Swedish model condemns her 'absurd' industry after she is deemed 'way too big'

‘It’s absurd and I hate it,’ the 19-year-old says in a disturbing YouTube video where she claims brands have refused to book her because of her measurements, telling her to ‘get in shape’. This, despite the fact that her BMI is 17.5, which is classified as underweight.

In the video, Agnes says she’s had to give up modelling full-time as she’s struggling to get jobs after nearly five years in the industry. She’s been working as a model since the age of just 15 and came third in Sweden’s Next Top Model only last year.

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The ‘Hand of God’ has appeared over Madeira

On Monday, the Portuguese were stunned by a terrifying cloud over the island of Madeira. The bright orange formation looked as if it was a burning clenched fist.

The cloud was spotted by weather blogger Rogerio Pacheco. His photos soon got attention on social media. People had all kinds of speculations, comparing the unusual cloud to anything from a “Hand of God” to a burning fist, or even a comet from the video game Final Fantasy.

“As soon as I saw the sky, I was immediately intrigued and I just had to grab my camera to take photo,” said Pacheco. “For me, the cloud looks like an outstretched hand with a fireball.”

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How to use the toilet in space?

(Reuters) - It's got to be the most asked question about space and British astronaut Tim Peake has answered it - in a video released by the European Space Agency.

Speaking from the International Space Station, he shows the machine astronauts use to go to "the loo", without making a mess in the micro gravity environment.

He reaches for the tube used and explains, "It really is quite simple. Here is the tube you pee in. Take the cap off. Turn on the fan. The air flow keeps everything going down the pipe and also for number two, the airflow does the same thing. Simple as that."

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Afraid to meet a woman... All men should watch this

A Powerful Reminder Of How Close We Are To Success If We Can Conquer The Fear - May we all have the courage to act on our convictions without fear.

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Most extreme selfie experience....

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Like alien tentacles, these fungi erupt from their eggs

A group four of Clathrus archeri eggs (Devil's Finger's / Octopus Stinkhorn fungi) captured 'hatching' under a time lapse camera over a period of just 59hrs. The most impressive one is right at the end.

Like alien tentacles, these fungi erupt from their eggs covered in a brown slime containing their spores and relies on flies for it's distribution. The putrid spelling slime on the waving tentacles lures in flies who get coated in the spore containing slime and carry it away to germinate into a new crop of fungi next year. This species is native of Australia but has been introduced to the UK where the can be found on rare occasions across the south.

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Dog Saves Owner With Asperger’s Syndrome From Violent Meltdown

A Tempe woman recorded a video of her dog interrupting her violent Asperger’s meltdown and posted it online. Arizona resident Danielle Jacobs, 24, was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome in 2013. She trained her 4-year-old Rottweiler Samson to stop her from self-harming, and he’s subsequently passed his CGC, CGCA, and PAT. Jacobs posted the video to raise awareness about her disorder.

“This is what having aspergers is like,” Jacobs writes on YouTube. “This is what’s considered a meltdown…I trained him to alert to depressive episodes and self harm not both but he alerted.” Elsewhere she recounts an analogy, “people with Asperger’s or autism are like a computer. There’s too much input not enough output – [you] lose power and crash.”

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Sky Ladder - Amazing Pyrotechnic Artwork

“Sky Ladder,” a pyrotechnic artwork by Cai Guoqiang, a Chinese contemporary artist currently living and working in New York City.
Cai is best known for using gunpowder in his spectacular works

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Kiss Me Now, Meet Me Later - Social Experiment

Do you believe in love at first sight? Personally, I don't — but for a self-proclaimed soulless pragmatic like me, it's hard to remain cynical in the face of Jordan Oram's social experiment "Kiss Me Now, Meet Me Later."

Asking strangers to kiss after a brief introduction is a conceit that has been done before and no doubt will be done again, but what separates "Kiss Me Now" from the rest of the pack is the impeccable editing.

These experiments often rely on the element of unfamiliarity juxtaposed with the intimacy of sharing a kiss; by necessity, the majority of such videos focus on the actual act of kissing.

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Festo creates SmartBird flying robotic seagull

Smart Bird is a Robot Bird made by Festo.
The Festo has some robots that mimic some nature animals and the SmartBird is one of them.

Festo has added to its robotic menagerie with the creation of a robotic seagull that weighs just 450 g (15.87 oz) and boasts a wingspan of 1.96 m (6.4 ft). Dubbed the SmartBird, the ultralight flying robot was inspired by the herring gull and can take off, fly and land autonomously, without the help of any additional drive systems.

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Smoking Kids: Photographer Frieke Janssens' Disturbing Exhibition Questions Youth Culture

With their impeccable retro styling, the kids in Frieke Janssens' "Smoking Kids" photos look like they could be lighting up with Marlene Dietrich or Don Draper. But don't worry: Instead of real tobacco, Janssens handed her young models chalk, cheese sticks, and incense. Digital magic did the rest to capture the ugliness and the not-quite-bygone glamour of lighting up.

