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• How to Make A Lemon Battery

  Hank shows us another SciShow. This time he's tackling what may be the most cliche, well-known and misunderstood experiment of all time: the lemon battery. Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 RANDOM, SCIENCE, TECH

• Do Dead People Outnumber Living, Or Vice Versa?

  

  image credit There sure are a lot of people on planet Earth - a whopping 7 billion and counting. But how does this number, which of course represents the... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 HISTORY, RANDOM

• 12 Things You Might Not Know About Wyatt Earp

  

  image credit Wyatt Earp (1848 - 1929) was a city policeman in Wichita and Dodge City, Kansas. He also served as a deputy sheriff and deputy U.S. marshal in... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 RANDOM

• Hole-Punch Clouds

  

  image credit You might be familiar with contrails, those wispy strands of clouds made by jet exhaust high in the sky. But you might never have seen a... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 ENVIRONMENT, RANDOM, WEATHER

• Invisible Parents

  For thousands of children in the European Union, crossing borders means losing their right to both parents - just because they're the same sex. Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 RANDOM, SOCIETY

• Crocodile Faces Are More Sensitive Than Human Fingertips

  

  image credit Of all the adjectives you could use to describe a crocodile's face, 'sensitive' might not be an obvious one. But their huge jaws, pointed teeth... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Goldbug Hot Springs

  

  Without a doubt, the best hidden gem of Idaho are the Goldbug Hot Springs. Found at the end of a beautiful and moderately-rough hike through a canyon just... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 OUTDOORS, RANDOM

• How Asteroids Can Save Mankind

  

  Asteroid mining may seem like science fiction, but with resources running short on Earth, mining the sky could be humanity's only hope. Near-Earth asteroids... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 ASTRONOMY, SCIENCE

• Google Celebrates Bram Stoker's 165th Birthday

  

  with a doodle. Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 - 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY, TECH

• How Many Houses Could Fit In The Death Star?

  

  Few fictional weapons of mass destruction have captured moviegoers' imaginations like the Death Star. The orb of death is among Star Wars' more memorable... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Phil's Old Radios

  

  Phil Nelson is a collector of old radios. And he has lots of them. Tube portables, bakelite radios, plastic radios, wooden radios etc. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• How Hay Bales Are Packed

  

  You've seen them lying alongside the road. Those hay bales packed in protective rain cover. This is how they do that. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 GARDENING, RANDOM

• Wi-Fi, Dual-Flush Loos And Eight More Australian Inventions

  

  image credit Australians are perhaps more famed for their sporting feats than for their technological innovation. But a new children's book, Australia's Greates... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 GADGETS

• The Forgotten Battle: The Japanese Invasion of Alaska

  

  image credit In the early morning of 6 June 1942, 500 Japanese soldiers landed on Kiska, one of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Scientist Seeks To Launch Aerial Bigfoot Search With Blimp

  Idaho scientist Jeffrey Meldrum is shrugging off skeptical fellow scholars in his quest for evidence of Bigfoot. He has turned his sights skyward, with plans... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 RANDOM

• The Sleeping Goddess

  

  image credit The Lost Gardens of Heligan near Mevagissey in Cornwall, are one of the most popular botanical gardens in the UK. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Coffee Ring Effect

  Never-before-seen footage from a laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Physics and Astronomy showing microscopic particles moving in a... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 SCIENCE

• The Secret Lives Of Kitchen Spices

  

  image credit Kitchen spices are dried seed, fruit, root, bark, or vegetative substances primarily used for flavouring, colouring or preserving food. Sometimes... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 FOOD & DRINK

• Singing Sand Dunes Explained

  

  image credit When Marco Polo heard it in China, he suspected evil spirits. When residents of Copiapo, Chile, heard it emanating from a sandy hill, they dubbed... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 OUTDOORS, RANDOM

• Can Anyone Hear You Scream In Space?

  In space no one can hear you scream... or can they? The veracity of the famous tagline from Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi blockbuster is to be put to the test... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2012 PHYSICS, SCIENCE