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• A Map Of The World According To Illustrators And Storytellers

  

  image credit In the book 'A Map of the World According to Illustrators and Storytellers', editors Antoniou, Klanten, Ehmann and Hellige collect more than 500... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Incredible Pictures Of Early Science Labs

  

  image credit If you love science, you are about to be ecstatic. In these amazing historic images of laboratories - many over a century old - you can see the... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY, SCIENCE

• An Oral Surgeon's Quest To Reimagine The Garage-Band Guitar

  

  Matt Eichen is an oral-surgeon and founder and designer of Musicvox, whose Spaceranger guitars were used in the last Austin Powers movie. Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 CULTURE, MUSIC

• You Won't Believe What All The World's LEGO Bricks Could Build

  

  About 472 billion LEGO bricks have been made from 1958 to 2013, a number that's increasing by 36 billion per year. With that many bricks you could build the... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 RANDOM

• Meet The Man Who Built The Ultimate Real-Life Transformers Costume

  

  image credit Canadian Marc Derepentigny has been building costumes as far as he can remember, even dating back to his early childhood. Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 RANDOM

• When Earth Is Scarred Forever

  

  image credit: Kinvaras cc Our planet is covered in pockmarks so deep that they can be seen from space. Some were caused by asteroid strikes, but most are the... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 SCIENCE

• 10 Iconic Moments In College Football History

  

  image credit College football is a huge draw in America, attracting stadium crowds in the tens of thousands as well as millions of TV viewers. Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 SPORTS

• Tea Company Claims World's Biggest Tea Bag

  

  image credit ABC News A tea company on Queensland's Sunshine Coast in Australia says it has made the world's biggest tea bag to raise money for cancer research. Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Hypnotic Views Of The Sagrada Familia Ceiling

  

  image credit: kNic.l cc Views of the awe-inspiring ceiling of the Sagrada Familia, a Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Spain, designed by legendary Catalan... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Old Way Of Photo Retouching

  

  image credit Photo retouching is the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception. Today, there are a... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• London 1927 In Color

  Color footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Frisse-Greene, who made a series of travelogues using the colour process... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 'Sea Monster' Found Washed Ashore On New Zealand Beach

  

  Mystery surrounds the discovery of a 'sea monster' which has washed ashore in New Zealand. With rows of jagged teeth and a gaping jaw, the beast's 30-foot-long... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Kattenstoet: The Festival Of Cats In Belgium

  

  image credit: cirdub cc The Kattenstoet (parade of cats) is a parade in Ypres, Belgium, devoted to the cat. It is held every third year on the second Sunday of... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Pile Driving In Thailand

  What do you do when you don't have the heavy equipment to drive piles into the ground. In Thailand, for small scale construction projects, they use manpower. An... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Every Meteorite Since 861 AD: Watch Them Fall

  

  The Guardian made a data visualisation of every meteorite that struck the earth since 861 AD. Only 3% of all recorded meteorites that have struck the earth... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Inside The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: Crash Test Dummies At Work

  Inside the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Vehicle Research Center: Crash test dummies at work is a video which explores the types of dummies the... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• South Korean Newspaper Prints Worst Photoshop Ever

  

  On Tuesday, President Obama met with President Park Geun-hye of South Korea at the White House. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Yonhap - South Korea's... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 15 Charming Side Streets

  

  image credit: Mschlindwein cc Side streets are often small, narrow streets, usually with beautiful facades and balconies, which are covered with various... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• By The Lake, Tasmania

  Phipps lives in a fisherman's shack in Tasmania that his family's owned all his life. His front garden is a giant lake, brimming with 9lb trout; his neighbours... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 15 Incredible Photos Of Glinting Glass Buildings

  

  image credit: Miradortigre cc Glass structures sparkle like gems in the sunlight and stand tall like towers of ice. They can be made up of sharp geometric angle... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM