Is Classic Art Better In 3D?
Pablo Picasso was commissioned by the Spanish government to commemorate the Nazi Germany bombing of Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The result is Guernica, a black and white painting that depicts the suffering and brutality of war.

Does It Takes a Brain To Start a New Business?

Everything begins with an idea. These business ideas are brought to reality by entrepreneurs. Successful business ideas often are a blend of creativity, foresight, and an instinctive feel of what the market needs.
Here’s a few suggestions to help you on brainstorming for your business idea.

 
Japan’s rocket blasts off with land-observation satellite
Japan’s military is planning to launch its own surveillance satellites and an early-warning satellite as part of the missile defense system it is building in cooperation with the US.

“There are four major transformations that are shaping political, economic and world events”
This is a paper presented several weeks ago by Herb Meyer at a Davos, Switzerland meeting which was attended by most of the CEOs from all the major international corporations — a very good summary of today’s key trends and a perspective […]

The Platypus Enigma Continues

At first dismissed as a prank, and later cited as proof that God has a sense of humour, the duck-billed platypus has finally given up its evolutionary secrets.
The creature, considered one of the strangest mammals in the world, has become the latest to have its genetic code sequenced, revealing it to be […]

The 2008 European Inventors of the Year were awarded recently in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Even if you don’t recognize the names of the inventors, you will certainly know their inventions and the contributions those inventions have made to the world during the last 10 to 15 years.

The new mega mega LEGO set on display
If you’re looking for the tallest tower of LEGO in the world, here’s a picture of it right here. This monster was built in the Legoland Windsor theme park in the U.K. of 500,000 LEGO bricks, and stands just shy of 100 feet high.

Going Green Gets More Complicated

Californians who converted their cars to run on vegetable oil pride themselves for saving gas money, as well as promoting alternative or “greener” fuels. Unfortunately, they are also learning that no good deeds go unpunished, especially by the gub’ment:
Dave Eck, a Half Moon Bay mechanic, had attracted a media spotlight with […]

Colorful Fields of Flowers
The cultivation of flower bulb began more than 400 years ago and today Holland produces more than nine billion bulbs every year, of which two thirds are exported overseas.

More than JUST a book…
The CIA has posted the full text of one of its guidebooks, “Psychology of Intelligence Analysis.” The 1999 book was published by the CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence. It’s interesting to just dip into it randomly and read little bits here and there.

The winners of the 12th Annual Webby Awards have been announced!

Does This Look Like Your Room Too?

Pixel art lives both in and beyond computer screen. Artists design pixel art posters, magazine covers, album covers, desktop wallpapers, paintings, “pixelish” video ads and even pixelated tattoos. And there is a good reason behind it: in times when popular design solutions strive for real-life-look or perfection pixel art […]

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Scary! Very scary!
The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week, working late on a special supplement, had just watched the Braves beat the Mets on a television in the office pantry. Now he wanted […]

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Wow! This is amazing!
The Difference Engine was an accurate mechanical calculator designed by Charles Babbage in the 1840s, but was never built in its inventor’s lifetime. Here, its modern builder explains how it works.

At Least We’re Number 2, Right?
Every great civilizations fall. From the Romans to the ancient Mayans, history is littered with kingdoms and nations who “ruled the world” for a period of time only to descend into obscurity afterwards.
So, when I read this interesting Newsweek article by Fareed Zakaria, an excerpt of his book The Post-American […]

 
 Food shipments bogged down on their way to starving people
Rapidly increasing world food prices have already led to political upheaval in poor countries. The crisis threatens to tear apart fragile states and become a humanitarian calamity unless countries get their agricultural systems moving.
Now, with conference committee negotiations over the final shape of the Farm Bill […]

Breastfeeding has become a popular sport among newborns
About 77 percent of new mothers breast-feed their infants at least briefly, the highest rate seen in the United States in more than a decade, according to a government survey released on Wednesday. In 1993 and 1994, just 60 percent of new mothers breast-fed their babies, but […]

As wireless services improve, traditional phone lines are going away

SNL Kagan expects that telecommunications carriers’ market share of fixed residential telephone service to decline, mostly due to IP voice services from cable operators.
In the past two years, the telcos’ share has dwindled from 90% to 74% of total connections. Over the next five years, that […]

 
 
Library of Congress had just acquired the original 1962 drawings from Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s “Amazing Fantasy #15″ - complete with Ditko’s pencil erasures and white-out opaquing fluid - in which Spider-Man made its first appearance in print!

A Government In Exile
Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags. The factory in Guangdong had been completing Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags. The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
Workers said they thought they were […]

The Guolizhuang menu is a broad introduction to the medicinal benefits of eating animal penises and testicles.
Whole yak penis or sheep testicles on a bed of curry, anyone? A Beijing restaurant serves painstakingly decorated gourmet dishes for the fearless. They’re supposed to increase male potency, but women should try a bite, too: Eating penis is […]

Voluminous is a subscription-based public domain book delivery program. Once you buy the app, it’ll let you know whenever likely books are scanned and put online; they also keep a bookmarkable library for you.

After more than 30 years of civil war, ending in 1998, the Cambodian government has collected and destroyed more than 160,000 weapons across the country.
In the name of peace some of those weapons were donated to the PAPC. The PAPC (Peace Art Project Cambodia) is a project that was created in November of 2003 by […]

Following an extended world tour in 2007, Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot will show off its skills in 2008 by conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO). ASIMO will lead the Orchestra as it performs “Impossible Dream” to open a special concert performance with renowned cellist Yo-Yo M as a way to highlight the DSO’s nationally acclaimed […]

The Museum of Unworkable Devices is one of those sites everyone on the internet should visit at least once.