Ukrainian artist Anna Sofia Matveyeva first chews gums, then sorts them by color and then heats them up in the microwave.
Her best works are portraits of Steve Jobs and Elton John. For portrait of Steve Jobs it was necessary over 1000 chewing gums while for a portrait of Elton John "only" 250 chewing gums.
Matveyeva currently creating a portrait of Mircea Lucescu, a manager of FC Shakhtar, for which, according to estimates, it will also be necessary 250 chewing gums.
"Chewing gum is not only use as a material, it represents some sort of symbol," says Matveyeva.
For creating a portrait she needs about ten days, while Steve Jobs portrait was making over three weeks. Each portrait weighs about five pounds, and Matveyeva hopes soon she will make her first exhibition.
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A mysterious hole swallowed a concrete pillar in Imotski, Croatia. As stated by the locals, they mayhear strangenoises for which they believeareghosts.
The newly mysterious hole, 2.5 meters wide and 1.5 meters deep, engulfed the concrete pillar, in Poljica near Imotski. As stated by the locals, from the holes are Strange sounds in believing that they are ghosts.
Strange holes in Croatia have so far opened in Drnis, Istria and Zadar, and so far engulfed one man. A new hole in the ground first noticed a local woman who tended sheep nearby. The villagers do not remember that the land collapsed so suddenly on the meadow, where people planted vines for years.
Repeated opening of holes in the ground in Croatia and in the world, as experts explain is natural phenomena, but also the impact of man on the environment.
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Long-forgotten remains of a long-forgotten species, have been discovered in a museum drawer in Scotland. The beast, a dolphin-shaped crocodilian "super predator," was able to eat other species its size and larger.
The ancient newfound crocodilian is named Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos, Greek for "blood-biting tyrant swimmer." Sounds pretty friendly, doesn't it? "Tyrannoneustes was a dolphinlike crocodile that lived 165 million years ago," said researcher Mark Young, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the University of Southampton in England.
The predator possessed a long snout, large flippers, armorless skin and a tail fin where the bottom half is larger than the top half, resembling an upside-down version of an ordinary shark's tail fin.It's uncertain how large Tyrannoneustes was, but the right side of its lower jaw was at least 26 inches (67 centimeters) long. It featured enlarged teeth with serrated edges, and a jaw that evolved to open wider, allowing it to swallow smaller prey whole.
Back when Tyrannoneustes was alive, the area in central England where the fossils were discovered was covered in a shallow sea encompassing much of what is now Europe. Originally found between 1907 and 1909, the fossil has been lost in a drawer at the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow for nearly 100 years.
There are no modern descendents of the animal. Instead, this predator was a kind of metriorhynchid, an extinct family of marine crocodiles.
The discovery of Tyrannoneustes shows that during the Middle Jurassic, metriorhynchid crocodiles were beginning to evolve into predators of large-bodied prey. By the Late Jurassic, numerous metriorhynchid species were suited to feeding on large prey, but Tyrannoneustes is the first known from the Middle Jurassic. How this impacted upon other predatory groups such as pliosaurs and ichthyosaurs is still unclear.
Future research can scan Tyrannoneustes bones to develop computer models of how it might have fed, Young said. He and his colleagues detailed their findings online Jan. 4 in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
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Rio de Janeiro is mixing technology with tradition to provide tourists information about the city by embedding bar codes into the black and white mosaic sidewalks that are a symbol of the city.
The city installed its first two-dimensional bar codes, or QR codes, as they're known, at Arpoador, the massive boulder that separates Copacabana and Ipanema beaches. The image was built into the sidewalk with the same black and white stones that decorate sidewalks around town with mosaics of waves, fish and abstract images.
With an accompanying smartphone application, onlookers were able to take snapshots of the mosaic QR codes with their phones or tablets before being directed to a website that disbursed information in Brazil's native Portuguese, and also in Spanish and English. A map of the area was also included.
They learned, for example, that Arpoador gets big waves, making it a hot spot for surfing and giving the 500-meter beach nearby the name of "Praia do Diabo," or Devil's Beach. They could also find out that the rock is called Arpoador because fishermen once harpooned whales off the shore.
