Shocking Facts You Did Not Know A Minute Ago

How about that China is the world's biggest english-speaking nation? Or that India has more people with IQ's over 120 than the total population of the USA? Or that a home computer in 2049 will have more computing power than the total human species of 2008?
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Remember these facts were back in 2008, wonder what they would be at the current time???

Incredible Human Kaleidoscope

TED commissioned this visually stunning human kaleidoscope, produced by the Doha Film Institute in collaboration with the Amsterdam based agency WE ARE Pi.
LINK, Via: Youtube

Seeing Beyond the Human Eye

Technology defies the boundaries of human perception. From photomicrography to astrophotography, size and distance are no longer barriers, and through slow-mo and timelapse, we are allowed to see time and humanity in a new light. Through our curiosity and thirst for the unknown, the beauty of the universe can now be explored beyond the limits of the naked eye.
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Human Planet - Web exclusive series trailer - BBC One

Human Planet is an awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, heart-stopping landmark series that marvels at mankind's incredible relationship with nature in the world today.

Uniquely in the animal kingdom, humans have managed to adapt and thrive in every environment on Earth. Each episode takes you to the extremes of our planet: the arctic, mountains, oceans, jungles, grasslands, deserts, rivers and even the urban jungle. Here you will meet people who survive by building complex, exciting and often mutually beneficial relationships with their animal neighbours and the hostile elements of the natural world.

Human Planet crews have filmed in around 80 locations, bringing you many stories that have never been told on television before. The team has trekked with HD cameras and state of the art gear to film from the air, from the ground and underwater. The result: a "cinematic experience" created by world-class natural history and documentary camera crews and programme makers. LINK: Youtube

Human skull found in Minnehaha Park from 19th Century

A human skull found in a Minneapolis park earlier this month is likely a middle-aged man from the 19th century. WCCO reports a Hennepin County forensic team says the skull found in Minnehaha Park’s off-leash dog is that of a man who was of both European and African ancestry. LINK

Dancing Goat!

"QUOTE" We have a little 3 week old orphan Nubian goat kid that thinks he is a human! His mother rejected him so he follows us around and likes to copy our movements! LINK: Youtube

Shadow Theater

A very different type of Dancing routine performed before HM The Queen at the 2009 Royal Variety Peromance in Blackpool. Sticks of Rocks were given free.

“Completely amazing performance and imaginative use of human shadows.” LINK: Youtube

Human Aquarium

An amazing photo pieced together from 17 panoramic frames by Russian photographer Dmitriy Chistoprudov. The photo features 48 floors of a Russian office building called 'Federation' in Moscow City.
Posted by Gerard on 10/30/2010, Via: The Presurfer

First Photo Of A Human Being Ever?

"QUOTE" Back in September, we posted a set of old photos of Cincinnati daguerreotypes from 1848 where I caught a glimpse of two people at the Ohio River's edge. That would make them among the very first people ever to appear in a candid photograph. 1848 is a long time ago. They looked like a pair of men, one tall, the other short. They were standing with what looked like a bucket between them. I figured they were there to fetch some water. I then went on in my way to talk about cholera.

Well, an eagle-eyed reader who calls himself Hokumburg (and has a spectacular blog of his own, The Hokumburg Goombah) did his own investigation, enlarged our photo, and peered more closely:


And he wrote:

I have lightened it up a bit and messed with the contrast a little, and I think the man on the left is standing behind the wooden beam wall (wharf? dock?) with his left leg up on the wall and his left hand resting on his knee, while the man on the right is standing on top of that wall. LINK

Would You be Shrink Wrapped for the Sake of Art?

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Lawrence Malstaf is an artist who makes unusual designs on his subjects, who he calls volunteers. He literally shrink wraps them. It may sound like an idea for a grisly death in the next big budget horror film but the intention is to encourage people to consider the threat to their survival and how they protect themselves when under threat.

The performance Shrink is one of those experiences that people are unlikely to forget – whether they are the observer or (particularly) the volunteer or indeed whether they get what the artist intends. The performers place themselves between two sheets of plastics – their only accompaniment is an air tube.

Next, the air is slowly drawn out of the gap between the sheets until they are effectively shrink wrapped. Their movements are heavily restricted by the plastic but slowly, painfully so perhaps, they are able to move and express themselves through a kind of slow motion dance.

It all looks as if it would have your average health and safety inspector rushing for the banning order, but there is an assistant who keeps an eye on his or her allotted performer. If there is any sign of danger or panic then the air is let back in to the plastic.

However, the results are unusual. The eye is inexorably drawn to the captive shapes slowly dancing in their prison of plastic. As a visual metaphor one can interpret it how one wants.

Most of the volunteers seem to be more than happy with the experience, comparing it to being back inside the womb. However, would you like to be shrink wrapped for the sake of art? Here is one of the volunteers speaking about his experience. LINK, Via: Youtube

12 Spectacular Human Formation Pictures

Arthur Mole, Living Portrait of President Woodrow Wilson, 1918. The photographs are genuine and were created by Arthur Mole and John Thomas during the early years of the 20th Century. Mole and Thomas created a whole series of human formation pictures representing important religious and military related symbols. LINK

New Artificial Reef Made From Sculptures of Real People

The Museo Subacuatico de Arte (MUSA) is a project designed to divert tourists from the fragile coral reefs of Cancun and Isla Mujeres. British artist Jason de Caires Taylor created ’life casts’ made from a special type of cement which encourages coral to grow. He used local Mexican people from a broad cross-section of society for the casts which were then anchored in an area that was originally barren and without much sea life. It is hoped that many of Cancun’s 750,000 visiting snorkelers and divers will be drawn to the installation.

Link, Via: Neatorama

It's just a toy car, oh wait...

This is so cool. LINK: Youtube

Science of the Heart

The human heart emits the strongest electromagnetic field in our body. This electromagnetic field envelops the entire body extending out in all directions, and it can be measured up to several feet outside of the body. Research from the Institute of HeartMath shows that this emotional information is encoded in this energetic field. HeartMath researchers have also seen that as we consciously focus on feeling a positive emotion - such as care, appreciation, compassion or love - it has a beneficial effect on our own health and well-being, and can have a positive affect on those around us. LINK: Youtube

Human 8-Bit Music Video

This is the "Human 8-bit Video". We wanted to make something cheap and awesome. It was directed by our buddy/chief mad scientist Greg Jardin. It was all shot in one take. It took lots and lots and lots of practice to get it right. A guy in one of the cells also played the serial killer on season 5 of "the wire". LINK, Via: Youtube

Visual Art by the Human Body

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I don't have any other information on these.

The Original Human PAC-MAN Performance by Guillaume Reymond

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PAC-MAN was played by real human-beings sitting in a cinema: it's the 5th video performance of the GAME OVER Project from the French-Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond. This stop-motion video was shot and played for the new ProHelvetia's programme GameCulture http://www.gameculture.ch at the Trafo cinema (Baden, Switzerland) on August 28th 2010. This giant game was played by 111 human pixels that has moved from seat to seat during more than 4 hours... Via: Youtube

Press Your Ashes Into Your Favourite Vinyl Record

British Company, And Vinyly, will press your charred remains into your very own hyper-personalized spinning analog musical platter. The starter kit comes with your own generic gravestone-style cover art, 24 minutes of audio of your choosing, and 30 copies of your final release.

The company was founded by Jason Leach, who co-founded the techno group and record label Subhead in the 1990s. I’d like to have my ashes pressed into Psycho Killer. I can just picture the mourners at my funeral getting their groove on to the beat of The Talking Heads.

Link – Via: Engadget, Via: Neatorama

Creepy 'Human Fish' Can Live 100 Years

The olm (Proteus anguinus), a foot-long salamander nicknamed 'the human fish' because of its fleshy skin and tubular shape, is certainly a strange-looking animal. This animal is most notable for its adaptations to a life of complete darkness in its underground habitat. The olm's eyes are undeveloped, leaving it blind, while its other senses, particularly those of smell and hearing, are acutely developed.

But beneath the surface, they're even weirder: Olms can live for 100 years, far longer than any other amphibian. Scientists have no idea why. LINK: The Presurfer

Kitten sits like a proper human

This is so cute. LINK, Via: Youtube