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• Wine Cork Portraits By Scott Gundersen

  

  Grand Rapids-based artist Scott Gundersen makes large scale portraits from wine corks. Starting with a large photograph that's transferred to a drawing,... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 RANDOM

• Einstein, King Of Sweaters

  

  If you've been outraged that Albert Einstein's achievements in physics have always overshadowed his status as a fashion icon, the time for vindication is now. Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The World's Most Beautiful Buildings

  

  image credit There are just far too many styles of buildings, each worthy of a top 50: sacred buildings, homes, skyscrapers, theatres. This is a list showing th... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Joshua Harker's Stunning Filigreed Skulls

  Chicago-based artist Joshua Harker's awe-inspiring and intricately designed skulls are digitally sculpted, and then printed on Polyamide nylon using 3D printers. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 RANDOM

• Tobacco Sniffing Championship

  

  Participants in last week's Snuff World Cup 2012 (Schnupf-WM), a tobacco sniffing championship in Germany's Peutenhausen village, competed by inhaling tobacco u... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 RANDOM

• Cowboys Vs. Spacemen: How The Toy Chest Was Won

  The lone frontiersman, the rebellious explorer: These archetypal characters appear as frequently in the far reaches of outer-space as in the American West,... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 RANDOM

• Noisy Typer - A Typewriter For Your Laptop

  Noisy Typer is a free piece of software which plays typewriter sounds as you type. It runs in the background and works with all applications. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 RANDOM

• Mona Lisa's Remains May Have Been Discovered

  

  Archaeologists have found a skeleton they believe belonged to Lisa Gherardini, the woman who posed for Leonardo da Vinci's painting. The remains were uncovered... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 RANDOM

• Beautifully Designed Solar Trees

  

  image credit Designed by Welsh designer Ross Lovegrove and manufactured by Artemide, Solar Tree is an urban lighting system. This futuristic design uses panels... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 RANDOM

• 9 Of The World's Most Ridiculously Secure Safes And Vaults

  

  image credit Plan on breaking into Fort Knox? Or maybe Cheyenne Mountain, Iron Mountain, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York? Forget it! You can't. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Earth Index

  

  Eardex is a free web portal providing an overview on the cost of living in all towns and cities, regions and countries of the world. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 RANDOM

• Jumbo Jet Junkyard: The Scrapping Of A Boeing 747

  

  There comes a time in every commercial airliner's life where it's just too old to keep flying. Boeing's famous 747 jumbo jet, the workhorse of the aviation... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 RANDOM

• The Seven Wonders Of Ukraine

  

  image credit What springs to mind when you think of Ukraine? Since independence in 1991 the second largest country in Europe has been somewhat demonized by... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 RANDOM

• Llamas Assist In The Long Goodbyes Of The Elderly

  

  image credit Alzheimer's and dementia patients incur an end-of-life experience that differs markedly from their care-givers. They traverse in two different... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 RANDOM

• Welcome To The Anthropocene

  The Anthropocene is a recent and informal geologic chronological term that serves to mark the evidence and extent of human activities that have had a significan... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 RANDOM

• The Rising Cost Of The Olympics

  

  With the 2012 Summer Olympics starting next week, take a look at how some of the countries that have hosted the big games in the past have stuck to their budget... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 RANDOM

• The South Pole On Google Street View

  

  Yesterday, Google is launching a new collection of hi-res imagery from the Antarctic, including Robert Falcon Scott's hut, Ernest Shackleton's hut, the... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 RANDOM

• Batman's Crib: The Real World Value Of Wayne Manor

  

  For more than 70 years Batman has lived at Wayne Manor, 1007 Mountain Drive, Gotham City. Wayne Manor has never been for sale, but one has to wonder... what... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 RANDOM

• Scientists Free Whale Shark From Fishing Net

  The whale shark is a slow-moving filter feeding shark and the largest extant fish species. In Indonesia's Cendrawasih Bay, whale sharks often congregate around... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 RANDOM

• The World's Smallest Museum

  

  image credit New York-based artist Filip Noterdaeme -who was born in Belgium - created the 'world's smallest museum,' The Homeless Museum of Art. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM