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• Ancient Scripts Give Clue To Missing Babylon's Hanging Garden

  

  image credit The whereabouts of the fabled Hanging Garden of Babylon has been one of the great mysteries from antiquity. The inability of archaeologists to... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Tracking Tremors: A Brief History Of The Richter Scale

  

  image credit Developed in 1935 by Charles Richter in partnership with Beno Gutenberg, both from the California Institute of Technology, the Richter magnitude... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Saul Bass Celebrated In Google Doodle

  

  Saul Bass (1920 - 1996) was an American graphic designer and Oscar winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences, film... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Two Months Breaking Ice (In Under Five Minutes)

  Time-lapse of the National Science Foundation icebreaker 'Nathaniel B. Palmer', traveling through the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Two months of sequences, condensed... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• North American English Dialects, Based On Pronunciation Patterns

  

  Some people collect stamps. Others collect coins. Rick Aschmann collects dialects. North American English dialects. His website contains hundreds of audio and... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Atlantis Found

  

  image credit Geologists have announced the discovery of what has been dubbed the 'Brazilian Atlantis', some 900 miles from Rio. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Grey Hair Is A Thing Of The Past

  

  image credit: iampeas cc A cure for grey hair could be available in the future after scientists said they had discovered the secret as to why follicles become... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 12 Longest Bridges In The World

  

  image credit A list of the 12 longest bridges in the world. It is interesting to note that most of them are located in China. (thanks Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Sleek Vintage Salon Hair Dryers

  

  image credit Photographs of Space-Age vintage salon hair dryers, with their sleek style and unapologetic abundance of chrome. Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• A Mask That Will Adjust Your Sight And Hearing

  

  Tim Bouckley, Millie Clive-Smith, Mi Eun Kim and Yuta Sugawara, students from the Royal College of Art in London, have developed headsets that allow the wearer... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Wikimedia Commons Picture Of The Year 2012

  

  The 2012 winners of the Wikimedia Commons Picture Of The Year 2012 contest have been announced. The picture below, made by French photographer Pierre Dalous, wo... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Amazing Escherian Stairwell Illusion

  This video shows an endless staircase at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York that has amazed students and baffled those who've tried to figure it... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Innocent-Looking But Deadly Assassin Snail

  

  image credit: RSX cc At first glance, the bumblebee-striped snail may seem quite innocuous. Clea Helena is endemic to the freshwater lakes, rivers and reservoir... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 11 Of The Wildest Technology Conspiracy Theories

  Facebook was invented by the CIA. A longer-lasting light bulb has been kept out of consumer hands on purpose. The military can make warships invisible. Nothing... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Amazing Monasteries Of Bhutan

  

  image credit: taxidesign cc The Kingdom of Bhutan is sometimes overlooked, locked between Tibet and India, but the Land of the Dragon as the Bhutanese call it i... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• A Parade Of Steam Locomotives

  in Wolsztyn in Poland. Wolsztyn is famous as the location of a locomotive roundhouse, which is the last place in Europe to supply steam locomotives for... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Worst Food Contamination Incidents Ever

  

  image credit Whether the cause is willful deception or simply a tragic mistake, contaminated food is a very real and present danger - and one that can have... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Donald Trump Caterpillar

  

  Researchers have photographed a caterpillar that bears an uncanny resemblance to property mogul Donald Trump's hair. With its brightly coloured, carefully parte... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Positive Compilation Of Russian Dashboard Camera

  When you think of Russian dashboard cameras you think of traffic accidents, people fighting, or crashing meteorites. But not everything is brutal. Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• First Tunguska Meteorite Fragments Discovered

  

  The Tunguska event was an enormously powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Russia on June 30, 1908. Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM