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• Elephant Trunk Hill - Guilin's Legendary Protector

  

  image credit Tramping through the hills around Guilin in China is busy work, so at the end of the day an elephant gets thirsty. Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• What Is The '7' In 7UP?

  

  image credit What is the '7' in 7UP? We'll never know for sure. The soft drink's creator, Charles Leiper Grigg, went to the grave without ever revealing where h... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2012 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING, RANDOM

• Helvetia's Dream

  takes you on a nighttime journey to some of the most beautiful spots in the Swiss Alps - from Arosa to Zermatt, including the world famous mountains Matterhorn... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• War And Prosthetics: How Veterans Fought For The Perfect Artificial Limb

  

  image credit There's something undeniably beautiful about prosthetic limbs, designed to echo the physical grace and mechanical engineering of the human body. Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Crazy Logistics: People Trying To Do Things

  

  original unknown A selection of 'headscratchers', funny and befuddling pics that will make you wonder what exactly these guys were thinking? Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Flash Anzan - The World's Fastest Number Game

  

  A million Japanese children every year learn the abacus, which they call soroban. The high point of the abacus calendar is the All Japan Soroban Championship. Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2012 RANDOM, SCHOOLING

• New York: Night And Day

  is a combination of non-traditional video time-lapse and animation. Day and night scenes were filmed around New York City and combined into single sequences... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 CULTURE

• Four Stories Of Alleged Time Travellers

  

  image credit Is it possible to travel through time? Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 HUMOR, SPIRITUALITY

• Inflatable Cthulhu Beard

  

  Who wouldn't want the same facial hair as HP Lovecraft's most famous creation? Especially when you realize it's a beard of tentacles. Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 RANDOM

• Hermit Crabs Socialize To Evict Their Neighbors

  

  image credit Social animals usually congregate for protection or mating or to capture bigger prey, but a University of California, Berkeley, biologist has... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Steve Jobs' Yacht Unveiled In The Netherlands

  Yesterday, one year after his death, Steve Jobs' yacht was unveiled at Dutch shipyard Koninklijke De Vries (Royal de Vries) in Aalsmeer. The yacht was designed... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 OUTDOORS, SEA

• Are You More Travelled Than James Bond?

  

  James Bond has been to over 50 countries in the films. If you would fly from London to all the Bond locations and back, you would have traveled 180,000 miles.... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, RANDOM

• The Maths That Made Voyager Possible

  

  image credit Nasa's Voyager spacecraft have enthralled everyone with their exploits at the edge of the Solar System, but their launch in 1977 was only possible... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 SCIENCE, TECH

• Why Do Children Think Covering Their Eyes Makes Them Invisible?

  

  image credit Anyone who has ever engaged in a round of peekaboo with a child has witnessed an adorable yet somewhat illogical behavior that is nearly universall... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2012 FAMILY, PARENTING

• The Gharial - Good News For The Critically Endangered Indian Crocodile?

  

  image credit This strange looking creature, with its immensely long and delicate snout is the gharial (Gavialis gangeticus). Until very recently it thrived... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• 20 Differences That Confuse Us All

  Do you know the difference between a boat and ship? A ghost and a ghoul? Speed and velocity, or a pill and a tablet? English can be a very confusing language -... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2012 RANDOM

• The White House of Horrors

  

  image credit The White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue isn't exactly the Amityville house, but that big, drafty mansion is one of the most haunted of houses i... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2012 RANDOM

• Capturing Birds In Flight

  

  image credit A shot of a bird in flight has always been a challenge to photographers. Seeing a perfect print image only serves to make them eager to create the... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Flight Of The Baby Stingray

  Baby stingrays looking out of this world while dancing. This video was shot at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport Oregon. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• St Peter's Seminary - Remains Of The Pray

  

  image credit At first sight the ruins pictured here look as if they may have been a housing project of some sort and in a way that would be a correct assumption. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM