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Russia wants to build tunnel to Alaska

Russia has proposed the building of a tunnel connecting Siberia with Alaska in the Bering strait. The project is estimated to take between 10 and 15 years to complete. It will also cost about $65 Billion to build. The tunnel, if built, would be huge. It would contain a high speed rail line, a full [ READ MORE ]

Graphite sculpture tools

Angelo Batle, an artist living in San Francisco, sculpts items using Graphite. Which means you can draw with his sculptures. Each of his sculptures are simple but elegant, and all can be used to draw as though they were an ordinary lead pencil. Check out his site: asbWorkshop Found via Cool Hunting: Agelio Batle: Graphite [ READ MORE ]

Voynich manuscript Images

The Voynich manuscript is a book that is thought to have been written sometime between 1450 and 1520. It is written in an unknown language using an unknown script. It was discovered in 1912 by a book dealer Wilfrid Voynich. No one has ever been able to decipher it. Some of the best cryptologists in [ READ MORE ]

E85 causes more smog than gasoline

The big news today is that Ethanol based fuels may actually be just as bad for the environment and for public health as Gasoline. In fact, Ethanol can even increase smog in some areas of the country. Ethanol is a plant, usually corn, based fuel that can be produced locally in our country. E85 is [ READ MORE ]

1400 year old Japanese business goes bankrupt

BusinessWeek has an interesting article on a Japanese business. The business was named Kongo Gumi. Up until last year It was the oldest continuously operating family business in the world. The business was a construction business that specialized in building temples in Japan. It was founded in 578 AD and finally went under due to [ READ MORE ]

Australian Lives under water for 12 days

An Australian scientist, Lloyd Godson, lived for 12 days in a sealed chamber under water. The chamber was only nine square meters wide. All the oxygen he needed for the entire time was generated by an Israeli-developed “Biocoil” system using algae. He generated his own electricity using an exercise bike. His goal was to prove [ READ MORE ]

Bleach spritz printing

I found a website that gives detailed instructions on printing designs on colored tshirts using Bleach. It looks really easy. All you do is print out the design you want on your tshirt on a sheet of paper. Cut out the shape and place it on the tshirt where you want it. Put a solution [ READ MORE ]

Daylight savings time change puts kid in jail for 12 days

School officials in trying to track down a bomb threat that was called in to a hot line at 4:17 am, arrested a kid who called in to the same schools information line at 3:12 am. It seems that the hotline’s logging function was not able to handle the daylight savings time change correctly. So [ READ MORE ]

The Great Turtle Race

A group of researchers from the Leatherback Trust, who study leatherback sea turtles have tagged a bunch of turtles with satellite tags and organized the first Sea turtle race. The turtles migrate every year from Costa Rica to the Galapagos islands. The researchers came up with the idea of a race to raise awareness of [ READ MORE ]

Contra-what?

Last night when I got home from playing soccer, I was too keyed up to go right to bed. So I ended up browsing the Internet for a while to unwind.I was browsing Del.icio.us and found this interesting article on one of the stranger aspects of the English language. Contronyms. Contronyms are words that can [ READ MORE ]