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Indian police held a pigeon under armed guard after it was caught on an alleged spying mission for arch rivals and neighbours Pakistan, according to reports in local media and in the British Telegraph. The white bird was found by residents of India's Punjab state on the border with Pakistan where it was taken to a local police station 25 miles from the capital Amritsar. The pigeon had a ring around its foot and a ...

Leave you phone in your pocket on vibrate. Filter calls with a discrete wrist action. Now you're hands free for whatever it was that is so important that you can't answer the phone. Bluetooth Watch with Caller ID Display See who is calling or mute your phone's ringer! Laziness is a virtue and something we aspire to whenever possible. Repetitive and demanding tasks that require a lot of work...

Find out more about these creatures here in the original articles: Y'Know the Flying Dragons in Avatar? Tiny Real-Life Version Photographed in Indonesia : TreeHugger. Or on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_volans

Based on Brian Greene's 'The Elegant Universe' this fantastic series of documentaries from PBS take us through Einstein's dream of a 'Theory of Everything' right up to String Theory and the 11th Dimension. Beatifully presented and freely online available here via QuickTime or RealVideo NOVA | The Elegant Universe | Watch the Program | PBS.

This site is not about blogging or webdesign, yet NoMore.TV is run on Wordpress - the best CMS out there - and, naturally, we love plug-ins and widgets. We're always curious to learn about and share favourite plug-ins and recommendations so we've written this one of article about blogging in order to share our experiences, invite your comments, and be a part of the conversation. Please participate in the ...

69 years she has been at it:  fighting crime, spinning round and exciting men young and old as she battles with the megalomaniacs and master criminals of this world. Exciting, not least owing to her sparkly swimsuit and cracking thighs. In 2010, it seems, it is time for a change. DC Comics is celebrating the 600th edition of the Wonder Woman mythology. The less than feminist superhero has thrown off ...

Bad language is good for you and aids pain relief, a study by Richard Stephens of Keele University, England has shown. Published in the journal Neuro Report, the research measured how long college students could keep their hands immersed in very cold water during which time, they could repeat either a swear word of their choice or a neutral word. The swearers reported less pain and kept their hand in the icey ...

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As President Obama warns of 'Massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters', Larry Elliot, the Guardian's economics editor, invites us to take a look at the USA's financial situation in 1937 as a comparison with today's economic crisis and obsession with cuts to public spending. Franklin D Roosevelt arrives at the Whitehouse and uses government spending and tax breaks to boost the economy. The US deficit ...

How Apple is Revolutionizing Education for Students Around the World.

Charlotte Whitton (1896-1975): in Canada Month June 1963

GameStation modified their terms and conditions recently requiring purchasers to accept the "immortal soul clause" thereby giving GameStation the right to claim their souls. Despite the option to 'opt out', few did, despite the offer of a £5 gift voucher had they done so. So what was the point of this exercise, besides lots of free press for GameStation? Find out more here: 7,500 shoppers unknowingly sold t...

Caucasian men with no experience and a cheap suit are being paid $1000 per month to do stuff they are unqualified for whilst being wined and dined in fancy hotels. This article from The Atlantic tells you more about these “White Guy In A Tie” events and recounts the life of a ‘fake businessman’ in China as he presses the flesh and helps Chinese companies build the image of ‘connection’ that they hunger after. ...

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The website endoftheamericandream.com currently lists 50 Statistics About The U.S. Economy That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe. Here are a few that caught our attention. We invite you to visit endoftheamericandream.com to discover the other 35! Each stastic has a link quoting either sources or further commentary. #50) In 2010 the U.S. government is projected to issue almost as much new debt as the rest of the ...

In her book entitled 'Absolument Debordee' (Completely Snowed Under) Zoé Shepard confirms France's worst stereotypes and fears about its "fonctionnaires" – the 5.2 million government workers currently gobbling up public funds. Rife in the system are nepotism, competitions to have the longest coffee break, writing off holidays and visits to prostitutes as "travel expenses" and sick notes easily written by doc...

Dan Gardner's "Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear". Statistics prove that we are in the safest humans that have ever lived. Don't believe me? Take a look round a graveyard and check out people's life spans in the early 20th century, let alone the 19th century. Count the infant mortalities. You'll see what I mean. "Yes, but", you say, "there's more cancer going around than ever before?" Funny how we...

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Research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that an hour’s nap can dramatically boost brain power. Infact a biphasic sleep schedule - that is, sleeping more than once during a 24 hour period  - not only refreshes the mind, but can make you smarter. Conversely, if you the more you stay awake, the slower and more sluggish our minds become. And students busy revising, please remember that burning th...

The OWLE iPhone Video/Rig improves adds a wide angle lens and boom mic to your iPhone. Simply nestle your iPhone inside the metal and silicone case of the OWLE and get ready to shoot the best iPhone video you've ever seen. Also improves your still shots. Comes standard with 37mm lens threading, as well as a 0.45x Wide angle/macro combination lens Add any other lenses with a 37mm...

Alex and Donna Voutsinas recently married. Only when sorting through family albums together before the ceremony did they realise - their paths had already crossed back when they were little kids at Disney World. In a photo of Donna at Disney World in 1980 can be seen little Alex in a buggy being pushed by his father. Their paths had already crossed way before they met. Read more about this amazing...

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In the USA, a child drops out of US school every 9 seconds. Why? They spend their days sat in front of computer, on World of Warcraft, on Facebook or checking out porn sites. They do not learn social skills as generations before once did. They create their own subjective and active (not passive) world. Children’s brains are being digitally rewired to the extent that they cannot fit into a traditional analogue cl...

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FOXNews.com - Deadly 'Star Wars Lightsabers' Are Cheap Online. According to Sky News (here repeated on Fox News) a handheld laser not unlike the Star Wars lightsaber is now available on the UK market. Just a toy? No. It can instantly blind and set fire to skin tissue and other body parts and is available online. . 1,000 times stronger than sunlight on the skin the Wicked Lasers Product called the ...

Imagine: you're having a party, you want to serve your guests cream puffs, and need to know how many boxes to buy. You figure each person will eat 6 cream puffs and you've invited 18 people to the party. Each box has 12 cream puffs in it. So, you want to figure out how many boxes of cream puffs to buy. The key to this and other daily problems in conversions and, as you can see in this article, they can be as...

In 2007, Maria Carolina, a Chilean prostitute, auctioned 27 hours of sex to raise money for the country's largest charity during an annual fund-raising campaign. Now something of a celebrity in her native Roman Catholic country Chile, Carolina managed to raise around $4,000 during Chile's two-day Telethon fundraiser which is endorsed by television stars and aims to raise funds for poor, disabled ch...

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Flashmob Creates NYC ‘Tourist Lanes’ on City Streets - TIME NewsFeed.

Far more people in India have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet, according to a UN study on sanitation published today in the Telegraph. India's currently boasts  563.73 million mobile subscribers, about half of the country's 1.2 billion population. Yet only 366 million people - around a third of the population - have access to proper sanitation

YouTube - BigDog - Boston Dynamics (2008).

by Betrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, historian, social critic.

Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" - the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we're building a better, more cooperative world. This complete article can be found here on TED.com http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_will_change_the_world.html

Egyptian farmer, Sobhy el-Ganzoury, speaks of the 'divine miracle' that is the two-headed calf that has recently been born on his smallholding. He said he intends to keep the animal as a reminder that "God is able to do anything." Story discovered on the excellent Weird News section of the Miami Herald w...

ALT/1977: WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS on the Behance Network.

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Here are some of the best anagrams to be found at www.wordsmith.org Dormitory = Dirty Room Schoolmaster = The classroom Elvis = Lives Clint Eastwood = Old West Action Western Union = No Wire Unsent Evangelist = Evil's Agent The eyes = They see The Morse Code = Here Come Dots Slot Machines = Cash Lost in'em Presbyterians = Best In Prayers = Britney Spears Eleven plus two = Twelve plus...

Quantity counts more than quality: it would seem that the bloggers with the most followers are those that blog the most posts using the most words according to research by Susan Jameson-Powell ( @mooglove )  at Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom. Jameson-Powell studied 75 bloggers on the site LiveJournal . She considered the number of friends each blogger had, the number of posts they'd made, the t...

Got to admire the scale of these projects. See further and huger examples here: : : Peter Hennessey : : My Voyager : :.

For the Discovery Times Square Exposition in New York, an exact replica of the mummy of Tutankhamun has been made using a technique not unlike 3D printing technologies.

Now the sun has been a little quiet lately but, owing to the sun's 11 year solar activity cycle, it looks like things are going to hot up towards 2013. Now, this doesn't mean that the doomsday scenarios of the film 2012 will be visited upon us, but increased intesity of solar flares could, it is argued, destroy electrical and communications systems, as well as hitting water distribution and banking...

Check out the video and then discover the guitar T-Shirt and Drum T-Shirt below. Electronic Drum Kit Shirt We could do what those other supposedly geeky apparel companies do and print a regular t-shirt with a cool looking picture of a drum kit on the front... then say it was trendy, make a few Rock Band references and try to convince you to buy it. But we don't roll like that. At ThinkGeek we...

Find out how he made this enlarged paper version of his own head here. More excellent visuals found on the web and curated on http://www.sawitlikedit.com This man's head is made of paper : fantastic papercraft self portraits - SawitLikedit.com | by eluxdesign.com | Création site web Lyon, France.

For the last 12 years, Carter Emmart ( Director of Astrovisualization at the American Museum of Natural History) has been coordinating the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers to build a complete 3D visualization of our known universe. In this video, he demos this stunning tour and explains how it's being shared with facilities around the world.

Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo. This is a fascinating documentary on how the age of Google helping us to search millions of pages is... over. Regular search is not geared to handle the exponential growth of the internet. So what alternatives are coming online as we move from a world of millions of pages to a world of trillions? Every thing, every idea, and every object will soon have it's own page. Handling...

So, this is new: we've started publishing user submitted stories, news and articles (but only the good stuff we wish we would have thought of ourselves). Send us your story via this form. We'll take a look, if we like it, we'll maybe edit a little and put it on the site. It's a simple as that. Here are the categories that we accept articles for: News | History | Science | Skills & How Tos |...

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Juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information is changing how we think and behave, say scientists. Worse, we are losing our ability to focus owing to refular bursts of information which stimulate our primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and/or threats. Picking up email give us a dopamine rush that excites and can be addictive. Multitasking, meant to make us productive ...

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on thus giving us the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight."

via Scott Belsky: Don't Let Your Genius Go Unnoticed on Vimeo. If you're curious to learn more from Scott Belsky  and the organisation Behance that he founded you can visit his website Furthermore, I can highly recommend his book Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

by Quentin Crisp

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"A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person" says Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson (here's his profile in PDF format). This is just one of 33 short leadership observations called Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management. Raytheon has given away 250,000 of the books. Swanson says we should all watch out for people who have a 'situational value system', by which he means ...

The Seven Simple Rules 1. Always buy Rail Stations; never buy Utilities (at full price)* 2. For every other property type, only buy them to complete a monopoly or to prevent opponents from completing one. Often this may mean buying as many properties as you can early in the game, but watch your cash reserves. 3. At the beginning of the game, focus on acquiring a complete C-G [Color Group: all 2 or 3...

Tip #1: www.BossTwit.com Threaten to Tweet compromising photos of your boss unless s/he pays you $10,000 Tip #2 www.Twuppy.com Tweet a photo of yourself looking deshevelled with an emaciated puppy. Include your PayPal address. Tip #3 www.TwostageBus.com Take hostages on a bus and Tweet your demands to...

