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Improv Everywhere Transforms Little League Game Into Major League
With the help of the fun-loving Improv Everywhere, a little league baseball game is turned into a major league event!
“All players, coaches, and parents do not know what is happening. We worked with the league commissioner to get the kids’ names and access to the field to set up our equipment on the morning of the game. He was the only one in on it. NBC Sports worked with us and got us the jumbotron and the blimp.” Improv Everywhere
This video was created By Improv Everywhere
“We are a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places.” Improv Everywhere
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All About Art, Smile
Incredible Photos From Siena International Awards
Art Photo Travel is a no-profit association that creates cultural initiatives aimed at spreading, promoting and enhancing art, monuments, traditions, cultures and natural beauty from all around the world. Initiatives and projects address not only at those who love art and culture but also to those interested in the most unknown and less touristy spots of various worldwide location
The 2018 Siena International Photo Awards has received 48,000 submissions from 156 countries, and the judges have had an incredibly hard time deciding the winners. Nonetheless, the winners have been decided, and just like in 2017 and 2016, their images show just how diverse our beautiful world really is.
Scroll down to see some of this year’s amazing “Animals in their Environment” submissions,
PHOTO CREDIT: Peter Mather LOCATION: Alaska’s North Slope (USA)
“I encountered this fox scavenging a Caribou’s carcass on the coastal plains of Alaska’s Arctic. I spent two hours slowly approaching it until I took this picture from six feet away, as she finished her meal. It was a surreal and unforgettable experience and a rare opportunity to be accepted into a wild animal’s existence for a few special hours”
PHOTO CREDIT: Marco Gaiotti LOCATION:: Gunung Leuser National Park (Indonesia)
“A wild Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, in Northern Sumatra. This species is critically endangered according to the IUCN red list, due to habitat loss, as a consequence of palm oil exploitation and logging. Fewer than 3,500 orangutans still survive in the wild. We found this big male while hiking into the primary forest, and after initial mistrust, it became confident allowing me to take some wide-angle shots.”
PHOTO CREDIT: Andrew Peacock LOCATION: Ross Sea (Antarctica)
“A small group of Emperor Penguins huddles near a crack in an ice floe, in a pristine area of the Southern Ocean adjacent to Antarctica, known as the Ross Sea.”
PHOTO CREDIT: Audun Rikardsen LOCATION: Skjervoy (Norway)
“A killer whale emerges on the surface while hunting in an Arctic Norwegian fjord during the polar night.
PHOTO CREDIT: Khaichuin Sim LOCATION: Masai Mara National Park (Kenya)
“I was taking an early ride out from the camp in Masai Mara National Park, searching for the Great Migration, when I saw a rhino from far away standing beside a tree. The backlight from the early sun was too strong, so I took a silhouette instead.
PHOTO CREDIT: Milo Angelo Ramella LOCATION: Canada
“A snowy owl takes flight alarmed by the call of another female. This species gives particular care to protect its own hunting territory.”
PHOTO CREDIT: Arnfinn Johansen
PHOTO CREDIT: Matteo Visconti
Find out more amazing photographs from them here: https://sipacontest.com/
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Dad Turns His Kids Into Heroes Using Coffee Mugs
Fun loving dad Lance Curran found a creative way to enjoy his simultaneously enjoy his coffee and have some laughs transforming his kids into superheroes. As a self-confessed comic book fanatic, Curran has a collection of comic mugs and memorabilia allowing for ample awesome photo opportunities or should we say “mug shot” You can find some of our favorites below.
Curran who is also the co-founder of ‘Arcade Brewery” and works with ‘Threadless” posts these photos up on ‘Instagram’ with the hashtag ‘#breakfastmugshot’.
Photo Credit Lance Curran
Photo Credit Lance Curran
Photo Credit Lance Curran
Photo Credit Lance Curran
Photo Credit Lance Curran
Photo Credit Lance Curran
Photo Credit Lance Curran
You can find more from Curran on his Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/wearecareful/
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All About Art, Comics and Cartoons
Comic Feature – Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg was an inventor, an engineer, and a sculptor and multi-award-winning cartoonist who drew incredible and amusing contraptions. His Rube Goldberg machines live on to this day in physics classes and popular media. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for his editorial cartoon “Peace Today which conveyed a warning against atomic weapons.
