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Sea Creatures Could Hold Key To Looking Young 2 Oct 2012 | 05:06 pm
Sea Urchin/Ronjenje Hrvatska Sea cucumbers and sea urchins are able to change the elasticity of collagen within their bodies, and could hold the key to maintaining a youthful appearance, according to...
Apple Controls The World’s Largest Hedge Fund You’ve Never Heard Of 2 Oct 2012 | 12:44 pm
Presenting The World's Biggest Hedge Fund You Have Never Heard Of The world's largest hedge fund is not located in the top floor of some shiny, floor-to-ceiling glass clad skyscraper in New York, Lon...
Planetary Resources Now Hiring 'Asteroid Miner' Interns 2 Oct 2012 | 08:59 am
TMP Planetary Resources, the would-be asteroid mining company backed by notable billionaires including James Cameron and Google's co-founders, has posted its first official internship opening for "as...
How the Internet Will (One Day) Transform Government (VIDEO) 1 Oct 2012 | 11:29 pm
Youtube Clay Shirky is one of the most prominent and well-respected thinkers there is when it comes to the political impact of digital media. This summer, he gave a talk at the TEDGlobal conference i...
Packing for an Interstellar Space Voyage: What to Bring? 1 Oct 2012 | 06:47 pm
This model of the fictional starship Enterprise was used in the weekly hourlong “Star Trek” TV series that aired September 1966 to June 1969. CREDIT: National Air and Space Museum Contemplating the ...
Watch A German Prince Crash A Racing Lamborghini (VIDEO) 20 Aug 2012 | 09:02 pm
Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis isn't just a German aristocrat with a crazy name. He's also active in GT racing, having competed in the German GT Championship in both 2007 and 2008, the FIA GT3 Euro...
The Slowest Slo-Mo Ever Recorded (VIDEO) 20 Aug 2012 | 09:01 pm
“How does light look in slow motion?” asks Ramesh Raskar in this brief TED Talk, demonstrating his “femto-photography,” a slow motion technique that achieves one trillion frames per second. He proceed...
Global Arms Trade From 1992-2010 Visualized By Google 20 Aug 2012 | 06:14 pm
Google Google recently launched a project to map out the flow of small arms, light weapons and ammunition transfers in and out of countries around the world. The result: An interactive visualization ...
WATCH: Giant Panda Births Twins (VIDEO) 20 Aug 2012 | 05:07 pm
Giant Panda Births Twins at Wolong Giant Panda Wild Breeding Center A mother giant panda, named Sixue, gave birth to twin cubs, a male and female, at the Wolong Giant Panda Wild Breeding Center in so...
Permission to Sin: Why The 7 Deadlies Aren’t So Terrible After All 20 Aug 2012 | 04:09 pm
Image/Mental_Floss Scientists have found that the seven deadly sins aren’t all bad. Consider this your official permission to give in to temptation. 1. SLOTH Quit beating yourself up about your un...
