We’d like to think that this Chinese sunglass maker who’s using Helen Keller to hawk its shades is a simple case of lost in translation. But we’re finding it hard to believe that even the crudest of translators wouldn’t pick up on the fact that she was completely blind. Even if the designer behind these […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Maybe it’s because of Breaking Bad, but lately I’m fascinated by chemistry. I wish I had a teacher as cool as Michigan State University professor Peter Hunter when I was in high school. Watch him demonstrate these amazing reactions on video.
The Claude glass was an early pocket lens, sans camera, that 18th century men and women would hold aloft to regard the scene over their shoulder.
The Star Wars franchise is one that does not seem to be able to die down – not in this generation, and definitely not in the next generation, either. In fact, it looks set to be entrenched as one of the pop cultural phenomenons in the world, and there are definitely more than a thousand […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When Tiger Woods was working on a new swing, it did affect his game somewhat, but when he managed to master it, he zoomed in on most of the titles that were there for the taking, and this was before the entire personal life of his came crumbling down. Still, it goes to show just […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Is the guided missile launcher of yours taking up too much space in your home? No worries! Turns out, you don’t even need to recycle it. Hosuton PD and the ATF were summoned to the Kingwood neighborhood in Houston after residents discovered a rocket launcher set out with the curbside trash.
Grooveshark is getting it from all angles. Not only did its only major label deal (with EMI) collapse, but the company is now being sued by all four major labels for large-scale copyright infringement due to its policy of letting users upload music into its system, where over 30 million people stream it for free […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A mysterious illness that begins as a high fever with little appetite and spreads to a rash on the hands and feet is responsible for the loss of 17 lives, so far, in an impoverished Vietnamese district. 171 others have also been sickened but have been able to recover with proper and timely medical care.
This beautiful floating object isn’t quite a kite or balloon, but rather a flying demonstration of a completely new method of moving through the air. As opposed to rotational or linear propulsion, this floating band moves through the air by inversion-driven propulsion. Basically, it turns itself inside out to generate thrust.
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