by the school... I'd suggest u try another browser or edit n reduce the size nd re upload

Boss it still d same thing o I have used different browsers on my laptop now trying it on my phone this is the screen shot can u see it displayed the and signature picture but on the olevel it just shows result uploaded but didn't display the results is dat how it is on urs

icelordz14:
Don't submit finally yet.. It's a must for it to display although it isn't in the rules given by the school... I'd suggest u try another browser or edit n reduce the size nd re upload

Thanks man will do dat