Wednesday, February 22, 2012

When Charles Dickens fell out with America





A Collection of Incredible Matchstick Art

After the Super Bowl, Everyone’s Curious About Slacklining

Incredible World of Communication Satellites (Infographic)

How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

Little girl’s cyclops cosplay is adorable and/or horrifying

Canadian government is 'muzzling its scientists'

Turn water into 4 different deadly weapons, using just pencils and a battery

98-Year-Old's Birthday Surprise: Eviction Notice From Her Son

When Charles Dickens fell out with America

Leap Year: The Facts, Figures and Far-out Families [INFOGRAPHIC] (via)

Vintage Bodybuilding Ads of Yesteryear

BASE Jumping from the Top of Shanghai's Jin Mao Tower

Dead for 32,000 Years, an Arctic Plant Is Revived

A New Way to Visualize Earth

The science of rubbernecking

Why Are Unidentified People Called John or Jane Doe?

Asus Warranty Doesn’t Cover Damages In Case of Alien Invasion





Keyboard Pants So You Can Dance (And Still Type, Browse, etc.)

Next version of OS X to be more iOS-like than ever with Mountain Lion

Facebook hacker sentenced to 8 months jail time

Feds seize $50 million in Megaupload assets, lodge new charges

Pirate Bay: The RIAA Is Delusional and Must Be Stopped

RIAA: The Pirate Bay is The Worst of The Worst

Tweeting a War: How One Journalist Is Using Twitter in Afghanistan

Attention RIAA - This is why we pirate - The Oatmeal

Sorry, Pinterest Users: Websites Can Now Block Pinning [VIDEO]

The Pirate Bay faces UK ban after High Court ruling

Facebook, the Timeline, and the difference between consuming and creating

Are search engine result figures accurate?

War of the cyber worm: the most destructive attack on the internet

OpenStreetMap: 'It's the Wikipedia of maps'

Wii U: The Launch Potential

Google caught skirting Safari privacy settings

Microsoft Says Google Secretly Planted Cookies in Internet Explorer Too

Good news for Google: Nevada approves self-driving car regulations

A traffic accident, men in masks and a naked woman: The split second moments Google Street View cars never meant to capture

Asus Warranty Doesn’t Cover Damages In Case of Alien Invasion

Gaming's Most Ridiculous Crossovers

Target’s not honoring its “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” for Vita games, but Best Buy is [update]

How Were You Born?






Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Astronaut feels space's toll on his body






Hubble Telescope Spies Milky Way Galaxy's Twin

Mission to land on a comet

"Most Amazing Earth Image" From the Other Side

Signs of Ancient Ocean on Mars Spotted by European Spacecraft

Mars 'Super-Drought' May Make Red Planet Too Dry for Alien Life

Opinion: Is returning to the moon really such a crackpot idea?

"A Cloud of Hundreds of Trillions of Asteroids and Comets Surrounds the Milky Way's Black Hole"

Astronaut feels space's toll on his body

Two Earth-Size Planets Born of Battered "Jupiter"?

50 million years ago, this boulder rolled across the moon’s surface

NASA Eyes Plan for Deep-Space Outpost Near the Moon

Phantom Black Holes of the Milky Way --Could They Pose a Danger to Our Solar System?

NASA: "The Conditions for the Emergence of Life were Present on Mars — Period, End of Story"

Putting the squeeze on planets outside our solar system

Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records

Rare Earth element tellurium detected for the first time in ancient stars

This Is the Center of the Universe: NASA’s Deep-Space Command Central

Suicide Rates from Around the World






Suicide Rates from Around the World [Infographic]

Umpire strikes back to kill spectator

Woman declared dead, 'wakes up' before funeral

Do the dead outnumber the living?

Gamer found dead in internet cafe nine hours later

Terminally ill prof teaches end-of-life lessons

‘Mommy’s in the trunk’: Sons of missing woman gave chilling account of her disappearance before father killed them in gas blast

Body in Sydney tree identified as young US nanny

John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74

Here's Why Drivers Get Away With Murder In NYC

15 people who died doing what they loved most

Burned alive in their cells: Hundreds died because guards couldn't find the keys as bodies fused to ceiling reveal full horror of Honduras jail blaze that killed 350

Man lies dead for three years before discovery

Tragedy of dead body on the bus

Squirrel Mask






Monday, February 20, 2012

The Invisible War of Military Women






WWI film to tell how Irish soldier spent four years in cupboard

MoD deny wounded Army troops are facing redundancy as 'leaked memo' detailing lay-offs is rubbished

Facebook News Feed History of the World: World War I to World War II

5 Soldiers Who Kicked Ass In the Face of Death (and Logic)

5 Screw-Ups on the Battlefield That Accidentally Won the War

Nuclear Testing Images


Ka-Boom
Atomic Postcards


The Invisible War of Military Women

Last surviving veteran of First World War dies aged 110

Hitler had son with French teen

Miss Atomic Bomb: the A-Bomb in Popular Culture

The Ghosts of World War II's Past (20 photos)

Doctors to remove parasitic twin found in Peruvian toddler's stomach






Mummy Pictures: Secrets of Stunning 19th-Century Heads Revealed

The snake bite that can reverse the effects of puberty (if you manage to survive it)

Vitals - Microwave popcorn bag chemicals ruin vaccine efficacy

Soon, You May Download New Skills to Your Brain

Fetal Armor: How the Placenta Shapes Brain Development

Doctors to remove parasitic twin found in Peruvian toddler's stomach

Scientists call for curbs on own research on deadly bird flu virus

It's Not Solitaire: Brain Activity Differs When One Plays Against Others

Touring the Hospital of Tomorrow

Is Angry Birds Keeping Your Brain Healthy? [STUDY]

Newborn becomes world's youngest to have heart surgery

Canadian-made HIV vaccine approved for human testing

Hospital to display selection of objects removed from patients bodies

In the 1940s, US doctors deliberately infected thousands of Guatemalans with venereal diseases. The wound is still raw.

Cancer drug reverses Alzheimer's in mice: study

Timeline of the Ancient Origins of Plastic Surgery

From Text Neck to Hogwarts Headache: 6 Injuries for the Modern Era

The Miraculous NASA Breakthrough That Could Save Millions of Lives

New device hacks into blind people’s visual cortex to let them "see"

Malaria deaths drop, but disease may be more lethal than we thought

DNA robot could kill cancer cells

How Mitochondrial DNA Defects Cause Inherited Deafness

'Cancer-causing' chemical used in plastics and food containers can also lead to obesity and diabetes, says study

The Worst Shoes for Your Feet

Can’t get enough sleep? You could be at risk for Alzheimer’s

Alpha Monkey Attack