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Great way to cool your mind on a hot summer day
Short video on an exhibitor floor of science whiz Steve Spangler demonstrating his “insta-snow” product to a rapt audience. Second video after the jump.

3 years until Armageddon…. better get that Ferrari and big house on the hill soon…
Everyone hears about the different prophecies on how humanity will end. From the Bible predictions of the rapture and the Antichrist, to Nostradamus’s prediction of the Planet Comet…

Eight Limbed Baby!!!!
TV Documentary about a toddler born with eight limbs and believed by some to be the reincarnation of the multi-limbed Hindu goddess Lakshmi(correction.) She is set to undergo a 40-hour operation to remove half of her limbs…

Not your typical green machine
The final projects of the Transportation Design students at Turin-based IED (istituto Europeo di Design), developed in partnership with BMW with the goal of creating a car for 2015 interpreting the language evolution and the brand’s philosophy.

The United Arab Emirates keep building their Blade Runner-ish cities in the middle of the desert, with buildings like the Ras Al-Khaimah Gateway, a 2.9 million square feet hotel, conference and exhibition complex that looks like some kind of alien mothership from outer space.
 

 
Henna tattoos are widely available and usually harmless. But certain kinds can cause a powerful allergic reaction.

 
It may be possible to be both fat and healthy, researchers reported on Monday, for at least half of overweight adults, and close to a third of obese men and women, have normal blood pressure, cholesterol and other measures of heart health.

Ever wondered what make chili peppers have a hot fiery flavor? Well, it’s bugs that put the heat in the fruit which adds spicy flavor to many of our favorite delicacies, says a new study.

Sere Traore, 7, sells gold for 5,000 Guinean Francs (approx. $1) to gold buyer Majan Djwara,
in the region of the Fatoya mine, in Guinea on April 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Rukmini Callimachi)

If you wear a gold ring on your finger, write with a gold-tipped fountain pen, or have gold in your portfolio, then chances are you’re [...]

 
Regular running slows the effects of aging, according to a new study from Stanford University School of Medicine that has tracked 500 older runners for more than 20 years. Elderly runners have fewer disabilities, a longer span of active life and are half as likely as aging nonrunners to die early deaths, the research found.

According to the Beijing Times, 55 seconds of the televised Olympics 2008 firework display? Completely fake:
Anyone who saw the opening to the Bejing Olympics would agree that the fireworks display was exceptional, but those watching at home were tricked into thinking what they saw was real, when some of it was actually CGI.

Clive Thompson of Wired’s Games Without Frontiers blog was wondering why Weight Watchers very well work for some people who want to lose weight and came up with this conclusion: Weight Watchers is not a normal diet … it’s an RPG!
Why did Weight Watchers work so well? For a really fascinating reason: because it isn’t [...]

 
This Saturday marks 31 years since Presley died at Graceland and the maker of Barbie is coming out with the first-ever Elvis and Priscilla Presley dolls.The dolls are wearing replica outfits of what the Presleys wore on their wedding day in Las Vegas in 1967. The Elvis doll is dressed in a black paisley print [...]