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 -> The longest running experiment
Now in its 85th year.
279 views | 07 Feb 2012
 -> When we were your age..
...we were allowed to fall.
56 views | 22 Jan 2012
 -> "It's a Girl"
The three deadliest words in the world.
30 views | 22 Jan 2012
 -> Biggest Bus in the world (in China, where else)
Megacities need mega buses.
41 views | 17 Jan 2012
 -> US$ 1 Million Roll Royce for China
Special edition. Targeted at the new millionaires.
50 views | 12 Jan 2012
 -> Stop the "SOPA" nonsense
A pathetic and mistaken endeavor by the fearful.
216 views | 11 Jan 2012
 -> Do you have the "mermaid spirit"?
To be freed from it, you might have to be in Texas.
263 views | 08 Jan 2012
 -> Name of the week
What were the parents thinking?
108 views | 06 Jan 2012
 -> Pentagon-backed ’time cloak’ makes event undetectable
Adds to experimental work in creating next-generation camouflage - a so-called invisibility cloak in which specific colours cannot be perceived by the human eye.
144 views | 05 Jan 2012
 -> Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget
So there's the thing we know best: The common and annoying experience of arriving somewhere only to realize you've forgotten what you went there to do. We all know why such forgetting happens: we didn’t pay enough attention, or too much time passed, or it just wasn’t important enough. But a “completely different” idea comes from a team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame. The first part of their paper’s title sums it up: “Walking through doorways causes forgetting.”
65 views | 29 Dec 2011
 -> Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?
"Americans in 1776 did have British accents in that American accents and British accents hadn’t yet diverged. That’s not too surprising. What’s surprising, though, is that those accents were much closer to today’s American accents than to today’s British accents. While both have changed over time, it’s actually British accents that have changed much more drastically since then."
137 views | 29 Dec 2011
 -> An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry
When Arunachalam Muruganantham decided he was going to do something about the fact that women in India can't afford sanitary napkins, he went the extra mile: He wore his own for a week to figure out the best design.
113 views | 19 Dec 2011
 -> Neutrinos (still) faster than light
Physics world scratching its head as Einstein's theory may have a hole after all.
189 views | 15 Dec 2011
 -> How not to national funding
Japan uses $28.5 million from its global disaster donations...for whaling!
185 views | 09 Dec 2011
 -> A Newspaper For The Twitter Age
The Size Of A Sales Receipt, And Edited By You.
257 views | 30 Nov 2011
 -> So, on this tombstone...
...a simple statement :)
183 views | 28 Nov 2011
 -> Nano Houses
Smaller than your living room, but cosy!
1,143 views | 11 Nov 2011
 -> Genki Sudo
Most painstaking video of 2011?
2,423 views | 06 Nov 2011
 -> A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
What a beautiful piece.
3,174 views | 31 Oct 2011
 -> Building collapse in Shanghai
Most building crumble. In China, well, they fall.
5,545 views | 22 Oct 2011
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