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In this week’s Youtube Monday, Penn and Teller, in their documentary series Bullshit!, successfully get hundreds of activists to sign a petition for the banning of that nefarious chemical, dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO). You may, of course, recognize DHMO written in its more traditional chemical notation H2O.
Frightening, funny and depressing - all at the same time - Martyn SeeThis footage comes from Youtube user wisb07, who apparently captured the entire thing live on his cell phone.Part 1Part 2It’s hard to watch: the civility is fraught with tension, with sporadic breakouts into heated arguments and continues into physical force and the sudden ...
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Australian artiste Raymond Crowe makes really awesome hand shadows that have to be seen to be believed. I quite like the eyes.
According to Readers’ Digest, if you have to lose your cell phone1, lose it in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana. Out of 30 cell phones deliberately “lost” in Ljubljana, all but one were successfully returned, for a whopping 97% recovery rate. Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur tie for bottom spot with merely 13 of 30 phones ...
Education systems reflect the societies in which they exist. It’s difficult to copy Finland’s world-beating system - where there’s no failing school - because to do so, you need a relatively egalitarian society in which there is no failing community.- Owen Bennett-Jones, Top of the Class, BBC Documentary Archives, 2007-09-19.As usual, I highly recommend …
I used to think that there was simply no word in English that captured the essence of schadenfreude or 幸灾乐祸, but thanks to Luciferous Logolepsy, I’ve learnt that the word ‘epic …
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“According to Islam, traveling to space is encouraged.” - A Guide of Performing Ibadah at the International Space Station (ISS) [pdf]Picture copyright by AP, 2007As many readers probably will have heard by now, Malaysia can now proudly claim to have at least one of its citizens make it into orbit around earth. Malaysia’s first astronaut, ...
Today I learnt that Google knows how many horns there are on a unicorn. However, the same Google Calculator magic, as of press time, does not extend similar knowledge to the homologous bic …
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