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• Wine Monkey

  

  Next time you're heading to a gala soiree or a neighborhood potluck slip a Wine Monkey Bottle Caddy onto your bottle of red or white (or even chimpagne) and... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2013 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK, RANDOM

• The Chemistry Of The Corpse Flower's Stink

  A titan arum plant, aka the corpse flower, just bloomed in the United States Botanic Gardens in Washington, DC. The plant has an unpredictable blooming cycle... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2013 CHEMISTRY, RANDOM, SCIENCE

• What Happens Online In 60 Seconds?

  

  On the Internet, we all know things can move in a lightning-fast pace. In just a minute, you can read through and compose a few tweets along with a look at... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2013 GADGETS, RANDOM, TECH

• How Beer Gets Its Color

  

  image credit: Dinner Series cc Pop open a belated birthday beer. Pour that beer into a clear glass, hold it up to the light, and take a good look at the color. Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2013 DRINK, FOOD & DRINK

• How The Brain Draws A Little You

  

  image credit Inside each of us is a miniature version of ourselves. The Canadian neurologist Wilder Penfield discovered this little person in the 1930s, when... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• 10 Actors You'd Never Guess Had Doctorates

  Although while on screen some actors may play the fool and might even give the illusion of a lack of intelligence - don't be deceived, as many are perfectly... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2013 CELEB, ENTERTAINMENT

• How Geeky Are You?

  

  Do you know your Hubble from your Hubba Bubba? Do you think a transistor is a female Transformer? Find out if you're a top techie or leading Luddite. Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2013 RANDOM

• Can't Sleep? Blame The Moon

  

  image credit: Laura Ferreira cc The moon could be to blame for a bad night's sleep, researchers now say. These findings are the first reliable evidence that... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2013 SCIENCE

• What You Could Buy With 1 Million Dollars

  

  image credit: Jon Eben Field cc You could buy 3 bottles of 1907 Heidsieck champagne. Or instead, buy 288,184 bottles of AndrĂŠ Brut. Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2013 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Gracht

  (meaning canal) is a Dutch short film by Joost de Jong and Nick Groeneveld. Gracht is situated in Amsterdam. Harry and his huge, oblivious son run a moving... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Amazing Gecko: 20 Interesting Facts About The World's Most Species-Rich...

  

  image credit: Valerian Gaudeau cc The gecko is an extraordinary lizard, a triumph of both adaptation and diversity. Out of the 5,600 species of lizard on the... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• 10 Historic European Monarchs Plagued By Mental Illness

  

  image credit A lot of people fantasize about wearing a crown, living in a castle and having an entire court at their beck and call when they're growing up. Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY

• 99 Cool Facts About Babe Ruth

  

  image credit George Herman 'Babe' Ruth (1895-1948) was an American professional baseball player. Babe Ruth played his first major league game 99 years ago this... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 RANDOM, SPORTS

• Flipboard Magazines On The Web

  

  If you have a tablet computer, you may be familiar with the Flipboard app. Since the launch of Flipboard 2.0, more than 2 million magazines have been made... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Under The Electron Microscope

  

  image credit: EMSL cc It may be hard to believe but the first electron microscope was developed by German physicist Hans Busch in 1926 with a prototype built... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Thor's Hero Shrew

  A new species of shrew has been found in Africa, and it has the mightiest, most extraordinary backbone of all the mammals. A little more than a century ago,... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Google Doodle Honors Birthday Of Rosalind Franklin

  

  British scientist Rosalind Franklin has been honoured with a Google doodle. Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The 10 Shortest Players In NBA History

  Traditionally, basketball is a game for tall people. Still, the world is full of rule-breakers who challenge conventions. The following 10 basketball players ar... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Cross Section Photos Of Golf Balls

  

  image credit: Tim Sheerman-Chase cc Photographer James Friedman doesn't play golf, but he had a collection of golf balls lying around. Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Butterfly In Epic Slow Motion

  Why do butterflies flutter? Nic and Si from Earth Unplugged reveal exactly what's happening during the flight of these beautiful creatures with the help of a... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM