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• 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 18 January 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• iPotty: Toilet Training... Now With Added iPad

  

  It's an unspoken truth of gadgets that some people use their smartphone or even tablet computer while in the bathroom. Now even toddlers who are yet to master... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 FAMILY, TECH

• Incredible Frozen Waterfalls Around The World

  

  image credit: M贸rka cc Believe it or not, running waterfalls can actually freeze and when they do they form weird and wonderful shapes. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Five Of The World's Most Mystifying Ghost Towns

  

  image credit: TwoWings cc Five of the World's Most Mystifying Ghost Towns. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Piano And Violin House

  

  image credit: Reza Ahmeds cc This unusual piano and violin-shaped building built in 2007 serves as a showroom for exhibiting the plans for a newly created... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Nokomi

  Follow Nokomi, a litte Inuit girl with an unusual friend. Nokomi is an ESMA movie by Caroline Collinot, AurĂŠlie Deconinck, Guillaume Ferrachat and RĂŠmi... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 CULTURE

• Dutch Architect To Build 'Endless' House With 3D Printer

  

  Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars from Universe Architecture in Amsterdam designed a one-piece building which will be built on a 3D printer. He hopes the... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Warp Speed: What Hyperspace Would Really Look Like

  

  image credit: lufcwls cc The science fiction vision of stars flashing by as streaks when spaceships travel faster than light isn't what the scene would... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 SCIENCE

• Google Doodle Celebrates Frank Zamboni's Birthday

  

  Google created a doodle to honor Frank Zamboni's 112th birthday. Frank Zamboni (1901 - 1988) was an American inventor who developed the Zamboni, an ice... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Behind Minnehaha's Frozen Falls

  

  image credit: akahodag cc Minnehaha Creek in Minnesota would be just another creek, if it was not for the beautiful fifty foot waterfall that just happened to... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Tea Or Coffee? Or Tea Made From Coffee?

  

  image credit: Midori cc Can I get you a tea? Or would you prefer coffee? How about tea made from coffee? Researchers claim they have discovered the ultimate bre... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Banpo Moonlight Rainbow Fountain

  The Banpo Moonlight Rainbow Fountain in Seoul, South Korea, is the world's longest bridge fountain with nearly 10,000 LED nozzles that run along both sides of... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Poetry Generator: The N+7 Procedure

  The N+7 procedure, invented by Jean Lescure of Oulipo (Ouvroir de LittĂŠrature Potentielle: Workshop of Potential Literature), involves replacing each noun in... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Snowball Fights In Medieval Art

  

  image credit: Book of Hours Just as today, people in the Middle Ages enjoyed the excitement of a snowball fight. (thanks Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The ABC Of Architects

  This video is an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known building. <br /> webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 8 Unique Waterfalls From Around The World

  

  image credit: Teosaurio cc A waterfall is a place where water flows over a vertical drop in the course of a stream or river. Waterfalls also occur where... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Creepy Robot Can Hold Conversations And Answer Questions

  Jules is a Conversational Character Robot designed and built by David Hanson. Jules is made with a material called 'Frubber' which enables his face to be... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 SCIENCE, TECH

• The Shortest Commercial Flight In The World

  

  image credit Google Earth Loganair, a Scottish airline company, takes you from Westray to Papa Westray (two Orkney Islands just north of Scotland) on the... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The 1965 Dodge Deora Concept Car

  

  The Dodge Deora is a 1965 Dodge A100 pickup truck that was heavily customized by Mike and Larry Alexander for the Detroit Autorama. The back hatch of a 1960 For... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Pacific Barreleye Fish

  

  image credit: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute cc The Pacific Barreleye fish - Macropinna microstoma - is the only species of fish in the genus... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT