Life In A Different Light: Alien of the Microworld

YouTuber My Microscopic World modified his microscope to harness polarized light, which illuminates tiny creatures in amazing ways. Larva that wear armor shimmer under polarized light as their segments change angle. In other creatures, you can see their internal organs: muscles, eggs, and even what they have recently eaten. Oh yeah, the footage was shot on an iPhone.

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When You Need to Send Your Coffee Table Into Orbit [Pics]

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If there’s something everyone absolutely needs in a living room, it’s a rocket-powered coffee table!

From Stelios Mousarris:

The design is visually playful bringing cartoon-like clouds and aerial rockets from a personal toy collection to life, in the form of a table.

Combining various techniques from lathe to 3d printing, resin casting and traditional hand curved pieces, this table is fashioned to draw a smile on the face of nostalgic adults, children, and children trapped in adult bodies.

The rockets are not attached to the glass giving the opportunity to each owner to form their own desired structure of the table.

Interested in getting one? The table will unfortunately cost you a *ahem* measly $5620.

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[Source: Stelios Mousarris | Via Mental Floss]

Here’s Why Tricking an Engineer Almost Never Works

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An engineer who was unemployed for a long time decided to open a medical clinic. He puts a sign outside saying “A cure for your ailment guaranteed at $500; we’ll pay you $1,000 if we fail.” A doctor thinks this is a great opportunity to earn an easy $1,000 and enters the clinic thinking he can easily fool the man who was making those bold claims.

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SCOOB! – The First Trailer for the Upcoming Animated SCOOBY DOO Movie!

The first full-length animated Scooby-Doo adventure for the big screen is the never-before told stories of Scooby-Doo’s origins and the greatest mystery in the career of Mystery Inc.

“SCOOB!” reveals how lifelong friends Scooby and Shaggy first met and how they joined with young detectives Fred, Velma and Daphne to form the famous Mystery Inc. Now, with hundreds of cases solved and adventures shared, Scooby and the gang face their biggest, most challenging mystery ever: a plot to unleash the ghost dog Cerberus upon the world. As they race to stop this global “dogpocalypse,” the gang discovers that Scooby has a secret legacy and an epic destiny greater than anyone imagined.

SCOOB! is set to hit the big screen on May 15, 2020.