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June 1, 2013 7:06 AM
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Spread across some of the most beautiful land in Europe and the Middle East, Turkey is a huge country with a jaw-dropping number of incredible sights. Visiting all its highlights would be a project that takes a lot longer than 91 days. Luckily, there’s an alternative. Welcome to Miniaturk.
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June 1, 2013 7:04 AM
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Would you believe that a car can roll uphill when left in neutral? Or that pendulums, brooms and even people seem out of whack in certain places in the world? We’re taking a closer look at gravity hills and mystery spots to see what they are all about.
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May 31, 2013 6:48 AM
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Chances are you're typing on a keyboard as you read this. But could you imagine typing on a set of keys like the ones above?
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May 31, 2013 6:46 AM
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However, this year the weighty cheese was replaced with a lighter foam version in a gesture towards making the event a little more health and safety conscious. Just a little. The event is, as you can imagine, never without casualties. However, cheese rolling has always been exuberantly amateur in nature and everyone who participates is well aware of the risks that they take. To grab and win the cheese is, it seems, worth the potential hazards of lunging headlong down a hill at breakneck speed.
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May 30, 2013 5:54 AM
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It’s kind of ironic that Tommy Chong, the smokiest half of Cheech and Chong, is so closely associated with rolling papers. Sure the character he played on stage and in the movies was endlessly smoking fatties, and the comedy duo’s second album, “Big Bambu,” 1972, opened up like a booklet of Bambu rolling papers, with a Cheech and Chong-watermarked sheet inside. Then, in 1978, the pair was rolled into a joint for the poster advertising their film debut, “Up In Smoke.”
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May 29, 2013 2:06 PM
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The stainless steel sculpture named Cloud Gate opened in Chicago's Millennium Park in 2005. Known to most people as 'The Bean', the sculpture's highly polished surface and odd shape makes it perfect for a fascinating photograph in all sorts of...
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May 29, 2013 2:05 PM
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India has a population of over a billion and our ideas about the country are often informed by that statistic. Yet there are places on the sub-continent which are still almost inaccessible. Meghalaya in the north east of the country is home to mountainous subtropical forests. In order to get around, local people have come up with an ingenious form of natural engineering – the living root bridge.
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May 28, 2013 12:42 PM
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photo by Ra Chandroo This humorous fish-shaped building is a regional office for the National Fisheries Development Board located near Hyderabad, India. According to Outlook India, the 4-story buil...
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May 28, 2013 12:41 PM
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Since 1970, only a handful of incredibly lucky people have walked away as the sole survivors of commercial airline crashes. Often described by the media as miracles in the flesh, these individuals lived through astonishing circumstances to cheat death – but the aftermath, the trauma and the long road to recovery are far from glamorous.
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May 28, 2013 12:39 PM
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Most musical instruments look a little weird, if you stare at them for long enough. When aliens finally make contact, they'll be confused by our habit of gripping wood and metal structures and throttling sound out of them.
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May 27, 2013 9:58 AM
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Photographer Joshua Lambus has put together a beautiful series of photographs showing luminous creatures of the deep glowing with light against a pitch
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May 27, 2013 9:56 AM
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Until the 18th century it was often mistaken for tin or lead. Yet once refined in to its purest form it becomes a thing of great beauty. About twice as abundant as gold, the chance are you have come unwittingly in to contact with it if you have ever had a minor digestive upset. As a bismuth oxide core structure with salicylate ions attached to the surface (uh huh) you probably know it as Pepto-Bismol. What you see here is the chemical element bismuth in crystalline form.
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May 26, 2013 10:08 PM
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Details - heart of every decorating scheme.
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June 1, 2013 7:05 AM
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You’re late. You’re stuck in traffic. It’s bumper to bumper, and there’s no escape. How many times have you been in a seemingly never-ending jam and fantasized that your car could just take off and fly away? It’s a dream many gridlocked drivers in a hurry have envisaged at some point. But for some, it was more than a dream. It was an ambition.
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June 1, 2013 7:02 AM
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Cars that can do more than run on roads are a popular idea, and here at TG we’ve covered both historical flying cars and their more contemporary counterparts. However, if you’re afraid of heights or simply adore being on the water, these seven incredible amphibious vehicles may be more to your liking.
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May 31, 2013 6:48 AM
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Medical students in the United Kingdom of the nineteenth century faced a quandary. They had been accustomed to using the corpses of executed criminals to study anatomy.
The use of the corpses of the convicted to discover the secrets of human anatomy dates back to the 4th century BC, when Herophilos and Erasistratus of Alexandria were given permission to perform live vivisections. The times, however, had changed and criminals were now only dissected after execution. Yet there was a problem..
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May 30, 2013 5:54 AM
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Guttation is the exudation of drops of sap (xylem) on the tips or edges of leaves of some vascular plants, such as grasses. Guttation is not to be confused with dew, which condenses from the...
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May 29, 2013 2:07 PM
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It’s almost a cliché. Most kids dream about wearing a spacesuit and launching into the mysterious, awe-inspiring realms of outer space. And with iconic heroes like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to look up to, it’s small wonder. Yet Armstrong, Aldrin and all the other famous American astronauts aren’t the only ones to have taken groundbreaking steps in the history of space exploration. On the other side of the Cold War divide, the Soviet Union kept itself busy as well. Here’s a look at 10 Soviet cosmonauts who realized their dreams of becoming astronauts – embarking on careers that are like the stuff of storybooks. From the first man and woman to venture into space, to the first cosmic explorer to come down with space sickness, these adventurers remain true champions of the stars.
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May 29, 2013 2:05 PM
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In 1945 George Orwell wrote, “We were once told that the aeroplane had ‘abolished frontiers’; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious...
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May 29, 2013 2:04 PM
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Now that the Spirit of LeMons is tagged and insured, I figured I might as well melt some brains at my local dragstrip (Maryland International Raceway) by showing up to race the street legal class in an airplane. I drove it the 40 minutes to the track, generating big smiles and thumbs up the whole way. I stopped outside the track at the ticket booth, and immediately heard the announcer excitedly yelling over the PA that an airplane had just arrived to the track. He told the crowd "There's an AIRPLANE pulling in to the track, folks! An actual airplane! If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'!"
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May 28, 2013 12:42 PM
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In 1872 two men began work on a lexicon of words of Asian origin used by the British in India - it records a huge debt English owes to the subcontinent.
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May 28, 2013 12:40 PM
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The entire history of the computer mouse from its humble beginning as a wooden box to Apple's wireless mice.
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May 27, 2013 9:59 AM
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From the wind tunnels the made commercial aviation possible to the analog machines that preceded the computer, a visual history of the spiri
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May 27, 2013 9:57 AM
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These famous business leaders found out that sometimes, it seems, getting fired can be just the motivation you need to succeed.
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May 26, 2013 10:40 PM
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