Shane Ryan Sealy, 34, was charged with menacing and reckless endangerment Saturday after pulling a gun on protestors gathered in a Huntsville, Alabama park to support immigrants. He shouted "Womp womp" and sang "Ice Ice Baby" to little attention before pulling out the gun. He was then chased off by those he sought to intimidate, according to reports.
Gun, gun, gun, gun!” someone shouted in video published by WAFF 48 — just as Holder-Joffrion was praying for the nation’s strength.
Panicked shouts drowned her out, and the camera turned from the priest to Sealy, about 15 feet from the gazebo, brandishing what appeared to be a pistol at the crowd.
Most people dropped. “I got down on my face on the other side of the gazebo right here and just cried, I was so in shock,” rally organizer Ava Caldwell told WBTV.
Raw Story reported finding a Facebook profile by his name "full of extremist conservative propaganda," but it's been deleted. The Huntsville Police Department would like to remind "the public" that you cannot bring firearms within 1000 ft. of a protest.
A woman who fed a shark by hand was bitten by it, reports ABC News. In what ABC News described as a "shocking" video but which is in fact a completely unsurprising video, the woman is seen leaning over and extending a tiny morsel of meat to a shark, which chomps the food and thereby her fingers.
She didn't lose her finger, but she did have to go to the hospital to get it treated for an infection.
The Weber Rapid Fire Chimney Starter has a 4.8 rating and over 5,000 reviews on Amazon. I've been using one for years and I don't know how I managed to start a charcoal barbecue without one. You fill it with charcoal briquettes, put two sheets of crumpled newspaper in the bottom and light with a match. In 20-30 minutes the coals are ready to be poured into the grill for cooking. No starter fluid needed. It's on sale for $15 on Amazon right now.
This chart shows attraction rates for a common species of mosquito, called Aedes aegypti. DEET definitely works, but lemon eucalyptus insect repellent is almost as good and is much more effective than DEET four hours after application. Interestingly, those mosquito skin patches attract more mosquitos than not wearing any repellent at all.
The story is that Marcel Duchamp invented modern art in 1917 when he signed the name "R. Mutt" to a porcelain urinal and submitted it to the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists at The Grand Central Palace in New York. The work, known as Fountain, was rejected and the original was lost, but today it is one of the most famous works of art in history.
But according to a new article in the magazine See All This, the work was actually created by a New York dada artist named Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, who was friends with Duchamp.
In 1982 a letter written by Duchamp came to light. Dated 11 April 1917, it was written just a few days after that fateful exhibit. It contains one sentence that should have sent shockwaves through the world of modern art: it reveals the true creator behind Fountain – but it was not Duchamp. Instead he wrote that a female friend using a male alias had sent it in for the New York exhibition.
To attribute Fountain to a woman and not a man has obvious, far-reaching consequences: the history of modern art has to be rewritten. Modern art did not start with a patriarch, but with a matriarch. What power structure in the world of modern art prohibits this truth to become more widely known and generally accepted? Ultimately this is one of the larger questions looming behind the authorship of Fountain. It sheds light on the place and role of the female artist in the world of modern art.
Chris Notap was able to pull a tiny splinter from his hand by attaching a small lens attachment he made for his phone, and looking at his phone's display to guide him in the surgery.
Here's a video on how to make the lens attachment (basically, buy a film camera for a couple of bucks at a thrift store, take it apart to retrieve the lens, and hot glue it to a popsicle stick):
Did you know the US Department of Treasury has a mutilated currency division? One of its jobs is to analyze stacks of paper currency that have been burned in a fire or chewed up by vermin. In this video, Eric Walsh, the assistant manager of the division, shows how they do their job. It looks like painstaking, but interesting, work. They reimburse about $40 million every year.
Inkoativ charted income per day against population and animated the "mountains" that result for each continent. Click through to watch the developing world, well, develop. [via Data Is Beautiful]
Echinopsis cactus flowers explode in a riot of colors in this beautiful timelapse work by YouTuber EchinopsisFreak. In the example above, blooms somehow synchronize their brief appearance to maximize the chance of pollination. (more…)
It's a bird eat bird world on the beaches of Vancouver where crows are attacking a bald eagle, who is simultaneously attacking a young seagull. The pecking order in action.
Using classroom instruments like apple shakers and kazoos, the Backstreet Boys performed their 1999 hit "I Want It That Way" with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots on Thursday's Tonight Show.
According to Rolling Stone, Backstreet Boys' AJ McLean will be part of the The Lou Pearlman Project, a documentary about notorious boy band impresario, Lou Pearlman. The film will premiere later this year on YouTube Red.
Many of us are still reluctant to fork out the $160 for a pair of earbuds we could very easily lose if we turn our heads just a little too quickly. On sale for $22.99, the Air Bud Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds present a more economically sound alternative, and they even come with a charging case that can power them up ten times on the move.
Outfitted with Bluetooth 4.2 technology and CVC 6.0 noise cancellation, the Air Buds produce crisp, wireless audio while keeping exterior noise out of your listening experience. They're rated to last 2.5 hours on a single charge, and you can recharge them up to 10 times with the included carrying case, giving you enough power to fuel your commute, workout, and beyond.
Polina Verbitsaya has gotten quite adept at sculpting polymer clay into weird sculptures, like disturbing people, body parts, and and other visceral gew-gaws. (more…)
Remember Claire Saffitz, the pastry chef from Bon Appétit who made her own versions of Skittles, Kit Kats, and other junk foods? Well, she's back, and now she's doing her best to figure out how real Lucky Charms are made so she can create a gourmet version. As it turns out, it's not easy to make cereal from scratch. In the nearly 20-minute long video, we get to see her failures and disappointments that eventually lead her success. If you make it to the end, she shares the final recipe.
Via r/whoadude, my new favorite subreddit, appears this spectacular "glitch" video of a stroll through a Paris side-street, produced by Benjamin Bardou. It seems to combine glitchy compression artifacts and lidar -- the machine vision system used by self-driving automobiles, experimental drones and Betty White to create realtime 3D representations of their targets -- to spectacular effect.
