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 -> The Most Expensive piece of Art
Edvard Munch's "The Scream" auctioned for US$ 120 million.
72 views | 03 May 2012
 -> Funny iPad Presentation
"We love Stockholm"..
59 views | 27 Mar 2012
 -> Chinese companies forced to falsify data
Says Bloomberg.
32 views | 25 Mar 2012
 -> So much for branding
A 5 year old puts logos in their place..
80 views | 23 Mar 2012
 -> Legbombing
Journalists have kindly distilled the most important bit from Oscars 2012.
146 views | 27 Feb 2012
 -> Shark gulps another shark whole
Marvel of the oceans.
120 views | 18 Feb 2012
 -> Valentine's Gift: Severed head
This left-field approach to love-making, practised by 19th-century Taiwanese aborigines, was discovered in the 150-year-old letters of botanical explorers.
185 views | 17 Feb 2012
 -> Most people can't tell paté from dog food
So you are pretty sure that you could tell the difference between a $100 bottle of a splendid vintage wine and some $5 cheap stuff, right?
105 views | 17 Feb 2012
 -> The longest running experiment
Now in its 85th year.
279 views | 07 Feb 2012
 -> When we were your age..
...we were allowed to fall.
56 views | 22 Jan 2012
 -> "It's a Girl"
The three deadliest words in the world.
30 views | 22 Jan 2012
 -> Biggest Bus in the world (in China, where else)
Megacities need mega buses.
41 views | 17 Jan 2012
 -> US$ 1 Million Roll Royce for China
Special edition. Targeted at the new millionaires.
50 views | 12 Jan 2012
 -> Stop the "SOPA" nonsense
A pathetic and mistaken endeavor by the fearful.
216 views | 11 Jan 2012
 -> Do you have the "mermaid spirit"?
To be freed from it, you might have to be in Texas.
263 views | 08 Jan 2012
 -> Name of the week
What were the parents thinking?
108 views | 06 Jan 2012
 -> Pentagon-backed ’time cloak’ makes event undetectable
Adds to experimental work in creating next-generation camouflage - a so-called invisibility cloak in which specific colours cannot be perceived by the human eye.
144 views | 05 Jan 2012
 -> Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget
So there's the thing we know best: The common and annoying experience of arriving somewhere only to realize you've forgotten what you went there to do. We all know why such forgetting happens: we didn’t pay enough attention, or too much time passed, or it just wasn’t important enough. But a “completely different” idea comes from a team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame. The first part of their paper’s title sums it up: “Walking through doorways causes forgetting.”
65 views | 29 Dec 2011
 -> Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?
"Americans in 1776 did have British accents in that American accents and British accents hadn’t yet diverged. That’s not too surprising. What’s surprising, though, is that those accents were much closer to today’s American accents than to today’s British accents. While both have changed over time, it’s actually British accents that have changed much more drastically since then."
137 views | 29 Dec 2011
 -> An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry
When Arunachalam Muruganantham decided he was going to do something about the fact that women in India can't afford sanitary napkins, he went the extra mile: He wore his own for a week to figure out the best design.
113 views | 19 Dec 2011
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