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• Francesco Schettino: Costa Concordia's Daredevil Captain

  

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  Posted on 20 January 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• The World's Smallest Vertebrate

  

  image credit Louisiana State University herpetologist Chris Austin recently discovered a new species of frog, now the world's tiniest known vertebrate,... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Be Wonderful And Wise

  Danish butter brand Lurpak rolled out a very creative ad. It shows that healthy food can be tasty too by showing close up, colorful, creatively filmed shots of... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2012 BUSINESS, HUMOR, MARKETING & ADVERTISING, RANDOM

• Are There Fundamental Laws of Cooking?

  

  image credit Cooking is a field that has in recent years seen a shift from the artistic to the scientific. While there are certainly still subjective and... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2012 FOOD & DRINK

• A Technical Examination Of SOPA And PIPA

  The Stop Online Piracy Act is a U.S. House bill to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2012 SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Real Life Flintstones House In Portugal

  

  image credit Located in the Fafe mountains of northern Portugal, the Casa do Penedo, or 'House of Stone,' was built between four large boulders found on the... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Launch Calendar: The Year's Space Mission Schedule

  

  image credit Today, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket will carry a geostationary communications spacecraft into orbit for the U.S. military from the... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2012 CURRENT, SCIENCE, SOCIETY

• Photoshop Disasters

  

  Photoshop Disasters is a website showcasing terrible Photoshop from various kinds of digital and printed media. The website has a meticulous community of reader... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Sheep Shearing To Join Olympic Sports?

  

  image credit The Federated Farmers of New Zealand are calling for sheep shearing to become an Olympic sport, pointing to the 'shear hard work' required.... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT, RANDOM, SPORTS

• Gagarin

  

  Gagarin. (via Everlasting Blort)The Presurfer Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, SCIENCE

• Gate Tower Building

  

  image credit For the most part, 16-story buildings in Osaka do not stick out that much. That is unless of course, a highway cuts through them, allowing cars... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• 11 Things Germier Than Toilet Seats

  

  image credit It's a well-known fact that your computer keyboard is filthier than a toilet seat. People are understandably squeamish about public restrooms. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2012 HEALTH

• Everything You Know About Corsets Is False

  

  image credit Did women really use corsets to achieve 13-inch waists? Did men demand such obscenely tiny waists? Did women make themselves sick misshaping... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2012 CULTURE, FASHION, HISTORY, LIFESTYLE, RANDOM

• Common Cranes Fly Over Venice

  Common cranes have been hand-reared to fly alongside a microlight to capture these images. Earthflight uses many different filming techniques to create the... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Norway From A Bird's Perspective

  

  Watch 360 degrees panoramic pictures from Norwegian destinations. You get to see Geiranger, Llesund, the Geirangerfjord and Trollstigen Mountain Road. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2012 ENVIRONMENT, TRAVEL

• Put Down Your Smartphone To Feel Better

  

  image credit A study by the British Psychological Society found a link between stress levels and the number of times a person picks up their smartphone to... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2012 GADGETS, HEALTHY LIVING, TECH

• Naqsh-i Rustam: Colossal Tombs Of Persian Kings

  

  image credit Northwest of the Iranian city of Persepolis, lies a rocky hill. Engraved on the almost perpendicular façade of the hill, at a considerable height,... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2012 CULTURE

• The Internet's Blackout Pages And SOPA Protests

  

  Today a lot of Internet sites turn 'black' to protest the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, a controversial bill that has generated national outrage among... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2012 SOCIETY, TECH

• 8 Settlements With A Population Of Just One Person

  

  image credit When you are used of having people around you, it can be scary when they're gone. But some people are quit happy living all alone. This is a list o... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• The GOP Debate In Hand Gestures

  

  Body language accounts for between 55% and 65% of our communication. Body language is carriage, facial expressions, eye contact and gestures. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY