November 2011
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“if, for example, you were about to go under the knife and the surgeon let slip,...”
– Hugh Laurie
October 2011
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“The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go...”
– D’Angelo Barksdale, The Wire
September 2011
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Readventures →
July 2011
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Fourth moon discovered around Pluto →
Updated 18:10 20 July 2011 by David Shiga For similar stories, visit the Solar System Topic Guide The cosmos loves irony. Five years after Pluto was stripped of its planet status, astronomers have…
Newts able to regenerate body parts indefinitely →
16:00 12 July 2011 by Cian O’Luanaigh They are the phoenix of the ponds. Newts have a remarkable ability to regenerate body parts – in this case the lenses in their eyes – time and time again. Over…
The magic of 3D images at a fraction of the risk →
’’This is a big relief’’ … Jaimi Nuttall having the scan. Photo: Steven Siewert WHEN Jaimi Nuttall had her first full body scan - a stitched together X-ray of her bent spine - a number of…
June 2011
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Availability Heuristic →
Availability Heuristic Tversky and Kahneman (1973) proposed that when faced with the difficult task of judging probability or frequency, people use a limited number of strategies, called…
May 2011
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Why Skin Doesn't Dissolve in Water →
After taking a bath, skin gets wrinkly, but it doesn’t go away. Find out why.
THE GIST
When taking a shower or bath, our outer later of skin expands. This causes wrinkles and enlarges…
April 2011
2 posts
X-rays expose new species of stingrays in Amazon →
Ferris Jabr, reporter
(Image: Solent News / Rex Features)
Biologists recently fished out two new species of freshwater stingray from a river in the Amazon rainforest near…
March 2011
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Snacking snake →
(Image: Jeremy Holden)Locked in what appears to be an embrace, this ruby-eyed green pit viper (Cryptelytrops rubeus) is lunging for its next meal: a hapless tree frog. Rarely…
“When, in 1975, about 30 dams in central China failed in short succession due to...”
– Fossil Fuels Are Far Deadlier Than Nuclear Power
January 2011
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Guys: Danger signals on a date - Roger Ebert's... →
Guys: Danger signals on a date I had a date like this once. Hell, I was a date like this once.
December 2010
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Tawny Frogmouth Chicks →
Longtime ZooBorns readers (or book owners!) will be no strangers to the peculiarly wonderful balls of fluff that are baby Tawny Frogmouth chicks. This little bird was born at…
October 2010
4 posts
Magic at Uluru →
By Emma Sleath (Cross Media Reporter)
Australia’s iconic Uluru is barely recognisable in a series of photographs taken during torrential rain earlier…
Interesting Old Article by Penn Jillet →
http://web.archive.org/web/19961119143115/http://www.sincity.com/penn-n-teller/pcc/wingding.html
Bizarre sea slug is half plant, half animal →
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/pets-animals/stories/bizarre-sea-slug-is-half-plant-half-animal-0
Scientists discover chlorophyll-producing sea slug that can carry out photosynthesis using…
September 2010
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The Farewell Dossier →
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-farewell-dossier
In 1982, operatives from the USSR’s Committee for State Security– known internationally as the KGB– celebrated the procurement of a very…
August 2010
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Fractals promise higher-temperature... →
11 August 2010 by Anil Ananthaswamy Magazine issue 2773. Subscribe and save
SUPERCONDUCTORS could be made to work at higher temperatures than ever before, thanks to the…
July 2010
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Myth of the Brown Recluse Fact, Fear, and Loathing →
(http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2002/08/05/hlsa0805.htm)
Rick VetterDepartment of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA (http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html)
This website…
June 2010
3 posts
Why Some Countries Drive on the Right and Some... →
Today I found out why some countries drive on the right and some countries drive on the left. The origin of this varies based on the time period and country, but primarily throughout…
Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean... →
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/infographic-tallest-mountain-to-deepest-ocean-trench-0249/ Jun 7, 2010 1:14 PM ET By Karl Tate, OurAmazingPlanet
April 2010
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Minxy Cottonsocks and the evolution of dropgorgons... →
Category: mammalogyPosted on: April 1, 2010 4:18 AM, by Darren Naish
If anything should be clear from the range of creatures that I write about at Tet Zoo - think caecilians,
November 2009
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October 2009
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September 2009
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August 2009
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“There are no peers for new discoveries. To judge something a peer would have to...”
– (via Here)
July 2009
2 posts
“…it seems to most often develop in cats that have a one-on-one...”
– Cathleen Genova (via here)
“I wish I could drink like a lady; I can take one or two at the most; Three and...”
– Dorothy Parker
June 2009
4 posts
“I can’t believe it took six people to write that piece of shit! Moby Dick – one...”
– Anon (via this)
“If I spent several hundred thousand dollars on a technology trial at work...”
– Mark Newton (via This)
May 2009
3 posts
“I applaud his rejection of corsets, yet I despise his rejection of arms.”
– Alan Scherstuhl (via This)
“I’m not an academic. I just think it’s sometimes sad when I go to a gallery and...”
– Craig Schuftan (via This)
Vampires Could Not Exist →
April 2009
2 posts
“You assumed I wasn’t fucking with your head and that this hallway is...”
– Teller (via This)
“Lovecraft wasn’t insane he was just lonely… yeah, he kept dreaming...”
– Overheard conversation at a fabulous birthday party.
March 2009
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“The smaller of the black holes is about 20 million times the mass of our sun,...”
– Todd Borson (on the newly discovered twin supermassive black holes orbiting each other via This)
November 2008
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“It’s strange to have a creation out there - a deeply mutated version of...”
– Dexter Morgan
October 2008
2 posts
“Calligraphy is to angst what scones are to rave parties”
– (via This)
August 2008
2 posts
“Culture is to make a nice drinking bowl from one’s enemy’s skull....”
– Anon
“GQ is an aspirational book, you feel like you crashed a very civilized cocktail...”
– Art Cooper (via This)
May 2008
4 posts
Food Comparisons →
Can We Return Man to the Moon? →
How Do Painkillers Find & Kill Pain? →
April 2008
10 posts
Pyramids Filled with Fossils →