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• Great Egret Rising

  

  image credit With its all white plumage that can often reach a meter in height, the Great Egret is a sight to behold as it soars up in to the sky. Considered... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Coffee Drinking Linked To Less Depression In Women

  

  image credit For many women, the mood-elevating effects of a cup of coffee may be more than fleeting. A new study shows that women who regularly drink coffee -... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2011 HEALTH, HEALTHY LIVING, SCIENCE

• Google Celebrates 13th Birthday

  

  What better way for Google to mark its 13th birthday than with one of its own Google Doodles? Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2011 TECH

• Does It Really Take More Muscles To Frown Than To Smile?

  

  image credit It's a common phrase used in an attempt to change the mood of a potentially unhappy person or to invoke optimism. Sometimes it works, sometimes it... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2011 SCIENCE

• Dead Sea Scrolls Online

  

  image credit Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went onlin... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Fun With Sphero

  Sphero is the world's first robotic ball controlled from your smartphone. Weave in and around obstacles or feet, or just try to outrun the family pet. Sphero... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2011 GADGETS, TECH

• 25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments That Look Like They're From The Future

  

  image credit These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles too... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Japanese Restaurant Serves World's Largest Sushi Portions

  

  A restaurant in Japan's Aichi Prefecture has become famous for serving arguably the world's largest sushi dishes, up to 20 cm in diameter and nearly... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2011 DINING OUT, FOOD & DRINK

• Top 10 Misused English Words

  

  The most misused word on the Internet is 'ultimate.' Type 'ultimate' into Google and thousands of hits come up, pretty much all of them using it as 'the best.'... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2011 CULTURE

• Alpine Lakes Wilderness

  

  image credit The Alpine Lakes wilderness consists of 390,000 acres of rugged wilderness spanning the Cascade Range of Washington state and parts of Wenatchee... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2011 ENVIRONMENT, OUTDOORS

• Bistro

  is a darkly comical film by Sean Gray. Starring BAFTA-winning actor Peter Capaldi, Alex Macqueen and Neil Edmond. A hungry restaurant diner gets a lot less... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Smell Of Books

  

  Smell Of Books is an aerosol e-book enhancer. Does your Kindle leave you feeling like there's something missing from your reading experience? Have you been... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Yosemite Bears

  Two baby bears play in the street while Mama watches from nearby. YouTube link (via Miss Cellania)The Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Scopitone: '60s Music Videos You've Never Seen

  

  image credit A Scopitone is a type of jukebox featuring a 16 mm film component. Before MTV mid-1960s American hepcats gathered around 500-pound, 7-foot-high... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• NASA Sounds

  NASA has released a collection of historical sounds as ringtones (both MP3 and the iPhone’s M4R format). You can hear the roar of a space shuttle launch or... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Singing Google Doodle Puppets

  Yesterday Google celebrated Jim Henson's birthday with a doodle featuring six original Muppet characters. YouTube user 'TekkenRulezz' edited six different Googl... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Dodgeball - Red Vs Blue

  Dodgeball is a game in which players try to hit other players on the opposing team with balls while avoiding being hit themselves. This was the biggest gatherin... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Ruins Of Bannerman's Island

  

  image credit Abandoned, neglected and decaying, at first sight you may think that Bannerman's Castle is located in Europe, perhaps a Scottish remnant from the... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• What We See Inside Our Brains

  Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and computational models, UC Berkeley researchers have succeeded in decoding and reconstructing people’s dynamic... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Presurfer Is 11 Years Old Today

  

  . And you, dear readers, made the past 11 years a delight. Thank you so much! Don't forget to visit one of my favorite blogs. Without the people behind... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM