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Predicting the Web's Next 5,000 Days - VIDEO
Science & Tech  (tags: web )

Timpana
- 485 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?
Philadelphia Restaurant Takes Lion Off Menu
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, interesting )

Timpana
- 485 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
A restaurant famous for its exotic meats got a lot of grief for offering farm-raised lion meat to its paying free-willed customers. The handful of people who arbitrarily decided that lion meat = evil but chicken/cow = manna
What Is the Function of Sleep?
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, sleep )

Timpana
- 485 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
Is sleep essential? Ask that question to a sleep-deprived new parent or a student who has just pulled an "all-nighter," and the answer will be a grouchy, "Of course!" But to a sleep scientist, the question of what constitutes sleep...
Dolphins and the Evolution of Teaching
Animals  (tags: animal intelligence )

Timpana
- 485 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
Dolphin 'pointing' motions -- oddly repetitious behavior -- is seen as possible attempts to pass on knowledge to young.
Scientists Create Invisibility Cloak for Nanoparticles
Science & Tech  (tags: interesting )

Timpana
- 485 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
University's Michael Bockstaller and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski have created a version of Harry Potter's famed "invisibility cloak" for nanoparticles.
First Pictures of Jolie-Pitt Twins: Vivienne & Knox Jolie-Pitt
Offbeat  (tags: celebrity )

Timpana
- 509 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
Whether People magazine did pay the rumoured $15 million for them or not - the first anxiously awaited pictures of the Jolie-Pitt twins, born July 12, have just been released.
Man Decapitates Girlfriend, Walks Around Streets With Her Head
Offbeat  (tags: crime )

Timpana
- 509 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
Police on the Greek island of Santorini have shot and injured a knifeman who decapitated his girlfriend and walked around the streets with her head.
Elephants on Path to Extinction By 2020?
Animals  (tags: extinction )

Timpana
- 509 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
The elephant death rate from poaching throughout Africa is about 8 percent a year based on recent studies, which is actually higher than the 7.4 percent annual death rate that led to the international ivory trade ban nearly 20 years ago...
Run Your Car With Water!
Green Lifestyle  (tags: energy )

Timpana
- 509 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
Water can be used to fuel a car when used as a supplement to gasoline. In fact, very little water is needed! Only one quart of water provides over 1800 gallons of HHO gas which can literally last for months and significantly increase your vehicle's fuel .
Bulging Prison System Called Massive Intervention in American Family Life
Society & Culture  (tags: prison )

Timpana
- 509 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
...one in 100 Americans is behind bars in 2008, about 2.4 million people currently are incarcerated and nearly 60 percent of young black males who dropped out of high school have served time in jail - don't seem to register with Americans.
 
 
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