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• Dynapac Red Carpet

  

  The Dynapac Red Carpet is an environmentally conscious solution for road maintenance in future megacities, where street traffic is predicted to become... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Cloudy

  The idea of clouds singing and performing their duties in a joyful manner show us that everything in our world has a role and a purpose. Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Angkor What? Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Cambodia's Most Iconic...

  

  image credit Angkor Wat is the largest Hindu temple complex in the world. The temple was built by King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century in Yasodharapura... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Most Notorious Wikipedia Editing Scandals

  Wikipedia is a fantastic resource, relied upon by students and researchers across the world for an endless stream of facts and information on everything from... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Lobstermen Finding More Odd Colors In The Catch

  

  image credit In recent years, accounts of bright blue, orange, yellow, calico, white and even split lobsters - one color on one side, another on the other - hav... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Dawn Of The Flick: The Doctors, Physicists, And Mathematicians Who Made The...

  

  image credit Early optical toys from the 19th century are expressions of our almost primal urge to animate the inanimate. Or so believes Richard Balzer, one of... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Rare Pixar Computer Selling On eBay for $25,000

  

  There are less than 2 days left to drop $25,000 on a rare Pixar Image Computer, which cropped up on eBay this weekend. The 'museum-quality historical... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Future Forms Of Life

  Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who builds walking kinetic sculptures that he calls a new form of life. This is a story based on Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures. Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Quiet Place

  

  Welcome to the quiet place. In the quiet place, there are no capsletters that are all BIG AND YELL AT YOU. Also, there are no Facebook notifications, or Twitter... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Super-Resolution From A Single Image

  

  Is it possible to reconstruct a high-resolution picture from a pixelated source image? Yes, it is with a technique called super-resolution. Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Hello Kitty Dolls Of Your Dreams

  

  image credit One of the ways Hello Kitty stays relevant is to turn itself into a feline billboard to promote other things. Recently, that's meant the birth of a... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 9 Intriguing Excerpts From Old FBI Files

  Under J. Edgar Hoover, everybody who was anybody had an FBI file. When Einstein was asked to join the Manhattan project in 1939, the FBI concluded that, In... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Year Of The Robot

  

  is a daily transmission of interesting robots found on the internet. Posts include sci-fi robots, toy robots, anime robots, and even lego robots. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• A Design History Of The Olympic Gold Medal

  

  In light of the impending 2012 London Olympics, it seemed highly appropriate to dig into the history of the games since the ancient times. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 21 Spectacular Lesser-Known Waterfalls

  

  image credit Photos of 21 spectacular waterfalls, many of them in locations that are hard to get to and/or aren't well known. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• London Double-Decker Bus Doing Push Ups

  David Cerny, a Czech artist has re-modelled a traditional London double-decker bus into a mechanical sculpture of an athlete doing push-ups to celebrate the... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Amelia Earhart's Birthday Celebrated In Google Doodle

  

  Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart would be 115 years old today, and to mark the occasion, Google has created a doodle that shows Amelia climbing onto an aircraft. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Species Named After Famous People

  

  image credit Within the space of a few days, a bloodsucking crustacean parasite has been named after reggae legend Bob Marley, and a genus of tropical fish has... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• What Space Smells Like

  

  image credit When astronauts return from space walks and remove their helmets, they are welcomed back with a peculiar smell. An odor that is distinct and... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Full Names Of 26 One-Name Celebrities

  Did you know that Bono's real name is Paul Hewson? Or that Charo's real name is Maria Rosario Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza? That Enya's name is Eithne Ní... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM