An alarming trend on YouTube.
Videos on YouTube showing cutting and other self-injury methods are an alarming new trend, attract millions of hits and could serve as a how-to for troubled viewers, a study warns.
Six-Legged Meat
Prepare yourself for The Six-Legged Meat of the Future.
The vast majority of the developing world already eats insects…
Will Westerners ever take to insects as food? It’s possible. We are entomologists at Wageningen University, and we started promoting insects as food in the Netherlands in the 1990s. Many people laughed—and cringed—at first, but interest gradually became more serious. In 2006 we created a “Wageningen—City of Insects” science festival to promote the idea of eating bugs; it attracted more than 20,000 visitors…
The Man With 39 Wives, 94 Children And 33 Grandchildren
He’s a families man.
He is head of the world’s biggest family – and says he is ‘blessed’ to have his 39 wives. Ziona Chana also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram, where the wives sleep in giant communal dormitories…
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Egyptian Names His Baby ‘Facebook’ after the Revolution
Baby Facebook has been born!
An Egyptian man who wanted to show his gratitude to Facebook for its role in the January 25 protests has named his baby Facebook. Here’s the article from the Egyptian paper Al-Ahram, as translated by TechCrunch:
Man Names His Newborn Girl Facebook
A young man in his twenties wanted to express his gratitude about the victories the youth of 25th of January have achieved and chose to express it in the form of naming his firstborn girl “Facebook” Jamal Ibrahim (his name.)
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Transcendent Man, a Documentary About Futurist Ray Kurzweil
Transcendent Man is a new documentary by Barry Ptolemy about futurist Ray Kurzweil. The film is based on Kurzweil’s book“The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.”
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The Best Foods (and Strategies) for Eating at Your Computer
Everybody eats at their computer at some point.
As much as we’d recommend tearing yourself away from your computer when the munchies hit, let’s be realistic: You’re not always going to do it. So when you are eating at your computer, you can at least opt for some more keyboard-friendly options.
We recently asked you what your favorite keyboard-friendly foods were, and you guys had a lot of great suggestions—both of good foods to eat and strategies to keeping your workspace clean. Here are some of our favorites…
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Robots To Fight Autism
Two years ago, a yellow spongiform robot named Keepon became a minor YouTube sensation when one of its creators programmed it to do a squishy, twisty dance in time to the Spoon song ‘I Turn My Camera On.’
Now Keepon’s creators are turning the robot’s attention to a more serious task: to study how children with autism spectrum disorders interact socially and to see if the robot may be able to help in therapy…
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TSA Screeners Stole Over $200K From Fliers’ Baggage
And to think the TSA is ‘protecting’ us.
Two TSA screeners from New York’s Kennedy airport were busted for stealing over $200,000 in cash from fliers. They targetted people they thought were drug dealers, since they didn’t think their victims would complain…
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World’s Fittest Man Sets 200th World Record
Paddy Doyle is the king of one-armed push-ups. He’s set world records for using one arm to perform 400 push-ups in 10 minutes, 1,886 in one hour and 16,723 in one week.
If running a marathon sounds like a daunting feat, try covering 26 miles in freezing February weather through hills, mud and streams — while carrying a 60-pound backpack.
On Monday, that’s just what Paddy Doyle, a former paratrooper and amateur boxer from Birmingham City, U.K., did to achieve his 200th fitness endurance record…
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Harlequin Attempts to Patent the Kiss
Diagram a kiss.
Talk about lip service: Harlequin Enterprises, renowned publisher of pulp romance novels, has applied for a patent on the romantic kiss.
The application, if granted, leaves open the possibility that we may one day have to pay a licensing fee to lock lips with the ones we covet…
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Craigslisp Is Craigslist … With a Lisp
Welp, another site that no one asked for has been born, and despite the fact that it’s just one joke over and over again… and that the name is a pun… it’s somehow still funny.
Craigslisp allows you to browse regular Craigslist, but instead of the voice in your head being yours, somehow that kid from your third grade class pops in there. Or Daffy Duck. Or a person who’s missing a few teeth…
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HOW TO: Turn Your Facebook Profile Photo Into a Video
Say goodbye to boring old profile photos.
Some Facebook users — myself formerly among them — are obsessive profile tweakers. We edit our list of interests. We reorganize our photo albums and experiment with awesome profile photo hacks. We weigh carefully whether we want to “Like” this Page or that, because we wonder how that information will be inferred. And we’re always just a little bit, well, bored with our profiles.
Enter FlipYourProfile, a new Facebook app slash browser plugin that allows you to replace your profile photo with a video. That’s right…
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