Australian woman dies for cake, literally

02 February,2020 05:00 AM IST |   | 


Hate your ex? A zoo is allowing you to name a cockroach after them IT TOOK 10 YEARS TO BUILD THIS MONSTER Manu2019s u2018 beastu2019 friend Three- year- old composer Fenn Rosenthal did her musician father proud with her recent tune Dinosaurs in Love. It is about a couple of dinosaurs who are smitten and are at a dinner party immediately before an apocalyptic event, which wiped- out their race. The adorable video got over million views on Twitter.

briefs A 60- year old woman died during a cake- eating competition held to celebrate Australia Day. She was speed- eating when she had a seizure, causing her to choke on a sponge cake. She was given CPR, but it failed to revive her. She was pronounced dead at the Hervey Bay Hospital.

Glitter Coffin Co. is offering a wide range of u201c beautiful, bespoke glitter and crystal coffins and casketsu201d for those who want to go out in style. These coffins cost R 15,000 roughly, and the company ships them worldwide.

Australian woman dies for cake, literally Buy yourself a coffin coated with glitter @ theglittercoffincompany, Instagram SOCIAL MEDIA HOWLERS VALENTINEu2019S DAY is just around the corner. It couldnu2019t come at a worse time for people who have just split with their lovers. A zoo in Fairseat, England, has come up with a creative solution to help all the jilted folk. One can replace a romantic dinner for two with a dish best served cold, revenge. Hemsley Conservation Centre is providing people the opportunity to name cockroaches after their exes for u00a3 1.50 ( R 120).

The centre was initially planning to launch a cockroach adopting programme. They, however, opted for the u2018 name a cockroach programmeu2019 and decided to give singletons the means to vent.

People who name a cockroach will receive a certificate specifying the name of the creature, apart from a quiz comparing oneu2019s former flame to a cockroach.

JONATHAN Tippett, who hails from Vancouver, spent more than a decade designing a giant, fourlegged robot named Prosthesis.

Tippett has been awarded a Guinness World Record for building the robot, which is the worldu2019s largest tetrapod exoskeleton. It stands tall at 16 feet and 18 inches long, and weighs 1,600kg. A pilot is required to operate the machine.

Chromoly steel tubing, often used for aerospace and racing vehicles, was used to construct Prosthesis.

Tippett spent over 10 years designing the exoskeleton and less than a year working on the final design.

Prosthesis has been designed with the purpose of using it for racing. This new sport aims to pit pilot against pilot in all electric, high- powered, and off- road running machines that rely solely on the expertise and training of the people inside them to move. Tipett hopes to continue to develop the technology and build the novel sport of mech racing.

A Canadian has created a Guinness record by building worldu2019s largest four- legged racing robot 1,600kg Weight of the robot PIC/ Tom Rosenthal, Facebook Corona: Virus or beer? A tweet by Google Trends showed that the global search interest for coronavirus symptoms has gone up by 1,050 per cent. Other top search phrases related to the fatal pathogen included Corona beer virus, indicating that people were trying to search if the beer and the virus are related.

ITu2019S A VIRAL Tot croons own composition Prosthesis has been designed with the purpose of using it for racing. PIC CO URTESY / guinnessworldrecords. com PICS / Jonathan Tippett, Facebook OUT OF LEFT FIELD Curb your cravings Charles Spence, a professor of experimental psychology at the University of Oxford, and plant- based food company Strong Roots have teamed up to come up with a patch, which claims to reduce food cravings.

The patch, when scratched, emits the smell of cooked bacon. It is to be slapped on to oneu2019s arm much like a nicotine patch. u201c Our sense of smell is strongly connected to our ability to taste, therefore, experiencing food- related cues such as smelling bacon aroma, can lead us to imagine the act of eating that food. Imagine eating enough bacon and you might find yourself sated,u201d Spence said.

Marble- ous Pillows Norwegian artist Hu00e5kon Anton Fageru00e5s is carving fluffy- looking white pillows out of white marble. u201c Because of the material qualities of marble itself, it appears fragile, but itu2019s not. It appears so, because of the translucency of the stone,u201d Fageru00e5s said.

PIC OF THE DAY PIC/@ fageras_ sculpture, Instagram

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