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Funny Shaped Fruits And Veggies Forgot To Be Plants
Funny Shaped Fruits And Veggies. You’d think that a carrot is a carrot, but that’s just not the case. Some carrots are just carrots, and others are also intergalactic superheroes. And we’ve got a series ...

Mysterious Alien Encounters Before Roswell
UFOs and alien encounters, from long before Roswell became synonymous with alien activity. ...

Franck Bohbot Captures Timeless New York City Landmarks At Night
Photographer Franck Bohbot presents Manhattan’s street corners and storefronts as symbolic portraits of the perpetual metropolitan pulse, throbbing luminously long after sundown. Captured over the course of almost two years, Bohbot's series called Light On ...

Stunning Underwater Photography by Christy Lee Rogers
Underwater photography. Hawaiian photographer Christy Lee Rogers creates beautiful scenes of swirling figures swathed in colorful fabrics. She creates luminous large-scale images not by using wet pigments, but rather by completely submerging her subjects in illuminated water ...

Quantum Particles And Entangled Time
Quantum particles. In the world you know, actions have causes and effects, objects exist as one thing or another, and everything is what it is whether you observe it or not. In the quantum world, ...

Those Times When Adorable Opossums Were The Unsung Heroes Of Cute
Adorable opossums. Instead of caving to the portrayal of possums as terrifying rat-like trash burglars, this collection of adorable possum pictures will change your mind. The cute possums of the world may carry their young around with them, but ...

You Have UFO Video Tapes But Did You Really See It?
You have ufo video tapes to back your sighting up! Groom Lake, Nevada A crowd of people wait in the chill darkness of the desert night near Groom Lake, Nevada for a brief glimpse of a ...

An Alien Called The Stenonychosaurus
Stenonychosaurus has been credited with being the most intelligent dinosaur. Compared with most others, it had a relatively large brain, although the excess brain volume was probably not concerned with reasoning and other activities that ...

The Truth About Magic Spells Real Cures Or Mind Over Matter
Magic spells real cures. For many thousands of years, civilizations all over the world have relied on their faith in spiritual or mystical powers to accomplish truly amazing feats. Long before modern medicine came on ...

Will Your Brain Evolve Or Regress In The Future?!
Brain evolve or regress. There has been speculation about THE BRAIN as long as we remember. It has been prodded, poked and has been subject to just plain head-scratching ever since our thoughts started to ...

What Will Happen When You Fall Into A Black Hole?
What, exactly, would happen if you fell into a black hole? You probably expect that you’d be crushed or be torn apart! But, according to BBC Earth, the story is actually much more bizarre than ...

Owner Finds Her Missing Cat After A Year, Now Twice The Size
Missing Cat. Clive, a Norwegian Forest cat, disappeared from his home in December 2014 and left his owners Tanya and Jonathan Irons devastated. The couple launched an appeal on Facebook and put up posters around ...

The Origins of Voodoo, the Misunderstood Religion
Voodoo. In A.D. 64, a great fire broke out in Rome for six days, and devastated much of the city. According to the writer Tacitus, “Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures ...

Telepathic Dogmen (Werewolves) Stalk Man In Pennsylvania
Telepathic dogmen (werewolves) stalk man in Pennsylvania. For sure, Pennsylvania is known for the weird and strange, but this latest eye-witness report serves up a tale with a different flavor. This time one of our favorite werewolves, ...

Single Guy Recreates His Twin Sister’s Baby Photos Using A Cat
Single guy recreates his twin sister’s baby photos using a cat. Gordy Yates never got anything for his twin sister for their birthday, but on their 28th, he decided to do something special – he ...

Magical Macro World Of Snails And Bugs
Magical world of snails. Vadim Trunov, a self-taught nature photographer based in Voronezh, Russia, takes beautiful macro photos of snails, insects and mushrooms that seem to personify them and weave beautiful little stories around these ...

You Asked For Freedom And You Got Feeling Imprisoned And Bad
In life we get what we ask for. Now you surely say that it isn’t true. You say you ask for freedom and happiness and all you got was feeling imprisoned and bad. Let’s have ...

The Important Matter Of Self Love And Relationships
Self love and relationships have changed greatly over time. It's not that true love is impossible, but quick dates, late nights and a lack of boundaries makes it less likely that an individual will find ...

Do Words Get Removed From A Dictionary If They Are Not Used?
Do words get removed from a dictionary if they are not used? The Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary [OED] is generally regarded as the single most comprehensive record of the English language to exist. Included in ...

Pieces That Are All the Same Solid Color By Pure Hell Puzzles
Looking for a real challenge in your life? Try Pure Hell, a maddening puzzle made up of extra tiny pieces that are all the same solid color, created by the sadistic minds at Beverly Japan. Pure ...

Denmark Strait Cataract. It Isn’t What You Think
Denmark Strait Cataract. What's the largest waterfall in the world? If you're talking by flow rate, it's Inga Falls. If you mean the tallest, it's Angel Falls. The widest? Khone Falls. But if you want ...

Beautiful Oil Pastel Drawings of Flowers Drenched In Golden Honey
Flowers drenched in golden honey. Brian Owens, based in Connecticut, creates large-scale oil pastel drawings of flowers. However, these aren’t your ordinary still-lifes. The series stimulates the viewer’s senses by depicting each hyperreal rose, lily, and peony drenched ...

Roswell: Another Point Of View
Was the Roswell event something else? Two key people were on hand to recover the debris from the Roswell saucer crash site: the base intelligence officer and a member of the Counter Intelligence Corps. Recovery ...

This Adorable Puppy Will Try EVERYTHING To Get His Stolen Bed Back
Don’t you just hate it when you’re looking forward to some quality relaxation time and you found out that someone stole your comfortable bed? Well, Pixel the French bulldog puppy certainly does. The 10-week-old French bulldog ...

“The Far Side of the World” by Josh Keyes
For more than several years now, Keyes has painted realistically-rendered portraits of animals, like something you’d see in a text book. Keyes is best known for his subject matter, and it’s not a surprise that he’s ...

Alluring Female Colored Pencil Portraits by Jennifer Healy
In these alluring drawings, American illustrator Jennifer Healy, uses colored pencils to blur the lines between fantasy and realism. Her technically stunning approach blends delicate lines into gorgeously detailed feminine portraits that have a dreamlike ...

Is It Possible To Do a Mind Transfer To Another Body?
Whole brain emulation (WBE), mind upload or brain upload (sometimes called "mind copying" or "mind transfer") is the hypothetical futuristic process of scanning the mental state (including long-term memory and "self") of a particular brain ...

Does Speed Reading Works?
Almost all of us are drowning in words. It’s no wonder that speed reading — which means to read at an increased speed with no loss of comprehension — is an increasingly popular recourse for ...

This Fox Family Of 7 Found A Delightful Playground To Relax And Play
Back in May, Shawn Davis - living in Illinois, USA - noticed the unusual sight of a pair of young foxes near his patio. “We first noticed 2 kits had visited one morning in the ...

How Fear Is Being Hardwired Inside The Brain
Although being scared may possibly not be a pleasant sensation, the capability to sense fear is clearly fairly essential, making certain that creatures respond accordingly to harmful circumstances. An interesting insight is provided by focusing on how ...

A natural wonder shaped by the wind – the Twisted Trees of Slope Point
On the most southernmost tip on New Zealand’s South Island is a place called Slope Point. It hosts some of the strangest-looking trees in the world. They are shaped by the relentless winds that constantly ...

A Dark Unseen Force Pushes The Milky Way Across The Universe
For the past 30 years, researchers have known that the Milky Way—our home galaxy—is moving at a relative speed. Until recently, they didn’t know why. They could only surmise that we were being pushed across ...

The Amityville Horror Story – Fact And Fiction
The Amityville Horror is a book by American author Jay Anson, published in September 1977. It is also the basis of a series of films released from 1979 onward. The book is claimed to be ...

The Most Bizarre Things That Was Found In Ice
The world is pretty awesome. Even in our modern age, it's full of hidden secrets like entire underground cities, and it's also full of some seriously desolate, brutal terrain that we haven't tamed yet. And ...

The Maid of Orléans : How Joan of Arc defeated the English
This young Frenchwoman was only 17 when she changed the destiny of the Kingdom of France. She campaigned for her country against the English without a thought for her safety and became the first female ...

Why Bruises Change Colors?
When you have a bruise, it seems to take forever to go away — especially as you watch it progress through a rainbow of red, blue, purple, black, green and yellow shades ...

Effects Of Insomnia On Your Health
Whether you have insomnia, or struggle to fall asleep, you already know that it is a miserable way to live. Why else would there be so many people looking for how to fall asleep? What ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a brain disorder that affects how you pay attention, sit still, and control your behavior. It happens in children and teens and can continue into adulthood. ADHD can't be ...

What Nanomaterials Are Used in Space?
Future space missions, that aim to reach Mars and beyond, will have to overcome many challenges before it can be achieved – and nanomaterials will play a critical role. From bio-nano robot-laced spacesuits to radiation ...

Health: ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a mental health disorder that can cause above-normal levels of hyperactive and impulsive behaviors. People with ADHD may also have trouble focusing their attention on a single task or ...

