What the Heck

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Labels: mistakes, science

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If you hold a balloon full of water over a flame, will it pop? Find out.

Labels: science, seemslikemagic

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Neil Clark, a museum curator, says that the famous Loch Ness monster was a swimming elephant. More

Labels: animals, isitreal

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"Georgia Brown, from Aldershot, Hampshire, astounded experts by scoring 152 in an IQ test - putting her in the top 2% of the population for her age." "She scored 152 points but I think she could have got more - she just got very tired. Concentrating for three-quarters-of-an-hour at that young age is amazing." More

Labels: brilliant, life, seemslikemagic

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An elementary school science teacher in this Chicago suburb doesn't have to turn on the news for an update on NASA's space mission. She just turns on her video baby monitor. Since Sunday, one of the two channels on Natalie Meilinger's baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis. The other still lets her keep an eye on her baby.  More

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Labels: celebs, movies, music

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"om Beshara credits a love of M. C. Escher's optical illusions as the inspiration behind his "pirolettes," small wooden statues in which two heads appear to face off nose to nose. Carved in maple, walnut, or cherry, the nine-inch-tall sculptures' strong graphic lines evoke mini Eames stools. But their real appeal is the hidden profile of a child's face revealed in the object's negative space." More

Labels: art, brilliant, design, nostalgia

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"Gosh, what is an ultrarunner to do with all the lost and blackened toenails from those 100-milers? Why, make a necklace, of course!" Disgusting

Labels: art, toomuchtimeonhands

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"An Italian doctor has reconstructed vaginas for two women born with a rare congenital deformation, using their own cells to build vaginal tissue in the lab for the first time." More

Labels: science, sex, women

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"A big, fat access point with a large antenna and a bunch of Wi-Fi cards that automatically connect to the strongest signals it can pick up. Then it would combine all these signals into one FreeLoading Broadband Canal for me to use."

Labels: isitreal, overkill, technology

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Labels: movies, music

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Labels: brilliant, design, isitreal

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Labels: isitreal, life, money

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