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Airplane Wing Timelapse

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, March 6th, 2009 at 7:46 pm

“James Leng worked as an architect in the Netherlands for the past year. On my night time flight back to San Francisco from Amsterdam, he noticed that the lights from cities were making the clouds glow.

“Really spectacular and ethereal, it showed the impact of urban environments from a different perspective. Each glow or squiggle represents one town or city.”


Category: Awesome, Science, SloMo/Timelapse	No Comments »

Super Toilet

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 10:00 pm

This is cool, but I really don’t want to meet someone who needs a toilet that can take 20 golf balls or 3.5 pounds of dog food in a single flush.


Category: Awesome, Commercials, Science	1 Comment »

Robot in sombrero pulls rickshaw

Posted by Tim Reese on Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

This video has shaken my long-held belief that Jetpacks are the future of transportation…China’s Wu Yulu is the next Henry Ford.


Category: Fail, Science, WTF	No Comments »

10,000,000 Jellyfish

Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 pm

Weird!!! An inland lake in Palau is home to ten million jellyfish, who were separated from their sea-dwelling kin when the oceans receded, and have evolved in isolation ever since. They have few natural predators, and lost the capability to sting (along with many other unique adaptations). (Read more about them here.)


Category: Animals, Science	No Comments »

Old VCR = $$$

Posted by Josh Hassara on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 2:33 pm

Have an old VCR that’s just sitting around unused? Did you know there are all kinds of valuable parts inside? Turn your old VCR into $$$!


Category: How-To/Educational, Science, WTF	No Comments »

What Facebook is for

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

This pretty much sums it up.


Category: Animation, Comedy, Creepy, Geek, Science	No Comments »

Salar de Uyuni Salt Flats: The 4085 Square Mile Natural Mirror

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 10:04 am

WOW. This is amazing! I want to go here.

“The world’s largest salt flat, the Salar de Uyuni in Southwestern Bolivia (near the crest of the Andes, 3,650 meters high), is one of the most exotic place sceneries on earth.” [via]


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Kangaroo Birth

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 10:00 am

I HAD NO IDEA!!!


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Deep sea fish with a transparent head

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, February 26th, 2009 at 9:53 am

This species of fish is called Macropinna microstoma. I’s unique because of its transparent frontal lobe which visibly shows two green spheres acting as a set of tubular eyes. These eyes can rotate a remarkable range allowing the fish to see predators and prey. Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute liken the transparent dome to the covering of a jet cockpit. (Be sure to head over to the YouTube page to watch this video in HD!)