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Koalas may go extinct in 30 years Posted: 1 week ago by bingo
The Australian Koala Foundation reported this week that koala populations are declining because we humans continue to invade their habitats. Wildfires and global warming aren't helping, either. ...
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Hitler was ‘German football coach’..? Posted: 2 weeks ago by bingo
One in 20 UK schoolchildren think the Fuhrer was a sportsman, while one in six youngsters said they thought Auschwitz was a Second World War theme park.
Scottish-based veterans charity Erskine, said it would now take part in a nationwide scheme to educate schoolchildren about the two world conflicts.
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Ever felt crushing pressure on your chest at night? Posted: 2 weeks ago by bingo
The most likely cause would be sleep paralysis.
For two University of Nevada students the cause was a car that pinned them to their bed for close to an hour driven into their bedroom at 4:00am by someone with anger-management issues who targeted the wrong house.
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6-Year-Old Girl with Brain Cancer Hid Notes for Her Parents to Find After Her Death Posted: 2 weeks ago by bingo
When 6-year-old Elena Desserich was diagnosed with brain cancer, she began hiding hundreds of little love notes around the house for her parents to find after she was gone.
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The Official Shotgun Rules Posted: 2 weeks ago by bingo
"Shotgun" is the front passenger seat of an automobile. You must loudly say the word “Shotgun” to stake your claim on it. After you have called it, you have exclusive rights for that ride.
But that’s just the beginning! There are many more rules to learn, such as the importance of having your shoes on when you yell “Shotgun!” and other crucial rules.
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7-Eleven Wine Posted: 2 weeks ago by bingo
These days, it seems like everybody and their uncle are making their own wines. Even 7-Eleven (yes, that 7-Eleven).
And, whoa, Yosemite Road is quite the bargain. Both the Chardonnay and a Cabernet Sauvignon will sell for $3.99 a bottle. Who needs a Trader Joe’s, anyway?
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Peacock Spider Posted: 2 weeks ago by bingo
Peacock Spider
This is a kind of jumping spider, and it’s only about 5mm in size. The males have a colorful pattern on flaps that extend from their abdomen during breeding/mating. In addition to this, they raise their back pair of legs and dance from side to side to win over their plain brown females.
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We Learn Our Language in the Womb Posted: 2 weeks ago by bingo
No wonder learning a new language can be more difficult the older you get. We were learning our individual languages before we were even born.
It seems that fetuses not only warm to the sound of mother’s voice as they gestate, they also are being programmed in the direct patterns inherent in certain languages. By the time we are born, our dialect is determined.
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Holocaust Hero Chiune Sugihara Posted: 2 weeks ago by bingo
Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara was in Lithuania when Germany invaded Poland. Jewish refugees came to the consulate seeking travel documents in order to escape the Nazis. Sugihara’s superiors ordered him not to issue any travel visas.
Sugihara’s next actions enabled around 6,000 Jewish refugees to escape the Holocaust. For his efforts, Sugihara was imprisoned by the Soviets and fired from his job.
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Scheming Homeless, Parking Mafia, and Pink Tutued Meter Fairy.... Posted: 2 weeks ago by bingo
....Just Another Day in Miami's Parking Hell.
One thing I like about the ‘burbs is not having to fight for cheap parking or pay through the nose for expensive spots. Not so for people in Miami. Apparently, the scarcity of parking there has created much violence, a cottage industry involving the homeless, parking mafia and even a "magical meter fairy."
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tetris Posted: 2 weeks ago by bingo
Swedish photographer Erik created this image of what Tetris would look like in real life.
more stuff in link
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The Medicated Child Posted: 3 weeks ago by bingo
Six million American children are taking psychiatric drugs, but most have never been tested on children. Is this good medicine-or an uncontrolled experiment?
(Also a special on PBS tomorrow)
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Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions Posted: 3 weeks ago by bingo
Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.
No one seems to think this is a good idea
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Veterans return to Iraq – virtually... Posted: 3 weeks ago by bingo
...Computer simulations could help soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder.
"They experience the sights, sounds, smells and vibrations of their original experience. It is a way of overcoming a natural difficulty in using their own imagination during the therapeutic process."
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Why the Nasca's big mistake was to cut down the huarango tree Posted: 3 weeks ago by bingo
For more than eight centuries, the Nasca culture prospered in the coastal valleys of Peru until its sudden downfall around 600 AD.
A team of archaeologists has now found convincing evidence the decline was self-inflicted and began with the cutting down of a tree that could have protected them from devastating climate change.
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The Sausage Murder Mystery Posted: 3 weeks ago by bingo
What happens when two genres meet each other somewhere in a sausage plant in Chicago? I'm talking about a true crime story and a true ghost story. Adolph Louis Luetgert wanted to get rid of his wife, and since he had this Sausage & Packing Company.... but his wife came back.
Though he still insisted to be innocent of her murder, his dead wife was haunting him and seeking her revenge, he said.
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Newly-discovered prehistoric spider's web is world's oldest Posted: 3 weeks ago by bingo
The world's oldest spider web was found by an amateur fossil hunter. The 1 millimeter threads of web, similar to those woven by orb spiders today, were encased in amber, and are around 140 million years old.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 216 [+].
7th-Grader says Most US Presidents Related Posted: 3 weeks ago by bingo
A seventh-grader and her 80-year-old grandfather are allegedly the first people to discover that President Barack Obama is related to all other U.S. presidents except one.
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Stormtroopres Posted: 3 weeks ago by bingo
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The History of Daylight Saving Time in the US Posted: 3 weeks ago by bingo
Daylight Saving Time ends in most of the United States a 2AM on Sunday, November 1st (Hawaii and Arizona have been on standard time all summer). It makes you wonder how we ever got our clocks coordinated in the first place. Believe it or not, standard time and time zones were the railroad industry’s idea.
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Cell Size and Scale Posted: 3 weeks ago by bingo
Click on the link and then use the slider bar.
Pretty neat!
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New Dinosaur Built Like a Sherman Tank Posted: 3 weeks ago by bingo
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of armored dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago in what is now Montana.
Now called Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, dinosaurs that resembled nature's armored tanks as they walked about on four limbs and their bodies were covered with bony armor.
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Dennis Hopper Has Prostate Cancer Posted: 3 weeks ago by bingo
Dennis Hopper has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is canceling all travel plans to focus on treatment, his manager said Thursday.
The 73-year-old actor and artist is being treated through a "special program" at the University of Southern California
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2010 calendars: nude, charity and bizarre calendars available for next year Posted: 4 weeks ago by bingo
2010 calendars: nude, charity and bizarre calendars available for next year.
Some odd ones.
Some borderline NSFW
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Jon Gosselin And Octomom Set To Date On Reality Show Posted: 4 weeks ago by bingo
Jon Gosselin from Jon and Kate plus Eight and Nadya Suleman, the Octomom?!
Someone tell me this is just a cruel, very unfunny joke!
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