What the Heck

Labels: animals, art, nature

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"... if you're a woman in any service-industry job looking to maximize your tips, [researchers] suggest scheduling more shifts for the phase right before ovulation" More

Labels: animals, life, money, nature, seemslikemagic, sex, women

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"Winter is not the right time of year for outdoot nudism, at least not at Swedish latitudes. But these creations in lovely pig pink might make the time until summer seem shorter." More

Labels: life, nature, sex, toomuchtimeonhands

Posted by Steve at 10:12 PM | Permalink | Comments

Say you start learning something new on Monday and go home and get a good night's sleep. When you return on Tuesday, your performance will be better than when you left off on Monday. Without any more lessons! How is this possible? Sleep! More

Labels: isitreal, life, nature, seemslikemagic

Posted by Steve at 9:05 PM | Permalink | Comments

"Welcome Home, Pioneer" is an installation created for the "Mechanosphere" show at the Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery in Pittsburgh, ... all » PA. A tumbleweed rolls on black canvas stretched over a gimbal mounted frame. More

Labels: art, nature

Posted by Steve at 9:23 PM | Permalink | Comments

"Japanese researchers said on Sunday they had grown normal-looking teeth from single cells in lab dishes, and transplanted them into mice. They used primitive cells, not quite as early as stem cells, and injected them into a framework of collagen, the material that holds the body together. After growing them, they found their structures had matured into the components that make teeth, including dentin, enamel, dental pulp, blood vessels, and periodontal ligaments." Link

Labels: life, nature, science

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"Villagers in southwestern China are scratching their heads over the county government's decision to paint an entire barren mountainside green. Workers who began spraying Laoshou mountain last August told villagers they were doing so on orders of the county government but were not told why, media reports said Wednesday." Link

Labels: art, nature, toomuchtimeonhands

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This video montage and song is what you get when your audio gets screwed up.

Labels: animals, music, nature, toomuchtimeonhands

Posted by Steve at 9:49 PM | Permalink | Comments

"The tiny woman dubbed the Hobbit who lived 18,000 years ago on a remote Indonesian island deserves to be deemed a new human species and not a deformed modern human as skeptics assert, researchers said on Monday." Link

Labels: nature, science

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