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• How People Die On Mount Everest

  

  image credit Last week, 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest. Amazing, but other people weren't so lucky. As of 2012, an... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• London Necropolis Railway

  

  image credit It's 1848. A cholera outbreak had recently swept through London, killing almost 15,000. Burial space was non-existent; as little as 300 acres had... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Saving Ford From Ford

  

  image credit You probably already know how Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, used the moving assembly line and other mass-production... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The World's Dirtiest Jobs

  

  Whether it's cleaning a smelly animal cage or a bloody crime scene, there are many dirty jobs in the world and somebody's got to do them. Check out this... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 RANDOM

• What Pangea Looks Like Mapped With Modern Political Borders

  

  Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, forming about 300 million years ago. It began to break apart around... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Shopping At IKEA

  

  You're shopping at IKEA and you want to buy a bath towel. It's called Åfjärden. You've seen it advertised in a folder. But you don't know where to find it... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Weirdest And Fiercest Helmets From The Age Of Armored Combat

  

  image credit If you're going to go into battle wearing a full suit of metal armor, you'd better do it in style. Here are some of the most amazing (and bizarre)... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Firestorm

  

  The photograph of the Holmes family hiding from a violent bushfire in Tasmania was shared around the world. But what became of them? Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY

• For Sale: Morgue Refrigerator

  

  Strange things are sometimes offered on eBay. The New York State Office of Mental Health wants to sell this morgue refrigerator. It's a Norlake Scientific 4... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 RANDOM

• Why Do Identical Twins End Up Having Such Different Lives?

  

  image credit: elinar cc Their genes are exactly the same, so why don't identical siblings' lives follow more similar patterns? Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 CULTURE, SOCIETY

• Evolution Happening Right Before Your Eyes

  A work performed by members of the Cornell Creative Machines Lab. The bodies of soft robots made of multiple materials (muscle, bone, and support tissue) are... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 SCIENCE

• 4 Coin Flips That Changed History

  

  image credit: Jogadyl cc Coin flipping as a game was known to the Romans as navia aut caput (ship or head), as some coins had a ship on one side and the head... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 RANDOM

• Real VW Beetles Transformed Into A Sphere And Cube

  

  image credit: See-ming Lee cc The Volkswagen Beetle has one of the most iconic shapes in the automotive world. Its distinct bulbous form has been both admired... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 TECH

• 10 Fascinating Train Routes Across The World

  

  image credit The history of rail transport dates back nearly 500 years. Many railroads that passes through wonderful landscapes have until recently been a... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 TRAVEL

• A Brief History Of Mental Illness In Art

  

  image credit A Brief History of Mental Illness in Art. (via Everlasting Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 CULTURE, HEALTH, HISTORY, MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY

• 15 Cool Cow Inspired Products And Designs

  

  image credit: Martijn de Visser cc A collection of 'Cool Cow Inspired Products and Designs' from all over the world. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Keep Boredom At Bay With Playable Google Doodles

  

  From 1998 onwards Google has been regularly changing the Google logo up, with the new iterations labeled Google Doodles. These doodles have been used to great... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 RANDOM

• What Is The Limit To How Fast A Human Can Run?

  

  image credit: Marc cc The limit to how fast a human can run is 9.48 seconds for the 100-meter race, 0.10 seconds faster than Usain Bolt's current world record,... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 ATHLETICS, FITNESS, SPORTS

• The Last Ice Merchant (El Último Hielero)

  For over 50 years Baltazar Ushca has harvested the glacial ice of Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo. His brothers, both raised as ice merchants, have long since retire... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT

• Did A Sonar Image Finally Find Amelia Earhart's Plane?

  

  It's been 76 years since Amelia Earhart disappeared and we're still trying to find her. Last year, a search team re-evaluated their findings and thought they... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 CURRENT, SOCIETY