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 PVC percussion
All you need to make music at home are ball bearings, a cigar box, PVC, and broccoli. Yes, broccoli… as is clearly demonstrated below. After the jump, a series of unusual music videos.

 Drugs and alcohol are becoming a growing part of teenager sex lives
More and more teenagers in Europe are turning to alcohol and drugs to improve their sex lives, a new study has revealed.
Researchers questioned 1,341 young people in nine cities across Europe - a third of men aged 16 to 35 and a quarter of […]

The Platypus Enigma Continues

At first dismissed as a prank, and later cited as proof that God has a sense of humour, the duck-billed platypus has finally given up its evolutionary secrets.
The creature, considered one of the strangest mammals in the world, has become the latest to have its genetic code sequenced, revealing it to be […]

 
No arguing about who gets to sit in the front seat on this car
Volkswagen has plans to produce a 1-liter car by 2010 that’ll get an amazing 200 miles per gallon, making it one of the most fuel-efficient cars on the road. It’s not going to come without its drawbacks, however, as reaching a figure […]

The 2008 European Inventors of the Year were awarded recently in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Even if you don’t recognize the names of the inventors, you will certainly know their inventions and the contributions those inventions have made to the world during the last 10 to 15 years.

 
Alien Communication Device or LED Hula Hoop (or Both)?

Here’s something that’s sure to draw crowds the next time you feel the need to draw attention to yourself. This dizzying show of colored light is produced by a rapidly spinning Hula Hoop, packed with LED lighting.

The University of Toronto in Canada has developed a pair of robotic grippers that can apply as little of 20 nanoNewtons of force on an object, using its three-millimeters-long arms to grab cells 10 micrometers across and transport them. What’s more, the gripper has sensors that allow it to know how hard it’s grabbing something […]

 
WiMax promises a whole new kind of fun on the web
As US technology giants including Google place a multi-billion dollar bet on WiMAX, backers of the wireless data-streaming format say it will radically change mobile Internet use.
A WiMAX network of the kind to be deployed across the United States by a joint venture dubbed Clearwire […]

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Robert Woodhead combines the two things that we just can’t seem to ever get sick of seeing: Stuffing Mentos into Diet Coke bottles and the super-slow-mo action of Casio’s EX-F1 camera to create this stunningly beautiful video.
Woodhead compensated for the 1200fps’ paltry 336×96 frame size by stitching four different Mentos tests together, and the results […]

This is what happens when you spend too much time online promoting your social network
Datamonitor forecasts that the number of social network users in Europe will more than double to 107.4 million in 2012, up from 41.7 million in 2007.

 
 31% of shoppers end up buying online
More Americans are researching furniture and appliances online than two years ago. A March 2008 PriceGrabber.com survey found that 81% of respondents turn to the Web for information on these items, while 53% claimed that the Internet was their first choice for home product research.

Research shows that men and women respond differently to persuasion
Want to persuade a woman? Do it in person instead of taking the online route, for a new study has revealed that the fair sex responds better in face-to-face encounters, while men can be easily swayed by an email.
Researchers have found that although internet has made […]

The Endocannabinoid System is a physiological system that blocks hunger similar to smoking tobacco
A drug from a new class of weight-loss treatments disrupted wiring needed for brain development in young mice, American researchers said, raising concerns about using such medications in children.
Mark Bear and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studied the effects […]