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• The Curious Origin Of Sarin Nerve Gas

  

  image credit Sarin is an organophosphorus compound. It's a colorless and odorless liquid, used as a chemical weapon owing to its extreme potency as a nerve... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2013 SCIENCE

• Maleo - The Bird That Can Fly The Moment It Hatches

  

  image credit: massmatt cc Beneath the red hot sand of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi something stirs. A large egg is hatching and soon the newborn creature... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• The Most Beautiful Villages Around The World

  

  image credit: Michael Bauer cc A gallery of some of the most beautiful villages from around the world. Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Paperscape - A Map Of Scientific Research

  

  Cornell University's arXiv.org provides open access to 871,788 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance an... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2013 SCIENCE

• Sleep In The Ultimate Doghouse In Cottonwood, Idaho

  

  image credit: Alan Levine cc The Dog Bark Park Inn is a hotel located in the US state of Idaho. The hotel is built in the shape of a beagle, making it a famous... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2013 TRAVEL

• The Origin Of The English Alphabet

  

  Often considered one of the more difficult languages to master thanks to the incredible amount of inconsistencies in the language, it should come as no... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2013 CULTURE

• Le Grand K: The Perfect Kilogram

  

  image credit: GregL cc Hidden in a vault in the Pavillon de Breteuil in Sèvres, outside Paris, vacuum-sealed under three bell jars, sits a palm-sized meta... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2013 FOOD & DRINK, SCIENCE

• Why Did Pirates Wear Eyepatches?

  

  image credit The fact that some pirates wore eyepatches most likely had nothing to do with a missing eye, and everything to do with being able to see -... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Mystery Bug Builds Fence Around Eggs And Nobody Knows Why

  

  image credit Troy Alexander Chemical ecologist Troy Alexander discovered a strange structure on the trunk of a tree in the Amazon rainforest. Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Atom-Lapse

  Time-lapse video of the Atomium. The Atomium is an iconic building in Brussels, Belgium, originally constructed for the 1958 Expo. Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 SCIENCE

• Dr. Wily's Castle For Sale

  

  If you're familiar with the video game Mega Man 2, you must have come upon one of the most challenging levels... Wily Castle. Wily Castle is the common name use... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 GAMING, TECH

• How Fainting Goats Work

  

  image credit The lives of goats, by all appearances, consist mostly of eating, climbing, butting heads and a whole lot of standing on top of things. Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT, RANDOM

• The League of S.T.E.A.M Kickstarter Fundraising Project

  

  Steampunk entertainers The League of S.T.E.A.M. announce the highly-anticipated third season of the award-winning web series The Adventures of the League of... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Space Travel: Then And Now

  

  Ever since primitive man learned how to look up without dying, we have been obsessed with that large dark, starry mass that's out there somewhere. And ever sinc... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 SCIENCE

• 10 Abandoned Drive-In Movie Theaters

  

  image credit: JoshBerglund19 cc Drive-in movie theaters stand for the great American auto-centric suburban dream, though as time goes by fewer and fewer of the... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT

• Cow Tipping: Fake Or Really Fake?

  

  image credit: Tracy cc Cow tipping, at least as popularly imagined, does not exist. Drunk young men do not, on any regular basis, sneak into cow pastures and pu... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE

• Write Your Name In Runes

  

  Runes are the characters of the alphabet used by the Vikings and other Germanic peoples from about the second to the 15th centuries A.D. Some runes vaguely... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2013 RANDOM

• New London Skyscraper Melts Nearby Parked Cars

  

  image credit: mattbuck cc The top-heavy shape of 20 Fenchurch Street, a skyscraper currently under construction in London, has earned the building the... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: Cheers Opening

  As 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphialways' enters it's 9th season, YouTube's new comedy channel, Official Comey, thought it might be nice to compare it to the... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Giant Boulder Nearly Crushes Car

  This amateur video captured the moment when a car on a coastal road in Keelung in northern Taiwan, was hit by a landslide and narrowly avoided being crushed by ... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM