Cuddle Up with a shark. Umm lets think about it…No!
Sharks can be trained like dolphins to feed from keepers, roll over and enjoy cuddles, according to new research.

So much for street bikes. This bike really burns some serious rubber.
Motor madman Bob Maddox is back with a twin-engine jet bike that makes the raucous rocket he rode last year look tame.
He recently bolted a dual-exhaust pulse jet engine to the side of an ordinary bicycle, donned a leather jacket and helmet and then [...]

 
Earth Gets 1 Billion Year Life Extension
The Earth could be habitable for another 2.3 billion years, extending previous estimates of life’s horizon by more than 1 billion years.
King Fai Li and his colleagues at Caltech hypothesize that Earth’s atmospheric pressure has always varied, and that it could fall in the distant future, keeping Earth from frying [...]

 
The Other Way Around Would be More Impressive…
We’re not too sure what to think about this 1,300 lbs piece of machinery by Tokyo-based Nakabayashi. It takes paper waste from an office and turns it into toilet paper: “The toilet paper machine is able to produce two rolls per hour from around 1,800 sheets (or 7.2kg) of [...]

Just a squiggle of BBQ sauce around the edges and VIOLA!

McDonald’s food is often the butt of jokes, but those days are gone if foodie Georgia Hardstark of The State That I Am In blog and her friend Alie Ward of Curiology have their way.
You see, they’ve concocted that could surely be called as the perfect [...]

Rare baby birds.

Red kite chicks have hatched in the wild in Aberdeenshire for the first time in almost 150 years.
The chicks are being raised by birds released two years ago as part of a project to reintroduce the birds to the skies over the county. At least three have hatched.
Red kites were once common all [...]

Project Natal
A planned camera controller for Xbox 360 promises 3-D motion recognition that will turn your entire body into a game controller. (Videos)

Big shift in homeschooling
Parents who home-school children increasingly are white, wealthy and well-educated – and their numbers have nearly doubled in a decade, a new federal government report says.

Mothers should not have the television on in the background when bringing up small children as it harms their speech development 
Parents talk less to their children if the TV is on and youngsters also speak less, American researchers have found.
A study of children and babies from two-months-old to four-years-old found that for every hour the [...]

Instant sex change software
Changing someone’s gender or race on screen traditionally requires lengthy hours in front of a make-up mirror. But new software that can take a live video feed of a person talking and make them look and sound like somebody else could change that.