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• Monster Machinery

  

  image credit Take a look at some of the largest vehicles and machines ever constructed. Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 100,000 Stars

  

  is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood. It shows the real location of over 100,000 nearby stars. Zooming in reveals 87 major named stars an... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• World's Longest Chocolate Train

  Andrew Farrugia, a Maltese chocolate artist made the longest chocolate train in the world. The 112-foot long train set a new Guinness World Record as the longes... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 5 Historical Myths About Real Scientific Discoveries

  

  image credit Scientific discovery may require reason, rationality, and a firm handle on the facts, but science history has its share of myths, urban legends, an... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 HISTORY, HUMOR, RANDOM, SCIENCE

• The Trailing Of The Sheep

  

  is an annual October festival and parade in Sun Valley, Ketchum and Hailey, Idaho. It is held each fall to move the flocks off the mountain to their winter... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 50 Incredible Facts About Your Skin

  

  The human skin is the outer covering of the body. In humans, it is the largest organ of the integumentary system. The skin has multiple layers of ectodermal... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM, SCIENCE

• 8 Homes Built Out Of Spite

  

  image credit A spite house is a building constructed or modified to irritate neighbors or other parties with land stakes. Spite houses often serve as... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, HOME, HUMOR, RANDOM

• Beards Of Silicon Valley: A Field Guide To Tech Facial Hair

  

  image credit There's no underestimating the importance of facial hair in the world of technology. Look no further than the research of a man named Tamir... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 HUMOR

• Chicken Buses Of Guatemala

  

  image credit What happens to yellow school buses retired from commission in the United States? They start a new colorful life as Chicken Buses in Guatemala. Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Bruce Lee Statue

  

  image credit On the 27 November Bruce Lee, perhaps the most influential martial artist of all time, would have been 72 years old. Almost forty years after his... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 CELEB, ENTERTAINMENT

• Trotify

  The trotify is a wooden device that sits on your front wheel and makes your bike clop like a horse. YouTube link (via Everlasting Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Experiments That Keep Going And Going And Going

  

  image credit A biologist who has been watching a dozen bottles of bacteria evolve for nearly a quarter of a century is hoping he can find someone to keep his la... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2012 SCIENCE

• Machu Picchu In 16 Gigapixels

  

  Photographer Jeff Cremer captured the highest-resolution photo ever shot of Machu Picchu, the most popular tourist destination in Peru and one of the New 7... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHY, TRAVEL

• 1910s America In Color

  

  image credit We often perceive the past in black and white - after all, the vast majority of photographs from the 1910s through into the 1930s and 40s are... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The World's Largest Indoor Beach

  

  image credit It's the world's largest indoor beach with 400 sunloungers - and not a cloud in sight. Yet with up to 6,000 visitors allowed in at a time, there ar... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Electree+, A Solar-Powered, Induction Charging Bonsai Tree

  

  The electree+ is a concept design that offers solar-powered wireless charging hidden inside a futuristic looking bonsai tree. The electree+ began life as a... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Chinese Nail Houses

  

  image credit Luo Baogen and his wife must have felt they were sitting pretty when they rejected government compensation for their apartment, saying it wouldn't... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, DESTINATIONS, HOME, TRAVEL

• Coney Island: America's Greatest Playground

  

  image credit Coney Island is a peninsula and beach on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Brooklyn, New York City, USA. The site was formerly an outer barrier island... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Requiem 2019

  The last remaining blue whale comes eye to eye with its only enemy; mankind. The film was directed by Dutch video director Sil van der Woerd and Dutch actor... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Where Did The Island Go?

  

  image credit Google Earth A team of Australian scientists discover that an island in the Pacific, which appears on maps and weather charts, doesn't exist. Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM