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Perfectly preserved 300 Million year old forest found in coal mine - image
A 300 million year-old forest has been discovered in a coal mine in Wuda, northern China. The 10,000 square-foot forest was preserved by ash from a volcanic eruption, and researchers are now studying it as a fossilized “snapsnot” of ancient plant...
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Fox News upset over the liberal bias in traditional children stories such as The Borrowers - video
Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs “exposes” the despicable pro-being-nice-to-others-and-caring-about-the-world agenda of Studio Ghibli’s The Secret World of Arrietty and Illumination Entertainment’s adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax. It looks like...
Military quotes - sources unknown - image
Great quotes from a military training manual. However I think they can be attributed to any military organization.
Israel poisoning Egyptian chickens and selling toxic jeans
They must have been Levis. Osama Selim, the head of Egypt\'s veterinary authority, has called on the People\'s Assembly to press the local poultry growers\' association to fight the use of illegally imported vaccinations and blood serum, which he...
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When true love goes wrong - image
Girl gets face of her boyfriend tattooed on her arm. Its so sweet, except .... she has been only going out with him for one week. Read this amazing exchange of true love extinguished or crazy woman dumped.
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A new definition of eternity? Forever pushing a snowblower- video
Instead of trying to dig a hole with a teaspoon, or forever push a rolling stone uphill, maybe this video gives a new definition of what life is like in the turgid afterlife. endlessly pushing snow through a snow blower in front of you, to be pushed....
Two trainers spend 6 months getting fat and unfit - images
Its scary how transient fitness and health can be, a mere 6 months after looking like the pic on the left a trainer ate himself into the blob on the right and found out that food can be addictive. Maybe underneath the layer of fat residual muscles......
Venus rotates once every 243 earth days and is slowing down
In the early 1990s scientists with NASA\'s Magellan mission calculated that a single rotation of Venus takes 243.015 Earth days, based on the speed of surface features passing beneath the orbiting spacecraft.
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But scientists now mapping Venus\'s s...
A car door that totally rolls away out of sight - video
How about having a car door that totally disappears when you need to get in and out? This one rotates down beneath that car floor leaving a huge hole that makes egress simple. It seems a no brainer idea.
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Why then after 5 years at least has no ma...
Insane base jumping - amazing video
If there is a line between bravery and insanity, then these base jumpers crossed it. It looked like about 10 feet from human to meat patties. Worth watching. Apparently its made for a local Norwegian TV show.
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Cyclist safety around trucks - 9 cyclists are outside of the trucks vision - video
No matter how visible a cyclist is on the road the mechanical layout of a trucks mirror show that there are huge blind spots right where the usual cyclist would think they were safe. It would seem if a truck is turning that the only safe place to...
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Man with gun tries to hold up bar gets ignored - funny video
An armed man tried to hold up a bar and got laughed at, until he lost his nerve and tried to leave, then the entire bar chased him down.
http://www.youtube.com/v/8WhvJDnxw-U
Australian fishermen have their fish stolen while fishing - video
A fisherman filming in the Northern Territory has his fish stolen by a local inhabitant. Not the sort of place you want to go for a swim. Warning on the swearing and the accents.
http://www.youtube.com/v/KkwI1rGw3-I
Jamie Oliver found £1 million of jewelery and gold and some guns in his celler - image
He also found some master tapes by a band of old depressed gits called Joy Division. If you dug up Jamie Oliver\'s cellar you\'d probably expect to find dead dinner ladies yet, when excavating the basement of one of his new restaurants, currently......
The 3 barrels, 18 shots, 3 firing pins, 6.35mm pistol cartridge Spanish revolver - image
A revolver made in Spain probably as a single piece. To adapt the 6.35 pistol cartridge the cylinder has two connected rings in which one can insert the cartridges and closing the second ring, the cartridges are safely stored - similar today\'s speed...
Remember the sweet smelling flowers of your youth? They have all been bred out
Do you ever wonder if flowers were more scented in your youth than now.?
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Is it just a sign of declining olfactory perception that there is little smell to modern flowers?
Turns out its not you. Flowers have had the smell bred out of them.
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Why do Adeles songs evoke so much emotion? Its called appoggiatura
On Sunday night, the British singer-songwriter Adele is expected to sweep the Grammys. Three of her six nominations are for her rollicking hit \"Rolling in the Deep.\" But it\'s her ballad \"Someone Like You\" that has risen to near-iconic status...
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Russian T34 tank pulled from lake after 56 years. Still runs - video
14 September 2000, a Komatsu D375A-2 pulled an abandoned tank from its archival tomb under the bottom of a lake near Johvi, Estonia.
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The Soviet-built T34/76A tank had been resting at the bottom of the lake for 56 years. According to its specific...
One of the problems with outsourcing - funny pic
What can I say, they really did care after all! I wonder if he can work with fertilizer?
