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• Live Flight Tracker

  

  Flightradar24 shows live airplane traffic from different parts around the world. The technique to receive flight information from aircraft is called ADS-B.... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2011 TRAVEL

• Postcard Creator

  

  The Postcard Creator helps students learn to identify all the typical parts of a postcard, and then generate their own postcard messages by typing information... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2011 TECH

• Museum Of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art

  

  image credit The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art has the world's largest collection of anatomically correct fabric brain art. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, SCIENCE

• Interview With Kelly Cusack Of EverythingPanAm

  

  image credit ABC's 'Pan Am,' is a television show about four stewardesses based in New York City in 1963. The show has borrowed hundreds of period Pan Am... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2011 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, TV & VIDEO

• Heterochromia In Cats

  

  image credit In a condition called complete heterochromia, the whole iris of one eye is a different color from the iris of the other eye. Partial heterochromia... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Facts In Photos

  

  U.S. poet, essayist, and lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: 'A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.' Here's a collection of funny facts. Take a look at... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Google Doodle Commemorates Marie Curie On 144th Birth Anniversary

  

  Today Google pays tribute to physicist–chemist Marie Curie on her 144th birth anniversary with a doodle that showed her sitting amongst her laboratory apparatus... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2011 TECH

• US Government: No Evidence Of Extraterrestrial Presence Here On Earth

  

  Two petitions were asking the Obama Administration to acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth. Their answer: The US government has no evidence... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2011 SCIENCE, SOCIETY

• The Bone-Chilling Catacombs Of The Capuchin Monks

  

  picture with permission of Palermo For 91 Days Warning: this post contains pictures of dead people Although it's not the slightest bit rational, we humans... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Tempo Bike Commercial

  The 30-second TV commercial 'Bike' was created for tissue brand Tempo by director Vida Vega of Film Club Productions. YouTube link (thanks Cora)The Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2011 MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• 15 Really Odd Geographical Facts

  

  Do you know what is the shortest place name? The world's oldest constitutional republic? Ever heard of a sea without coasts? Our planet is filled with many... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2011 ENVIRONMENT, RANDOM

• AirPano: High Resolution 3D Aerial Panoramas

  

  AirPano is a noncommercial project focused on high resolution 3D aerial panoramas. The AirPano team are Oleg Gaponyuk, Sergey Rumyantsev, and Sergey Semenov, a... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2011 CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY

• 'Take Five' by Sachal Studios

  Sachal Studios in Lahore, Pakistan, was founded by Izzat Majeed and Mushtaq Soofi to produce music they both loved and hoped it would also be loved by others. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2011 MUSIC

• 15 Beautiful Pictures Of Dippin' Dots

  

  image credit Experimenting with cryogenics in 1988, microbiologist and entrepreneur Curt Jones used liquid nitrogen to flash-freeze ice cream into tiny beads an... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2011 FOOD & DRINK, PHOTOGRAPHY, RANDOM

• The 10 Coolest Space Suit Designs

  

  image credit Wiley Post (picture above) was the first pilot to fly solo around the world but he was also known for his work in high altitude flying. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2011 RANDOM, SCIENCE

• Working Model Of Stephenson's Steam Engine Made Of Glass

  A model of Robert Stephenson's steam engine made in 2008 by master glassblower Michal Zahradník. Everything is made of glass. There are no sealants... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2011 CHEMISTRY, SCIENCE

• 15 Patron Saints For Modern Situations

  

  image credit On November 1, the Catholic Church celebrated the Solemnity of All Saints, often referred to as All Saints' Day or All Hallows (hence October 31 i... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2011 RANDOM, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Cleaning Up After The Japanese Tsunami

  

  image credit Eight months later, much of the debris has been cleared away or at least organized into big piles. In the port city of Kesennuma, many of the boat... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2011 ENVIRONMENT, WEATHER

• Rin Tin Tin's Life And Legend

  

  image credit Rin Tin Tin was the name given to a dog adopted from a WWI battlefield that went on to star in twenty-three Hollywood films. Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2011 HISTORY, PETS

• BeerMo

  

  Show your support for the moustache-growing month of Movember with a glorious BeerMo. This black silicone 'tache fits to the neck of almost any bottle, so... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM