Seeking a husband with traditional values
The fairer sex may have all but abandoned the struggle for equality, for a new survey suggests that most men want a traditional wife and women are often only too happy to oblige. A British research from the Yorkshire Building Society showed that many females are […]

 
An aging power grid is showing signs of dementia
The Times reports on the problems of adding wind farms to the power grid. Because of the grid’s old design, it can’t handle the various spikes that wind farms sometimes have, and there’s no efficient way to currently move massive amounts of that power from one section […]

 An example of Wari art on a robe seen in Lima.
Archaeologists have unearthed a well-preserved 1,300-year-old female mummy in a residential area of the Peruvian capital.

 
Dead Sea Scrolls
Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet.

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This funny ten minute clip is from the famous 1950s game show “What’s My Line,” It’s quite surreal, and we don’t use the word surreal loosely: the special guest is Salvador Dali.  Second video after the jump.

 
Where is Tesla’s wireless power when you need it?
The dirty secret of clean energy is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not. The grid today, according to experts, is a system conceived 100 years ago to let utilities prop each other up, reducing blackouts and sharing power in small […]

 
Denver’s Invesco Field 
Denver’s Pepsi Center and Invesco Field are just fine for their concerts and professional sporting events. But for when the Democrats come into town for their National Convention this week, the two buildings are getting technologically gutted.

 
 Star-forming region in the constellation Cassiopeia.
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the last of the space agency’s Great Observatories satellites to launch, celebrated its fifth birthday recently… giving me the opportunity to post this amazing multigenerational picture of star-forming region in the constellation Cassiopeia, 6,500 light-years from Earth. The photo takes in an area equivalent to four […]

 
The bear-attack patient after the successful transplant
A Chinese medical team led by Shuzhong Guo of the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an has successfully completed the first transplant to include facial bone in a transplant on a man whose face was slashed by a bear. The Chinese graft included muscles, nerves, blood vessels, cartilage and […]

 
 Associate Professor Zhu Huai Yong, from Queensland University of Technology’s School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, said that church windows stained with gold paint purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight.
Scientists have discovered that, in medieval churches, stained glass windows painted with gold purify the air when heated by the sun. The […]

Burj Dubai is set to be the world’s tallest building and the centerpiece of the Gulf regions most prestigious urban development, entitled Downtown Dubai. The Arabic meaning for the word Burj is ‘tower’, which gives Burj Dubai a meaning of ‘Dubai Tower’ or ‘Tower of Dubai’. Its exact height hasn’t been disclosed but it has […]

Maybe Future Models Will Come With A Red Zone After 65…
 
The Life Clock was designed by Bertrand Planes and instead of ticking away the minutes until your next break or the end of the work day, it actually ticks away the years of your life. The clock mechanism has been slowed own 61,320 times so […]

 
 Skulls of members of the Franklin Expedition, discovered and buried by William Skinner and Paddy Gibson in 1945, at King William Island.
For more than 160 years, the fate of British explorer Sir John Franklin and his men has remained locked in the frozen Arctic, but warming temperatures are threatening to change that.
 
 
 

 
 Nils Olav Knighted In Norway
Norwegian King Harald the Fifth has just knighted … a penguin! That’s right, a penguin named Nils Olav, the honorary member and mascot of the King’s Guard since 1972, is not Sir Nils Olav to you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk

Great animation!
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it.

 
A man of the cloth, and his fondness for beer
Because he spent much of his time traveling, Martin Luther undoubtedly tried many kinds of beer, but there is only one with claims to the effect that it was his favorite…

 
The Hubble Telescope completes 100,000th orbit and takes yet another breathtaking photo.

 
 
Usually, sculptures try to emulate and capture the human form. Artist Eugenio Recuenco reverses these laws of art by recreating Greek sculptures using lenses and real human models.

Are books falling out of favor?
It may be about time to dig out that old library card. Hoping to draw back readers, libraries have vastly expanded their lists of digital books, music, and movies that can be downloaded by their patrons to a computer or MP3 player - and it doesn’t cost a cent.

An Active Feller

A sex romp early this year of Henry, a century-old tuatara from Invercargill, has resulted in his lover Mildred laying 12 eggs. Henry, a resident at Southland Museum since 1970, finally proved his manhood at 111 years old.
He had never shown an interest in mating until he was caught getting intimate with the […]

I Dunno About That!

Alex Rushmer of Just Cook It! Blog wrote an eye-popping account on eating the Asian delicacy (read: gross!) thousand year egg or century egg for breakfast:
What we know as the white is not white at all. It is a translucent brown colour reminiscent of recycled glass. The yolk, far from being an […]

The New York Times has a really neat gallery of the Olympic torches and their histories, from the one used in Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, 1936 to today’s Beijing Olympics.

 
Scientists have identified the world’s smallest snake — a reptile about 4 inches long and as thin as spaghetti that was found lurking under a rock on the Caribbean island of Barbados.

 
The first object to brighten the dark, primordial universe after the Big Bang was the tiny seed of a star that rapidly grew into a behemoth 100 times more massive than the sun, scientists said on Thursday.

 
A shadow swept across Russia on Friday, delighting skywatchers who flocked to Siberia from around the world to see a rare total eclipse of the sun.