Posted by rappin in Bizarre on 06 23rd, 2009 | 3 Comments
Top 10 Strangest Anti-Terrorism Patents
Technology has always played a big role in fighting terrorism. Some inventions are truly useful and will undoubtedly save lives, whereas others are so bizarre that one wonders how in the world they got patented. This list is about the latter: Behold the Top 10 Strangest Anti-Terrorism...
Posted by rappin in Culture on 06 22nd, 2009 | 24 Comments
The 20 Greatest Historical Myths
It is said that those who don’t know history are condemned to repeat it – and as any history buff can tell you, much of history is something you would NOT want to repeat. However, many well-known historical “facts” are myths, with no basis in fact. Here (and in the next few segments)...
Posted by rappin in Science and Technology on 06 21st, 2009 | 1 Comment
Deadly Poisons, Ingested or Inhaled
1. Botulinum (ingested)
It’s hard to rank the lethality of toxins, but experts agree that botulinum – several orders of magnitude deadlier than sarin – is the gold standard. Your nervous system fails and you die in extreme pain. Works miracles on wrinkles, though.
2. Ricin (ingested or inhaled)
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The 10 Biggest Intellectual Fights Of All time
In our modern, scientific world it is sometimes easy to forget that human progress often comes attached to some spectacular intellectual clashes between different ways of looking at things and differing interpretations of what is seen. There have been some notable intellectual mind-fights over the millennia,...
Posted by rappin in WTF? on 06 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Collection of the most expensive and most worthless items in the world
A new blog, maybeyoushouldntbuythat.com, publishes pictures of ridiculously expensive products. Describing itself as “a collection of the most expensive and most worthless items in the world” it is proof that some people really do have more money than sense. Among the items on...
Posted by rappin in Science and Technology on 06 11th, 2009 | 5 Comments
13 Unsolved scientific puzzles
We investigated some of the most puzzling anomalies of modern science, those intractable problems that refuse to conform to the theories. Here he counts down the 13 strangest.
1. MOST OF THE UNIVERSE IS MISSING
We can only account for 4 per cent of the cosmos
If you’re wondering what the LHC might...
