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- Apparently some spiders hunt in packs. You've been warned. (video) (9 comments)
- Tamron Hall Ends Tim Carney's Spin Doctoring By Tossing Him Off Her Show | Crooks and Liars (4 comments)
- Man pulled over for being radioactive (4 comments)
- Jack The Ripper, Was Murderer Really A Woman? (10 comments)
- An incisive design solution: The spider's venomous fang (7 comments)
Apparently some spiders hunt in packs. You've been warned. (video)
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:42 PM EDT (io9)
Arachnophobes can usually take comfort in the fact that spiders are solitary creatures. The vast majority of the almost 40,000 known arachnid species have pretty miserable social skills, so they tend keep mostly to themselves.
Tamron Hall Ends Tim Carney's Spin Doctoring By Tossing Him Off Her Show | Crooks and Liars
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 1:59 AM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
Tamron Hall lost her temper at the right wingers who tried really hard to distract everyone from Mitt Romney's bullying ways and more importantly, his disingenous denials and half-apologies.
Darwin’s Creepiest Experiment Brought Back to Life
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:59 PM EDT (Wired News)
Charles Darwin liked to freak out his friends—for science. Guests visiting the famed naturalist in 1868 were shown a set of “ghoulish” photos of a guy being prodded in the face with an electrical current. Darwin then asked his guests-cum-guinea pigs to describ …
Man pulled over for being radioactive
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:36 PM EDT (io9)
Last Wednesday, Mike Apatow was getting on to Interstate 84 in Newtown, CT, when police stopped him for no reason he could determine. When the cop told him that his car had set off his radioactivity detectors, it started making sense: Apatow was most certainly radioactive.
An incisive design solution: The spider's venomous fang
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 6:23 PM EDT (Science Daily)
Among the factors that make spiders successful predators is the ingeniously composed and structured material of their fangs. Although their armour consists of the same material as their predator's fangs, flies, grasshoppers and other insects that are the usual prey of spiders …
10 Ridiculously Unsettling Old-Timey Robots
Seeded on Thu May 10, 2012 1:04 AM EDT (io9)
Nowadays everyone hems and haws about the uncanny valley, but we don't realize how good we have it in the 21st century. Decades ago, anthropomorphic machines and animal-like automata straddled the line between goofy and "I did not sign up for this." Here's some irrefutable proo …
A Horror Movie that Knows the Scariest Thing is Losing Your Mind
Seeded on Thu May 10, 2012 12:46 AM EDT (io9)
There have been a lot of horror movies that have probed the line between madness and the supernatural lately — but Lovely Molly, coming out in limited release on May 18, might be the most interesting of the bunch. It's a look at a blue-collar protagonist who moves back in …
Jack The Ripper, Was Murderer Really A Woman?
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 3:26 PM EDT (huffingtonpost)
Ian Findlay, a professor of molecular and forensic diagnostics, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that he had developed a profiling technique that could extract DNA from a single cell or strand of hair up to 160 years old. Conventional DNA sampling methods require at …
Man found sobbing in street after 36-hour ordeal with German nymphomaniac - Mirror Online
Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 10:36 PM EDT (Mirror.co.uk)
BEFORE YOU READ THIS STORY, HAVE AN OXYGEN TANK STANDING BY!!!!!!!!
The Nastiest Critters Lurking Outside Your Tent
Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 3:01 PM EDT (smithsonianmagazine)
Give me a rainstorm in the night, a herd of pigs trampling past, even a bear—but if I’m camping without a tent, spare me the bugs. Because it’s the little things in the woods that creep many of us out the most, and the thing is, not all of them are so little&m …
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