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• 26 Fascinating Pictures Of The Chicago Bean

  

  image credit: Craig cc Cloud Gate, a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, is the centerpiece of the AT T Plaza in Millennium Park... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 TRAVEL

• 10 Largest Military Airplanes In History

  

  image credit: Menzendorf cc The aircraft on this list are amongst the biggest and most spectacular ever built. These 10 giant military planes are incredible... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Six Flags Over Texas New Ride - Skyscreamer

  The Texas SkyScreamer is the newest attraction at Six Flags Over Texas. It's 400 feet high and will hold a world record title as the tallest tower swing ride... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 RANDOM

• The Living Root Bridges Of India

  

  image credit: Pratham Books cc India has a population of over a billion and our ideas about the country are often informed by that statistic. Yet there are... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Is It A Plane Car, Or A Car Plane?

  

  Jeff 'Speedy Cop' Bloch, a 40-year-old Washington, D.C. police officer, combined an old Cessna aircraft with a Toyota fan to create this plane car. Or is it... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 TRAVEL

• The History Of The Tulip

  The Himalayan mountain range was the original home of the tulip even though most of us associate the flower with the Netherlands. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Oddest-Looking Musical Instruments On Earth

  

  image credit: tomislavmedak cc Most musical instruments look a little weird, if you stare at them for long enough. When aliens finally make contact, they'll be... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Did You Know The First Computer Mouse Was Wooden?

  

  image credit: SRI International cc The computer mouse comes from humble beginnings and had a long road to the sleek, sometimes quirky, often high-tech and... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• How Did Feathers Evolve?

  To look at the evolution of modern bird feathers, we must start a long time ago, with the dinosaurs from whence they came. We see early incarnations of... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Sole Survivors Of Catastrophic Plane Crashes

  Since 1970, only a handful of incredibly lucky people have walked away as the sole survivors of commercial airline crashes. Often described by the media as... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Hobson-Jobson: The Words English Owes To India

  

  In 1872 two men began work on a lexicon of words of Asian origin used by the British in India. Since its publication the 1,000-page dictionary has never been ou... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Fish-Shaped Office Building in India

  

  This fish-shaped building is a regional office for the National Fisheries Development Board located near Hyderabad, India. The 4-story building is probably... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Beautiful Underwater Photos Of Luminous Sea Creatures

  

  image credit: Joshua Lambus cc Photographer Joshua Lambus has put together a beautiful series of photographs showing luminous creatures of the deep glowing... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Famous Businesspeople Fired Before They Made It Big

  

  image credit The world of business isn't always welcoming and profitable straight away. In their younger lives, the following 10 iconic businessmen and women... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Black-And-White Photos Of Vintage NASA Facilities

  

  image credit NASA) Gorgeous black-and-white photographs of vintage NASA facilities. Taken between the 1920s and 1950s, when the golden age of space travel was... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Bismuth: Beautiful Diamagnetic Chemical Element

  

  image credit: Paul cc Bismuth is a chemical element, a pentavalent poor metal, chemically resembling arsenic and antimony. Until the 18th century it was often... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Which Emotion Is The Hardest To Fake?

  

  image credit We've all done our fair share of faking it. Whether it's a canned excited response when that one particularly eccentric aunt gives you a Christmas... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Hitler's Hospital: The Eerie Remains Of Beelitz Sanatorium

  

  image credit: LankyFung cc In the last years of the nineteenth century the population of Berlin was expanding rapidly. The attendant issues of housing large... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Higgs Boson

  is a subatomic particle with zero electric charge whose existence would explain the masses of the elementary particles. It's sometimes referred to as the 'God... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 11 Creative And Cool Ways To Reuse Old Scrabble Tiles

  

  image credit: mj ecker cc If you have some old scrabble tiles, here are some cool ways to reuse them. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM