Ready for a digital gag?
Think a calculator can’t give you and your friends hours of hysterical fun? Well, the Crazy Calculator sure can, and wait until you see why.
Flip the switch one way and it’s a standard calculator. 2 + 2 = 4. But flip the switch the other way and 2 + 2 = GIMME A BREAK! That’s right, when in ‘crazy mode’ this brilliant math toy will give the user nothing but smart aleck answers…
The Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica can’t be explained.
A man once infamously said “you can’t explain that” and it turns out there are some things we really can’t explain. These are enigmas and artifacts that have no known orgin or purpose including The Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica, and the Baigong Pipes…
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The x-Ar arm
The Steadicam was originally developed to take the shake out of Hollywood chase scenes. But Equipois, a company in California, has given it a new purpose; to help line workers and file clerks. The x-Ar arm reimagines a Steadicam’s spring system to make arms and tools feel weightless, diminishing the risk of repetitive-stress injuries without motors, batteries or external power.
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There are large variations of life expectancy in the U.S.
Americans are living longer. But that’s not the case in every corner of the country. According to a new study, hundreds of U.S. counties, mostly in the South, life expectancy has fallen.
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Teen brains can predict hits songs.
The teenage brain might not be such a teenage wasteland after all.
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Over the last ten years, the share of U.S. national income taken home by workers has plummeted to a record low.
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Watching tv for 2 hours a day could lead to dying prematurely.
For every two hours you sit in front of the television per day, the chance of dying before the age of 65 increases by 13 per cent, according to research.
Antimatter is becoming less of an enigma.
It sounds like something out of Star Trek but scientists have been able to trap antimatter for 17 minutes, improving on an experiment last Fall that was able to trap antimatter for merely fractions of seconds…
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Whee! Four skydivers do a choreographed dance in the Skydive Arena wind tunnel in Prague, Czech Republic. The music is “Fot i Hose” by Casiokids.
What?
If you’ve just downed your fifth cup of coffee and you seem to be hearing things that aren’t actually there, well, you might want to blame the caffeine in your cup of Joe…
Continue reading… “High coffee intake may cause auditory hallucinations”
Looks like what we don’t know CAN hurt us.
Here’s a little good news for people concerned about public health: the EPA released the names of 150 chemicals, the identities of which had been kept secret, to the public earlier this month. The New York Times describes the effort by the EPA as intended “to reform what it views as a flawed system for regulating toxic substances. It is the second disclosure of its kind this year, after the release of 40 chemicals’ names in March.” For those who aren’t familiar with EPA regulations, chemicals are often allowed to remain secret because they’re essentially assumed to be safe until proven otherwise, and because industry demands they be kept secret for proprietary reasons…
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A human kidney cell produces green laser light inside a resonator.
The world’s first biological laser has been created by physicists and molecular biologists, with live, glowing kidney cells at its core.
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