Which US or Canadian environmental journalist or team of journalists will win $75,000 for exemplary reporting in 2007? And more importantly, have you read their ground-breaking work yet? To learn the identities of this year’s finalists for the Grantham Prize and to link to their stories, read on. The Grantham Prize was established in 2005 [...]

Marco Evaristti
 
Danish artist, Marco Evaristti, had liposuction done. Simple procedure, right? Nothing out of the ordinary. But not with this guy. He made meatballs out of the fat sucked from his body and called it art!

The universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate.

After a decade of research, scientists have come to this conclusion about dark energy: they still have no idea what it is!
Here’s a fascinating article on the most mysterious force in the Universe, the dark energy, by Dennis Overbye for the New York Times (no physics equations, we [...]

 
 Teaching birds to become petty thieves
This vending machine is for the crows to use! The point of the experiment is to create a device that will train crows to pick up change dropped on the ground and exchange it for peanuts, using this specially-designed vending machine. Video after the jump.

Mercury-breathing bacteria might decontaminate crudely preserved Native American artifacts now in museums, speeding up the safe return of the stolen objects to their tribes.
Ceremonial masks, head dress, textiles and other artifacts were stolen from Native Americans as European settlers moved west across the continent. To keep insects and pests from ruining the objects, people – [...]

 
Greathouse Labs makes vehicles and fire machines. And vehicles that produce fire. The latest is a wheelchair outfitted with a flame thrower! 
 

A Place To Stash Your Cool Cash

The “Air Vent Secret Compartment” is just that, slipping into walls with 16-inch or greater stud spacing. A small latch hidden inside the levers opens the front.

A Classic Combover

Premature baldness could soon be assigned to history after scientists have pioneered a treatment to clone hair.
Follicular cell implantation works by replicating remaining hair strands and has already shown positive results in continuing clinical trials on human beings. It could eventually help millions of people to regain a full head of their own [...]

Impressively well done music
Here is the world’s first iPhone band. Second video after the jump is amazing.

 
Its tough being a mother when virtually everything is bad for you
Pregnant mothers who drink or even shower in tap water can double the risk of serious heart and brain abnormalities in their unborn babies, a study has suggested.

 Very crude by today’s standards, but a great story
Here is a look at the creation of one of the greatest pop records of all time: The Beatles’ Strawberry Field Forever. Second video after the jump.