Friday, March 07, 2008

Good Stuff to Know

National Geographic currently has a movie playing in IMAX theaters called Sea Monsters, A Prehistoric Adventure. To go along with it, they have the Sea Monsters Interactive Timeline online. Click on a time period, then on dofferent areas of the world map to see prehistoric seamonsters, some with 3D views. (via the Presurfer)

Kiplingers has released a car buyer’s guide. Their picks are broken into categories (including used cars) and price ranges.

Flunking the Pepsi Challenge. The company has a long history, but do all corporations make this many missteps?

WR 104 is a binary star on the brink of exploding, possibly into gamma-ray bursts, which can send a narrow beam of destructive rays to far away planets. Here’s why we shouldn’t worry about it.

A new study shows it’s not always best to keep your options open. But people want to anyway, because it’s painful to loose one. (via Neatorama)

7 Insane Conspiracies That Actually Happened. If these plots were from the movies instead of history, you’d say they weren’t believable.

Does your computer or entertainment system look like a chaotic spaghetti factory? Then read the Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control.

Deliberate flooding in the Grand Canyon. After damming up the Colorado River, we have to artificially recreate natural floods to keep the ecosystem the way nature intended it.

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has working circuit boards for their new business cards. See how they made it, what it can do, and how you can design one yourself.

The legend of Hermaphroditus doesn’t quite explain why some people are born intersexual, but it’s a gripping tale anyway.

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