A Spectacular View!

Clark Little grew up on the north shore of the Hawaiian island Oahu. He has dedicated his life to producing photographs of the inside of waves. The spectacular results speak for themselves.
(more amazing pics after jump)

 
 
When NASA began thinking about missions to look for life beyond Earth, it realized it had a problem: how to recognize life if it were found.

 A frightening number of drug-related deaths in Mexico
Raymond Alvarez: The quickly rising numbers graphically displayed on a Los Angeles Times web page are telling. Mexico’s drug war story is darkened by numbers, staggering numbers. There were 7,337 drug-related deaths in 2008, the Times reports. The death toll from terrorist attacks in Mumbai last year approaches [...]

Moby Dick’s cousin?

A stingray weighing close to 900 pounds?  This 6.6-ft.-wide giant stingray was caught, measured and released in Thailand this week, part of a National Geographic scientific expedition to search for giant fish. It may well be the largest known freshwater fish in the world.

 
 Dairy Cows
The SmartBolusTM system enables several health monitoring capabilities for dairy herds.  Because the data is collected internally, you don’t have to worry about sensors getting bumped and knocked off the animal.

Fossil Footprints Show
Ancient footprints found at Rutgers’ Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.

Spiral galaxies seen edge-on often show dark lanes of interstellar dust
The vast expanses of intergalactic space appear to be filled with a haze of tiny, smoke-like “dust” particles that dim the light from distant objects and subtly change their colors, according to a team of astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II).

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head. Ever since the “barreleye” fish Macropinna microstoma was first described in 1939, marine biologists have known that its tubular eyes are very good at collecting light.

A pregnant fossil fish at the Natural History Museum in London has shed light on the possible origin of sex, according to a study published today in the journal Nature by an international team including Museum scientists.

Brain Encodes Complex Plumes Of Odors With A Simple Code
In the real world, odors don’t happen one puff at a time. Animals move through, and subsequently distort, plumes of odor molecules that constantly drift, changing direction as the wind disperses them. Now, by exploring how animals smell odors under naturalistic conditions, Rockefeller University scientist Maria [...]

Fair at what price?

The modern chocolate industry has a long history marred by slavery and deforestation. From the birth of the industry with the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs to the modern industry centered in West Africa the problems have remained constant. Organic, fair trade chocolate has become more prevalent over the past couple of years, [...]

An artistic rendition of nonfunctioning dung drop

Sometimes a lemon needs to be called a lemon. At other times, megalithic electronic giants need to have a tear trotting, guffaw inducing satirical comment made about them. Thankfully the fine folks over at The Onion (America’s Finest News Source) have decided to take it upon themselves to do just [...]

Oh the colors of this crazy critter.

A psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species.
The frogfish – which has a swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes that extend from its aqua eyes to its tail – was initially discovered by scuba diving instructors [...]

Cleanliness at a high cost.

Here’s something for you to ponder the next time you’re in the bathroom: American’s love for soft toilet paper is ecologically hard on forests!
… fluffiness comes at a price: millions of trees harvested in North America and in Latin American countries, including some percentage of trees from rare old-growth forests in [...]

Electrified Fashion
There is nothing I loathe more than being cold, for some people overheating is worse.  Typically it’s the overly scrawny that hate the cold, either way, for those that do hate the cold, there are now these incredibly brilliant pants.  They aren’t the most fashionable wear out there and not exactly form fitting, but [...]

When you thought your day sucked…
 
A 20-year-old tramper has been hospitalised after being attacked by a swarm of bees then falling down a 30m bluff near Tauranga.

Another version of the hot coffee story comes around again but this time its peanut hazards
“The crunch of peanuts underfoot” is part of the marketing pitch for Logan’s Roadhouse. So when they encourage patrons to eat from bottomless buckets of peanuts and throw the shells right on the floor, it is roadhouse décor or a [...]

Now you can see how bad your swing really is face to face or at least a computer image of yourself looking back at you
EA Sports boss Peter Moore has officially announced details on the publishers’ first titles set to support Wii MotionPlus functionality, with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and Grand Slam Tennis the [...]

 
Bye, bye
Microsoft has some good news for movie fans. If you want to watch .mov files in Windows 7, you don’t need to install Apple’s QuickTime. Bye, bye annoying system tray icon! Adios, Apple update!

 
The only school where cell phones should be allowed in class
A BUSINESSMAN who lost his mobile phone on a beach was amazed when it turned up – in the belly of a massive cod.

Oh what sinister things I could do with this wicked item
Nothing says “get off my lawn” like being pelted with 34 paintballs in one second by an automated turret. It’s not the most pleasant thing in the world, but the message is loud and clear. And now you can set up just such a defense [...]

What this moron did for pizza screams psycho
Edward Graziano was accused Thursday of hiring a hit man to kill his estranged wife, Debra, 18 months after the couple’s son was severely injured in an automobile accident with Hulk Hogan’s son.
Graziano, 53, was arrested Thursday at his home in Palm Harbor after a 2½-month investigation, according [...]

Sheesh put the controller down for once in your life or at least hit pause
“A new skin disorder caused by use of games consoles has been identified by skin specialists. The condition, dubbed “PlayStation palmar hidradenitis”, is described in the British Journal of Dermatology.

Introducing Blu-ray blue diode technology
“More details about Sony’s new Blu-spec CD format – standard CDs authored using Blu-ray’s blue diode technology – are beginning to emerge, with commercial releases beginning to hit Amazon.

Use walking and leg work outs for a benefit besides just getting a ripped physique
Ngalande’s Green Erg generator is a wheeled device, attached by a simple harness that’s designed to trundle along behind a person who’s walking. As the user walks along, the rubber-coated rollers keep in good contact with the ground–even on rough, bumpy [...]