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Amazing piece played skillfully on the telephone
The world gets a bit stranger every day. On this Chinese video, the person has mastered a rather difficult composition by playing the telephone keypads.
 

 
The Legendary Ben Bova
Ben Bova’s series of novels about the planets, including his newly released “Mars Life,” has been dubbed “The Grand Tour.” The six-time Hugo-winning author will be making a grand tour of sorts when he comes to Denver this week for the World Science Fiction Convention, where he will receive the Robert A. […]

 
Daniel Nocera has developed a simple method to split water molecules and produce oxygen gas
In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn’t shine. (Video)

Walking Hard

An Irish lawyer determined to make the world a sillier place has launched the race to stage the inaugural Paddy Olympics with madcap challenges like backward running and underwater swimming.
“Nonsense makes sense,” said Colin Carroll as he sent out bid documents to the mayors of Boston, London, Beijing, Paris, New York and every city […]

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This remarkable billboard was designed for a courier company. To underscore the importance of sticking to a deadline, the billboard, in a busy part of Auckland, was rigged to explode at a particular time.

 
The Treadwall is great for those who love the outdoors but have no mountains to climb. It’s also pretty nifty for those who hate the outdoors but want a good workout while pretending they are scaling K2. Perfect for bloggers to get away from the computer and get some exercise too. It looks kinda fun.

The New York Times has a really neat gallery of the Olympic torches and their histories, from the one used in Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, 1936 to today’s Beijing Olympics.

 
Scientists have identified the world’s smallest snake — a reptile about 4 inches long and as thin as spaghetti that was found lurking under a rock on the Caribbean island of Barbados.

 Usually one to impress people with his bravery, Winston the Flying Cat, often
gave his owners a scare on the whitewater rafting trips, but always came back chuckling.
The fine art of writing great captions for strange photos is really an exercise in finding great images and then saying something else. “Hey, who left the iron plugged […]

 
Most of the world’s plant species rely on animals to transfer their pollen to other plants. The undisputed queen of these animal pollinators is the bee, made up of about 30,000 species worldwide, whose daily flights aid in the reproduction of more than half of the world’s flowering plants. In recent years, however, an unprecedented […]

SolarCraft has just completed a 35.4 kilowatt solar energy  system at the new Hamilton Marketplace Complex in Novato, California. The system will enable the new shopping center to generate enough clean electricity to spare the air nearly 31 tons of harmful greenhouse gases annually, equivalent to the air filtering of 6.2 acres of trees.
Hamilton Marketplace […]

 
For drivers who like to step on the gas but don’t want a higher fuel bill, Nissan Motor on Monday unveiled an accelerator pedal that pushes back to help motorists get more mileage.

Is that a hammer in that toolbox or are you just happy to see me?

Need an excuse to replace your tool chest? Try Kobalt’s on for size: It’s almost four and a half feet tall, has LED lighting, a Pioneer sound system, a mini-fridge and a built-in, four-plug powerstrip. You won’t ever have to leave […]