Wonderful Life With The Elements

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Wonderful Life With The Elements is a new book by Japanese artist Bunpei Yorifuji. It's an illustrated guide to the periodic table that gives chemistry a friendly face. In this periodic table, every element is a unique character whose properties are represented visually: heavy elements are fat and man-made elements are robots.

Every detail is significant, from the length of an element's beard to the clothes on its back. You'll also learn about each element's discovery, its common uses, and other vital stats like whether it floats - or explodes - in water. In this periodic paradise, the elements are people too. And once you've met them, you'll never forget them.

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Banned iPhone 5 Promo

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Mugshot Doppelgänger

A tumblr blog that shows mugshots of today's celebrities as if they were taken in the 1920s. It's a world similar to our own just shifted a little. Mugshot Doppelgänger is created by Art Director Michael Jason Enriquez, an advertising student at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Caligornia.

Talking Elk

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Write Your Own Message In Real Galaxies

The Universe is full of galaxies, immense collections of stars, scattered throughout the vastness of space. To see them we need to use a telescope, and for all but the nearest that telescope needs to be pretty big to make out any details. Those details reveal there are galaxies shaped like animals and even the letters of the alphabet.

Ever wanted to see your name in lights? You can now write a message where the letters are shaped like galaxies. See the example below.

Sticky Thing

Throw it and see if it sticks.

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Before And After

Quite a change!

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French Bulldog Races

A funny commercial for Skechers GOrun running shoes.



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Burning Man 2012: Why The Nose?

Whythenose.com is dedicated to the act of wearing a clown nose everyday, in order to make people smile. When you wear it and you're waiting with a kind word, a laugh, a validation that you're not crazy, just happy, that's powerful powerful stuff.



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Djokovic Vs. Sharapova: Sharpshooting

A challenge between Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova. Who's the best sharpshooter?



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Become A Second Language Tutor

How about as the first language?

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Plane Spotting

Instructional video on how to tell if an aircraft is on a long haul flight. It's very simple when you know how.



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Human Wave Pool

This is in Tokio, Japan. It's a pool. There are lots of people.
But where is the water?



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Turtle

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Contingency Plan For The Zombie Apocalypse

A document that's an extension of the suggestions for defense policy brought forth in the United States Strategic Studies Institute paper, 'Known Unknowns: Unconventional Strategic Shocks in Defense Strategy Development.'

In addition to providing an in-depth review of U.S. government documents outlining official protocol for handling this type of crisis, it also touches on how actual emergency agencies would prevent the spread of infection and even what level of existing weaponry would be considered effective against roaming armies of the undead.

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Good Job!

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How Your Grandpa Got His LOLs

H. Fishlove & Co. is a manufacturer of novelties and gags. Toilets were Irving Fishlove's thing. Fishlove focused on toilets when, in 1924, TootsieToy started making doll-house furniture using a new injection-molding process. One of the items they made was a toilet. When Fishlove looked at that toilet, he didn't see doll-house furniture. He saw funny.

And so he started making all kinds of gags using this little toilet. The beauty of it was that Fishlove could use the same toilet in any gag box. His strategy was pretty ingenious, actually. He would just order tons of these toilets for gag boxes. All he had to do was change the wording on the box.

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How To Make Ice Cubes

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Someone at Food.com made a recipe for ice cubes.

I am publishing this recipe because I am sure that there are other families who have members who don't know how or have forgotten how to make ice when the ice-tray is empty.

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What A Surprise

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The Page Turner

How to turn a newspaper page. The Page Turner is a contraption by Joseph Herscher.



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