News from the future:  You can’t get there from here
A new study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute suggests that the human visual system is equipped with the ability to foresee the future.
Assistant Professor Mark Changizi says that it takes nearly one-tenth of a second for the brain to perceive what the eyes see.
To compensate for such […]

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 Designed and fabricated by master craftsman Fred Bailey, this ‘Car Couch’ is a truly one-of-a-kind sculpture. 

 
 The world’s becoming a smaller place but language is still a barrier. But Google is doing its bit adding 10 new languages to its online translation service.  

 
A cat chasing a mouse in Tirana’s main power station caused a 72-hour blackout across parts of the Albanian capital, the electricity company said on Friday.
 

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Yves Rossy - Destined to become as famous as the Wright Brothers

Icarus crashed and burned when he flew too close to the sun but a modern-day Swiss adventurer had a happier landing on Wednesday when testing his new jet-powered “wing”. Second video after the jump.

 
 
NASA gathers a tremendous amount of data on the environment that can be helpful in understanding lung disease. In a session at the ATS 2008 International Conference called “Observations From Space: A Unique Vantage Point for the Study of the Environment and Possible Associations with Disease Occurrence,” scientists from NASA, the CDC and the University […]

 
Pregnant women should probably add cellphones to the list of things they need to avoid, along with alcohol, sushi and cat poo. A giant study that surveyed over 13,000 children found that women who used mobile phones when pregnant were more likely to give birth to kids with behavioral problems.
 

He tried incredibly hard to fit in, but “Whacky Wang”, as he was known to his friends,
never understood why he kept hearing the sound of the ocean where ever he went
The one word that least describes this weeks top 10 photos is “charming”. In fact, there aren’t any words that really do describe this […]