Yes you can. Find out how it works here: http://www.boredpanda.com/fake-painting-photographs-by-alexa-meade

There's a cashmere prize on their head :) Police hunt 'The Midnight Knitter' wool graffiti bandit | Metro.co.uk.

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In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal. In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal. In 48 hours - just two days! - your chance of having a heart attack will have decreased. All nicotine will have left your body. Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal level: that's the best...

Everyone needs a hobby, and here's one: folding dollar bills into amusing shapes. Also works with Euros and pounds. Full instructions can be found here: http://members.cox.net/crandall11/money/shirt/

by Paul Harvey Anyone disagree?

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Find out more about this impressive artefact here: slightlywarped.com's Curiosities.

So here's a little collection of fun stuff you can do with your business card if you want to liven up your presentations, business dinners or trade fairs. ***Warning*** Do any of these too often and you'll become really annoying and people won't like you. Make it appear/disappear Do that thing where the card looks blank on both sides and then your hand prints out the card as if by magic* *magic does...

Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, refuses to release any DNA results which might indicate the racial ancestry of Pharaoh Tutankhamen. Thankfully, images of pan shot of his DNA results on the Discovery Channel has 'leaked' the truth:  King Tut’s DNA is a 99.6 percent match with Western European Y chromosomes. During Discovery Channel broadcast, at approximately 1:53 int...

Marmite: a means to peace in the Middle East In 1999, Edward de Bono, the guru of creative thinking, was called in by the British Foreign Office to contribute to the search for solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The master of lateral thinking suggested that supplies of Marmite might just solve the region's seemingly never ending problems. So how might Britain's favourite yeast-extract-based spread...

YouTube - cnn - intel "programmable matter".

YouTube - Make: Steampunk Aesthetic and Design with Jake Von Slatt.

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YouTube - PilotHandwriting.com. This is so cool! Thanks to Pilot you can now type with using a font based on your own handwriting! It's pretty easy too. You sign-up, print the alphabet grid, fill-in your letters, send that to the Pilot website with your webcam (that's the easiest way) and start typing. Can you think of any cool implications for this? Check out their main website here for a...

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff have compiled an impressive database of over eight centuries of government debt defaults from around the world. Their collected statistics on inflation rates from every possible country and on historical banking crises give us a 'panoramic view' of the unending cycle of boom and bust. One thing is clear: anyone shouting 'this time is different' is invariably wrong. The...

Here's the test. The quick test is explained in the video: And yes. You can rewind. You really did miss it. Change blindness is occurs when a person viewing a visual scene fails to detect large changes in the scene or situation. Change blindness normally occurs alongside some other visual disruption or change in focus. This four minute video explains change blindness using a classic experiment....

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The maths is simple. US Police forces are having to lay off staff, reduce their patrols and even release certain detainees in order to balance the ever tighter budget. Yet there is a solution: a way for police forces to get a steady stream of government money despite continuing budget cuts. Marijuana. When a police force is seen to be 'tough on dope' and marijuana growers, they become...

Airports anti-drug chief Col. Jose Piedrahita reports that Colombian authorities have found a replica of the FIFA World Cup during a routine security check by anti-drug agents. The 36-centimeter-high (14 inches) gold-painted statue was heading for Madrid, Spain. Piedrahita says that laboratory tests confirmed the cup was made of 11 kilos (24 pounds) of cocaine mixed with acetone or gasoline to make it ...

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Operation Cornflakes was the British World War II Office of Strategic Services PSYOP mission between 1944 and 1945. The mission: to trick German postal service Deutsche Reichspost into delivering anti-Nazi propaganda to German citizens through mail. The original Trojan, if you will (excepting the Greek one, of course). Special planes were instructed to airdrop bags of false - yet correctly...

Not only do traditions and laws set the world's Jewish populations apart, so too does their genetic make-up. So says a recent article in New Scientist magazine on the subject of Jewish ancestry. The 200 Jews studied in different cities in different are descended from a founding community that lived 2500 years ago in Mesopotamia. The results of the study fit biblical accounts of Jewish history that trace the ...

