Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)

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A feature on the world's Ten Most Amazing Temples. My personal favorites are Borobodur and the spectacular Tiger's Nest Monastery in Bhutan.

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"The QI Book of Animal Ignorance is conceived as a sort of modern bestiary, one based on zoological fact rather than myth or hearsay. Unlike its medieval counterparts, it teaches only one unambiguous truth: that the word “natural” is meaningless. To prove it, here are 25 animals (the book features 100), all of them quite interesting. Their strategies for feeding, reproducing or just getting about are so utterly, gloriously perverse that you end up believing anything is possible."

Satying awake by switching brain hemispheres.

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Frisky Dingo is doing some funny political satire. "Get on the bus! Also, we need a bus."

[Wycoval]

Beaver tail is supposed to taste like roast beef.

Wrong. Beaver tail is a fatty, gelatinous mass that tastes like "a large chunk of good tasting lard/tire mix" while it is the beaver's meat that tastes like roast beef (I can vouch for that).

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Ko Htike blogs the uprising in Burma and the insane behaviour of the junta. Amazing stuff.

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Underground and underwater wonders of the world. The first link features, among other things, the underground Australian village of Coober Pedy. There is some Graham Hancock-esque zaniness at the second link (the "city" in the Bay of Cambay may not be not as old as has been claimed and may not even be a city, the "Antarctic Atlantis" theory is likely bunk) but some good stuff, too. Also check out urban abandonments.

[frumpwallow]

Artist sentenced for secret apartment in mall

[Shm Jay]

The praying hands are actually holding money.

[Shm Jay]

News flash! The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture is not in charge of robots.

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When I first read the headline to the Wikipedia story, I thought the Japanese had assigned people to edit Wikipedia and that they were shirking this duty. And that made perfect sense...

The amazingly cool art of David Ho.

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Gay bomb scoops Ig Nobel award.

[makvas]

Linguistics - A University of Barcelona team for showing that rats are unable to tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and somebody speaking Dutch backwards.

Lol...

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Argh, why's this computer virus so cute?

And, nude Belgian politician promises 400,000 jobs. (NSFW)

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I remember the blowjob political campaign from a while back. Sort of funny, but makes me sad.

Artwork for bibliophiles: Brian Dettmer's book autopsies.

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ils: At least she doesn't look totally stoned. Unlike Loretta Nall.

In (other?) news: the blogging scholarship enigma.

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Belief in EvPsych may be hardwired, study says. So awesome.

Best Virgin Maries ever.

[NakedCelt]

Rejoice, O ye fanfickers, for slash is now canon.

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Cool Houses Around the World.

A future ruled by killer robots edges a little bit closer. From the people who brought you the adorable iBot Roomba.

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Bringing over a couple of items from Ephemera that should be represented here: Theo Jansen's living sculptures and reanimated dogs. (I'm surprised the latter story didn't opt for the more obvious moniker "Frankenstein dogs," but there you have it.)

A fascinating NG article on memory, covering a woman with amazing autobiographical recall and the real-life version of Leonard from Memento.

Meet the arboreal mangrove killifish.

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The holy monkeys have spoken: Deputy Mayor S. S. Bajwa must die.

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The holy monkeys have spoken: Deputy Mayor S. S. Bajwa must die.

Which brings us to: how to fight monkeys.

[Aurora Rossa]

"The QI Book of Animal Ignorance is conceived as a sort of modern bestiary, one based on zoological fact rather than myth or hearsay. Unlike its medieval counterparts, it teaches only one unambiguous truth: that the word “natural” is meaningless. To prove it, here are 25 animals (the book features 100), all of them quite interesting. Their strategies for feeding, reproducing or just getting about are so utterly, gloriously perverse that you end up believing anything is possible."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet Scariest. Insect. Ever.

[Soap]

Yeah they look pretty bad. Worse than the toebiter. Ive heard of wasps that can shoot venom instead of using their stinger, but they're pretty short range and aren't really any more scary than stinging wasps.

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Some classic, straight-up funny from The Onion: Entire Precinct Made Up of Loose Cannons. I laughed, I cried, I hurled...

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Alfie Kohn argues against the idea of homework.

And, the iPod Death Clock.