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Oldest Living Thing Discovered by Scientists, Is Relatively Ordinary

DNA sequencing has located the oldest living thing on Earth, and scientists say that is... some seagrass. Very anticlimactic, yes, but the discovery seems to have unearthed a plant that is far older than the previous oldest living ... continue

[Video] Everything About Coffee, Ever

This instructional video is not only quite interesting, but you internet people might recognize some geeky shoutouts. [via TDW] continue

The United States of Facebook: Whopping 96% of Americans Under 50 on the Social Network

Taken out of the context of Facebook's ubiquity, the 96% figure in itself is pretty astounding. Do 96% of Americans eat at McDonald's? Drink Starbucks? Shop at Target? Then again, the study that yielded the findings was a ... continue

Can Video Screens Be Hacked in Times Square?

A video has appeared on YouTube alleging to show hacking of video screens in Times Square using nothing more than an iPhone and a video transmitter. According to the blurb for the video: "the way it works is pretty ... continue

Falling in love takes a fifth of a second, has rush ‘like cocaine’

Have you ever fallen in love almost instantly? More levelheaded folks might scoff at the idea of love at first sight, but scientists say it happens and that 'first sight' can be a rather short period of time. ... continue

Porn, Now Available For The Blind

A Canadian artist has created what could possibly be a world first: a porn book for the blind. Tactile Mind is "is a handmade thermoform book consisting of 17, 2-D tactile photographs on white thermoform plastic pages with ... continue

Fixing a broken NYC… with Legos?

New York City is a strange and wonderful place, made all the more bizarre by the fact that its 8 million inhabitants are confined to the tiny island of Manhattan- posing difficulties in reinforcing an infrastructure that's ... continue

Gorgeous stats video on “the state of the internet”

The exponential growth of the internet never fails to amaze me. Every year, you think it couldn't possibly be more influential, or huge, or humanity uniting, and then you see videos like this one. Plus, it's done in ... continue

Today in online dating: men are “ageist,” everyone’s racist

OKCupid is interesting for a variety of reasons, one being that they don't bombard us with suicidal thought-inducing commercials that could be mistaken for Cialis ads, featuring depressing people frolicking on a boat. Another cool thing is the ... continue

The past decade, as described by 9-year-olds

It's oft repeated and likely untrue that there's an old Chinese "curse"- "may you live in interesting times." The years between 2000 and 2010- while certainly interesting- have also been largely a dazzling mosaic of suck. Wars, unrest, ... continue

NASA says water found in moon crater

The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), the robot drone that famously crashed into the moon on the same day Barack Obama was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize this year, has uncovered ... continue

Feds ease up on cancer-stricken tokers

Medical marijuana has evolved into a state vs. federal law argument, with the notable example of a thriving medical marijuana industry in California. Aside from California, 13 other states allow use of marijuana for medical reasons ranging from ... continue