YouTube - Scientific Tuesdays - How to make Magnetic Fluid (ferro fluid). This is a great video that teaches you how to make your own Ferro Fluid . This stuff is just so cool to play with!

This is so cool: just using a hair dryer and one of those airduster spray cans for your computer you can get a dent out of your car and then go get yourself a MacGyver haircut with the money you saved. From Metacafé: Remove Car Dent With Airduster - Watch today’s top amazing videos here

For spies that like to watch swimming competitions Stainless Steel 8GB Video Watch In our effort to always bring you the latest and greatest gadgets, ThinkGeek presents this Stainless Steel Video Watch with a massive 8GB of internal flash memory as well as a full color 1.8" screen. Made completely from shiny stainless steel for the ultimate in style and coolness. High pixel count and frames per second...

Whatever you think of him, he's in pretty good shape at 83. Here's how he does it: A new(ish) book, Eat Like A Pope details the greasy, buttery, carniverous delights served up in the Ratzinger household in Bavaria by his mother before the war. The Guardian's review of the book lists "stuffed pigeon with butter, cream and sherry, ...soup with liver and onion dumplings" and "exquisite butter and jam biscuits"...

Richard Dawkins' jaw-dropping talk on our bizarre universe (TEDTalks). What we see of the real world is a simplified model that we have evolved in order understand and operate within that world. Fish, surely, have evolved a very different perception. One thing is sure, we have developed a sense of self - of 'me'. As Wittgenstein said: "If I lion could speak, we could not understand him." Richard...

Beer does not make you fat. It does not give you a beer belly, nor a spare tire,  nor a beer gut. Fact. Beer contains no fat and a regular bottle of beer has about the same amount of calories as a can of cola. It tends to be the snack foods and sloathfullness that follows a good pint that lead to the hidden belt-buckle effect. The problem with beer is that its carbohydrates are very easy to digest and they s...

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This and other conclusions can be drawn The Billion Pound o Gram on the Information Is Beautiful website such as 'Tesco's annual revenue is twice the annual British education budget' What conclusions can you draw from this info? Don't hesitate to comment below :)

If you spend a lot of time online - especially if you're looking for the kind of factoids and interestingness that are www.NoMore.TV 's speciality - you tend to meet a lot of whackos and weirdos relishing in conspiracy theories and pedalling mis-information. If you're on NoMore.TV it's probably because you like to know and understand the world beyond mainstream news' vision of what is significant - this is...

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 4. Every sentence must do one of two things -- reveal character or advance the action. 5. Start as close to the end as possible. 6. Be a sadist. Now matter...

YouTube - Neat party trick - can you do this?. The reveal: watch how he puts his fingers on his nose. I bet you didn't touch your nose in the same way :)

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be...

University of Tokyo researchers have come up with a paint that blocks wireless signals, thus protecting your data, but also shielding cinemas and hospitals from unwanted wi-fiing. Find out how it works here: Anti Wi-Fi Paint - PSFK. Advertisement

Wireless electricity: this long talked about future technology is now available in our homes. The promise of an end to all those nasty wires and wall sockets has come a little closer with this nifty gadget that uses induction technology to charge your iPhone. The AirVolt is available via ThinkGeek. Simply slide your phone into the included receiver case, place it on the power tray, and watch in...

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Animals are lured to a feeding area in front of the rifle. If the animal doesn't die after your first shot, workers finish the job. Then they ship you the animal as a trophy. Find out more here at : HowStuffWorks "Introduction to Internet Hunting". You might also enjoy: 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)

Via: Online Schools via 15 Things You Didn't Know About the Brain.

