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• Google Celebrates Claude Debussy's 151st Birthday With A Doodle

  

  Achille-Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was a French composer. His music is noted for its sensory component and frequent eschewing of tonality. Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 CULTURE

• Towering Spider Sculpture Reflects A Mother's Strength

  

  image credit Maman is an incredible, intimidating sculpture resembling a giant spider by the late French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois. Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Three Waterfalls Of Southern Iceland

  

  Iceland is unusually suited for waterfalls. This small island country has a north Atlantic climate that produces frequent rain and snow and a near-Arctic... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Bizarrely Beautiful Modern Churches

  

  image credit Usually, churches aren't hard to spot, and often their designs seem to follow quite traditional and recognizable architectural templates. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Turkey Mask

  

  Looking for a clever and amusing way to spice up Thanksgiving this year, then get your Clumsy Cook Turkey Mask today. The raw-turkey inspired mask will turn... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Human Bungee Slingshot

  Of course, if you had an open backyard in the mountains, you would want to set up a human slingshot too. These kids are wound back by a four-wheeler and release... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 OUTDOORS

• Church Tanks

  

  image credit: Gerard Van der Leun cc Thought-provoking sculptures created by talented American artist Kris Kuksi. Beautiful church buildings are combined with... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• No Time For Coffee? Spray Caffeine On Your Skin

  

  image credit YouTube Sometimes people don't have time for a leisurely cup of joe and just want a quick fix. Ben Yu and Deven Soni have introduced a form of... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 SCIENCE

• Scientists Claim To Have Created A Beer With No Hangover

  

  image credit: Better than news cc Many a Sunday morning has involved millions of people all over the world wishing they hadn't had quite so much. Their heads... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 FOOD & DRINK, SCIENCE

• Space Shuttle Concept Art Of The 1960s And 1970s

  

  image credit: SDASM Archives The idea of a spacecraft returning from space to a horizontal landing had been around for decades before the first operational spac... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 SCIENCE

• The Coffee Spies Of The 1600s

  

  image credit: Charles Roffey cc Coffee. Java. Joe. Whatever you call it, that ubiquitous brew that jump-starts your morning was once at the center of... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 CULTURE, DRINK, HISTORY

• The Science Of The Great Molasses Flood

  

  image credit The Boston Molasses Disaster occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the USA. Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Can A Paper Cut Be Deadly?

  

  image credit: Laurence Facun cc A person with normal clotting ability would have to lose nearly 40% of his blood immediately to die of blood loss. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE, SCIENCE

• Map Of Actual European Discoveries

  

  European explorers found plenty of diminutive islands that no human had ever seen before. It's worth remembering that almost everywhere Europeans went, they wer... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Monday Puzzle

  

  The Presurfer, in cooperation with pzzlr.com, brings you a puzzle every Monday. Just to tickle your brain. image credit: sakshi sharma cc In a certain town,... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 RANDOM

• Timelapse Of The Perseid Meteor Shower In Joshua Tree Park

  Footage from a time-lapse workshop during the Perseid Meteor Shower. Note that not all of the light trails are meteors. Some of them are airplanes or... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 OUTDOORS

• Is Voyager 1 Really Out Of The Solar System?

  

  image credit It's 36 years since Voyager 1 was dispatched in 1977 on a mission to send back images of Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere and volcanic eruptions on... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 SCIENCE

• Copehill Down - Sleepy English Village With A Difference

  

  image credit: Richard Lewis cc Copehill Down is situated on Salisbury Plain in the English county of Wiltshire. Built on the windswept chalk plateau it looks, a... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 CULTURE

• Stipa-Caproni Flying Barrel

  The Stipa-Caproni was an experimental Italian aircraft designed in 1932 by Luigi Stipa (1900–1992) and built by aircraft manufacturer Caproni. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 HISTORY, TECH

• BoooTube, The Website For The Worst Videos Online

  

  If you're sick of watching stellar videos on YouTube, your prayers have been answered: someone has collected together the worst-rated videos for your viewing... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH