Mind Blown
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Floating Cube Optical Illusion

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Remarkable effect for such a simple trick.
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Your Word For The Day Is "Aneuploidy"

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Aneuploidy is the condition of having an abnormal number of chromosomes. One of the more common types of aneuploidy is Klinefelter's s...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Stuffed, Mounted Griffin, Anyone?

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Sarina Brewer is a taxidermist who makes fantastic creatures from mythology, and this is her website . Brewer is a devoted wildlife...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

77,000 Years Ago, Humanity Was Almost Wiped Out By A Volcano

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What you see here is Lake Toba, a donut-shaped lake which now fills the crater left in Sumatra, Indonesia, when a supervolcanic eruptio...
Friday, June 8, 2012

Reality TV Is Edited To Show Anything But Reality

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Two YouTube videos which explain the sudden explosion of "reality" TV shows, and why they have nothing to do with reality. ...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

The Eye of Nature

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Here's looking at you kid.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The Tiniest Act of Real Estate Defiance

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The concept of real estate, approximately 10,000 years old, tends to bring out the pettiest stubbornness in people, almost raised...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Four Rhymes For Supposedly Rhyme-Less Words

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Purple - curple : "The hindquarters or the rump of a horse, a strap under the girth of a horse's saddle to stop the saddle from ki...
Monday, June 4, 2012

The Woman Who Was Arrested Because Of A Teddy Bear's Name

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If you're ever in Sudan and you're in a spot where you are forced - through an unfathomable chain of circumstances exte...
Saturday, June 2, 2012

One amazingly good juggler

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I've never seen somebody do it with glowing props before. That really adds something.
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Where the world turns psychedelic...

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One might wonder, upon visiting the various locations of Danxia in China , if this is the part where God dropped acid. The vari...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Five Weird Methods Of Fortune-Telling

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Tyromancy - Divining the future by examining how curds form during the process of curing a cheese. Stichomancy - Divining the future ...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Eight Artifact Designs That No Longer Serve A Purpose

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You never notice them until someone points them out. Because they've always been that way. But once you know about them, you can't ...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

A Turing Machine Made From Model Trains

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From Turing Train Terminal . In the schematics section, they detail how the system can perform up to six binary calculations. I couldn...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

In 1966, the world's richest private citizen was Jean Paul Getty, at a mere $1.2 billion

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Proof of the declining value of currency, more prosperous times for all, or of more uneven income distribution? In 1966, the Guinness World...
Friday, May 25, 2012

The day break-dancers performed for the Pope

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In 2004, Pope John Paul II was entertained by a very modern and urban performance: break-dancers in the Vatican! He seemed to e...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Simpsons Fans, Your Day Has Arrived

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Somebody else thought of a live-action Simpsons show first, so that I would not have to. Thank you!
Saturday, May 19, 2012

The fascinating story of "Parked Domain Girl"

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You've seen her a dozen times, often enough that her face jars your memory and yet you're never able to quite place the reference. ...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Fingernail Clippings Turned Into Patriotic Art

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This guy is selling his fingernail clippings on an attractive American flag design for $1776. You have to like an artist who put...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

We once trusted our kids with radioactive kits - for science!

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The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory was a toy kit sold for one brief year in 1950, by Alfred Carlton Gilbert, who also invented the ...
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