An Australian woman who spent more than 60 years in an iron lung to treat polio has died at the age of 83. June Middleton entered the Guinness World Book of Records in 2006 as the person who has spent the longest time in an iron lung. An American woman hs also been in an irong lung for 60 years. picked by suebe 4 weeks ago

Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from the body. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

New scientific evidence suggests that deep inside the planet Mercury, iron “snow” forms and falls toward the center of the planet, much like snowflakes form in Earth’s atmosphere and fall to the ground. The movement of this iron snow could be responsible for Mercury’s mysterious magnetic field. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy superhero fans a part in the next Iron Man movie - if you have a spare $20,000. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

A 2,000-year-old mine has been discovered high in mountains in Peru. The find offers proof that an ancient people in the Andes mined hematite iron ore centuries before the Inca Empire, archaeologists say. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

this beetle's been pimped out with wrought iron picked by Rogue 3 years ago

Geologists at the University of Illinois have confirmed the discovery of Earth’s inner, innermost core, and have created a three-dimensional model that describes the seismic anisotropy and texturing of iron crystals within the inner core. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Archeologists have discovered an iron age relic that bears a striking resemblance to our modern day cartoon rodent. picked by BrownTrout 2 years ago

Robert Downey Jr. signed to star in film adaptation of Marvel comic. Ozzy Osbourne available for comment, but unintelligible. picked by Wingnut 3 years ago

Polio victim spent nearly 60 years in the 750-pound machine. picked by cb__ 2 years ago

Thoughts from the first generation after the fall of the Iron Curtain. picked by Bornbad 3 months ago

Ilyas Ahmed, the artist who creates art from discarded nuts, bolts, springs, vehicle spare parts and domestic waste is giving the final touches to the arrangement before his first ever solo show in Bangalore Chitrakala Parishat. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Abstinence-only coolness for girls. See also Sex is for Fags...what the cool dudes do instead of being lame and queer and having sex. picked by Ellz 2 years ago

... one evening in 1907 at the National Sporting Club in London, Morgan and Lonsdale were arguing whether a man could walk around the world without being identified. Bensley, a notorious "playboy" and womaniser with a substantial private income, overheard the conversation and offered to test the proposition on their behalf...
(the rules of the wager are in the comments.) picked by Bingo 5 months ago

In a hilly island city like Hong Kong, living space is limited. Here you only see the laboriously constructed huts made of corrugated iron and planks of wood in which the poorest of the poor live if you look upwards – they occupy, to put it in cynical terms, a penthouse location. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

He apparently got confused and thought he was signing on to play with some super heroin. picked by afeldman 3 years ago

The food, called tempe, is moreover a whole-grain product with high folate content. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Marvel Entertainment has released its Q3 2006 Earnings which includes an updated list of upcoming projects for Marvel Studios. picked by icepigs 3 years ago

It seems life can take hold just about anywhere. Case in point a iron rich salty lake 1300 feet beneath Antarctica's ice. It is so iron rich that the water rusts and turns red, staining the glacier. Stuck with no sunlight or other energy sources bacteria has thrived for over a million years by using energy from the minerals reaction with each other. picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago

A group of 72 scuba divers have ironed their way to a Guinness World Record for the most people ironing underwater at the same time. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago