Chalk Crayon Under an SEM Scanning Electron Microscope
ASPEX is the world’s only SEM Elemental Analysis company that allows anyone to send in their sample to get scanned by our SEM.  Ever wonder what something looks like up close? Really close? Most people have seen objects under a standard optical microscope, but few have seen what [...]

For those of you into exotic breads, the new “puppy loaf” is both creepy and quite tasty
You often hear people talk about the eye of a storm, but never about the ear, nose, and mouth of the storm. Today’s Top 10 Photos are all about the forgotten orifices of today’s society. (Pics)

Mt. Kilimanjaro
One of the astronauts currently in residence on the International Space Station is using Twitpic to send some spectacular imagery of our home planet back down to us Earthlings (that’s Mt. Kilimanjaro as seen from space at right).
 

India: fast food nation
Live and let live, right? We’ve all heard the phrase a million times, and it connotes that true-blue American sentiment of accomodation and freedom of choice. But what about when our choices are trashing the earth? Then it seems the only remedy is pointing out our own foibles again and again until [...]

Hubble has discovered a mysterious X-shaped object traveling at 11,000mph. NASA says that P/2010-A2 may be a comet, product of the collision between two asteroids. Or a Klingon Bird of Prey. Either way, UCLA investigator David Jewitt is excited:
 

Stealing Goosey was just way harder than he thought
The week began with a lonely button lying on the side of the road. Then the stock market went crazy, the economy jumped up and down, many people lost their jobs, and the President made a series of speeches about things that no one cared about. Throughout [...]

Knife and Fork Lifts
A knife and fork that weigh 1½ pounds each, the better to make you eat more slowly? Seriously?
This is quite serious, according to the Knife and Fork Lift’s inventor, Tom Madden. “Everybody approaches it as a joke,” he said, “but when you think about it, it does require you to eat [...]

Potechi Hand
Chomping chips at the comp again? Crumbs are the least of your worries, the oily residue that coats the keys can cause you to, er, slip up while typing up your work.  (Video and pics)
 

Even though he had a heart of gold, literally, the rest of his wiring was totally shot
Our lives happen one incident at a time. If some incidents were somehow able to overlap other incidents, then we could finally learn to be in many places at one time. And we would catch ourselves coming and going. [...]

Felix Baumgartner to jump from the edge of space
This man—looking as badass as Ed Harris in The Right Stuff—is Felix Baumgartner. He actually has The Right Stuff: The cojones to reach the edge of space in a weather balloon. Up to 120,000 feet—and then jump. Video and pic)
 

“Wolf jumping over fence”
The Natural History Museum’s wildlife photographer of the year has been stripped of his £10,000 prize, after judges found he was likely to have hired a tame Iberian wolf to stage the image of a species seen rarely in the wild.
 

Window refrigerator
Let me let you in on a little quote from a comedian I know: “OK you stand here. I’ll get the camera, and I’ll take a picture of the inside of the fridge and get it developed. When I come back, I’ll tape it to the fridge on the outside so you’ll know what’s [...]

Hotlix insect candy
Even the sweetest tooth might find these confections easy to resist.  From worm lollipops to chocolate-dipped scorpions these bizarre concoctions could be from the dark mind of a twisted Willy Wonka. (Pics)
 

Urban bike lane
Kolelinia is a design concept for urban bicycle lanes in the sky. Created by Bulgarian architect Martin Angelov, the innovative design, although not for those with any fear of heights, offers steel wire bicycle lanes, plus safety harnesses, located high above the traffic. (Pics)
 

A beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas, eyes a diver a few feet away as it swims under ice at the Arctic circle Dive Center in the White Sea
They don’t get visitors in these parts that often.
That’s because these beluga whales live under three feet of ice in the freezing waters of northern Russia’s White Sea.
But when [...]

Your ordinary log cabin is laid out with lengthwise logs stacked to make its outer walls. Piet Hein Eek, charged with building a cozy recording studio for friend and musician Hans Liberg, did not make any ordinary log cabin.  (Pics)
 

As people in New York know, the Big Apple
often attracts some pretty prickly characters

Its been a busy week for odd thinkers. Usually, the calamity in people comes out during the slowest of times, but in this case, there must have been a pent-up reservoir of weirdness looking for an escape hatch.  Well, they found it. (Pics)

The series De Cabeza by Spanish Photographer Jorge Miguel is amazing, it features portraits of head in colorful and creative settings. (Pics)
 

Sleepsuit
Buckminster Fuller practiced Dymaxion Sleeping, where one has four 30 minute naps over a period of 24 hours. Architect/ Artist/ Scientist/ Graphic Designer Forrest Jessee thought that he would give this a try, but found that getting to a bed and ready for sleep took almost as much time as the sleep itself. So he [...]

Can the Dubai real-estate slump be blamed on ambitious projects that tried to recreate mini magical kingdoms? Don’t know, however that’s not stopped the designers from their creative thinking so let’s overview a challenging project that’s aimed for Boston residents. Christened The Boa (Boston Arcology), this floating city isn’t worried about the threat of rising [...]

Fangtooth fish
Eating fish can be healthy, doctors say. A little fish oil is good for the brain. What isn’t good for fish, however, is overfishing, pollution, and disassociation, like landlubbers who don’t concern themselves with the quality of life in our lakes and oceans. So here’s a look at some of the 10 scariest fish [...]

At the Museum of Drugs, a farmworker mannequin was propped up under a tree with a rifle in his hands, guarding a field of poppies and marijuana.
When the Mexican military opened its Museum of Drugs in 1985, there were only a couple of dusty display cases in a small cramped room. (Pics)
 

 
During a private “fly-in” fishing excursion in the Alaskan wilderness, the chartered pilot and fishermen left a cooler-box of fish and bait inside the plane.  A bear smelled it and this is what he did to the plane… (pics)
 
 

“Camaflague” art
35-year-old Liu Bolin, from Shandong, China, manages to camouflage himself in any surroundings, no matter how difficult they might be.  Liu works on a single photo for up to 10 hours at a time, to make sure he gets it just right, but he achieves the right effect: sometimes passers-by don’t even realize he [...]

Transparent house
 A meeting of transparencies that heightens the senses.   A collaboration with founder Carlo Santambrogio and designer Ennio Arosio, their ‘Simplicity’ range features a series of iconic furniture pieces, beds, sofas and bookcases, along with architectural elements such as staircases and kitchens, all fashioned from ‘extraclear’ glass, that are elegant and distinctive, whilst perfectly complimenting [...]