Each stone code reportedly takes about seven days to construct due to the level of precision necessary to make it scan, though some future iterations will be constructed out of different recycled materials. The next four, expected by March, will pop up at Redra do Leme, Sao Conrado Beach, Mirante do Leblon and Pepe Beach in Barra da Tijuca.
The Department of Conservation said it plans to implement the co-called QRIO project at 30 locations across the city by the year’s end and 50 locations by July 2014 when Rio hosts the FIFA World Cup.
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The
sounds of cries and roars can be heard throughout the Umatilla Indian
Reservation near Pendleton, The Oregonian reports Jan. 25. The
reservation is home to about 1,500 people across 178,000 acres in
Oregon’s Blue Mountains. The possible Bigfoot noises were heard near an
old reservation community center just north of Wilhorse Resort and
Casino. Residents first started hearing the noises last month, and
rumors quickly spread that it could be a mythical ape-like humanoid
creature, Bigfoot.
Bigfoot,
also known as Sasquatch, is the name given to the mysterious ape-like
creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the
Pacific Northwest region of North America. Scientists discount the
existence of Bigfoot, usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal
humanoid, and consider it to be a combination of folklore,
misidentification, and hoax.
Among
some Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest, however, the
Bigfoot is not to be taken lightly. Stories about the hominid hairy
creatures roaming the forests of the region have been passed down from
generation to generation in some tribal cultures, so when the screeches
first drifted over the swampland, it did not take much to convince the
locals that those were the cries of Bigfoot.
According
to the Oregon Live, the eerie late-night sounds, which range from
high-pitched screams to basso profundo roars, started in November and
have caused bigfoot rumors to spread. Several reservation unit tenants
and home owners call authorities to report the strange sounds. One man
even claimed his dog was too afraid to go outside.
One
said the cries were made by "a young Bigfoot that had got separated
from the rest of his clan." The howls also make some believe the animal
making those noises are foxes or a female coyote.
So
far no one has been able to nail down exactly what the source is of the
spooky sounds. For decades many have believed Bigfoot does, in fact,
live in Oregon within its thick forests. Reported Examiner...
Carl
Sheeler, wildlife program manager for the Walla Walla and Cayuse
tribes, said the strange noises may just be from animals known to live
in the area.
But some of
those who have heard the sounds don't agree with Sheeler. "Foxes do
sound creepy," said Sylvia Minthorn. "But it's not the same sound, not
even close."
Did
Oregon residents within the reservation actually hear Bigfoot?
Enthusiasts of the creature think that they are getting closer to
finding the elusive Bigfoot, and sightings continue. Late last year, a
group of hikers in Utah encountered what they thought was a bear, but
then the animal turned and stood on two legs, looking very much like
Bigfoot.
Sasquatch Watch Canada posted a recording of the howls to Youtube. Listen to them below:
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If you are not especially imaginative, or do not have time to properly prepare yourself for a masquerade costume, there are applications that will help you to prepare for the following Halloween.
"Digital Dudz" is a conceptual project of NASA engineer Robert Brand, who became famous for his incredible costume that was created for last year's Halloween. Unfortunately, it cost about 920 euros - far from affordable.
However, they do something for people with shallow pockets for this year's costume: all you need is a T-shirt, smartphone, and "Digital Dudz" applications.
The preparation of the costume takes about four minutes.
Just follow the instructions on the video below:
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An Alice Springs filmmaker managed to shoot one of the rarest natural phenomena! It is a fiery tornado that occurs when a "pillar" of the hot air down to the ground and causing a fire.
Chris Tangey of Alice Springs Film and Television was scouting locations near Curtin Springs station, about 80km from Ularu, last week when confronted by a fiery phenomenon.
A small fire was burning in nearby bushland, so Mr Tangey decided to start filming. He caught the sight of his life. A twister touched down on the spot fire, fanning it into a furious tower of flame. "It sounded like a jet fighter going by, yet there wasn't a breath of wind where we were," he told the Northern Territory News.
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A papyrus fragment dated to the fourth century written on it in the ancient Coptic language, contains a phrase: "Jesus said to them, my wife...". This discovery reopening the debate about whether Jesus was married, as some early Christians believed.
The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than a business card, with eight lines on one side, in black ink legible under a magnifying glass. Just below the line about Jesus having a wife. Below it is a second provocative clause that reportedly says: "She will be able to be my disciple."
The words on the honey-colored fragment are the first to show Jesus referring to a wife, according to Karen King, a professor of divinity at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who has published several books about new Gospel discoveries and is the first woman to hold the nation’s oldest endowed chair, the Hollis professor of divinity. King presented the finding on Tuesday at the International Congress of Coptic Studies in Rome. The writing in black ink is in the language of Egyptian Christians, on a fragment of about 1.5 by 3 inches (4 by 8 centimeters).
“One of the things we do know is that very rarely in ancient literature was the marital status of men discussed,” King said in a conference call with reporters. “Silence in marital status is normal.” She said in a statement that the earliest claim that Jesus did not marry is from 200 A.D. Early Christians did not always agree on whether they should marry or be celibate.
The fragment does not prove that Jesus was married or that if he was that it was to Mary Magdalene, according to the draft paper. Only women were identified in terms of family relationships, as someone’s sister, mother, or wife, King said. The question of whether Jesus married came up later when people wanted to use him as a model for their lives, she said.
The provenance of the papyrus fragment is a mystery, and its owner has asked to remain anonymous. Until Tuesday, King had shown the fragment to only a small circle of experts in papyrology and Coptic linguistics, who concluded that it is most likely not a forgery. But she and her collaborators say they are eager for more scholars to weigh in and perhaps upend their conclusions.
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One of the world's most expensive dresses has sparkled on the catwalk in Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
The £3.5million ($5.67m) dress was created by British designer Debbie Wingham, who embroidered the piece with 50 two carat black diamonds, and weighs 29lb (13 kilograms).
Presented at a show featuring several other diamond-encrusted dresses from Ms Wingham's collection, the black diamond dress received a mixed response from the audience in Kiev. The shimmering number received mixed reviews from the crowd; some said it was ugly whilst others felt it was a real beauty. And whilst the jewels may be impressive, so is the price tag of £3.5million ($5.67m).
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Defying fate and an end that could have been as tragic as that of Titanic passengers, Ryan Harris of Alaska survived icy waters inside a small plastic fish crate for more than 24 hours before he was rescued.
A 19-year-old fisherman was rescued off the coast of Alaska Saturday after spending more than 24 hours adrift in a 4-by-4 foot plastic fish crate after his boat sank off Alaska. Young fisherman says he gave himself pep talks and sang “Rudolf, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” to keep his spirits up.
His fellow crewmember managed to get into a survival suit and washed ashore on a beach after his own night afloat. A Coast Guard helicopter hoisted Ryan Harris, 19, of Sitka, from his plastic “lifeboat” on Saturday, more than 24 hours after the boat sank on Friday, the Daily Sitka Sentinel reported Monday.
Harris and his fishing buddy, 40-year-old Stonie “Mac” Huffman were fishing for salmon two miles off Cape Edgecumbe on Friday. Their 28-foot aluminum boat experienced hydraulic failure, which the men repaired, but they decided to head back to shore anyway.
On the way back, the waters became choppy and their boat was slammed by an eight-foot wave. The boat overturned and the men were thrown into the icy waters with no lifeboat, no life vests and no radios to call for help.
All the men had were two survival suits, a type of waterproof dry suit that protects a wearer from hypothermia in cold water.
Huffman was able to shimmy into a suit after two hours of effort as he held onto a plastic lid. Harris climbed into a four-by-four-foot plastic fish crate, but soon the two were separated by eight-foot tall waves.
The U.S. Coast Guard was notified by relatives of the pair after they did not return to dock that night. Four boats and four helicopters searched throughout the early morning and next day.
