One of the professional athlete’s favorite ways to raise money for charity is via cereal. For whatever reason, athletes just love taking their face and jersey, putting those things on the cover of a box of off-brand cereal, and giving the money (or a portion of the money) to charity. Doug Flutie did it with […]
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America’s Brainiest Cities
Posted 10/01/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganSmart people tend to gravitate to one another. Bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, doctoral degrees, and other post-graduate education certificates are all signs of, if not intelligence, then at least training and a willingness to endure several years of boring, difficult, useless crap in the name of proving intelligence and landing employment. So, where are these […]
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Prehistoric Giant Penguins
Posted 10/01/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganPeople just love penguins. From their little waddling feet to their black and white tuxedo coats, they’re just adorable. Even the largest of the penguins, the Emperor Penguin, is seriously adorable. However, what about a penguin that’s as tall as a person? Is that still adorable? What if that penguin has a super-long beak? At […]
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Google Street View Now On All Seven Continents
Posted 10/01/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganThere’s nowhere so remote as to escape the watchful eye of Google’s Street View cameras. Street View, an offshoot of Google Maps, is Google’s effort to take pictures of every street in the world, or at least a lot of the streets in the world, to provide a car’s-eye view of the world. Now, thanks […]
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The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
Posted 10/01/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganHow do you get three Nobel Prize-winning scientists to put bras on their faces? Well, you make them presenters at the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize. That’s where Roy Glauber (Physics, 2005), Sheldon Glashow (Physics, 1979), and James Muller (Peace, 1985), were caught modeling one of 2009’s winners, the gas-mask bra. This year’s winners didn’t include […]
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The World’s Most Remote Hotels
Posted 10/01/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganWelcome to the place where sleeping with the fishes isn’t a threat, it’s a privilege. After all, you’ve paid to sleep there, so you may as well enjoy it! The above-pictured hotel, the Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida, tops the Forbes list of most remote hotels. In case you can’t tell, the hotel […]
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