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The guitar has been revisited in a flash of design engineering genius that renders the humble guitar more mobile than ever. You can Tweet @Voyage_Air for more information or check out their website and blog here: http://www.voyageairguitar.com/

YouTube - Star Wars Kid. Advertisement for Star Wars Fans Star Wars 4GB Flash Drives Darth Vader's head comes off. In the movies, his helmet was a two-part, life saving device. But it still (mostly) came off. If you have a LEGO Vader, his head comes off. And now, there's another version of Vader with the removable noggin. But this one holds a secret - inside Darth's neck is a USB plug, because...

If you like math, you'll love this article and video on NoMore.TV

Counter terrorism and crime prevention technology specialists  Suspect Detection Systems Ltd. (a subsiduary of Suspect Detection Systems Inc.) have been testing the ability of their Cogito rapid survey system to expose criminal behavior among prison inmates. The tests run in Bergen County Jail proved that Cogito was able to uncover guilty associations as well as to identify the hostile intent of ...

Sporting Americans, late night revellers and hard working students have been guzzling so-called energy drinks like Jolt and Red Bull for a number of years now. It would now seem that they are completely wired and are begging drinks companies to come up with a come down. Say hello to the $500 million industry in 'anti-energy drinks' or "Relaxation Shots" Snoozeberry and iChill are soporific beverages ...

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Continuing our series on scarey stuff that's going to happen between 2011 and 2013 (including, naturally, the year 2012 itslef) NoMore.TV has today learned that NASA is warning of a meteor shower for October 8th, 2011. Very precise, no? With Solar Flares and 2nd wave economic crashes already on the horizon, there's all kinds of scariness predicted for 2011>2013 including what scientist are referring to as this...

Selling sex is one of the oldest businesses in the world and in the 21st century business has never been better. Within one generation, a product once available in seedy stores in the dirty back alleys become commodified and rendered culturally acceptable and economically viable. And it's not just pornographers who are making the money. It's some of the biggest companies in the United States be they digital...

Admirable efforts by conservationists and volunteers to clean oil-covered birds in the Gulf of Mexico are in vain, according to one German biologist. Research would seem to back-up her claims that it would be less painful if animal rescue workers simply euthanised the birds quickly and painlessly. This would be a better alternative to the slow and painful death that awaits birds even once they are cleaned. Few...

Would you sign this petition demanding strict control or total elimination of the chemical "dihydrogen monoxide" ? Here's why: it can cause excessive sweating and vomiting it is a major component in acid rain it can cause severe burns in its gaseous state accidental inhalation can kill you it contributes to erosion it decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes it has been found in tumors of...

Ever fancied pulling free electrical power out of the air? Althought Nikola Tesla toyed with the idea over 100 years ago, only now has his 'wireless energy' idea become a reality. Companies such as Fulton Innovation, eCoupled, WiTricity and Powercast are pursuing various such "energy scavenging" technologies. One possible implication is that your mobile phone will soon be able to harvest energy from a...

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Getting stuff done produces dopamine, and brains love dopamine. It's the chemical that gives you pleasure - and there's lots if things in life that have the same effect be they naughty and/or nice. Turns out, setting a goal, however small, and reaching it, gives us a big happy dopamine hit. This can be pretty motivating during a busy a working day (or one of those working days when you just can't get ...

by Stanislaw J. Lec, poet. I nice critique of these techno times :)

Flawless Star Wars Cover On An Electone via Flawless Star Wars Cover On An Electone - Pogpog. Advertisement for Star Wars Fans Star Wars 4GB Flash Drives Darth Vader's head comes off. In the movies, his helmet was a two-part, life saving device. But it still (mostly) came off. If you have a LEGO Vader, his head comes off. And now, there's another version of Vader with the removable noggin....

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Arthur Benjamin does "Mathemagic" | Video on TED.com. Racing against pocket calculators to square 3, 4 and 5 digit numbers, Arthur Benjamin turns live, on-stage mathematics into what he calls 'mathemagic'. A born entertainer, his show includes a couple of gags that you can include in your own presentations next time you have an audience to entertain. Benjamin goes on to 'reveal' his thought processes by...

You'll have to click here to get the video: Don't believe what you see: Gravity Defying Marbles: - SawitLikedit.com | by eluxdesign.com | Création site web Lyon, France.

The story began in 1821 when Napoleon's doctor removed and keptthe former Emperor's penis. The 'relic's' journey since it's seperation from Napoleon is told in the following article from Paulo Coelho which links also to TIME's list of 10 Famous Stolen Body Parts 5 SEC READ: Napoleon’s penis « Paulo Coelho’s Blog.

via YouTube - Finger Painting on the Apple iPad from the live model David Kassan http://davidkassan.com. More can be seen of Kassan's work on his website http://www.davidkassan.com/ and in this Telegraph article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/7866260/Apple-iPad-art-portraits-created-by-David-Kassan-using-the-Brushes-app-on-the-touchscreen-device.html# Advertisement from Think G...

YouTube - Meet the Super Cow.

Depending who is answering the question, the answer may vary from thirteen, nineteen or 613. Definitely not 10. Given that the Ten Commandments can be found in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 and that there are already 13 in Exodus, we can safely say that there are more than ten commandments. Here's the 13 Commandments from Exodus: 1. Thou shalt have no toher gods before me. 2. Thous shalt not make unto...

Some excellent figures and case studies in here about the effectiveness of Social Media compared with traditional channels. A little long at 60 minutes, but worth setting the time aside because there are a lot of quality examples in here. via @dmscott Nice case studies and stats re: New Rules of Marketing - SawitLikedit.com | by eluxdesign.com | Création site web Lyon, France. David Meerman Scott ...

by Steven Wright

This is the bowline not (pronounced boh-lin) referred to as 'the Kind of Knots'. I live in France where the locals call it the nœud de chaise (the chair knot) because mountain climbers can actually sit in the knot that it makes. Here's the memory aid: make the rabbit hole, out comes the rabbit, round the tree and back down the hole. Nice. If you're really into knots (or if you want to be) you really ...

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A pamphlet entitled "21st century Enlightenment" is in circulation this week. A philosophical study of human history, new scientific insights in to human nature, and the need to ensure our survival, it is a pamphlet that commands our attention, given that its writer is Matthew Taylor, former Downing Street policy advisor. It is also a 21st century call to the 18th century institution that is the Royal Society...

These various polyphasic sleep cycles are well explained on Dustin Curtis' blog Sleep (or how to hack your brain) | Dustin Curtis. Advertisement

Hans explains Population Growth with Lego - Gapminder.org. Hans Rosling is a god when it comes to taking complex prinicples and making them visual and instantly understandable. Books are available on this subject, but the best way to see Rosling in action is to visit the Gapminder website  with it's interactive graphs on the health and wealth of nations or his video 200 years that changed the world. The UN es...

It's a good thing to praise your childrens' abilities, right? Wrong. Forever praising your child can have a detrimental effect. You would do better to focus on their effort, concentration and organisational skills. In the 1990s, Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck from Columbia University conducted large-scale research into the psychology of praise. 400 children from various ethnic and economic backgrounds took...

Women in the UK spend 76 minutes getting ready on Mondays, but only 40 minutes on Tuesdays and 19 minutes on Fridays according to research by retail chain Debenhams. A typical Monday morning for a British woman consists of 76 minutes 'getting ready' of which one third of that spent on their hair, 18 minutes on make-up, 16 minutes trying on different outfits, the rest of time being spent in the shower. Men too ...

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The European economy is already fragile, as are emerging markets. Bad news is, both grind to a halt during the World Cup - so should we be worried about the world economy during this World Cup? Damien Hoffman of www.wallstcheatsheet.com reports on the Bespoke Investment group's World Cup Indicator.  They have analyzed the historical performance of the SP 500 (NYSE: SPY) and MSCI World Index during and after ...

YouTube - The smoke filled room study. In what has become known as the "Smoke filled room study", Bibb Latané and John Darley's classic research from the 1970s shows how the presence of other people can have an inhibiting influence on our behaviour. We make descisions based on those that others are making, we do not normally wish to contradict those around us - to the extent of putting our own lives at ri...

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War Plan Red, also known as the Atlantic Strategic War Plan, was a plan for the United States to make war with Great Britain. Developed by the United States Army during the mid 1920s, then approved in May 1930 by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of Navy, it was further updated in 1934-35 before being officially withdrawn in 1939 further to the outbreak of the Second World War. It and others like it were...

This video article is based on Professor Philip Zimbardo's lecture that describes the subjectivity of time. Our notion of time, our planning, our relationship with the past depends on our cultural upbringing, religion, how near to the equator we live, and in which city. Here is a summary transcript by www.NoMore.TV of the key ideas contained in the video. The way we live and perceive the world can be...

So, you think you're safe? You've turned off cookies, you're erasing your history regularly. No one's going to know which bank you use, where you social network, your gender (see below), your age...right? Wrong. Websites have a back door on your browsing history that few people know about (except those who wish to exploit that information). You will have noticed that for website's that you've already visited,...

U.S. geologists and Pentagon officials have discovered vast mineral resources in Afghanistan according to this story from Fox News. In the New York Times article on the same subject we learn from Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the US Central Command, that "There is stunning potential here... There are a lot of ifs, of course, but I think potentially it is hugely significant." Nearly $1 trillion in ...

Not everyone likes to put a picture on Facebook, for reasons of privacy or modesty. Nonetheless, the default picture remains a little dull to say the least. Meet David and his collection of alternative Facebook Default Profile Pictures. He may have just the silhouette for you: 69 alternatives to the default Facebook profile picture.

Britain's Mirror newspaper reports on Michelle Philpots, a woman who, owing to head injuries suffered in a road crash, loses here memory every 24 hours. "Michelle wakes up every morning thinking it's 1994 and cannot remember anything from the past 16 years". The upside is, she finds every joke hilarious because, effectively, she has never heard it before. Her lifeline is Post-It notes and written logs...

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YouTube - Did You Know? "We are living in exponential times" (A Must Watch, Really).

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The 2010 American Time Use Survey has revelaed that the average American spends 8.67 hours sleeping each day. Women spend a little more time in bed than men at 8.73 hours, while men get by with a mere 8.62.   [Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.] That said by adopting polyphasic sleep patterns we can all get by on 3 hours a night. Find out more here on NoMore.TV

By guaranteeing universal access to home computers and internet access, the great "digital divide" will one day be bridged by the enthusiastic efforts of politicians and education activists. Good news, yes? Not necessarily. At Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, researchers say that these efforts could actually widen the achievement gap regarding math and reading scores. Students with home c...

More intelligent people are significantly more likely to be liberal, monogomous and atheist. A study, published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly, looks at why people form particular preferences and values. Adolescents and adults with a high IQ tend to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are 'novel' or innovative within human evolutionary history....

Imagining the Tenth Dimension - A Book by Rob Bryanton. This video in our physics collection is splendid in it's simplicity. It takes us through the 1st, 2nd and 3rd dimensions as we know them, before taking us forward through the 4th and 5th dimensions.... to the tenth. Well worth 12 minutes of your 'time'! Of course, when I say time I mean.... Please take the time to visit the author's website...

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Impressive video of ZAGG's invisibleSHIELD™, huh? Let's see what it says on their website, shall we? Created from an ultra-tough, patented film exclusive to ZAGG, the invisibleSHIELD™ is transparent and amazingly thin. The film is designed to precisely match the contours of your device, providing unbeatable scratch protection. ZAGG's invisibleSHIELD is the worlds first and best clear device prot...

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Born in 1970, British journalist Jason Burke is an Oxford Graduate and author of several non-fiction books further to his travels through Gaza, Kurdistan, Thailand, Algeria, and Jordan, among others. Further to his work with the Sunday Times, Jordan has been South Asia correspondant for The Observer and The Guardian and is based in New Delhi since 2010. A specialist in politics, social affairs and cu...