A cougar had its jaws locked on a helpless goat - seconds later, the owner was chasing the predator off all by herself.
Wild footage from British Columbia shows farmer Gina Moore sprinting toward the scene after spotting a cougar attacking one of her Nigerian dwarf goats.
Moore says she acted on pure instinct, knowing the cougar could have turned on her at any moment.
Georges Méliès’ A TRIP TO THE MOON (1902) was one of the first blockbuster films & one of the first major piracy victims. Unauthorized copies flooded American theaters through companies tied to Thomas Edison & Méliès never saw a cent from its U.S. success.
This MOONRAKER (1979) scene is peak Roger Moore as James Bond, turning a life-or-death situation into a perfectly timed joke and a raised eyebrow. Nobody delivered effortless 007 charm quite like him.
It’s the 40th anniversary of Back to School, which features one of the best meta jokes ever.
Rodney Dangerfield hires Kurt Vonnegut to write a paper about Kurt Vonnegut… and Sally Kellerman gives it an F, saying the writer “doesn’t know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut.”
40 Years Ago Today
"THE TRIPLE LINDY"
"Back To School", starring Rodney Dangerfield as "Thornton Melon — the world's oldest living freshman"
Released June 13, 1986
New medical technology: This is a vein finder
The device shines near-infrared light onto your skin
Veins absorb this light differently than surrounding tissue because of the hemoglobin in blood. It instantly projects a real time map of your veins
This lets the nurse or phlebotomist see exactly where the good veins are
I can see this being extremely useful for elderly people
autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics.
this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.
"Stand By Me" was originally released in 1961 by Ben E. King (after he left the Drifters), but gained an epic revival in 1986 thanks to the film Stand by Me, directed by Rob Reiner and based on a story by Stephen King.
One of the most satisfying moments in WITNESS (1985) is watching a local punk mistake John Book for an ordinary Amish man. Harrison Ford lets the misunderstanding breathe just long enough before correcting it the hard way.