What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Get a gift card or two recently? Remember, they will eventually expire. Why not invest in something that will not "expire" until sometime after we all evolve into tiny rocket-powered space penguins? Amazon.com is selling uranium. Really! This could be the perfect addition to your A.C. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab (which Radar Magazine rated the fourth worst toy ever created).

...Dirty Ape!

Smarter than college kids? The Japanese have gone way out of their way to side with the apes on this one. In their secret, evil laboratories, they have proven that their chimpanzees are smarter than their college kids. That probably makes the chimps about five times as smart as anyone else on the planet. Almost on cue, one of the more promising study participants (we'll call him Mr. Bobo) stole a gat from a guard, threw a fistful of poo at a research assistant, and insisted that someone tell him why his uncle Carl never returned from that space mission back in the 60s. He also wanted to know why The Hoff keeps getting work. This can't end well.

Wooly Mammoths Make a Comeback?

Ultimate designer pet just around the corner. Well, at least there is a healthy debate on the topic in the scientific community.

How Products Are Made

Soft Drinks:

In 1886 an Atlanta pharmacist, John Pemberton, took the fateful step of combining coca with cola, thus creating what would become the world's most famous drink, "Coca-Cola". The beverage was advertised as refreshing as well as therapeutic: "French Wine Cola—Ideal Nerve and Tonic Stimulant." A few years later another pharmacist, Caleb Bradham, created "Pepsi-Cola" in North Carolina. Although the name was a derivation of pepsin, an acid that aids digestion, Pepsi did not advertise the beverage as having therapeutic benefits. By the early 20th century, most cola companies focused their advertising on the refreshing aspects of their drinks.

What You Know About Math?

"I know all about math" , the hip, suburban math geeks in this video tell us!

Feral children raised by animals (wolves, monkeys, etc.)

FeralChildren.com

80s Robots We Expected By Now

Television History - First 75 Years

Photographs of television sets from around the world, year-by-year links to important facts, magazine covers and advertising. See examples of the world's first television sets, up to and including HDTV models.

SKY-MAP.ORG

SKY-MAP.ORG

Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Dictionary of the History of Ideas

"A" is for Atom!

And I thought "A" was for apple. Fun, classic video about the start of the Atomic Age, and your place in it - if you are a person who really likes hiding under your desk.

Lucid Dreaming

Frequently Asked Questions Answered by The Lucidity Institute

Easy Mac Micro Maniac

Things that shouldn't be microwaved...being microwaved.

Try This One On For Size

Flash simulation of the three-rotor ENIGMA machine.

How to Detect Lies

Techniques for everyone for detecting signs of deception in bodylanguage.

Gaping Maws

Various animals yawning

For Lee and Beakman

Whonamedit.com

A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms.

A “rule of the thumb” method for calculating the dose of medicine to be administered to a child: The age divided by age plus 12 represents the fraction of the adult dose suitable for the child. - Thomas Young (1773-1829)

Test Your Geography Knowledge- USA

Test Your Geography Knowledge- USA

Giant Squid Caught on Film

Eye-in-the-Sea video system caught this elusive squid at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Hey...maybe they should sink one of these in Loch Ness for a while!

Timeless Frog

25 million year old frog found encased in amber. Wants to know if Miss Piggy is still single.