Thursday, May 26, 2011

Top Stories: Monday May 23, 2011 [Total Recap]

Top Stories: Monday May 23, 2011Gr?msv?tn Goes Boom | Watch this Icelandic volcano blow its top. From Space!

Top Stories: Monday May 23, 2011This Is What Happens When a 54,000-ton Ship's Brakes Fail

Last week, the 54,000-ton cargo ship RHL Fidelitas arrived to the port of Odessa in Ukraine. Everything looked good as the Liberian flag ship approached port until the main engine failed. Without power to reverse the propellers, the inevitable happened. More ?


Top Stories: Monday May 23, 2011The Inspiring Story of the 45-yo Woman Who Had Her Brain Completely Erased at Age 22

When Su Meck got hit with a ceiling fan and woke up one week later with a total memory loss, her husband Jim thought she "was Su 2.0. She had rebooted." More ?


Top Stories: Monday May 23, 2011Rapture Predictor's Website Gets Convenient Redesign

So what do you do when you spend a mammoth amount of time and money to warn people that the world is going to end-and it doesn't? Just pretend it never happened. More ?


Top Stories: Monday May 23, 2011Legendary Skater Tony Hawk (And Many Others) Joins Rapture Bomb Armageddon

So, the world didn't end. Sort of anticlimactic, no? But the apocalyptic letdown didn't stop you guys from pulling off some fantastic rapture bombs. We've got another batch of our favorite bombs-plus super grindmaster Tony Hawk rapturing himself. More ?


Top Stories: Monday May 23, 2011Cookies are Buildings Through the Eye of the Camera

Tower block in the late-afternoon sunset, or pink wafer cookies arranged to look like architecture? In Gary Bryan's photography series, everyday cookies are art-or rather, architecture. More ?


Top Stories: Monday May 23, 2011Area 51 Secrets: The US Military Used Fake Cardboard Cutouts of Planes to Fool the Russians

A lot of Cold War-era Area 51 documents have been declassified and National Geographic has discovered a rather low-tech method the US Military used to fool the Russians. It involved cardboard, the occasional heater and infrared satellites. More ?


Top Stories: Monday May 23, 2011The Only Time You Can Drink and Drive

Caztek Engineering has built a bike-bus that carries 14 people and moves by pedal power. As in, you sit and cycle to move the bus. The only redeeming thing? It's a moving bar-you're supposed to drink and drive. More ?


Top Stories: Monday May 23, 2011The Gran Telescopio Canarias Could Spot a Car's Headlights in Australia. From Spain.

Light degrades the second it hits our atmosphere, making terrestrial astronomy and the search for dim or distant stars tricky. The Gran Telescopio Canarias observatory is the world's largest single-aperture optical telescope, and it's got some ingenious ways to compensate. More ?


Top Stories: Monday May 23, 2011Apple Store Makeover: Yep, the iPad 2 Really Is the Product Label

The rumored Apple Store makeover is underway in Australia (they're many hours ahead of us) and it looks like iPad 2 has found its calling and has become the product label for Mac products in the Apple Store. More ?


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