11 Transparent Creatures On Our Planet
There are strange and amazing creatures living in our world, and some of the most intriguing of these animals are the ones that are transparent. There are many types of species that have see-through bodies ...

Surreal Illustrations Telling Their Own Story by Andrew Ferez
Surreal illustrations. Moscow-based Russian illustrator Andrew Ferez, aka 25kartinok, creates surreal scenes, each with their own fantastical narratives, that seamlessly merge various opposing elements. Digitally drawing his elaborate renderings, Ferez’s work has a dark, fantasy-driven ...

Religious Cults That Changed The Course Of History
Religious Cults. Religion has been one of the great guiding forces in human history, along with geography, economics, and the desire to impress the opposite sex. Some faiths spread across the world and change the ...

Tread Lightly Around These Dangerous Female Gangsters
Dangerous female gangsters. When asked to describe a gang leader, many people will whip up ideas of nasty-looking men in suits, covered with notorious tattoos from whom you stay away as far as possible. That's ...

We are aware that sleep affects our health, but what does the way we sleep do?
Good posture is important throughout our daily lives: it matters how we sit, how we walk and so on. Though you’re unconscious, your posture at night while you sleep is also important, as how you ...

Will We, As Humans, Ever Find Aliens?
The age old question over one of life’s ultimate conundrums: with so many stars and potentially habitable planets out there, where are all the aliens? This is known as the Fermi Paradox. Design collective Kurz ...

Stunning Photos Of The Carefree Life Of This Adorable Cat (With Friend)
Adorable cat. Alessandra from Liguria, a beautiful region in Italy, has dedicated her Instagram to her pet cat and it was a very wise choice. Grisu, the adorable Kurilian Bobtail, is such a photogenic kitty, ...

Earth’s Magnetic Field ‘Preserved Habitability’ at Two Key Points in Planet’s History
Earth's magnetic field preserved the planet's habitability at two key points in its history, scientists have said. By developing a strong shield around the planet early after it formed, the magnetic field may have helped ...

The Origins Of Our Favorite Monster Myths
These days, monsters feel as American as apple pie. They star in our movies, and turn our Six Flags theme parks into Fright Nights. Tom Cruise fights them, and Kristen Stewart gets freaky with them ...

The Most Bizarre Alien Abduction Stories Of All Times
Alien abduction claims have become a godsend for science fiction writers, bored reporters, and stand-up comedians since the early 1950s. First-hand accounts of alien abductions number in the thousands, and it would seem that a ...

Deep Space Could Lead To Genetically Modified Humans
Deep space exploration could lead to the emergence of a new breed of genetically- or robotically-modified humans, a top astronomer has predicted. U.K. Astronomer Royal Martin Rees said that in future, some people may decide ...

Mimicking Earth’s greenhouse gases with aerogel could make Mars habitable
EARTH VERSUS MARS. Earth is basically perfect for human beings. The distance from the sun is right, the oxygen in the air is right and the atmosphere — containing necessary greenhouse gases and protecting us ...

Green Technology That Will Change The Future Of International Trade
GREEN TECHNOLOGY. As global warming and climate change continue to serve as threats to humanity, increasing numbers of people want to see green technology used more heavily in global trade. Those involved in an industry ...

Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud
The Man Sigmund Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. He was a physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist and influential thinker of the early twentieth century. He initially worked in close collaboration with Joseph Breuer. Freud formed ...

Tips To Increase Your Self Esteem And Confidence
Self esteem and confidence. Whenever one is beset by a situation that he or she is unsure of – facing someone admired, having to perform in front of an audience or simply talking to others ...

World War II Stories: Nazis Killed Her Husband, She Bought A Tank And Went On A Rampage
They say that “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” But if you take her love away, it gets a helluva lot worse – something the Germans would find out the hard way. Mariya ...

Greenbrier Ghost: Meet Elva Zona Heaster, The One And Only Ghost Who Solved Her Own Murder
You’ll never know what’s in store for you when you hear the true story of The Greenbrier Ghost. It is a remarkable case in which the victim’s spirit testified about its own violent death, and ...

Unexplained Mysteries Of Deep Space
Space is big and dark, and since there is no air, no one can hear you scream as you float away forever and ever and ever. But those are only the human-sized terrors that space ...

Hilarious Attempts To Break Out Of Prison That Failed
Nobody wants to be in prison — if they do, then the prison's doing it wrong. Plenty of prisoners have dreamed of escaping and living out their lives in freedom, but rarely do they get ...

Einstein’s Legacy: The Photoelectric Effect
Despite the popularity of Einstein's theories of relativity and his musings on black holes, Einstein's Nobel Prize in physics was actually awarded for his discovery of the photoelectric effect. This discovery revolutionized our understanding of ...