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• Spider Web Forest Is Beautiful And Terrifying

  

  image credit The severe flooding in Australia isn't just impacting humans, it's also forcing spiders to vacate their homes along swollen riverbanks. Here are... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Stunning Art Of Ancient Calendars

  

  image credit The English word calendar is derived from the Latin word 'kalendae,' which was the Latin name of the first day of every month. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY

• 9 Unique And Unusual Travel Destinations

  

  image credit A big part of travel is that feeling you get when experiencing something completely new, something you haven't seen or done before. Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• $2,500 A Month On Rubber Bands

  

  image credit A story about Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia. Escobar had so much money that he was spending $2,500 a month on... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2012 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, SOCIETY

• Sprinkles Cupcake ATM

  

  Sprinkles Beverly Hills created a 24-hour-cupcake ATM. The machine was designed by engineer Vineet Chaplot and will be continuously restocked and prepped to... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2012 CURRENT, DINING OUT, FOOD & DRINK, SOCIETY

• Speed Bumb

  Is this a little too much? I don't know where this is but it's a set of speed bumps intended to stop excessive traffic through a neighborhood. Local residents... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM, SOCIETY

• Mask Converts Wind Energy Into Electricity

  

  AIRE is a mask that converts wind energy (provided by the wearer's breath) into electricity for the recharging of small electronic devices. Inside the unit ther... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2012 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• The World's Highest Waterfall

  

  In March of 2011, photographer Dima Moiseenko flew to Venezuela to shoot the Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall. Due to extremely unstable weather... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHY, TRAVEL

• 40 Hilarious And Provocative Cubicle Modifications

  

  The cubicle is a partially enclosed workspace, separated from neighboring workspaces by partitions. Although cubicles are often seen as being symbolic of the... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2012 CAREER, HUMOR

• Visualizing US Expansion Through Post Offices

  A visualization of US expansion from 1700 to 1900, seen through changes in the spatial distribution of post offices. Data from the USPS Postmaster Finder, with... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2012 HISTORY

• Legolize It!

  

  is a personal project of French artists/photographers Mademoiselle Maurice and Ufunk. A series of photographs of them, self-portraits transformed into LEGO... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• BandLoot Online Money Tracker For Bands

  

  BandLoot will help you keep track of how much each band member owes to the band and to each other. Too many bands waste their time trying to figure out money... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2012 MUSIC

• Top 10 Pioneers Of The Internet

  

  image credit The Internet wasn't just designed by one person or one team at one time. As more and more people peeled back the frontiers of information... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2012 TECH

• Guardian Open Journalism: Three Little Pigs

  An advert for British newspaper The Guardian's open journalism imagines how we might cover the story of the three little pigs in print and online. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, HUMOR, MEDIA, RANDOM

• Did An Optical Illusion Doom the Titanic?

  

  image credit The Titanic may have struck an iceberg and sank helplessly because of a strange atmosphere-caused optical illusion, a new book argues. British... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Titanic Belfast - Bright New Star On A City's Skyline

  

  image credit Something wonderful is about to happen in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A hundred years after the Titanic set sail on her catastrophic maiden voyage ... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Grosse Mouche Bleue (Horsefly)

  A ladybug is having a great time getting a rise out of a group of flies she is insulting profusely. The flies react in the twinkling of an eye and start... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Batman And Robin Running Away From Shit

  

  When you're in trouble, the best thing to do is run away. Like Batman and Robin do.The Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Japanese Omelette

  How to make a Japanese rolled omelet (Dashimaki Tamago) as demonstrated by the Master Chef at the Shunraku Kaiten Sushi Restaurant in Hokkaido. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2012 FOOD & DRINK

• 10 Ways The World Will Probably End

  

  image credit There's no shortage of people who have an opinion on how the world will end. Here are the likeliest options, with descriptions of the horrors we'd... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2012 SCIENCE, SOCIETY