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• Rock In The Road

  In the autumn of 2007, a team of Southern Adventist University's animation students set out to create a short film based on a simple parable. Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• World's Oldest Color Film Footage Discovered In Museum Archive

  

  Cached away for over a century, the world's first color moving pictures have been shown for the first time last Wednesday, according to the National Media Museu... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2012 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• World's 100 Most Endangered Species Listed

  

  image credit The spoon-billed sandpiper (photo above), a small, dull-coloured bird that breeds in Russia and migrates to south-east Asia is an endangered... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Top 21 Hang-Out Spots On TV

  

  image credit Because even if you're a fictional character, you want to go where everybody knows your name. Top 21 hang-out spots on TV. The Presurfer Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• Friday Cartoon By Mark Anderson

  

  Depression Cartoon by Andertoons Mark Anderson is a professional cartoonist from the Chicago area. His cartoons have been published in Reader's Digest, The... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• September 14, 1904: Birth Of The Craziest Road Race Ever

  

  image credit The first running of the Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy was on September 14, 1904, the oldest and craziest road race in the world. Today,... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2012 MOTO, SPORTS

• 11 Historical Geniuses And Their Possible Mental Disorders

  Studies have shown that there are much higher instances of mental disorder in political leaders and creative geniuses than in the general population. Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2012 PSYCHOLOGY

• 10 Oldest Trees In The World

  

  image credit Imagine having been alive for centuries, since before the time the ancient Babylonians started to measure time as we understand it today. Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Write Your Own Message In Real Galaxies

  

  The Universe is full of galaxies, immense collections of stars, scattered throughout the vastness of space. To see them we need to use a telescope, and for all... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2012 RANDOM

• Google Knows Everything, Even My Birthday

  

  When I update this site I have to sign in with Google to use Blogger's content management system. When I wanted to look up something using the Dutch version of... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Babies Learn Humor From Parents

  Researchers discovered that between the ages of six months and one year, small children learn what is absurdly funny by watching the reaction of their parents. Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2012 HUMOR, SCIENCE

• Star Trek's Holodeck In Your Living Room

  

  image credit Microsoft/USPTO A newly published patent shows Microsoft potentially planning to take console gaming beyond the barriers of the TV screen by... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2012 ENTERTAINMENT

• The Miracle Of The Levitating Slinky

  

  The Slinky is a toy consisting of a helical spring that stretches and can bounce up and down. The toy was invented and developed by naval engineer Richard... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Bitter Creek Western Live Steam Narrow Gauge Meet

  Mostly 2 1/2" scale and 3 3/4" scale live steam locomotives at Bitter Creek Western Narrow Gauge Meet in Arroyo Grande, California, USA. These engines run on... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2012 CULTURE

• 12 Bizarre But True Real Estate Horror Stories

  Things have been pretty scary in the real estate market since 2008. On that, most can agree. But no matter how bad they've gotten, some of us still consider... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2012 BUSINESS, REAL ESTATE

• The Mesmerizing Beauty Of Nature's Fractals

  

  image from Google Earth Google Earth: source of information, source of wonder, source of art. In 2010, Paul Bourke, a research associate professor at the... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Paralympics 2012: Disabled People Making History

  

  image credit The UK closed the curtains on the Olympic world stage and marked the end of the 2012 Paralympics. The world has just witnessed a unique... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2012 SPORTS

• 10 Bizarre Medical Treatments Involving Animals

  

  image credit Humans have long depended on the natural world as the source of our most powerful treatments, from the use of sheep-gut thread to sew wounds up in... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• How To Take HDR Photos

  

  image credit High Dynamic Range imaging is a set of methods used in imaging and photography, to allow a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2012 CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Gentle Robotic Tentacles Can Pick Up Flowers

  

  Ask a typical robot to pick up a delicate object and it is likely to crush the thing between its clumsy metal mitts. That is why George Whitesides and colleague... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2012 TECH