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This Magic Whistle Would Repel RatsWell, that’s the claim, at least. We’d have to perform clinical trials to verify it before releasing the product to market. The legal department has been very picky about that.Ridiculously Interesting points us to this heksenfluit. That’s Dutch for witch’s flute. It’s a whistle that, when blown, repulses rats from the area, thus protecting the locale from rat-carried diseases. It’s made from bone and a rat’s paw. If it did work for its owners in Antwerp when it was made in the middle of the Nineteenth Century, it has long lost its effectiveness.-via John Overholt | Photo: Museum aan de Stroom#whistle #rat

Look at This Rat HandbagLook at this rat. No, that rat. This one.Some men enjoy looking . . . different. They want to look in ways that get the attention of people around them; ways that lead people to draw certain conclusions. For such me, there is the Thom Browne fashion house.Farfetch offers this unique handbag (a murse, I suppose—a purse for men) that looks like a rat. The site says, “Go for a bag that will make people look twice.” Yes it will, especially if you take my approach and fill it with rats.Now go out there and nail that job interview!-via Technabob | Photo: Farfetch#rat #handbag #ThomBrowne

Winners of the Close-up Photographer of the Year 2021The top 100 winners of Close-up Photographer of the Year 03 (2021) or CUPOTY 03 are now featured on its website showing the winners gallery.The Close-up Photographer of the Year website was the brainchild of husband-and-wife duo Tracy and Dan Calder of Winchester, UK. They wanted to put close-up, macro and micro photography on the center stage and be celebrated in its own right.Tracy, a former editor of Outdoor Photography and a features editor at Amateur Photography, has over 20 years experience in the photo magazine industry. She’s also a photography instructor at West Dean College in Sussex, and an author of Close-up & Macro Photography, which has been translated into French and Chinese. Dan is a contributor to Black + White Photography magazine.This year’s Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY 03) has more than 9000 photos from 55 countries across nine different categories. These categories are insects, animals, plants and fungi, underwater, butterflies and dragonflies, intimate landscape, manmade, micro, and young.From each category, the top three winners were chosen alongside with the other finalists. Here are the top three winners per category.#photography #CUPOTY #MacroPhotography #CloseupPhotography #photographycompetitionInsects