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• Life Size X-Wing Is Largest LEGO Ever Built

  

  An enormous Star Wars X-Wing spaceship has landed in New York's Times Square. It took 32 master builders more than five million LEGO bricks and 17,000 hours to... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 TECH

• Friday Cartoon By Mark Anderson

  

  Mark Anderson is a professional cartoonist from the Chicago area. His cartoons have been published in Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Woman's... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 WWII Stamp Forgeries Used as Psychological Warfare

  

  image credit While the concept of war may conjure images of armed men, espionage and heavy weaponry, psychological warfare has also played a crucial part in... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Socorro - Solmar V

  Short video by Sarosh Jacob of the Revillagigedo Archipelago, informally known as 'Socorro.' Socorro is a group of volcanic islands located about 240 miles sout... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Topological Marvel: The Klein Bottle In Art

  

  image credit: Ole Husby cc A geometric enigma, a convoluted mind-bender dropped upon us from the wonderful extra-dimensional realm of topology, the Klein... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Killer Mobile Device For Victorian Women

  

  image credit Adrift in a sea of digital apps, we often feel our needs are met better today than in any previous era. But consider the chatelaine, a device... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Tunnels To Manhattan

  

  image credit: MTAPhotos cc If this looks like an entrance to a world completely alien to most of us, that's because it is. These tunnels lead to Manhattan. Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• How Marmite Is Made

  Some people love it, others hate it. The product that was to become Marmite was invented in the late 19th century when German scientist Justus von Liebig... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Science Behind Luwak Coffee

  

  image credit: Leendertz cc Kopi luwak is a rare and prized variety of coffee. Kopi luwak refers to the beans of coffee berries once they have been eaten and... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Absolutely Amazing Tipping Stories

  

  image credit A tip (also called a gratuity) is a sum of money tendered to certain service sector workers for a service performed or anticipated. Such payments... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Awesomely Creative Piggy Banks

  

  image credit: 401(K) 2012 cc Piggy banks date back over 600 years. Back then, there weren't any modern-style bank accounts, credit cards or tax forms, and peopl... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• What To Do When Social Media Drives You Crazy

  

  image credit Is Social Media Anxiety Disorder the newest affliction resulting from our love affair with Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and other social media... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Plague Helped Bring Down Roman Empire

  

  image credit: Jani Niemenmaa cc The plague may have helped finish off the Roman Empire, researchers now reveal. The plague is a fatal disease so infamous that i... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Women In Space: The Mercury 13

  

  image credit On April 19, 1959, NASA introduced the seven astronauts who would take part in the Mercury Program. The goal: to put an American into orbit. Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 TECH

• Like A Snowdrift On The Slope

  

  image credit: Pirmin Olde Weghuis cc In the competition for tourists, Reinhold Streng, manager of the Pitztal Glacier Lift in Austria, came up with something... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 OUTDOORS

• Art And Culture Of Burning Man

  Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, USA. The event is described by many participants as an experiment in... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 CULTURE

• Irish Potato Famine Pathogen Identified

  

  image credit: Wally Gobetz cc Scientists have used plant samples collected in the mid-19th Century to identify the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Skywhale Rises Over Australia

  

  image credit: Aaron Maras cc The Australian state of Canberra is 100 years old this year. As part of the on-going celebrations the Skywhale - a 34 meter long ho... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 RANDOM

• 7 Signs We Are Heading For A Mass Extinction

  

  image credit: gnuckx cc Today, many scientists believe we are on the cusp of a sixth mass extinction which could wipe out most life on Earth as we know it.... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Vintage Wartime STD Ads

  

  image credit During World War I, 18,000 US servicemen were out of action every single day thanks to venereal diseases. Military hospitals took in more men for V... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM