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• A Berry So Shiny, It's Irresistible

  

  image credit That fake fruit in the wooden bowls that hotels love to decorate their lobbies with never looks quite right. No, apparently it takes nature to... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• The Cats Of Mars Meet The Toy Car

  Swedish illustrator and animator Jacob Stålhammar brought to life this delightful children's fable through a combination of public domain music from old... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2012 RANDOM

• 15 Star-Shaped Forts From Around The World

  

  image credit Star-shaped forts are a particularly interesting type of fortification. They first appeared around the time that gunpowder became commonly used in... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Robot Circus

  

  Pozzo and Grotsky's Electric Animal Circus is a new type of live show: robot animals performing circus-inspired acts in a post-apocalyptic variety show. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2012 RANDOM

• Why Ordinary Things Go Pink

  

  image credit Score one for the Internet. Not long after Bic launched its new line of 'Bic for Her' ballpoint pens - boasting an 'elegant design' that features... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2012 RANDOM

• The Peasants Of St Petersburg

  

  Fascinating pictures from the 1800s capture the gritty world of Russia before the Revolution. Taken by Edinburgh-born artist William Carrick. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2012

• The Perfect Scent: Chanel No. 5

  

  image credit Octogenarians are rarely described as 'seductive.' But when a 2009 poll asked 3,000 British newspaper readers to name the world's most seductive... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2012 HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Buddha-Shaped Pears

  

  These bizarre Buddha-shaped pears were invented by a farmer in China who is planning to export his novel idea. Hao Xianzhang has created 10,000 of the mini... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2012

• One Year In 40 Seconds

  Short film by Eirik Solheim. Images from the same spot through one year. Details on how this video was made here. Vimeo Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Science Behind Salt And Vinegar Chips

  

  image credit Salt and vinegar chips are not made by pouring salt and vinegar into a bag of potato chips. Before vinegar can be added to a chip, it needs to be... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2012 FOOD & DRINK

• City Symphonies

  Can the city become a symphony? Electric cars are increasingly using synthesised sounds in order to mimic the traditional noise of the internal combustion... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2012 MUSIC, TECH

• The Swan Car

  

  image credit The Swan Car was commissioned by Scotsman Robert Nicholl Matthewson, who lived in India in the early 1900s and sought to emulate the opulence... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2012 CULTURE, MOTO

• Why All Hurricanes Look The Same From Space

  

  image credit Every satellite photo of a hurricane looks a lot like the last one. The striking similarity has to do with how hurricanes form. Hurricanes are a... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT, WEATHER

• Carrots Used To Be Purple Before The 17th Century

  

  image credit Before the 17th century, almost all carrots cultivated were purple. The modern day orange carrot wasn't cultivated until Dutch growers in the 16th... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2012 FOOD & DRINK

• Yosemite's Horsetail Fall

  Horsetail Fall is a small, ephemeral waterfall that flows over the eastern edge of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. For two weeks in February, the setting sun... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2012 OUTDOORS

• The Toothbrush That Saved The International Space Station

  

  image credit NASA It was a little like Apollo 13 - if its mission to the moon had been saved by a tool of good oral hygiene, that is. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2012 SCIENCE, SOCIETY

• 8 Movie Star Life Stories That Were Completely Made Up

  Comedy star Walter Matthau was born Walter Matuschanskyayasky. His middle name was Foghorn and his mother was a gypsy. Or maybe not. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2012 CELEB, ENTERTAINMENT, HUMOR, RANDOM

• Purely Pacific Northwest

  John Eklund is a photographer from Portland, Oregon. In this time-lapse video he shares the beautiful Northwest region of the USA. Various locations include... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2012

• Stanley Kubrick {One-Point Perspective}

  Stanley Kubrick often used one-point perspective. One-point perspective refers to compositions in which spatial planes converge at one vanishing point in the... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Blocks

  

  is a game by Bart Bonte. Move blocks in one line to make them disappear until any block is left on the level in the puzzler blocks. More Bart Bonte Games. Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2012 GAMING, TECH