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Although you’ll usually hear this organization called the “Knights of Malta” in conspiracy circles, their full name is a mouthful: The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta. And, unlike some of the other groups you hear about in conspiracy theories, the Sovereign Order of Malta is real. [...]
In 1978, a teacher (and musician) named John Hunter invented a game for his students at Richmond Community High School. Odds are that you’re familiar with educational games, and you probably remember a few from your own classroom experiences. However, the World Peace Game is a little different — the students in this game aren’t [...]
A recent story in the Metro UK about a Polish goose named Buttons who has become a caretaker to a blind dog named Baks reminded me of all of those other similar stories of animals adopting other animals. Buttons has decided that Baks will live, live!, and leads Baks around their shared yard, either by using her long neck to guide the dog or by honking in the direction Baks should walk.
According to this article, there is a corpse flower blooming right now in Switzerland. It’s a big deal because it is a rare event: What a stinker! World’s smelliest flower opens for the first time in 75 YEARS For botanists, it doesn’t get more exciting than this – after 75 years, the Titan Arum plant [...]
If you went to see a movie this weekend at your local cineplex (as opposed to the art house cinema), there’s a good chance that the leading actor on screen was a man. Don’t buy that assumption? Take a moment and consider the Bechdel Test, a three-question quiz on gender representation in film:
When I was a young lad, my mother used to say that you start a garden after Easter Sunday to avoid any risk of frost. The fact that the date of Easter Sunday can move around as much as 4 weeks from year to year (March 22 to April 25 is the full range) did [...]
One of the reasons we do “Funny…” here on Brainstuff is because “Laughter is the best medicine” – that it feels good (and actually is good, from a medical standpoint) to laugh out loud, sometimes uproariously. This is a good clip for that: Conan O’Brien – Great Guest moments Somewhere in there you will find [...]
New, more powerful Nintendo console for $400? – “For that price, customers will get a 1080p-capable console that’s about the size of Microsoft’s original Xbox 360 and comes with the R700 GPU from Advanced Micro Devices, IGN is reporting. That, combined with a triple-core IBM PowerPC CPU, could make Nintendo’s upcoming console capable of accommodating [...]
The Flynano airplane we discussed earlier this week brings up a great question – what is an ultralight aircraft? An ultralight aircraft in the United States is defined by the FAA through this regulation: FAR 103 If you read through that page you will find the following points: The 155-pound weight limitation has been retained [...]
Thanks, io9.com! I could’ve been spending my summer actually doing stuff, but thanks to you, I now know the names and premiere dates of every cool and geeky show coming down the pike this summer. So much for getting anything done between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day. And just as I’d gotten that old DVR back down below 70 percent, too! Oh well.
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