You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world” using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation. The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid -- toward better national health and wealth. Animated bell curves representing national income distribution squish and flatten. In Rosling’s hands, global trends — life expectancy, child mortality, poverty rates — become clear, intuitive and even playful.

Fascinating talk...

TED | Talks | Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen (video)

The severed lower left arm of a Taiwanese veterinarian is seen in the jaws of a crocodile, Wednesday, April 11, 2007, at the Shoushan Zoo in Kaohsiung, 350 kilometers (217 miles) south west of Taipei, Taiwan. Chang Po-yu's lower left arm was bitten off by the crocodile when he tried to pull a tranquilizer dart from the reptile's body. Two bullets were shot at the crocodile but it was unharmed. Chang went through emergency surgery to have his limb reattached. (AP Photo/Steve Chen)

ouch.

Crocodile severs zoo worker's arm on Yahoo! News Photos

If you eat animal crackers while thinking of mustard they taste really odd.

This alarm clock was covered on MemeStreams back when it was a prototype. Now its a product you can order! I think if I had this it would roll under my bed and it would be a huge pain to get it out.

The alarm clock that runs away and hides when you don't wake up. Clocky gives you one chance to get up. But if you snooze, Clocky will jump off of your nightstand and wheel around your room looking for a place to hide. Clocky is kind of like a misbehaving pet, only he will get up at the right time.

Clocky is now available for sale!

Makes storing your knives a cathartic experience!

We'll get right to the point with this product - it's a wicked cool design for a knife holder and certainly a lot more edgy than the standard old block of wood. We're not sure who the designer might have been thinking of when he created this but we definitely like the results. And it includes five knives!.

This unique artistic knife holder is made of heavy duty ABS plastic and will be the talk of the party! It's an innovative knife suspension system with individual protective knife sleeves for each blade. The five knives are made from heavy gauge durable stainless steel. The slots are magnetized to secure knives in the holder. Overall, we'd say The Ex Knife Set is very cutting edge!

Thank God for pictures on Memestreams!

-janelane

ThinkGeek :: The Ex - Unique Knife Holder

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But an exception is possible though: the one and only animal few have heard about before. It is called Liger, and it is a bizarre and rare combination of a tiger female and a lion male. Check out this video to convince yourself!

A liger resembles a giant lion with diffused stripes. They are the largest cats in the world, although the Siberian Tiger is the largest pure breed. Like tigers, but unlike lions, ligers enjoy swimming.

Ligers grow much larger than lions and even larger than the largest tigers, which can weigh in excess of 437 kg (976 lb). The largest non-obese Liger, known as Hercules is said to weigh over 544kg (1200 lb), well over twice the size of a male lion. Hercules was also featured in Maxim magazine article in 2005, when he was only 3 years old and already weighed 408 kg (900 lb) at the time. The liger is the largest animal in the cat family. feline family Felidae.

Neat. Looks like they'd make great pets. That thing would use my whole apartment as a litterbox.

Bigger Lions or Tigers Impossible? Watch this! - Science News - Playfuls.com - Science & Technology

Scientists on Wednesday changed the time on Chicago’s Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight, or the apocalypse, based on what they said is the “most perilous period since Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” during dual announcements in London and Washington, D.C.

"We foresee great peril if governments and societies don’t take action now” to offset climate change, said astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who has warned that the survival of the human race depends on its ability to colonize space because of the increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth.

People here have been saying the clock needed some winding for awhile now. It's official, the sky is falling.

MyFox WGHP | Countdown to the Apocalypse: Scientists Change Doomsday Clock

Tissue culture meets art = creepy and apparently delicious

The Tissue Culture & Art Project

Apple also said iTV will boast a comprehensive set of I/O connectors, from the computer-centric Ethernet, USB, and Wi-Fi to yesteryear's component video and today's more advanced HDMI and optical audio standards.

Following a personal preview of the device, Walt Disney chief executive and personal friend of Jobs, Robert Iger, disclosed that each unit will also include a "small hard drive" that will allow for some local content storage.

It'll be interesting to see how this competes with the Microsoft new DRM universe.

AppleInsider | Apple iTV availability to escape Macworld Expo

na na na na na na na na na na na na na......its batman, no, its russian intelligence....no.....its batman. Please someone tell me this is a joke

Boing Boing: Russia spy HQ has giant batman mural in floor