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• Krzywy Las: The Crooked Forest Of Poland

  

  image credit: Asbb cc Mysteries surround a special grove of trees standing in the middle of a forest in the village of Nowe Czarnowo, south of Szcezecin, Poland. Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 CULTURE

• Stalin's Rope Roads

  

  image credit: orientalizing cc The mining town of Chiatura, Georgia, surrounded by steep cliffs, is criss-crossed by a network of aging Soviet-era aerial... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 SOCIETY

• Precious Therapy Llamas Bring Joy To Sick And Elderly

  

  image credit Vimeo There are approximately 10,000 therapy animals in the United States. Of those, 14 are llamas. In an article published last year for Colors... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 CHARITY, SOCIETY

• 10 Years Of Weather History In 3 Minutes

  Ten years of GOES-12 satellite imagery in three minutes. The most violent hurricanes, from Katrina to Sandy, become blips of white. The most frigid of polar... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT, WEATHER

• My Goodness! Guinness Collectors Snap Up Secret Stash Of Unpublished...

  

  image credit: Sean T Evans cc John Gilroy was the illustrator of all those wonderful Guinness ads during the 1930s-1950s. Gilroy created an oil-on-canvas... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• Houses Of The Hobbit Diaspora

  

  image credit: Susan Renee cc If you think that Hobbits are fictional, do not be fooled a second longer. Middle-earth once existed, as did all of its various... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 RANDOM

• National Flags Created From The Foods Each Country Is Associated With

  

  Feeling hungry? You will be after looking through this creative collection of food photography by Australian advertising agency WHYBIN\TBWA. Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Life-Size Sculpture Gives A Map To The Buddhist Cosmos

  

  Deities in paradise, souls suffering in hell, jealous demigods and flying spirits, mortals gathered for debate - all these and more are depicted on the 'Cosmic... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• The Football Association: Respect The Technology

  The English Football Association launched the Respect programme in 2008 in response to behavioural problems at all levels of the game. Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Geeking Out Over The Bloody Legacy Of VHS

  

  image credit: Groink cc Slowly but surely, underground film aficionados are returning to the golden age of home cinema, resurrecting an archaic device most... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 RANDOM

• Life On Earth 'Began On Mars'

  

  image credit Evidence is mounting that life on Earth may have started on Mars. A leading scientist has claimed that one particular element believed to be crucia... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 SCIENCE

• 5 Animals That Regrow Body Parts

  

  image credit: carnifex82 cc When you were a kid you might have had the trauma-thrill of thinking you caught a lizard and opening your hand to find nothing but... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• 15 Totally Concerning Toys From Your Childhood

  

  image credit: Matt M. cc Kids today are too jazzed about video games and Angry Birds to understand what fun they missed in the good old days. Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 HUMOR

• The Rail Reach

  

  Justin Choy of San Francisco designed The Rail Reach. With The Rail Reach you have that extra reach to grab rails on public transportation. Never touch another... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 RANDOM

• Ganon's Castle For Sale

  

  Ever played 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time'? Then you know about Ganon's Castle, the fortress of baddie Ganondorf. Movoto decided to find out how much th... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 GAMING, TECH

• The Magic Of MFCs: Generating Electricity From Mucky Wastewater

  

  image credit These days, renewable and alternative energy sources are in high demand, and when you think about 'green' electricity, solar power and wind farms... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT

• Sea Of Rubbish Left Behind By Music Fans At Reading Festival

  

  image credit: Steph cc It looks like the aftermath of a campsite tornado, or perhaps the first stages of a landfill site. But this was the scene the morning... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Aircraft Carrier Advanced Training

  

  image credit In the early 1940s the US Navy trained their pilots on the Great Lakes. The US converted two sidewheel steamships - The USS Sable and the USS... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Tombed

  is a bachelor film project by Elian van der Heiden and Jeffrey Schreuders from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 RANDOM

• The World's Most Precise Clock Could Prove Einstein Wrong

  Andrew Ludlow, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, built the most precise atomic clock ever. Better atomic clocks will... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 SCIENCE