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Koko the Gorilla Has a Message for World Leaders

Agency Marcel, working with environmental conservation group Noe and The Gorilla Foundation, have found the perfect spokesperson for biodiversity: Koko, the gorilla famous for her mastery of sign language.

In this simple, affecting video, Koko addresses the world leaders who are attending COP21, the United Nations Climate Change Conference currently being held in France. The video is in support of a petition demanding that "the preservation of biodiversity must be written in the Paris Agreement."

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Ambulance Drone - TU Delft

Each year nearly a million people in Europe suffer from a cardiac arrest. A mere 8% survives due to slow response times of emergency services. The ambulance-drone is capable of saving lives with an integrated defibrillator.

The goal is to improve existing emergency infrastructure with a network of drones. This new type of drones can go over 100 km/h and reaches its destination within 1 minute, which increases chance of survival from 8% to 80%! This drone folds up and becomes a toolbox for all kind of emergency supplies.

Future implementations will also serve other use cases such as drowning, diabetes, respiratory issues and traumas.

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THE TREE GOATS OF MOROCCO

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats

The Argania tree is not the most aesthetically pleasing plant in the world with a rough, thorny bark and gangly, crooked branches, but the Moroccan arbor still tends to attract admirers thanks in large part to the hordes of goats that can usually be found perching in them.

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Sugar Experiment - Coca Cola vs Coca Cola Zero

What happens if you boil these popular drink for 20 minutes or so? Watch this video and you’ll be surprised by what you get after the water evaporates.

The main purpose of the video is to educate the viewers about how much sugar can be found in these soda products.

In the experiment, a regular soda was first tested in high heat. Boiling the beverage will take away the water from the regular version.
After 20 minutes of stirring and letting the soda boil in the nonstick pan, the sugar found in the product caramelized, leaving a ton of sugar on the pan.

After the regular soda bottle, the sugar test proceeded with no sugar soda. Talking one bottle of the mentioned soda variety, the some thing was done to the soda. It was also subjected to very high heat until it boiled and the water was gone. quite surprising is the fact that the no sugar soda did not stand up to its name - almost anyway.

There is still a bit of sugar on the pan, but it is so negligible compared to the result of boiling regular soda.

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He Was Confronted By an Abandoned Pit Bull, What He Did Was Breathtaking

These rescuers received a call from someone who saw an abandoned pit bull, out in the wild and struggling to survive. They noticed that the pit bull was in a fenced government area, so they couldn’t climb in and rescue her. They decided to place a cheeseburger in the road in hopes that she would come over, but they weren’t sure if they would be able to get her to come over or not.

That was when a miracle happened. She started to come over and even though she was very wary, she was clearly very hungry as well. In the end, they needed to set up a trap to get her to safety and that was when they managed to save her life. She tried to get out but luckily the rescuers came over shortly after. Watch the video to see what happens next, you won’t regret it.

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A Bionic Eye Has Allowed This Woman To See

Thanks to a revolutionary procedure, a woman who had been blind for 16 years is now able to see.

Carmen Torres, of South Florida, is the first recipient of a bionic eye. At 18, she was been diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, in which the vision declines over a period of time, according to ABC station WPLG-TV.

“You have to move forward with your life," Torres, 45, said of her condition at a news conference Friday.

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Ants Circling Phone - Mysterious video of ants circling an iPhone

This Is What Your iPhone Has Done To Your Braincells - the electromagnetic wave of an incoming call keep these little animals walk in a perfect circle around an iphone.

Video of ants circling phone divides academics: ant's antennaes are far and away the most important sense organs. They are inserted in sockets on each side of the frontal carinae, and consist of a series of joints of variable number and length.

The lowest number, four, is found in the genus Epitritus; the greatest, thirteen, in the males of many of our common ants. Usually the males have one more joint than the females and workers. The first joint, known as the scape, is always considerably elongated, except in the males of some species.

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She Starts Cutting Up A Pair Of Men's Underwear. The End Result?

When briefs have reached their peak, there's no reason to toss them out. Okay, maybe if they're hole-y beyond belief. But if you have a perfectly good pair that has seen better days, you can give it a whole new life with this simple DIY. The best part? No sewing required!

What is it? Well, it's a sports bra! It might sound weird, but this has to be one of the smarter tricks I've ever seen.

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Freak hailstorm surprises Russian beach goers

We’ve all experienced that god awful moment when you’ve dressed for a sunny day and then the heavens decide to open as soon as you step foot outside.

Well spare a though for these poor chaps in Russia whose day at the beach quickly took a turn for the worse when hailstones the size of golf balls started raining down on them. We don’t think a bikini and beach umbrella would have been much protection from these pellets of ice either.

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