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Will insecure men of the future cultivate new vat-grown penises in their spare-bedroom laboratories? Will they then transplant these obnoxious knobs onto their otherwise healthy bodies in DIY bathroom surgeries? I posed these questions at the end of the recent Stuff to Blow Your Mind episode “Do-It-Yourself Organs” and realized I should probably follow up just a little.
Have you ever been to Istanbul? I haven’t. So, I kind of enjoyed watching this little, day-in-the-life video of the city. Street musicians, jugglers, dancers, skateboarders, live fish flopping around in buckets, people diving off docks, fresh fruit….
Why not just hate the pushy psychology brochures?
by Josh Clark | July 11, 2011
Humans don’t like being pushed around, especially when it’s some pencil neck psychology brochure doing the pushing and it’s telling them not to hate another group. This is America, you can’t tell an American who not to hate!
You can’t play this kind of game without impacting the environment. As reported over at New Scientist, a new study reveals how the contrails of WW2 bomber aircraft affected climate. Contrails of course are the white trails left behind by soaring aircraft, and as you might imagine fleets of bombers practically painted the skies over Europe.
Google+ is still very young. The team behind the new social network continues to implement changes and tweak the design based on user feedback. So far, I’ve seen requests from users to implement features such as collapsible comments and circles within circles to make it easier to navigate the Google+ stream (a Google+ stream is like the Facebook wall — it’s where all the updates from your friends pop up). After last night, I hope another request is on their radar — how to handle comments to photos.
Think about all of the preening and flirting we exert in order to obtain it, not to mention the relationship factors and potential baby-making that may go along with it when it finally happens. To evolutionary biologists, it’s an extremely inefficient design compared to asexual reproduction since we squander so many resources for sex, and they’re only now figuring out why sex exists.
Did you know that the original version of “The Office” premiered 10 years ago today? Me neither, but EW.com has a charming retrospective on the beloved British series today — penned by none other than the show’s star and co-creator, Ricky Gervais.
It’s Cute Animal Friday, and I can’t imagine anything cuter than a wombat the size of an Escalade.
Scientists have discovered the skeletal remains of a plant-eating marsupial they call a “giant wombat on steroids” that roamed Australian land 2 million years ago.
I spent three years of my childhood in Newfoundland, Canada and I know that I was taken out to glimpse the ghostly lights of the aurora borealis on a few occasions — specifically while my my mom was giving birth to my youngest sister. But as we all know, sometimes the more amazing aspects of this world are lost on the young, so the only things I remember from that night were leafing through my favorite dinosaur book and playing with some monster toys.
Have you ever traveled far enough north or south to glimpse the northern or southern lights (aurora australis)? If not, here’s a taste of what it’s all about via a Norwegian time lapse video:
If Judd Apatow had decided to film “Knocked Up” as a period comedy set in 1938, that scene might not have made the final cut since Seth Rogan and his cronies wouldn’t be anywhere near the laboring Katherine Heigl. At that time, barely half of American births were even happening in hospitals, and they were largely all-female affairs.
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Stuff to Blow Your Mind
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The Stuff of Genius
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- Why is NASA studying car safety?
- Tips for in-car Navigation Systems
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PopStuff
- PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 36: Now Available in 3-D
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
Stuff to Change the World
- Who will own the Arctic?
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Stuff You Missed in History Class
- Butch Cassidy: Should we read between the lines?
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