Cool Finds
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What’s Their Bacon Number? Let Me Google That For You
If you've ever wondered what someone's Bacon number is, you now have to look no further than a quick Google search
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Mona Lisa’s Body Might Soon Be Exhumed
The woman suspected to be the subject of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous painting might be buried in a church in Florence
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An Ingenious Way of Shaming Politicians Into Fixing Potholes
A group of annoyed citizens in Yekaterinburg, Russia, reached their wits' end with the many potholes dotting city roads, so decided to take action
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Farming Family Makes High-Tech Crop Circles
An Alberta family won the Guinness World Record for turning the corn field into a QR code
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The World’s Oldest Color Movie Dates to 1901
A goldfish, a macaw, and some happy children were captured in color video from the early 1900s
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This 6-Year Old Helped Build a Supercomputer out of LEGO And $25 Computer Chips
Sixty-four Raspberry Pi chips and a LEGO rack makes a surprisingly effective computer
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Don’t Trust Robots? The Pentagon Doesn’t Either
Not everyone at the Pentagon is ready to embrace the new robot army
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Meet the World’s Newest Monkey Species
Lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the world's newest species of monkey
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Slinkys Can Float in the Air (For a Second)
Further proof that Slinkys are magical
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Russian Mammoth Discovery May Lead to Furry Clones
Scientists discovered the remains of a woolly mammoth in Yakutia region on Russia’s Arctic coast
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Could Spider Venom Be the Next Viagra?
Researchers are studying the surprising side effects of the banana spider's bite
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Microsoft Wants to Build You a Holodeck
Video game designers are pushing away from their old best friend, the television
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The World’s Closest International Relationships, According to Facebook
An interactive map depicts the Facebook friendships between countries
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Say Hello to Your New Octopod Overlord
Designer Sean Charlesworth has built a robot octopus out of 3-D printed parts
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From Tweets to Tunes – Musicians Sonify Twitter
A group of musicians is reading your Tweets, and turning them into music
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Stop Trying So Hard – Hacks Might Be Happier Than Artists
Being an artist is hard, giving up that dream might make you happiera
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Solar System Lollipops And Other Food That Looks Like Things
Food that looks like things, things that look like food, and food that look like other food. Chaos!
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Scientists Don’t Sleep
Scientific researchers continue working into the wee hours of the morning, but the experiments they really want to do would take 1,000 lifetimes
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Three Decades After Last Sighting, Japanese River Otter Declared Extinct
Japan bids its Japanese River Otter a collective 'sayonara' this week after the country's Ministry of the Environment officially declared the species extinct
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The Navy’s Future Is Filled With Laser Guns
The US Navy is driving the push in the development of laser-based weaponry
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