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• Behind The Gates Of Chios's Abandoned Leper Colony

  

  image credit: fragkakis cc Although a sense of melancholy surrounds many abandoned institutions, the atmosphere that permeates this one, on the Greek island of... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• The Unique Burial Customs Of Tana Toraja

  

  image credit: Arian Zwegers cc The Toraja Tribe of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, is known for the cheerful way of treating death, and its unique burial grounds... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• What The Combined Wealth Of All 1,426 Billionaires Could Do

  

  image credit: reevery cc There are currently 1,426 billionaires in the world who are together worth a total of $5.4 trillion - a record sum. That number is so... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, FINANCE, SOCIETY

• What To Do After You've Been Hacked

  

  image credit: M0NGoLiAN.0NesT cc While being hacked may be increasingly familiar, it isn't getting any less stressful or confusing. It's hard to know what to do... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Godfather, Meet The Godfather

  

  image credit Even if you've never heard of Rocco Musacchia, if you're a fan of gangster films like Prizzi's Honor, Donnie Brasco, and Mickey Blue Eyes, you're... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, SOCIETY

• Abbott's Village Bakery - Free Range Bread Farm

  Abbott's Village Bakery raise their bread with only the tastiest ingredients, a delicious dusting of unique toppings and no artificial colours, flavours or... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 FOOD & DRINK

• The Pony Mixer

  

  is a generator in which you can customize Shetland ponies dancing to various music genres, such as rock, Bollywood, hip-hop, rave, punk, and funk. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Church That Looks Like A Chicken

  

  image credit Google Maps The Church by the Sea in Tampa Bay, Florida, has become an internet sensation after hundreds of people have flocked to see the face of ... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Live Consciously. Eat Deliciously.

  'Live Consciously. Eat Deliciously.' is a commercial by Panera Bread, a chain of bakery–cafĂŠ quick casual restaurants in the United States and Canada. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 FOOD & DRINK

• Inside San Francisco's Vintage Streetcar Boneyard

  

  image credit: Telstar Logistics cc The San Francisco Railway Marin Division Yard is home to San Francisco's derelict streetcar storage facility - a kind of... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 CULTURE

• 10 Wild Ways To Woo a Mate

  

  image credit: sankax cc Dating can be a tricky game. It's often difficult to know how to impress a potential partner without going over the top. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• US Doctors Cure Child Born With HIV

  

  image credit It's a potential game changer in the fight against HIV, and doctors say it happened almost by accident. A baby with the virus that causes AIDS was... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Tulous Of Fujian Province

  

  image credit: jijis cc Around the 12th century the people of the Fujian Province in China decided that their homes did not offer them sufficient protection in... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 TRAVEL

• The Cartographic Panorama

  

  image credit Heinrich Caesar Berann (1915 - 1999) the father of the modern panorama map, was born into a family of painters and sculptors in Innsbruck,... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 CULTURE

• The Science Of Sinkholes: What You Should Know

  

  image credit: Seattle Municipal Archives cc A Tampa, Florida, man died last Thursday when a sinkhole suddenly swallowed his entire bedroom and pulled it deep... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 SCIENCE

• De Schipper En De Brugwachter

  (the skipper and the bridge keeper) is a film by Marlijn Franken from the Netherlands. It's a double portrait of a barge skipper and a former bridge keeper... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 CULTURE

• Map Of Television Show Locations In America

  

  Graphic artist and physicist James Chapman has designed a detailed poster titled 'America:the home of television' which is a map of television show locations... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, TV & VIDEO

• Why Some People Get Zits And Others Don't

  Teenagers rejoice, zit bacteria aren't all bad. New research finds the microbes that cause the most common form of acne come in two flavors: the 'bad' variety... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 HEALTH

• 9 Unique Military Mobile Bridges

  

  image credit: Aktron cc Bridge layers have to be about the closest thing in the real world to a Transformer. Giant fold up, extendable instantly deployable... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• The Secret Door

  

  is a passageway to just about anywhere on Earth. Hosted by U.K. window and door replacement company Safe Style, The Secret Door shows the visitor a virtual... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM