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Well! Try applying for this one: “Bath assistant for lions”.

In those recession times, I guess I’ll stick to engineering…

Go put a small ad to recruit in such a job opening:

Circus looking for a permanent position as “big cat bath assistant”.
Experience not required.

The lion and the bath

Fractalius is a Photoshop plugin allowing to create exceptionnally interesting pictures like the following “fractal lion”.

Fractal Lion

Christina Langman is a painter that does a lot of things around big cats and could well be described as a feline artist. You would think that this leads me to invite you to visit her gallery. Yes, I do. But not only that.

You should check her blog: Big Cat Art Blog. She describes her work and the way a painting comes to life brush after brush.

You should also visit other parts of her web life with such interesting things as her Colored Pencil Tutorial where you will find the detailled step-by-step instructions to go from blank paper to something like the following picture (and it’s much more complex than you’d think at first):

Snow Leopard's Eye

A different way to look at big cats.

The GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) pharmaceutical laboratory may have found the right one with a vaccine that is set to immediately enter phase III clinical trials. It has already succesfully tested on American volunteers and on 340 Tanzanian children. It seems to reduce the infection risk by 65% – without unpleasant interaction.

All people traveling to tropical countries will certainly be glad to hear this, for themselves and for the people of these countries paying a dire price to the malaria infection.

Source: Futura-Science.