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- Whiskey Matured in Outer Space Is One Small Step for Man But One Giant Leap for Liquor
- The Delicate Feather Paintings of Jamie Homeister
- World’s Largest Turban – Indian Man Wears Headgear That Weighs 100 Pounds
| Whiskey Matured in Outer Space Is One Small Step for Man But One Giant Leap for Liquor Posted: 02 Sep 2014 05:01 AM PDT The Ardbeg Distillery is getting ready to test a drink that’s literally out of this world – the first whiskey to have ever been matured in outer space. After spending three years on the International Space Station, the vial of single malt is finally returning to Earth. It is expected to land on solid ground in Kazakhstan on September 12, before making its way to Houston. The project is part of an experiment to study the impact of gravity on how alcohol matures. The whisky was launched into outer space in an unmanned cargo spacecraft in October 2011, along with particles of charred oak. The vial containing the alcoholic drink was specially designed for the mission, and has been orbiting the earth 15 times a day for 1,045 days, on the ISS. When the vial returns, the alcohol won't be consumed right away. It has to be tested by scientists first, and compared with regular whisky from another bottle that was corked around the same time. They plan to examine the interaction of the Ardbeg-crafted molecules with charred oak, to measure the differences between earth-whiskey and space-whiskey. |
| The Delicate Feather Paintings of Jamie Homeister Posted: 02 Sep 2014 04:44 AM PDT Jamie Homeister, a folk artist from New Albany, Indiana, paints exquisite portraits of animals and birds on the most unusual canvas – feathers. Her magnificent featherwork is influenced by her Canadian heritage, but she also depicts themes from Native American culture. Jamie receives the feather that she works on from the people who commission her to paint images of their birds – the same ones that actually shed the feathers. "I do much of it by commission – many of my parrot-feather paintings depict the parrots from whom the feathers themselves fell," the artist explains. "I've always been intrigued by the lifestyles of all those who walked this Earth before us, so feather painting just always made sense to me," Jamie said. "Featherwork is incredibly humbling media. The feathers splice, buckle, splinter and shed under the weight of paint." |
| World’s Largest Turban – Indian Man Wears Headgear That Weighs 100 Pounds Posted: 02 Sep 2014 04:31 AM PDT Avtar Singh Mauni, from Punjab, India, is the proud owner of the world's largest turban. The devout Sikh's enormous headgear consists of no less than 645 meters of fabric, weighing 100 pounds. It took him a staggering 16 years to assemble, and he needs to spend six hours just to put it on. And you thought you had problems getting ready in the morning! The 60-year-old is rather proud of his unusual, multi-colored turban; he declared that he will continue to wear it until he has no strength left in his limbs to carry it. "I don't consider it a burden. I'm most happy when I wear it," he explained. In fact, Avtar Singh is so used to the turban that he finds it odd when he isn't wearing it. "On the rare times I don't have my turban on, I keep getting this feeling of being incomplete, that some part of me is missing," he said. "I get afraid that I may fall and I keep wondering 'have I lost something, where is my turban?'" |
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