Link25 (103) – The Feeding A Crocodile Edition
We know you’ve worked hard all week and guess what, your time has now come to relax (and waste some time with us)! Every Friday here at List25 we bring you 25 of the week’s best links, articles, images, and videos from all over the web. This week we are featuring everything from the most impressive act of bravery to the most heart stopping display of putting your life in danger. This is Link25 (103) – The Feeding A Crocodile Edition.
24. Great White Shark Bite
The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is a powerful apex predator lamniform shark found in all major oceans. Mature individuals grow up to 21ft (6.4m) and can weight over 7,000 lbs. Though previously believed to have a life span of 30 years, we now know that great whites live far longer for an estimated 70 years making them one of the longest lived cartilaginous fish currently known. Not surprising, great whites are ranked first in having the most attacks on humans (with 272 documented unprovoked attacks), however humans are not their preferred prey and it’s believed that most of these attacks are due to mistaken identities.
When Marvel Comics revealed that they’d be making a big announcement on the Colbert Report, many fans guessed correctly what they’d be talking about: Captain America […]
21. Zero gravity dog
20. The Virtual Body Ideal: Why We Feel More Insecure Than Ever
The Dutch documentary Beperkt Houdbaar (Preservation Limited) throws a critical look upon our media era and how beauty in marketing is affecting the way we perceive ourselves. In the past 50 years or so, objectively speaking, women have […]
When it comes to gender disparity, the world of commercial airline piloting is one of the most skewed with a whopping 97% of all commercial pilots being male (4000 female commercial pilots vs. 130,000 male worldwide according to The International Society of Women Airline Pilots). Those numbers […]
16. Principal Writes Incredible Letter to Students Regarding Standardized Test Results
After receiving their standardized test results, students at the Barrowford Primary School in Lancashire, England received a letter from their principal Rachel Tomlinson. The letter, posted below, reminds students of all the things a standardized test doesn’t measure […]
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Photograph by capungaero The winners of the first International Drone Photography Contest, organized by social network Dronestagram, were recently announced.
The contest launched 15 May 2014 in partnership with National Geographic and received over 2000 submissions from entrants around the world. The winning authors […]
Alex Queral is a Cuban-American artist who has carved himself out a very unique place among his peers; while other sculptors may work with a more traditional medium, Alex possesses […]
Oh, and did we mention that he’s blind?
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