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More Than You Thought You’d Want To Know About Time Zones

The BBC has a really interesting section today about time zones. Time zones? Interesting? How? Well, you don’t really think much about time zones, but there are interesting stories behind… more

Shark Poop!

Here’s a Fun Nature Fact of which I never really thought before I happened upon this article while looking for items for my day job: Sharks poop. Okay, we kinda… more

Hacking The Kinect To Help Guide The Blind

The Kinect is inspiring a lot of hacking — getting it to work with a PS3, for example — but some folks are seeing it as something that can enable… more
 

Visit Lovely Saturn

Wow. NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is always good, but this one… it’s a series of photographs taken by the Cassini spacecraft as it approached Saturn. It is not… more

What Part Of ‘Science Fiction’ Don’t You Understand? Oh, ‘Fiction.’ Right

This kinda slipped past everyone last week, but a study by Birmingham Science City in the U.K. found that a lot of people believe… well, they believe a lot… more

As If Talking While Chewing Wasn’t Annoying Enough

Would you like your meals to sound like the Doctor Who theme, or maybe “Good Vibrations”? Here’s your chance: Someone’s created forks that double as mini-theremins. No, really, the EaTheremin,… more
 

Philematology Made Easy

Here’s everything you’ll ever need to know about kissing, including stats and science (calories burned, bacteria, and more), in a handy video of less than two minutes from GOOD Magazine:… more

Look At The Sun

Over at Discover Magazine, Chris’ friend Phil Plait (aka @badastronomer) points us to this pretty astonishing detailed photo of the sun by Alan Friedman at his Averted Imagination site. The… more

Not CGI: The Balloon House From ‘Up,’ Live Action Version

Yes, someone replicated the balloon-lifted house from Pixar’s “Up.” For real, or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof: It’s from an upcoming National Geographic Channel show called “How Hard Can… more