The world’s smallest working model train set has been unveiled – measuring just 1/8th of an inch by 1/4 of an inch.
At 1-35200 scale to the real thing, the five-carriage train travels around an oval route including a ride through a tunnel.
Created by New Jersey model train enthusiast David Smith, the model was built using [...]

The secret to your sex life may lie in some exotic new location
If your bedroom boredom has taken a toll on your sex life, all you need is a drastic, yet quick change. How about changing the place in which you are having sex?
Forget the boring kitchen or the bathtubs… think bizarre, out-of-the-box! Try out [...]

LSD and ecstacy shown to be more effective against anxiety
disorders than Prozac, Zoloft and other “legal” drugs
A growing number of people are taking LSD and other psychedelic drugs such as cannabis and ecstasy to help them cope with a variety of conditions including anorexia nervosa, cluster headaches and chronic anxiety attacks.
The emergence of a community that passes [...]

Bike To  Berlin Brothel For Bangin Benefits!

A brothel in Berlin has leapt on the “green” bandwagon by offering discounts to clients who can prove they arrived by public transport or bicycle.
“Everyone’s a winner,” explained Regina Goetz, a former prostitute who runs the “Maison d’envie” (House of Desire) brothel in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg, a district in [...]

 
There’s no rational reason why I should want an iREV. A real boat would be way faster and much more versatile. But the iREV is a floating picnic table with a grill. Now that’s cool.
On top of the low-fire charcoal grill and Kumbaya-friendly seating arrangement, there’s an optional 500 watt speaker system complete with satellite [...]

All hung up on DNA

Irina Alexandru’s design is more of a coat hanger than a closet, but it’s intended to allow for the maximum amount of clothing hangers in the smallest amount of space. We just plain like the curvy double helix design.
For those who are having flashbacks to biology class: Yes, a double-helix is actually [...]

Image: Mohd Abubakr
The modern periodic table of elements has been attributed to Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, which he published in 1869. Pictured above is a proposed alternative that is shaped like a circle in order to arrange atoms by relative size:
According to Mohd Abubakr from Microsoft Research in Hyderabad, the table can be improved by [...]

Stonehenge offers many mysteries

This Canadian brainstorm actually makes sense. The town proposing the Stonehenge replica is in a compatible global location. The folks at The Vancouver Sun tell us more.
“The town of Barriere is hatching a plan to place a concrete replica of England’s Stonehenge at the centre of a major park development.
Barriere’s version would [...]

 Breathe, Wheeze and Measure.

An asthma sufferer myself, I’ve long known the ghostly sensation of an invisible hand reaching through my breastplate to ethereally squeeze my lungs until I turn into a purple faced goblin. In the manner of many asthma sufferers, I like bragging about my attacks, and comparing them to the supposed attacks of [...]

These micro piglets may be tiny enough to fit in a teacup, but at $1100 their price tag is anything but small. The pets, which grow to be just 14in tall, have become so popular that they are now almost impossible to get hold of in Britain.
“Demand for micro pigs is soaring and we are [...]

GOOD’s executive compensation infographic shows the compensation levels of the business world’s top execs, with the number of minimum wage earners each super-suit’s take-home pay would support. Wow that is a lot of capitalistic greed!

Children who eat sweets and chocolate every day are more likely to be violent as adults, according to new research.
Children who eat sweets and chocolate every day are more likely to be violent as adults, according to new research.

A new study estimates that people with a gun are 4.5 times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not possessing a gun.
In a first-of its-kind study, epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that, on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in [...]

Little People With a Great Big Idea!
A community of dwarves has set up its own village to escape discrimination from normal sized people.
Everyone in the mountain commune in Kunming, southern China, must be under 4ft 3ins tall and they run their own police force and fire brigade from their 120 residents.

Behold the incredible inspiring carvings of Takashi Itoh.

Anybody can carve a pumpkin. In fact a couple companies have devolved templates and tools for the carver handicapped among to produce astounding results. However Takashi Itoh’s original watermelon carvings put most of them to shame!  Takashi says it only took him three weeks to become skilled at it, but he has been [...]

Who are you gonna call…Ghostbusters!
FORT PIERCE — A team of paranormal investigators dimmed the lights at the Sunrise Theatre on Saturday night to see if any lingering spirits refuse to let the curtain fall on their stay at the 86-year-old downtown institution.

Calm down, it’s not actually blood. It’s just an energy drink made to look like blood, and it’s served in an IV bag:
The fruit punch flavor packs 4 hours of energy along with iron, protein, and electrolytes. Not only does Blood Energy Potion have a similar nutritional makeup to real blood, but it has the [...]

Cyborg beetles are plain creepy
DARPA shows off its remote-controlled cyborg beetles

Sometimes you have to think that maybe a pig is mans best friend
When a hobby-store owner in Cincinnati sliced off his fingertip in 2005 while showing a customer why the motor on his model plane was dangerous, he went to the emergency room without the missing tip. He couldn’t find it anywhere. The doctor bandaged [...]

Replica of the Ark of the Covenant in the Royal Arch Room of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial.
When you hear the words “Ark of the Covenant” what comes to mind? For some, Steven Spielberg’s film “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark” provides the most vivid pop-culture reference to this mysterious sacred [...]

Go Go Gadget Satellite!

R.U. Sirius interviewed Randa Milliron, CEO of Interorbital Systems, “a ‘rocket and spacecraft manufacturing company’ that locates itself at the Mojave Airport and Spaceport in Mojave, California. They recently announced that they were offering to send people’s personal satellites into low-earth orbit on a NEPTUNE 30 rocket for the low low low [...]

A new view on pool

Playing pool (or billiards if you prefer) is such a great game. Where else can expert players show off their physical strength, skill, and finesse, all on the confines of a felt covered slate table? And speaking of pool – although they all come in many different styles and sizes, once you own one, unfortunately it [...]

Talk about computer viruses! Sculptor Forrest McCluer took salvaged 30 old PCs from the landfill and turned them into sculptures of viruses (the biological kind). This one above is inspired by the T4 Bacteriophage:
The “T9 Track Virus” is another version of the T4 Bacteriophage. It consists of PC power supply cables, CD-ROMs, sections of 9-track [...]

[process2a: Dodecahedron]
The folks over at Vague Terrain have spent some time reprocessing  the power of  Platonic Solids.
“In this project we explore three-dimensional subdivision algorithms. These have traditionally been used in computer graphics to produce smooth, rounded forms from coarse polygons. By modifying and expanding these established algorithms to include additional weights, one can generate forms with [...]

Job Voyager is a set of interactive charts showing changing occupations reported to the US Census Bureau from 1850-2000. It was made by Jeffrey Heer of the University of California at Berkeley from data collected by the University of Minnesota’s Population Center using the visualization software Flare. You can use the feature to examine the [...]