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Best Science Images of 2008 Posted: 1 day ago by 2manyusernames
First Place, Photography: "The Glass Forest"
Tiny green diatoms create the illusion of a fernlike forest as they attach to their marine-invertebrate hosts.
more at link
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There's a sucker born every minute - sometimes every second. Posted: 2 days ago by bernardblack
Photos from French fashion designer Pierre Cardin presentation of his entire Spring-Summer 2009 and Autumn-Winter 2009 collections. Why?
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The Mystery of the Damascus Sword - Solved Posted: 2 days ago by hmtksteve
Nor only were Damascus swords sharp and beautiful, they were also objects of mystery. The best European bladesmiths from the Middle Ages on up weren't able to make them, even though they carefully studied examples of blades made in the East. Damascus blades became even more mysterious when the art of making them actually died out. The last Damascus swords were made in the early 1800s.
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£150 fine... for staying too long at the KFC Posted: 6 days ago by AutumnLotus
Fast food fan Natalie Jackson was hit with a £150 fine at KFC — for staying too long gorging on a monster-sized “family bucket”.
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Baby Watermelon! Posted: 1 week ago by maven
Want!
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Speech Accent Archive Posted: 2 weeks ago by 2manyusernames
The speech accent archive currently has 976 samples of speech from around the globe. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph. Great for people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.
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Clickjacking: Researchers raise alert for scary new cross-browser exploit Posted: 2 weeks ago by 2manyusernames
A scary new browser exploit/threat affecting all the major desktop platforms has been discovered. Details are slim while a fix is being readied, but basically a website can force you to click on a link without you actually doing so.
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Nail salon lets hundreds of tiny toothless fish do all the work Posted: 2 weeks ago by arsphidius
Article says this is the first salon in the Northwest to do this. I've never heard of it before. Is this more common in other parts of the country?
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Primitive fish had fingers Posted: 2 weeks ago by suebe
Does this mean we evolved from fish?
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Safest Way To Clean Your Monitor Posted: 2 weeks ago by suckersklub
Works for both LCD and CRT.
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Video shows shocking farm cruelty to pigs Posted: 3 weeks ago by AutumnLotus
Undercover animal activists have filmed horrific scenes of cruelty to farm pigs. The incidents include workers slamming piglets on floors and leaving them still wriggling to die, beating animals to death with metal rods and inserting rods into sows' hindquarters.
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Satan worshippers kill and eat four Russian teenagers after stabbing each of them 666 times Posted: 3 weeks ago by kissmenow
The three girls and one boy, all described as Goths and aged 16 and 17, were allegedly forced to drink alcohol by the gang before they were attacked.
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Crazy song Posted: 3 weeks ago by Bornbad
Beepy, Fun, Cute - with flipflops.
This was great when it was just a little girl making faces. And then all of a sudden it became sublime.
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Woman faces charge after dishwashing dispute Posted: 3 weeks ago by Bornbad
After she bit her boyfriend, broke a picture frame across his face and swung at him with a sword during an argument about him not doing the dishes.
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This is the start of toilet paper wars! Posted: 3 weeks ago by Bornbad
If two-ply toilet paper is good, then three-ply tissue must be better.
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The Internet says No. Posted: 3 weeks ago by suckersklub
Disagreement in its purest form.
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Stealth Cat Posted: 3 weeks ago by DaftGretel
By the time you notice him, it'll be too late.
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25 sizzling hot bacon inspired must haves for the fall Posted: 4 weeks ago by Bornbad
Collecting together every bacon project on the
web into some kind of ham-inspired baconpedia.
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Sword pieces found on island Posted: 4 weeks ago by AutumnLotus
Fragments of a Viking sword have been found on the Isle of Man, in what archaeologists are calling a "significant" discovery.
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Creature Survives Naked in Space Posted: 4 weeks ago by Bornbad
The water bears, known formally as tardigrades, have an ability similar to brine shrimp (also known as Sea Monkeys), which are familiar to many children for their ability to come to life after being sent to homes by mail-order.
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R.I.P. - World's oldest dog passes away Posted: 4 weeks ago by suebe
...Bella, a Labrador cross, was 29 years old.
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Cats in China grow wings--AGAIN-dupe Posted: 1 month ago by suebe
Research states winged cats have been known to exist since 19th century but only a few people have actually seen them. So far there is no report of the little kitty taking flight.
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'Rare' mammoth skull discovered Posted: 1 month ago by AutumnLotus
The "extremely rare" fossilised skull of a steppe mammoth has been unearthed in southern France.
The discovery in the Auvergne region could shed much needed light on the evolution of these mighty beasts.
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Iowa man accused of offering bribe with sandwich Posted: 1 month ago by AutumnLotus
How can he not know that cops like doughnuts?
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Marriage problems? Husband's genes may be to blame Posted: 1 month ago by AutumnLotus
The same gene that affects a rodent's ability to mate for life may affect human marriages. Men carrying a common variation of a gene involved in brain signaling were more likely to be in unhappy marriages than men with the other version.
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