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• The Endearing, Funny, And Disturbing Faces Of Ventriloquist Dummies

  

  image credit: Dire Penguin cc Modern ventriloquists utilise a variety of different types of puppets in their presentations, ranging from soft cloth or foam... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Rivers Aglow With Ethereal Globes Of Color

  

  image credit: DijutalTim cc A sense of wonder pervaded as, silently, the multicolored constellation emerged from the surrounding blackness. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Last Victorian Leviathan Steam Ship

  

  image credit The Great Eastern was an iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by J. Scott Russell Co. at Millwall on the River... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• World's Newest Radio Telescope Set To Reveal Secrets Of The Universe

  

  image credit: European Southern Observatory cc High up on Chile's cold, dry Chajnantor Plateau, 66 giants stand under the starry night sky. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Bottled History

  Ray Gascoigne has been around boats his whole life, as a shipwright, a merchant sailor, and now as a ship builder on the smallest dry dock there is: a bottle. Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 RANDOM

• World's Strangest Vehicles

  

  image credit: alakai99 cc Sometimes simply getting from point A to point B is not really the point. Some people want to do it in style, with a certain panache,... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 RANDOM

• Take That, Instagram: The Enduring Allure Of Vintage Snapshots

  

  image credit: David Ball Collectors Weekly published an article about found photos, whose degraded surfaces and often blurry images exude a level of authenticit... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Salamander Robot Walking And Swimming

  Salamandra robotica II walking and swimming outdoors and performing the transition from swimming to walking indoors. Developed by EPFL Biorobotics Laboratory... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Friday Cartoon By Mark Anderson

  

  Mark Anderson is a professional cartoonist from the Chicago area. His cartoons have been published in Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Woman's... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• This Is Now The World's Lightest Material

  

  image credit Check out this contender for the title of 'world's lightest solid.' To demonstrate just how light it is, Zhejiang University in China, where the... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 SCIENCE

• Snowtime Anytime Snowballs

  

  Winter is over in the northern hemisphere but even when there's not enough snow on the ground you can still have a good snowball fight with the Snowtime... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 RANDOM

• Chameleon Sticky Tongue In Slow Motion

  Chameleons feed by ballistically projecting their long tongues from their mouths to capture prey located some distance away. The chameleon tongue apparatus... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• WordCloud Generator

  

  They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. With the WordCloud Generator your pictures will be converted into individual, typographical images, which... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 RANDOM

• Done In 60 Seconds: Blade Runner

  Done in 60 Seconds is an amateur filmmaker competition by Empire Magazine and Jameson Irish Whiskey. Competitors have to create a one minute re-make of a movie. Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 ENTERTAINMENT

• The Most Beautiful Cherry Blossoms Around The World

  

  image credit: Titus Tscharntke One of the best known symbols of spring in Japan are the magnificent pink Japanese cherry trees, also called sakura. Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• What Causes Hearing Loss?

  

  image credit: Jonas Bergsten Not age is the leading cause of hearing loss, but noise. Unless you take steps now to protect your ears, sooner or later many of yo... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE, SCIENCE

• The Tech Industry's Most Obnoxious Tweeters

  

  With over half a billion users, it's no surprise that Twitter has its fair share of awful tweeters. And it's even more apparent in the tech world, where bad... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Jimmy Hendrix' 'Voodoo Chile' By Luna

  The gayageum is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings, although more recently variants have been constructed with 21 or other... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 RANDOM

• The Life Of Extremophiles: Surviving In Hostile Habitats

  

  image credit: Amateria1121 cc Beetles with antifreeze blood, ants that sprint on scorching sand and spiders that live high up Mount Everest. Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Evolution Of The New York Driver's License

  

  image credit New York State first began issuing paper licenses to chauffeurs in 1910, and the shape, form and style have changed over the past century,... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 SOCIETY