Here are a few crazy stories wrapped up in the form of photos that will shake your understanding of the world down to the very core.

More and more people in Western society are suffering from auto-immune diseases.

In honor of the year of the rat and Chinese New Year (Feb. 7), iRiver’s coating their rat/mouse-shaped Mplayer in gold.

A mathematical problem in which you can hold the proof physically in your own hands – the world’s first
self-righting object.

Cat with five legs dropped off at shelter.
Veterinarians look at it, realize something is not right with a cat
that has five legs, confer among themselves, agree to remove two legs.

From navigational devices that play
your favorite movie to vehicles that run on Hydrogen, the 9th Auto Expo packed
all the punch of technical wizardry.
Car makers teamed up with
component manufacturers to reveal a bevy of products and technology that left
the common man dazed with awe. With global warming catching up fast, companies
showcased their alternate fuel technologies [...]

Walter Kirn has a great article about the scientific results that support his claim and his own experiences with multitasking – it destroys our ability to focus.

Popular imagination has the Great Depression opening with a bang in
October 1929. We forget that even by December of that year, the market
had no idea what was really in store.

In December
2007, 66.2 billion search queries were conducted worldwide. According to comScore, the top three search engines were Google, Yahoo, and Baidu. Here are the stats for the top 10:

Eight in every ten Chinese will live within 100 kilometers from air
transport by 2020 under government plans to build more than 97 airports
in the next 12 years.