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• America's Dead Sea

  Deep in the desert of southern California sits one of the worst environmental sites in America - a former tourist destination that has turned into a toxic... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Real-Time Twitter Map

  

  Tweereal is a map of Twitter users activity in real-time. Animation on the map include only tweets containing geo-tags. There are two types of tweets on a map:... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2012 SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Friday Cartoon By Mark Anderson

  

  Starting today, The Presurfer will post a cartoon by Mark Anderson each Friday. Mark is a professional cartoonist from the Chicago area. Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• A 285-Micrometer Indy Car Printed With Two-Photon Lithography

  

  What's the point of 3-D printing an Indy car if it's not ultra-fast? Using a high-resolution 3-D printing technology known as 'two-photon lithography' - a... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2012 MOTO, SCIENCE, SPORTS

• World Earthquakes 2011 Visualization Map

  All earthquakes of 2011 displayed on the globe in a video that represents depth and intensity for each earthquake. The bigger the circle is, the more powerful i... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• 12 Things 'Enhanced' With Radiation

  

  There was a time when radiation was considered safe, even good for your health. A well known example of radioactive quackery was Radithor. It consisted of tripl... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2012 SCIENCE

• Raise A Glass To Alcohol Taxes On St. Patrick's Day

  

  St. Patrick's Day is upon us. But there's more than just green beer, green attire and tacky green accessories to think about on St. Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2012 BUSINESS, DRINK, FOOD & DRINK, HUMOR, RANDOM

• 11 Ways Advertisers Make Food Look Delicious

  

  image credit Advertised foods rarely look exactly like the real food they're selling. In fact, a number of sites around the web have pointed out just how... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2012 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Dueling Banjos - Musical Tesla Coils

  A Tesla coil is an electrical device based on a type of resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891. It is used to produce high voltage,... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012 SCIENCE

• The Cult Of Unicorn

  

  The mass of humanity runs in herds like horses, seeking the bare necessities of existence like food and water, but the unicorn stands alone and runs toward... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• A New Species Of Leopard Frog Discovered In New York City

  

  image credit A new species of leopard frog has been discovered in New York City. It's a surprising find since most new species are found in remote areas and... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• 25 Everyday Objects Under An Electron Microscope

  

  image credit You come into contact with millions of different objects every day. Many of those everyday objects are so small that you don't even realize you're... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012

• Antarctica Supply Ship Offload Time-Lapse

  Annual supply ship MV Green Wave offloading at McMurdo Station Antarctica, 2012. Due to an unusually warm winter last year, the floating ice pier that is... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012 OUTDOORS, SEA, SNOW

• The World's 6 Richest Pets

  

  image credit People love pets. From the ordinary to the exotic, humans love to look after other species, whether they are as common as a cat or as endangered a... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012 HOME, PETS

• A History of Sandwiches

  

  image credit While Arby's may have one of the most famous Reubens now, its actual origin is one of the most widely disputed in sandwich history. Along with the... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY

• Human Fossils Hint At New Species

  

  The remains of what may be a previously unknown human species have been identified in southern China. The bones, which represent at least five individuals,... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012 SCIENCE

• A Day On The Internet

  

  An infographic showing what happens on the internet every 24 hours, and as you'd have guessed, it's a lot. The volume of blog posts, time spent on Facebook and... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2012 TECH

• Earliest Dickens Film - The Death Of Poor Joe

  The Death of Poor Joe is a 1901 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, which features the director's wife Laura Bayley as a child... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 10 Unusual And Strange Facts About Australia

  

  image credit Australia today is a vibrant multicultural country with people of British descent, as well as Aboriginal and immigrants from many countries in... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Who Is The Most Famous?

  

  Who Is The Most Famous? is a fun crowdsourcing game. You get to see the first name of a celebrity and you have to say who you think is the most famous person... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2012 CELEB, ENTERTAINMENT, HUMOR