measured my super long receipt after a visit to CVS
they are so known for them
that people have come up with jokes and uses for them
i bought 2 items and mine was the size of a typical 2 -year old
*average toddler heights generally range from 32 to 39 inches (81 to 99 cm) between the ages of 1 and 3
By 2 years, the typical toddler is about 34 inches (86 cm) tall.
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CVS receipts are the punchline to endless jokes and viral internet memes about their absurd, over-the-top lengths.
here are some of the memorable quotes, tweets, and jokes about those legendary CVS receipts:
“I bought a stick of deodorant, they give you a coupon for another stick of deodorant. I just bought deodorant, I don’t need more deodorant. I’m trying to get to my car.” — Jimmy Kimmel
“Whenever they hand me the receipt, I always look the cashier in the eyes and say… trees died.” — Facebook User
“CVS takes the title for Magna Carta of receipts.” — TODAY Show
“Psh art of war? More like War and Peace.” — Reddit User
“If you are domesticated in the very least, then you know that your CVS receipt isn’t just a piece of paper, but an extra stick of deodorant upon your next visit. Plus 14 rolls of paper towels and a free bag of gummy bears.- Neil
“I’ve literally always called their receipts ‘the scroll’.” — Tiffany
CVS blames their “love of savings” for the insanely long receipts, which have reached new heights, according to customers who are sharing images of the monster-sized strips of paper on social media sites.
Japanese artist Akie Nakata (known as Akie) turns found rocks into realistic animal paintings
Akie has a unique way of looking at the world. While many would simply pass over a rock or a stone, Akie is able to see their potential. For the past nine years, she’s taken ordinary stones and transformed them into something magical using paint. Under her watchful eye, these rocks become highly realistic animals that fit into the palm of your hand.
Using only acrylic gouache—no pen—and working with tiny brushes, Akie carefully brings each animal to life. In reality, the creative process begins from the moment she spots a rock. Its natural shape helps inspire what animal it will become. “Stones have their own intentions, and I consider my encounters with them as cues to go ahead and paint what I see on them.”
From cuddly dogs and curious cats to various frogs, birds, and mice, there is no animal that Akie can’t make magically appear before our eyes. Her talent has garnered her a huge following on Instagram and Facebook, where the stones she makes available for purchase are usually snapped up quickly.
Occasionally, Akie will also post before and after photographs of her rock art. When viewed side by side, Akie’s work is even more impressive. Natural markings might become eyes and a pointed edge may transform into a nose -with Akie, anything is possible. For the artist, it’s all about bringing the animal to life and hoping that its future owner will enjoy it as much as she does.
“To me, completing a piece of work is not about how much detail I draw, but whether I feel the life in the stone.”
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“0ne eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee, pioneering Swiss/German artist
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source credits: my modern met, j. stewart, facebook, instagram
ann arbor fire department splash party after the parade
even storm troopers need a cooldown
‘a parade is the worst form of transportation known to man.’
-walt kelly
*Walt Kelly, (1913-1973) was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip,Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo. In 1941, at the age of 28, Kelly transferred to work at Dell Comics, where he created Pogo, which eventually became his platform for political and philisopical commentary.
When visitors to Poole Museum reach its second floor, they are greeted with displays that showcase the stories and lives of famous and influential Poolers who have shaped the coastal Dorset town.
In one cabinet on this floor sits a small rock. One might think that this is a local paleontological find, considering Poole’s proximity to the home of 19th-century fossil hunter Mary Anning, one of England’s earliest and most famous paleontologists. This is not the case, however, as this rock’s discovery is more recent, but is still a highly treasured find.
In the summer of 2019, a young girl by the name of Bethan was visiting Poole Museum with her mom. While exploring all the site had to offer, she and her mother began to discuss what museums do and why. Inspired by her visit, Bethan felt eager to support the museum’s collection. She decided to donate her most precious treasure, something that she felt was appropriately significant and valuable: her favorite rock. Curators placed Bethan’s Rock in a glass cabinet, just like many of the museum’s other valuable artifacts, where visitors are able to appreciate the piece as much as Bethan once did. It is now the museum’s most famous object.
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“the greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”
-Benjamin D’Israeli
*Benjamin D’Israeli (1804– 1881), was a British statesman, politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
How pigeons are helping catch cancer cases in humans
It sounds a bit bizarre, but it’s tue. Among pigeons’ many talents is providing an extra set of eyes for doctors looking for signs of cancer in medical scans. In 2015, researchers enlisted the unlikely medical assistants to identify breast cancer in mammograms to help prevent imaging misses. Now, another team of scientists has recruited the birds yet again to train AI to help do the same.
In a study published earlier this year, researchers trained six pigeons to watch CT scan videos and spot lung nodules, a type of growth that could be a sign of cancer. After the birds learned to spot the lung nodules, they also started recognizing emphysema and ground-glass nodules — both problems they hadn’t even been trained on.
Here’s where AI comes in: The researchers are now trying to channel the pigeon’s keen visual system, which works similarly to the human’s unconscious visual system, to develop medical AI tools that can double, triple, and quadruple check scans. They noted that the pigeon-inspired method will by no means replace radiologists, but rather help ensure scans are understood as thoroughly as possible. Thanks in advance, pigeons!
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“I bet your mom would let me.” -Pigeon, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the B” -Mo Willems, author, ‘Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!’
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Photo credit: Eastside Autobon Society
Source credits: Nice News, New Scientist, Joshua Howego, Popular Science, Clarissa Brincat
Authors and Affiliations
Department of Psychology, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, 01610, Worcester, MA, USA
Muhammad A. J. Qadri, Reuben R. R. Reyes & Gregory J. DiGirolamo
Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, USA
Daria Kifjak, Bilal Elkaddouri, Alexander A. Bankier, Max P. Rosen & Gregory J. DiGirolamo
‘Tis almost the season for voting, here are just a couple of winning candidates
Akeetna, a small town of around 1,000 people, is a base for exploring Denali, North America’s highest peak, and may have been the inspiration for the fictional town Cicely in the 1990s television show Northern Exposure. It is best known, though, for electing a cat as mayor.
On the main street in Talkeetna is Nagley’s, a general store whose history stretches back to Alaska’s gold rush era. Open since 1921, it started as a log cabin serving miners and trappers, and also previously served as a post office and a district territorial headquarters. Since the 1970s, it has always had a resident cat.
In 1997, when Nagley’s needed a new store cat, manager Laurie Stec found and adopted a Manx mix with a short tail whom she dubbed Stubbs. Stubbs became a local celebrity, greeting shoppers at Nagley’s and making his way every afternoon to the adjoining West Rib Pub & Grill, where he drank catnip-infused water out of a wine or margarita glass.
Talkeetna’s residents were unimpressed by the human candidates for Mayor and conspired to elect Stubbs as a write-in candidate. As fun as the story is, it’s apocryphal. Talkeetna is unincorporated, so it has no mayor. But that didn’t stop Talkeetna’s residents from naming Stubbs their honorary mayor, an office he held from 1997 until his death in 2017.
During his time in office, Mayor Stubbs seemed determined to use up his nine lives. He fell into a restaurant fryer, which was thankfully turned off and cool at the time. He was shot by teenagers with a BB gun and recovered. He jumped onto a garbage truck and accidentally hitched a ride to the outskirts of town before he was discovered and returned. In 2013, Stubbs survived an assassination attempt when he was mauled by a dog. He was rushed to a veterinarian in nearby Wasilla where he was sedated and treated for a punctured lung, a fractured sternum, and a gash in his side that required 12 stitches. Supporters donated money above and beyond his medical bills, and the excess was donated to local animal charities.
Stubbs recovered and returned to his post at the general store, but he passed away in 2017 at the age of 20. He was mourned by all of his constituents. The town carried on the tradition by naming Nagley’s younger store cats, twins Aurora and Denali, as the new honorary mayors. Denali passed away in 2022, but Aurora continues to serve from her office at Nagley’s.
BOSTON CURTIS THE MULE (Committeeman, in Milton, Washington)
In 1938, Democratic Mayor Kenneth Simmons nominated a “Mr. Boston Curtis” for Republican precinct committeeman in the town of Milton, Washington. With no opponents and also no additional information provided to the voters, Curtis was elected with 51 votes — and then subsequently revealed to be a mule. The mayor, a Democrat, had sponsored Boston’s candidacy as a prank, which apparently had a message – he went on to say that voters “have no idea whom they support.”
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‘when you turn an election into a three-ring circus,
there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.” -nancy isenberg, author
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