Stories tagged Amazing Fact
A bear at an Alaskan Subway: Did it want a six- or 12-inch sub?
I think it was about a year ago when there was report of a coyote found sitting inside a downtown Chicago Subway restaurant. Now here's video of an Alaskan black bear coming into and checking out the scene of an Alaska Subway shop. It appears, however, that he/she didn't find anything appealing to his/her tastes. The important thing to learn from this video: the bathrooms are the safest location in any Subway shop.
Tags : I'm not sure what to make of this but whatever it means it's pretty dang cool and also beautiful to watch: dolphins forming bubble rings out of their blowholes and playing with them underwater. Who'dathunk? I checked with the Snopes site to see if wasn't some sort of manipulated video, but they said it's true. Snopes also cites research published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology and has a pdf file of the article you can download.
Another video showing the same amazing phenomenon can be found here.
Fly like an eagle: Here's a photo of Jet Man (aka Yves Rossy) in flight with his jet-pack wings last summer.
Courtesy Fusion ManYou might remember this video of a guy flying in the air with a jet pack on his back. According to National Geographic, he's attempting a world record for personal jet flight by flying across the English Channel today. Keep your eyes and ears posted for video of this amazing flight.
UPDATE: Check the comments section here for information on how Jet Man did on his cross-channel journey, plus other Jet Man goodies.
Penny change: The cent piece gets redesigned to commemorate Lincoln's bi-centennial
Lincoln learning: One of the new penny backs will show the young Abe Lincoln studying while splitting rails in Indiana.
Courtesy U.S. MintThe Buzz has buzzed in the past with talk about pennies – their usefullness and efficiency in being part of monetary system. It looks like they'll be around for at least another year as the U.S. Mint has released sketches showing the redesigns of the back of the penny that will commemorate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. And here's the link the U.S. Mint website that will give you close-ups of the new penny backs.
The Un-ending mobious strip!!!
Enjoy. this is what would happen if the CERN experiment went all but right. ENJOY!!
dude, how do you post a vidoe in a post?
Ya know those "blendtec" blender commercials? Well, I got a Blendtec, and all those "Will It Blend"? videos are TRUE! And yes, this SHOULD count as science :D
Guitarist for Queen
Studies tiny asteroids
O, Galileo!
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A graduate student at MIT has developed software that will help emergency managers plan better, safer, more efficient evacuations.
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