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Thanks to Monday’s Boobquake, I’ve had breasts on the brain this week. Specifically, the sexualization of women’s cleavage – not to be confused with men’s “he-vage”‘ – in Western culture. According to Marilyn Yalom’s History of the Breast, women’s fashions favored décolletage throughout the Renaissance, but today it’s far more fraught with innuendo. Tracking down [...]
There is a good possibility that the new “world’s smallest horse” was born last week (the current title holder is Thumbelina). The new contender’s name is Einstein: Nice photo: Big Plans for World’s Smallest Horse No one will know for certain until Einstein grows up. But the fact that he weighed 6 pounds at birth, [...]
They look like MRI machines, but they’re actually sleeping quarters. These petite accommodations are found at Japan’s capsule hotels. And you can reserve a capsule for next to nothing. According to Lapham’s Quarterly, capsules cost between $9 and $13 per night.
Who’s to say how you’ll sleep, though. Each coffin is about 6.5 feet long and 5 feet wide, according to LQ. And as you might imagine, given that they’re made of plastic, there’s an echo in there.
As many of you know, I have four kids ages 12, 10, 8 and 8. And they ask a lot of questions. Just this weekend, one question that came from the backseat as we were driving to soccer practice was this, “Can I have a Pokeball?” My response: “What’s a Pokeball?” Answer: “It fits in [...]
People often think of volcanoes as conical mountains erupting ash, smoke and lava into the air. But how do they work? Why are they so dangerous? Listen in to learn more about volcanoes (and all the ways they can kill an unlucky bystander) in this podcast.
As far as sports go, cliff diving doesn’t require much equipment. It does, however, require a certain amount of chutzpah, a dash of derring-do, and a deep body of water to land in. Tune in and learn more about cliff diving in this podcast.
AMD’s $300 6-Core CPU: Too Good to Be True? – “These hexa-core CPUs are affordable. Hell, one of the parts is practically budget-priced. Intel’s high-flying hexa-core Core i7-980X is $1,000. Contrast that with AMD’s new 3.2GHz Phenom II X6 1090T at $295. Want more? The 2.8GHz Phenom II X6 1055T costs $200. Yes, $200 for [...]
If you read my post called “Is Palm on the block?” the answer was “yes.” Just a few minutes ago, I read an article by Erica Ogg that revealed that Palm’s winning suitor was Hewlett-Packard. The deal will work out to $5.70 per share of Palm stock — that’s $1.2 billion total.
Good question – How do you burn oil floating in the ocean?
by Marshall Brain | April 28, 2010
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is huge and getting bigger. 42,000 gallons of oil get added to the spill every day. This image shows the spill from a satellite: Oil Slick Spreads off Gulf Coast One proposed solution is to burn off the oil… Gulf businesses wait as oil creeps toward coast [...]
I started hearing murmurings about the Boy Scouts rolling out a video game merit badge on Twitter during lunch today. I grew up in a Scouting family — my brother and some of my cousins are Eagle Scouts, and my dad served as a Scoutmaster for years. Plus, my brother and I spent plenty of time squabbling over whose turn it was on our Atari when we were kids, so the idea of a reward for gaming piqued my curiosity. Too bad it’s not really a real thing … details after the jump.
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