Now this car helps you reach a whole new level of cramped
Small cars are one of the solutions to our energy problems, but this guy’s gone too far. Thanks to 47-year-old Terry Watkins of the U.K., you’re now looking at the world’s smallest car, an absurd 39 inches tall, 26 inches wide and 51 inches [...]
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Smallest Car In The World
Add Creative Graphics To Excel
Give that dull Excel spreadsheet a little spice
Spreadsheets needn’t be drab, dull affairs. Excel has a slew of impressive graphics features that can help you brighten up otherwise dry information and present data in an attractive manner.
Here are our top 10 tips for using a variety of graphics to make your spreadsheets more interesting and [...]
B.C. Firm To Build Largest Optical Telescope
Two things came to mind when I was reading this article (back the future and/or bigger is better)
The design of a gargantuan telescope that will give astronomers their first glimpse into the farthest, faintest depths of the universe is well on its way, guided by Canadian and U.S. scientists and the company that will build [...]
Tanks Instead Of Beer For Dad?
Tank driving lessons are cool but can I take one home as a father’s day present?
When Father’s Day comes around next Thursday, men across Germany will mark their special day by downing beer and schnapps. But every year there are new ideas to replace the traditional binge. This year’s suggestion? Tank-driving lessons.
Top 10 Photos of the Week
One minute he was having a ball, and the next thing he knew he was in one
This week’s photos have a surreal overtone to them. Some may call them bizarre, others may describe them as being filled with cosmic weirdness, but I like to think of them as moments of retching laughter, waiting to be [...]
Climate Change Biggest Health Threat This Century
Doctors warn of risks of climate change for the first time
Climate change is the biggest health threat facing doctors this century, the first medical assessment of the dangers of global warming has warned.
How Future Computer Games Will Simulate Real Smells Of War
Jars holding the aromas. Realistic smells could soon be added to video games.
It is one of the most memorable lines in movie history. As the air around him is rent by explosions and the whiz of bullets, Colonel Kilgore stands nonchalantly with hands on hips, sniffs the acrid breeze and declares: ‘I love the smell [...]
Illusion Cloaks: Create Illusion To Make One Object Look Like Another
Fiddle with an invisibility cloak, and it can make any object look like another, say researchers.
Just when you thought invisibility cloaks couldn’t get any weirder, researchers come up with this: a way to make one object look like any other.
Study Finds Tall People Earn Higher Wages
Tall people earn more than short people
Tall people earn higher wages than their vertically-challenged counterparts while being obese does not mean a slimmed-down pay packet, according to a new study in Australia.
Modern Humans ‘Ate’ Neanderthals To Extinction
Recreation of contact between modern humans and Neanderthals
Modern humans were responsible for butchering Neanderthals in the Stone Age, says a leading fossil expert.