Rube Goldberg was born to Jewish parents on July 4, 1883 in San Fransisco. He began drawing at a young age, to such an extent that his parents arranged professional drawing lessons for him at the age of 11. His father encouraged him to study engineering and he earned a degree from the University of California in 1904. He took a job designing sewer pipes for the San Francisco Sewer Department
A few months later he became a sportswriter and cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Bulletin. He also briefly worked for the New York Evening Mail, creating three long-running comic strips. His most popular drawings depicted complex gadgets that performed even the simplest tasks in convoluted, elaborate ways, known as Rube Goldberg machines.
Rube was fascinated by the advancement of technology and thought it humorous as people either embraced change and the benefits technology brought or were reluctant as it seemingly increased dependency and laziness. He personally believed people preferred choosing a more difficult route instead of completing a goal simply and directly.
As he said, “the machines are a symbol of man’s capacity for exerting maximum effort to achieve minimal results”
His inventions were interesting as he did the complete opposite of what most machines do – instead of making difficult things easy, he made easy things difficult. On his “Rube Goldberg Machine” work, he would spend over 30 hours on each piece with close attention to precision regarding the lines and details. n his cartoons, they were created by a character called Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts.
The National Cartoonists Society, in which Goldberg was the first president, named the Rueben Award in his honour, to recognize the “Cartoonist of the Year”.He also received several awards from the National Cartoonists Society including the Gold T-Square Award in 1955, the 1969 Rueben Award and the Gold Key Award, after his death in 1970. To further add to this list of accomplishments, he won the Banshee’s Silver Lady Award in 1959, he was a co-founder of the Famous Artists School , President of the Artists and Writers Club and a member of the Society of Illustrators. To this day high schools and universities worldwide, there are Rube Goldberg contests which challenge students to create intricate machines to do easy tasks
“I do not count the years. Tomorrow is just another day to create something I hope will be worthwhile.” Rube Goldberg
SOURCES: BIOGRAPHY, WIKIPEDIA, STUDY, RUBE GOLDBERG
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Fun Food Land
Magical Harry Potter Snack Ideas
Nowadays foodies have taken blended the lines between great snacks and works of art inspired by their favorite past times. Introducing, Harry Potter themed snacks
From pumpkin juice to Butterbeer, to dinner in the Great Hall to Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans, there are plenty of unforgettable Harry Potter food experiences unique to JK Rowling’s wizarding world.
GOLDEN SNITCH CAKE POPS
What a great idea! Turn your favorite cake pop recipe into a golden Snitch or two with some golden sprinkles and white fondant. It really is that easy (unlike Quidditch, oh Quidditch!)
Find the golden recipe from With Sprinkles On Top here:
http://www.withsprinklesontop.net/?p=1446
BUTTERBEER MUG CAKE
No, your eyes do not deceive you. A Butterbeer in cake form – now we really have gone to The Three Broomsticks! This delicious idea is top of our list to make this weekend. Anyone?!
Get the recipe from Living Lucarto here:
https://www.livinglocurto.com/harry-potter-butterbeer-cake-mug/
DUMBLEDORE’S PENSIVE
Turn jelly and whipped cream into Dumbledore’s mystical Pensive. The kids will love looking into this mind-boggling dish – as well as eating it with plenty of ice cream!
Find the recipe by Rae Gun Ramblings here:
https://www.raegunramblings.com/2010/08/harry-potter-party-part-ii.html
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Free Strips Of Paper Flyer
Spread some smiles to the neighborhood by printing out and posting this funny flyer!
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Words of Wisdom
Words Of Wisdom – Bill Gates
Bill Gates is one of the world’s most famous entrepreneurs, businessmen, and philanthropists. As the principal founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the most influential humans on the planet, a position he has used to help the world, it is estimated Gates and his wife Melinda have given away $28 billion via their charitable foundation – including $8 billion to improve global health.
