The Easter Island "Heads" Have Bodies

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 5:34 PM EDT (Mental Floss)

Seeded by Michael Sautter (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

Maybe this isn’t a newsflash to anyone but me, but, um, the Moai “heads” on Easter Island have bodies. Because some of the statues are set deep into the ground, and because the heads on the statues are disproportionately large, many people (myself included) te …

history, archaeology, easter-island

It's nature, not nuture: personality lies in genes, twins study shows

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 3:59 PM EDT (Telegraph)

Seeded by cwmccabe (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

Genes play a greater role in determining key personality traits like social skills and learning ability than the way we are brought up by our parents, researchers claimed. The findings contradict the existing belief among psychologists that the environment we grow up in plays …

twins, science, genes, psychology, human-evolution, personality, twin-studies

90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayers Bee-Decimating Pesticide

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 3:24 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)

Seeded by rescue dogs62 (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

As I've written before, Bayer's neonicotinoid pesticides, which now coat upwards of 90 percent of US corn seeds and seeds of increasing portions of other major crops like soy, have emerged as a likely trigger for colony collapse disorder One of my biggest comp …

monsanto, crops, us-news, monopolies, big-corporations, bayer-corporation, bee-death, colony-die-off, corn-seed

Too much sugar can make you dumb, U.S. scientists say

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 12:15 PM EDT (Ottawa Citizen)

Seeded by Red Leaf (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

Eating too much sugar can eat away at your brainpower, according to U.S. scientists who published a study Tuesday showing how a steady diet of highfructose corn syrup sapped lab rats' memories.

sugar, science, brain, insulin, omega-3, dha, fatty-acids, brainpower, highfructose

Mexico unearths monolith of Aztec God

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 10:39 AM EDT (- Story - Environment/Sci - 3 News)

Seeded by Par4TheCourse (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

Archaeologists in Mexico made a dramatic discovery in the state of Morelos when they uncovered an 8th century monolith featuring an Aztec God weighing 60 tonnes

history, mexico, odd-news, archaeologists, morelos, aztec-god, 8th-century-monolith

Fascinating Facts Game 9 (Inventions)

Wed May 16, 2012 9:38 AM EDT

By T1Truth (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

Welcome to game 9 of Fascinating Facts. This game is dedicated to odd inventions that were released between 1920 and 1940. Below you will find 5 images of these inventions and polls to vote for what you believe these inventions are. Please answer the questions to the best of your …

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entertainment, games, fun, trivia, inventors, inventions, invention, inventor, fascinating-facts, odd-inventions

How the Ancient Egyptians understood binary stars 3,200 years ago - and their calculations have helped solve a modern dilemma | Mail Online

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 5:16 AM EDT (the Mail online)

Seeded by anonymous-1077600 (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

Startling evidence suggests the ancient Egyptians understood the inner mechanics of a binary star system, spinning through our skies 93 light years away, more than 3,200 years ago.

science, math, calculations, atronomy, greek-gods, egyptians, egyptian-gods, algol, binary-star-system, demon-star

New evidence suggests Stone Age hunters from Europe discovered America - Americas - World - The Independent

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 1:45 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)

Seeded by space guy (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

Well there goes a political narrative about who is a native American......

indians, politics, science, archeology, native-americans

Apparently some spiders hunt in packs. You've been warned. (video)

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:42 PM EDT (io9)

Arachnophobes can usually take comfort in the fact that spiders are solitary creatures. The vast majority of the almost 40,000 known arachnid species have pretty miserable social skills, so they tend keep mostly to themselves.

social, kill, science, spiders, silk, pack, skills, prey, hunts, webs

Parakeet Tells Police His Address

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 1:54 PM EDT (zoenature.org)

Piko-chan flew out of the window of his home near Tokyo, and couldn’t find his way back. So he did the next best thing – stopping off at a nearby hotel and landing on the shoulder of one of the guests. The hotel called the police, who took Piko-chan into “pr …

bird, police, odd-news, tokyo, address, talked, parakeet, flew, piko-chan

Killer of 3 tells AP: Nothing to say to survivor

Tue May 15, 2012 11:45 AM EDT

By John Christoffersen, Associated Press (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

The Connecticut killer who once called himself one of the most hated men in America said in a death row interview that he tries not to think about the murder of a suburban mother and her two daughters, suffers no nightmares and has nothing to say to the only survivor of the brutal 2007 attack.

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us, home, invasion, us-news, home-invasion

Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says -

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 10:51 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Seeded by bonos_rama (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

He was the spitting image of the killer, had the same first name and was near the scene of the crime at the fateful hour: Carlos DeLuna paid the ultimate price and was executed in place of someone else in Texas in 1989, a report out Tuesday found.

texas, killer, politics, execution, justice, death-penalty, murder, lethal-injection, law-enforcement, mexican

Two dolphins dead after ingesting synthetic heroin

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 5:48 PM EDT (io9)

Forensics experts say that two Swiss dolphins died of an overdose, presumably after some idiots fed them a synthetic opiate during a two-day rave (there is some dispute as to whether the dolphins' death had anything to do with the rave, as the deaths occurred weeks after the ev …

switzerland, deaths, dolphins, science, party, heroin, biology, forensics, rave, toxicology

Why Some Male Orangutans Never Want to Grow Up

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 1:06 PM EDT ()

In Interview with the Vampire, Claudia, portrayed by Kirsten Dunst in the movie version, becomes a vampire at age 6. Six decades later, she still has the body of a child but the thoughts and desires of a grown woman. In this way, orangutans are kind of like vampires. They have …

sex, science, male, females, offspring, orangutans, puberty, maturity, immaturity, sex-characterisctics

Darwin’s Creepiest Experiment Brought Back to Life

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:59 PM EDT (Wired News)

Charles Darwin liked to freak out his friends—for science. Guests visiting the famed naturalist in 1868 were shown a set of “ghoulish” photos of a guy being prodded in the face with an electrical current. Darwin then asked his guests-cum-guinea pigs to describ …

science, brain, darwin, experiment, emotions

Can peeing in a lake really kill fish?

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:38 PM EDT (io9)

There's been a story kicking around in the news recently about a fight in Hamburg, Germany, where recreational swimmers have supposedly killed fish by peeing in Eichbaum Lake, making fishermen really (get ready) pissed off. Reading this set off my potential-Internet-baloney ala …

lake, fish, science, urine, fishermen, pee, swimmers

Man pulled over for being radioactive

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:36 PM EDT (io9)

Last Wednesday, Mike Apatow was getting on to Interstate 84 in Newtown, CT, when police stopped him for no reason he could determine. When the cop told him that his car had set off his radioactivity detectors, it started making sense: Apatow was most certainly radioactive.

science, heart, cardiology, stress-test, radioactivty, radioactivity-detectors

Innocent people may have been framed for murder...by bugs?

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:27 PM EDT (io9)

A couple of years ago, a 28-year-old man ran into trouble in the scenic Brenta River near Padova, Italy. Witnesses saw him struggling in the water; soon after, he drowned.

death, body, science, murder, bugs, forensics, entomology, fresh-water, forensic-scientist, stefano-vanin

'Family Guy' Does the Tea Party

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:22 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)

Seeded by Soph0571 (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

Peter joins the Tea Party to get rid of the annoying government, only to find the "grassroots" organization run by his billionaire father-in-law Cater Pewterschmidt for his own evil ends. (SPOILER ALERT: After dispensing with their local government and the ensuing chaos the res …

politics, family-guy, humour, tea-party

60 facts you didn't know about Queen Elizabeth II

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 8:04 AM EDT (CTV News)

Seeded by Lucien Alexandre Marion (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, a most gracious and a most charming Lady.

world-news

: Michelle Obama Thought Oprah Had Gone Too Far- And Shunned Her Because She Was Fat

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 3:08 AM EDT (the Mail online)

Seeded by rescue dogs62 (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

Michelle Obama orders women close to her husband to be watched in case he cheats on her like John F Kennedy did to his wife, a new book claims. The First Lady is supposedly ‘unusually jealous’ and has so little trust in Barack Obama that she turns up unannounced du …

white-house, politics, president, oprah-winfrey, couple, jealous, michelle-obama, president-obama

Houston lawyer on quest to find missing moon rocks

Sun May 13, 2012 1:35 PM EDT

By Michael Graczyk, Associated Press (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

The dark suit and tie Joe Gutheinz wore set him apart from other customers inside a Texas eatery where the usual attire is jeans and cowboy hats.

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us, rock, science, hunter, moon-rock, former-nasa, joe-gutheinz

BBC News - Sandwich celebrates 250th anniversary of the sandwich

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 8:28 PM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

Seeded by Richard Farmer (Clipped by Darrah, Greenville, SC)

When John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, ordered beef served between slices of bread about 250 years ago he probably did not think his request would become a global convenience meal. The story goes that the Earl asked for the particular serving so that he could eat whil …

history, sandwich

An incisive design solution: The spider's venomous fang

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 6:23 PM EDT (Science Daily)

Among the factors that make spiders successful predators is the ingeniously composed and structured material of their fangs. Although their armour consists of the same material as their predator's fangs, flies, grasshoppers and other insects that are the usual prey of spiders …

predators, nature, research, science, spiders, insects, biology, prey, material, fangs

Deadly Frog Gets New Sanctuary

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 6:11 PM EDT (Discovery.com)

The golden poison dart frog, which is arguably the world's most poisonous animal, is now residing in the first ever sanctuary established to save the deadly, yet endangered, amphibian. The poison of this frog is so toxic that even coming into contact with a paper towel that ha …

endangered, science, biology, frogs, amphibians, toxin, ecosystem, poision, sancutary, poision-dart-frogs

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