Huffman was found by authorities on a beach about 25 miles northwest of Sitka, wearing a survival suit he found in the water and struggled for two hours to put on while losing hold of the plastic lid. Huffman was able to point rescuers in the direction of Harris. Two hours later, and 26 hours their boat first sank on Friday, a Coast Guard helicopter hoisted Harris to safety.
“It’s truly a miracle they survived,” said Sitka Mountain Rescue Director Don Kluting, who helped in the search.
“I never thought I was going to die, but I was worried about Mac,” Harris told the newspaper Monday. “I’m glad to be here.”
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The latest version of the Pentagon's robot Cheetah was able to run faster than a man, and not any man - faster than athletes Bolt Useini!
Cheetah Robot is a fast-running quadruped developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA.
During a recent test enhanced prototype Cheetah achieved a speed of 45.54 kilometers per hour (28.3 mph) without losing stability. The fastest man in the world, Usein Bolt, reached a top speed of 44.71 kilometers per hour (27.8 mph) 2009th when setting the world record.
The latest prototype is still powered from an external source using overhead cables, but Boston Dynamics, the company that the Pentagon is working on the development of advanced robots, believes the field test version of the robot in early 2013. year.
"The fact that we have achieved 45 km/h (28 mph) on the treadmill was a challenge and a great achievement, for which we congratulate our team of robotics," said Dr Alfred Rizzi, technical project leader Cheetah.
"Our goal is to create robots that can move freely in the open field and running quickly. Exactly the right version of the open ground we call Wildcat, which should be ready for testing early next year, said Rizzi.
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Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas is one step closer to creating an invisibility cloak like Harry Potter in a movie, using carbon nanotubes (carbon nanotubes - CNT).
CNT has unique properties, such as air density and the strength of steel. They were the subject of constant study and placed into operation in numerous applications. His exceptional ability to conduct heat and transmit it to the surrounding area makes it an ideal material to be used for so-called "Mirage effect", which you can see in the deserts.
Block of lined highly transparent carbon nanotube are heated to high temperatures, with electrical stimulation. They then have the ability to transfer that heat to its surroundings, causing sharp temperature gradation.
Like a mirage, the sudden change in temperature makes light rays to bend around an object by hiding what is behind devices, making it invisible.
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In a province Binchaun County in southwest China was found a snake-like earthworm measuring over 19 inches (a half-meter) long in a house gutter. Li Zhiwei, a Forestry Bureau worker, made the discovery and eventually decided to keep the worm. "It looked like a snake, I looked carefully and found it was actually a huge earthworm," said Li. Li’s neighbors who came to see his unusual find said they had never seen an earthworm that long in their area before.
Biologists said they plan to study the giant earthworm found in Li’s backyard to find out why it was able to grow to such an enormous length. An adult earthworm's measurements vary by species and can range anywhere from 10mm long and 1mm wide, to 3-meters long and over 25mm wide. Environmental factors also influence an earthworm's body size, and they tend to grow longer and larger during humid seasons if they take in sufficient nutrition and have no natural enemies. Biologists plan to study the earthworm found by Li to classify it and identify the reason it was able to grow to its current length.
The discovery is especially cool for Li. He said he plans to keep the giant earthworm in his backyard and raise it as a pet.
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In Belgrade, Serbia, Milivoje Radosavljevic disappeared in the river on Monday around the 21h while fishing near the dock on the Sava. While Radosavljevic was fishing in the company of his wife and a few friends on the unfenced part of the coast, near the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, big fish has hooked and pulled him into the water. These rivers are known for big catfish, and it is possible that he stumbled on this gigantic monster totally unprepared.
After some time he has not floated to the surface, his friends and wife have called river police, who began searching for drowning. His body has not yet been found. Missing fishermen all know in this district, as he was fishing at the same place over the last decade.
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You should not miss this - African tribe with a special ritual prevent headaches. A small note - do not try this at home!
Tribes in Mozambique effectively treat problems with headaches without modern medicine, in very simple way. Take a look:
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From California arrives unbelievable video in which a giant Humpback Whale rises only a few inches from the kayak with one girl.
All filmed by Ronda Burmajster which says that was an unforgettable experience and one of the best in life for her and her daughter in a kayak. Although the girl and her mother passed without consequence, nearby couple in another kayak was not so lucky, whale pushed them aside.