Archaeologists find the Queen of Shebas gold mines
A British excavation has struck archaeological gold with a discovery that may solve the mystery of where the Queen of Sheba of biblical legend derived her fabled treasures.
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Almost 3,000 years ago, the ruler of Sheba, which spanned modern-day Ethi...
How Doctors die - mostly at home and at peace - a lesson for us all
It\'s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don\'t die like the rest of us. What\'s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off...
Coca Cola claim their product doesn't make you fat, rot teeth, or packed with caffeine - told to stop telling lies
Coca Cola made some advertisements claiming that their product was safe for babies and children. However the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said they were telling lies and had to stop the adverts and tell the truth.
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The publicity...
Rumor posted as news - Kim Jong - Un has been assassinated - video
Rumors that Kim Jong-un, the country\'s supreme leader, has been assassinated just months after he took power originated on Chinese microblogging service Weibo and have now spread all over Twitter.
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If he is still alive will he change his name to ...
Video of a Wooly Mammoth? - video
A BEAST lurches through icy waters in a sighting a paranormal investigator thinks could prove woolly mammoths are not extinct after all. The animal – thought to have mostly died out roughly 4,000 years ago – was apparently filmed wading through a...
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Cats and Potatoes - a rare relationship - video
The secret life of cats and potatoes is becoming public....
http://www.youtube.com/v/miRzK6QCKUs
Suspense filled new movie trailer - Young man admits to using Java - video
A touching movie about a young man who dares to defy tradition and use a non windows platform and the pain of coming out of the closet and confronting his family with the sordid truth. All the more endearing because its spoken in Norwegian.
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Attack!! - funny image
Slow news day, here\'s a kitten launching itself on a human
Operation Hardtack 1958 8KT nuclear explosion video
Operation Hardtack was a series of 72 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1958. With test moratoriums on the horizon, American weapons labs rushed out many new designs.
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Hardtack I was carried out in the Pacific Ocean, at Bikini Atoll...
Skier deploys avalanche airbag which saves her life during avalanche - video
This footage was caught on January 25th, 2012 in the back country near Montezuma. It features Pro Snowboarder Meesh Hytner being caught in a sizable (~class 3) avalanche and deploying her BCA Float 30 avalanche airbag before taking a long ride.
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Party trick goes wrong when cannon blows out windows - video
Some people setting off a cannon at their home during a party accidentally blew out all the windows on the side of their home. Funny.
http://www.youtube.com/v/SaI7XkOVyV0
Lucky excape for family as manhole cover blows off - video
The father of two kids tried to ignite methane seeping from a manhole only to cause an explosion that nearly killed them all.
http://www.youtube.com/v/XIBeiwfwkmY
Welcome to the technological future - great video of coming technologies - video
Gorilla Glass manufacturer Corning has released a second video of their interpretation of the future of electronics and human integration. Although I find the video fascinating, there is still the underlying emptiness of the technology. Using the...
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Growing old doesn't mean growing weak - image
Growing old doesn\'t mean that you have to lose your muscle mass, images from a study into aging show you can still maintain health through to old age. Its disuse that weakens people not age itself.
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Aging is commonly associated with a loss of mus...
A clean heart comes from a clean room - lemon scent makes people nicer
People are unconsciously fairer and more generous when they are in clean-smelling environments, according to a soon-to-be published study led by a Brigham Young University professor.
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The research found a dramatic improvement in ethical behavior w...
Massive study shows Alternative medicine doesn't work
After a decade of research, and 2.5 billion dollars of taxpayer money, government funded research into so-called \"alternative\" medicine has little to show for it.
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The government spent 2.5 billion dollars to determine that unpurified, poorly co...
Family have brain dead teen euthanized - could only text and roll eyes - video
In a sad case a family had their teenage daughter euthanized as she could only text her friends and roll her eyes. Despite the pain of her death it was agreed that her body parts could be far better used by donors.
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Cessna loses its propeller makes a safe landing - video
A Cessna 172B pilot in Mexico had to save his plane after his airplane propeller detached in flight. Yes, detached. Plonk. You can see the action from the cockpit in this video, including the exhilaration and relief of the passengers at the end.
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Try something new drill a hole in your head
Drilling a hole in your head is said to restore the brain to childhood levels of blood and fluid making you more adventurous, spiritual and positive. Utter bunk say others.
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Today, Cole, a student at City College in New York City, has had a 14-mi...
Moral of the story - don't pat wild animals - video
Look at the cute elephant playing with the fronds. I\'ll give him something to eat ... why not give him a pat as well? BAM!
http://www.youtube.com/v/VZKwkGqDIQY
Sunscreen may give you skin cancer and accelerate existing cancers
Almost half of the 500 most popular sunscreen products may actually increase the speed at which malignant cells develop and spread skin cancer because they contain vitamin A or its derivatives, according to an evaluation of those products released......