As a teen at Lakeside Prep School, Gates wrote his first computer program on a General Electric computer. It was a version of tic-tac-toe where you could play against the machine. Once his school discovered Gates’ coding abilities, they let him write the school’s computer program for scheduling students in classes.
Along with fellow student Paul Allen, he began ditching class to work in the school’s computer room. Their work would soon pay off. When Gates was 15, he and Allen went into business together. The two teens netted $20,000 with Traf-O-Data, a program they developed to measure traffic flow in the Seattle area.
Gates scored a near-perfect 1590 out of 1600 on his SATs and was accepted to Harvard to study mathematics and computer science.. He left Harvard University in 1975 to fully devote himself to Microsoft with his childhood friend and fellow computer whiz Paul Allen.Their vision was their would be “a computer on every desktop and in every home”
The pair moved the company to Seattle in 1979, and that’s when Microsoft hit the big time. When Gates learned IBM was having trouble obtaining an operating system for its new PC, he bought an existing operating system from a small Seattle company for $50,000, developed it into MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), then licensed it to IBM. The genius of the IBM deal, masterminded by Gates, was that while IBM got MS-DOS, Microsoft retained the right to license it to other computer makers.
It was at Microsoft in 1987 he met product manager named Melinda French whom he fell and love with and married. In 1994, Bill and Melinda Gates established the William H. Gates Foundation, dedicated to supporting education, world health, and investment in low-income communities. Melinda Gates suggested that people should emulate the philanthropic efforts of the Salwen family, which had sold its home and given away half of its value, as detailed in The Power of Half In 2010Bill and Melinda Gates, and investor Warren Buffett signed a commitment they called the “Giving Pledge.” The pledge is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth over the course of time to charity.
In 2006, Gates announced he was transitioning himself from full-time work at Microsoft to devote more quality time to the foundation. In 2015, he gave $1 billion to a clean energy project, as he sees supporting new ‘greener’ technologies as a way to help deal with global warming. Asked about the motivation of his giving, Gates replied
““It doesn’t relate to any particular religion; it’s about human dignity and equality,” he says. “The golden rule that all lives have equal value and we should treat people as we would like to be treated.”
SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA, BIOGRAPHY, BUSINESS INSIDER, ENTREPRENEUR
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Cool Kids, Good News
Curious Youth Discovers Efficient Solar Technology
In good news for our planet, Georgia Hutchinson, an innovative 13-year-old girl just created a genius way to allow solar panels that are able to generate more electricity by following the location of the sun from dawn until dusk.
Traditional solar panels are not only expensive, but they are also set up to point in only one direction. They are equipped with trackers but they can only follow the sun by moving along two different axis.
Curious about what a solar panels capabilities would be if it were able to follow the sun at all times, she borrowed an equation that was developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to find out. She discovered that a data-driven dual-axis solar trackers could reduce the payback period of investing in solar by up to 40% in some areas of the world using this equation.
This discovery just won her a $25,000 top prize in the National Broadcom MASTERS Competition, one of the most prestigious science and engineering competitions for middle schoolers in America. Over 2,500 young teenage scientists are considered for their experiments in STEM-related fields.
Paula Golden, President of the Broadcom said this about the contest, “ The Broadcom Foundation is honored to champion young scientists, engineers, and innovators and spur them on to greatness. These kids are exemplars of the quality work being done by middles schoolers with their teachers, mentors, and families throughout the US. The finalists are representative of special young people who are preparing themselves to solve the grand challenges we face through the world.”
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Fun Facts
Learn Why Some People Like Being Scared
At this very moment, people are lining up somewhere to scare themselves, be it with a thrill-ride or a horror movie. In fact, in October of 2015 alone, about 28 million people visited a haunted house in the US. But you might wonder: What could possibly be fun about being scared? Margee Kerr examines the biology and psychology behind what makes fear so fun.
Lesson by Margee Kerr, animation by Meduzaz animation studio for Ted-Ed.
“:ED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within TED-Ed’s growing library of TED-Ed animations, you will find carefully curated educational videos.”
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