This is not the first time that the California coast surfacing whales. A few days ago, retired Bill Baton from California snapped the amazing moment when a group of whale emerged from the water next to the boat and kayakers who have watching in amazement as the scene.
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Hunters in Namibia have caught strange creature that has never been seen before. Recording of events caused strong reactions - is a being from another planet, the mythical creature or something completely different?
Video showing the unusual creature caught in Africa has become a hit on the Internet in just a few days. In his description states that local hunters in Namibia saw a strange creature in search of food. One of the hunters had shot him, after which the creature fled into the bush, but hunters nevertheless find it.
Hunters have found three other similar beings. One of them attacked them, so they killed him, but the other escaped.
The body of of the weird being were taken away in a hunting camp and is expected to detailed investigation. People on YouTube have made a discussion on the origin of this creature. While some believe that it is a fake photographs, others are convinced of their authenticity, and some even claim to have themselves seen similar being.
Watch the video and judge for yourself whether he is a being from another planet, the mythical creature or something else.
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Shocking footage of animal torture in Montenegro, near Podgorica - the donkey was tied to a truck and dragged along the road. Eyewitnesses recorded the entire event and put on YouTube. The torturer is arrested.
V.S. (68) from Danilovgrad was arrested this morning on suspicion of having committed the crime of torture and killing of animals.
The police was announced that the VS tortured donkey on 18 August with a motor vehicle "TAM" '. In the footage is visible license plate number of the truck that the animal was tied - DG AG860.
Everything happened in a village Mareza.
The recording was titled "The Tormentor from Mareza", and caused a great condemnation on the Internet.
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U.S. military says that U.S. unmanned experimental spacecraft failed to achieve the planned rate six times greater than the speed of sound.
Hypersonic jet plane X-51 WaveRider was supposed to reach speeds of six Mach, or 5800 km / h when it was launched bomber B-52 off the coast of southern California.
U.S. Air Force reported that due to errors in controlling the direction of X-51 WaveRider is lost in the Pacific.
"It is unfortunate that the problem with this subsystem caused the end before we could turn on the jet engine," said Charlie Brink of the research laboratories of the U.S. Air Force.
X-51 WaveRider successfully separated from the B-52 and launched the rocket engine after which it was supposed to be activated by a jet engine in order to reach a speed of six Mach. A control of a jet was lost 15 seconds later.
The U.S. Department of Defense tries supersonic technology to make missiles that could to arrive at any point on Earth in a few minutes.
U.S. Air Force was left with only one jet, X-51 WaveRider, but not decided whether it will be the flight test.
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Long-forgotten remains of a long-forgotten species, have been discovered in a museum drawer in Scotland. The beast, a dolphin-shaped crocodilian "super predator," was able to eat other species its size and larger.
Among
some Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest, however, the
Bigfoot is not to be taken lightly. Stories about the hominid hairy
creatures roaming the forests of the region have been passed down from
generation to generation in some tribal cultures, so when the screeches
first drifted over the swampland, it did not take much to convince the
locals that those were the cries of Bigfoot. 
The words on the honey-colored fragment are the first to show Jesus referring to a wife, according to Karen King, a professor of divinity at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who has published several books about new Gospel discoveries and is the first woman to hold the nation’s oldest endowed chair, the Hollis professor of divinity. King presented the finding on Tuesday at the International Congress of Coptic Studies in Rome. The writing in black ink is in the language of Egyptian Christians, on a fragment of about 1.5 by 3 inches (4 by 8 centimeters). 
One of the world's most expensive dresses has sparkled on the catwalk in Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
Harris and his fishing buddy, 40-year-old Stonie “Mac” Huffman were fishing for salmon two miles off Cape Edgecumbe on Friday. Their 28-foot aluminum boat experienced hydraulic failure, which the men repaired, but they decided to head back to shore anyway.
In Belgrade, Serbia, Milivoje Radosavljevic disappeared in the river on Monday around the 21h while fishing near the dock on the Sava.
