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• Huge Bird Nests Built On Telephone Poles

  

  image credit: Dillon Marsh cc In the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa you can find the Sociable Weaver, a species of bird in the Passeridae family. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• The World's Smallest Movie: A Boy And His Atom

  The ability to move single atoms, one of the smallest particles of any element in the universe, is crucial to IBM's research in the field of atomic-scale memory. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 CULTURE, SCIENCE

• How Much Food Can You Buy For $5 Around The World?

  How much coffee, meat, beer, McDonald's, and more you can buy for $5 in countries around the world? YouTube link (via Bits Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Painted Landscapes Of China Danxia

  

  image credit: gudi cris cc China Danxia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the name given in China to landscapes developed on continental red terrigenous... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 TRAVEL

• Chernobyl, 27 Years Later

  

  image credit: bbcworldservice cc Last Friday was the anniversary of the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. On April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclea... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY

• How To Draw A Cartoon C-3PO

  

  May 4 is considered a holiday by Star Wars fans to celebrate Star Wars culture and honor the films. Fans commonly say 'May the fourth be with you' on this day. Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 RANDOM

• 8 Crazy Fan Theories About Children's Television Shows

  

  image credit: tifotter cc Will in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air died on that basketball court in West Philadelphia. Alien and Blade Runner take place in the same... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 RANDOM

• Why Do We Behave So Oddly In Lifts?

  

  image credit: Dieselducy cc Many of us use them several times a day without really noticing. And yet the way we behave in lifts, or elevators as they are known... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• Top 10 Haunted Hotels

  

  image credit: Beyond My Ken cc There are few places in the world that have absorbed as much emotion as hotels. They see the unbridled joy of honeymoon couples... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 RANDOM

• Poynton Regenerated

  A community in decline, divided by decades of anti-social traffic engineering, is reunited and revitalised by streetscape redesign. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 RANDOM

• Betty Freeman's Day In Court

  

  image credit Eighty years before the Emancipation Proclamation freed American slaves, a Massachusetts woman helped free the slaves of that state... just by goin... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Scientists Ask: Are Horses 'Lazy' Or Just Bored?

  

  image credit: ejbaurdo cc Since the dawn of time, they have seemed man's hardest working animal companion - performing stoically as a method of transport, a... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• 7 Facts About Hairballs

  Did you know that last Friday was National Hairball Awareness Day? Me neither. A hairball by any other name is still gross. The scientific term is... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Lost City Of Heracleion Gives Up Its Secrets

  

  image credit For centuries it was thought to be a legend, a city of extraordinary wealth mentioned in Homer, visited by Helen of Troy and Paris, her lover, but... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Seven Most Incredible Telescopes In Existence

  

  image credit When China completes its newest telescope project in 2016, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, it will have a dish nearly... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 ASTRONOMY, SCIENCE

• Kite Aerial Photography: Seeing The World From New Heights

  

  image credit: Pierre Lesage cc Sometimes, pointing and clicking just isn't enough. Even the most amateur of snappers has experimented with camera angles and... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Here Is Today

  

  is a simple interactive animation that helps keep things in perspective. Just keep clicking. (via Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 RANDOM

• Ride-Able Mech For Kids

  Japanese mech factory Sakakibara Machinery Works is out to make mecha lovers all over the world drool again, and wish they were a Japanese kid with a rich dad. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 TECH

• The Psychology Of Color

  

  Perhaps no choice is as vital to marketing as color. Whether you are selecting the color for a product or for your email marketing campaign, color has tremendou... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• Spectacular Office Slides

  

  image credit: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid cc Powerful companies like Google are ensuring that their office spaces are filled with fun elements and inspiring... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2013 BUSINESS, RANDOM