During the last week of November ’09, San Francisco’s famous sea lions mysteriously disappeared. These large blubbery animals have been mooching off San Francisco for about 20 years. Its not like the free ride was over, scores of people still came to see them daily, food was plentiful and the weather is far from extreme [...]

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A young man’s food was disappearing from his kitchen. When he confronted his girlfriend she claimed ignorance. The solution: setup a hidden video camera and catch her on camera. When he checked the camera the women eating his food was not his girlfriend. From Boingboing: So he set up a hidden camera to see what [...]

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After what I can only imagine must have been a bender on chicken mcnuggets, Joel Waul of Florida watched a fateful episode of Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Episode 411 featured a giant rubber ball dropped into the desert to see if it bounced. It did not, instead it blew apart into thousands of pieces. [...]

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A unique after school program in Taiwan has come to an end after complaints by parents. Many children were unable to achieve the level of 6th degree bad ass by swallowing fire, stepping on glass and breaking wood blocks with their bare hands. In an unsurprising coincidence at least one student reported that the courage [...]

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A rare 70 year old lobster is one hungry patron away from the main course. Larry is 11 pounds and lives in a solitary tank at New York’s Oceana restaurant. A mere $275 will serve Larry poached with a rich lobster liver and roe sauce. Sound delicious? Here’s another take: From Bloomberg: I can only [...]

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I never thought I would see the day when a man could get a DWI while sitting in his recliner, but that is exactly what a Proctor Minnesota resident has accomplished. 62 year old, Dennis LeRoy Anderson managed to hit a parked car with his motorized recliner. He was on his way home from a [...]

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From H+ Magazine: Cyberdyne Corporation of Japan, in conjunction with Daiwa House, has begun mass production of a cybernetic bodysuit that augments body movement and increases user strength by up to tenfold. Wow, this looks great. Soon I won’t even need muscles. At approximately $4200 this is a steal too. Until 6 months later the [...]

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Two recent stories show the rapid convergence of biology and robotics. Man and machine have connected. First from the BBC: New robotic hand ‘can feel’ A team of scientists from Italy and Sweden has developed what is believed to be the first artificial hand that has feeling. Second from H+ Magazine: Using Human “Wetware” to [...]

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From National Geographic In a discovery that took astronomers by surprise, the first full-sky map of the solar system‘s edge—more than 9 billion miles (15 billion kilometers) away—has revealed a bright “ribbon” of atoms called ENAs.

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Could the LHC be sabotaged by the future? Or are the scientists only making excuses? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

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