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The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:50:26 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: This is a web jewel: Funny, comprehensive and interesting. Explore and enjoy.

Clip Source: www.world-sex-records.com

The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records is a compilation of well over 400 sexual superlatives from all around the world.

Discover the biggest, longest, sexiest, tallest, smallest, shortest, highest, _lowest, fastest, slowest, rarest, oldest, youngest, happiest, first, last, maximum, minimum, largest, oddest... and most unusual sex record known.

Choose from one of the many categories below (or use the menu left), or try searching top-right, for nearly any keyword.

Sexual techniques & performance

Most bizarre aphrodisiac

Fastest achieved female orgasm

Earliest account of the dildo
[more...]

The Arts and Culture

First erotic magazine for women

Most famous female nude photographer

First presentation of lesbianism
[more...]

Sexology

First female sexologist

Most bizarre marriage prerequisite

First sex institute
[more...]

Tags: sex, sexuality

5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:47:30 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead
clipper's remarks: ...Think about that when you're walking around the mall: Eight out of ten of those people you see would torture the sh*t out of a puppy if a dude in a lab coat asked them to.

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The Asch Conformity Experiment

Subjects were told that they would be taking part in a vision test

everybody else in the room other than the subject was in on it, and they were were told to give obviously wrong answers

32 percent of subjects would answer incorrectly if they saw that three others in the classroom gave the same wrong answer

The Good Samaritan Experiment

subjects would pass a person slumped in an alleyway, who looked to be in need of help.

only 10 percent would stop to give any aid

Bystander Apathy Experiment

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Stanford Prison Experiment

volunteers were all male college students who were then divided arbitrarily into 12 guards and 12 prisoners.

It took about one day for every subject to suddenly go as insane as a shit-house rat.

Milgram Experiment

The subject was told that whenever the other guy gave an incorrect answer, he was to press a button that would give him an electric shock.

Subjects will mindlessly deliver pain to an innocent stranger

Tags: science, health, mental health, psychology

Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites (2)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:02:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Don't miss "Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites (1)"
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... You'll see a large collection of Web applications and tech sites, excellent blogs, offbeat social networks, and, as always, a handful of addictive Flash games for those slow days at work.

Some of these sites are completely under the radar and get very little traffic. Others are hugely popular within a specific demographic. But all of them deserve to be in your bookmarks.

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Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites

TheThingsIWant.com

Ugallery.com

Wikitravel

Yapta

Infected or Not

DZone

DaFont

afreeDLL

InviteShare

MajorGeeks.com

OldVersion.com

ProgrammableWeb

Kongregate

K2xl

Armor Games

Website Grader

All Things Digital

Shacknews

Line Rider

LikeBetter

Anything But iPod

Everything USB

GoodCleanTech

iLounge

Download Squad

AppScout

TechMeme

Phone Scoop

Uncov

Mashable

MakeUseOf.com

eHub

Ustream.tv

PrezVid

Dabble

Eyejot

Bubbl.us

VideoJug

uLinkx

Picnik

Only2Clicks

Meebo

MediaFire

Zoho

Zamzar

Wetpaint

Remember the Milk

Laugh at High Gas Prices With a 282-MPG VW

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:25:27 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.wired.com

With gas prices going through the roof and regulators requiring cars to be ever more miserly, Volkswagen is bringing new meaning to the term "fuel efficiency" with a bullet-shaped microcar that gets a stunning ~~282~~ 235 mpg.

Volkswagen's had its super-thrifty One-Liter Car concept vehicle -- so named because that's how much fuel it needs to go 100 kilometers -- stashed away for six years. The body's made of carbon fiber to minimize weight (the entire car weighs just 660 pounds) and company execs didn't expect the material to become cheap enough to produce the car until 2012.

According to Britain's Car magazine, VW has approved a plan to build a limited number of One-Liters in 2010. They'll probably be built in the company's prototype shop, which has the capacity to build as many as 1,000 per year. That's not a lot, but it's enough to help VW get a lot of attention while showing how much light weight and an efficient engine can achieve.

Tags: wv, cars, energy, gas, fuel efficiency

Sixteenth-century "skyscrapers" in Yemen

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:56:17 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: Mud-brick buildings, four to five hundred years old, mostly seven to nine stories. Good photos.

Clip Source: www.toxel.com

World’s Oldest Skyscrapers

Shibam, a town in Hadramawt, Yemen, is considered to have the world’s oldest skyscrapers. It has about 7,000 inhabitants and all of the town’s house are made out of mud bricks. Some of these structures rise 5 to 9 stories high.

This technique of building was implemented in order to protect residents from Bedouin attacks. While Shibam has existed for around 2,000 years, most of the city’s houses come mainly from the 16th century.

Shibam is often called “the Manhattan of the desert”.

Tags: via:friendfeed, architecture, photos, cool, random_sh!t, middle_east

Original "Metropolis" Found After 80 Years

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:26:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "But a private collector carried an original version to Argentina in 1928, where it has stayed, Felix-Didier said. "

Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

Lost scenes from the sci-fi classic "Metropolis," recently discovered in the archives of a Buenos Aires museum, were shown to journalists for the first time in decades on Thursday.

A long-lost original cut of the 1927 silent film sat for 80 years in a private collection and then in the Museum of Cinema in Buenos Aires, where it was discovered in April with scratched images that hadn't been seen before.

Museum director Paula Felix-Didier said theirs is the only copy of German director Fritz Lang's complete film.

"This is the version Fritz Lang intended," said Martin Koerber, a curator at the Deutsche Kinemathek film museum in Berlin, Germany.

"Metropolis," written by Lang and his actress wife Thea von Harbou, depicts a 21st century world divided between a class of underworld workers and the "thinkers" above who control them.

distributors cut Lang's three-and-a-half-hour masterpiece into the shorter version since viewed by millions worldwide.

Tags: movie, film, sci-fi, science fiction, history

Stem Cells 2.0: Scientists Make Revolutionary Advance

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:07:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

A while back scientists were making revolutionary breakthroughs in stem cell research. Unfortunately they fell foul of interpretations of thousand year old texts in foreign languages, and a government with the scientific understanding of a squashed grape said "Sorry, our kind and loving God requires that people continue to suffer from Parkinson's, anemia, and various other horrible ailments." Luckily, scientists are awesome and did the obvious thing - make ANOTHER revolutionary breakthrough to get around the problem.

The previous problem with stem cells was that they came from aborted or otherwise unviable fetuses. Note that these fetuses had been terminated anyway, and the only issue now was whether it was more moral to chuck the goo in a bin and burn it, or use it to help cure the sick. The ethical answer, apparently, isn't what you think.

This issue can now be sidestepped with the creation of induced pluripotent stem cells (IPS) from any kind of tissue

Tags: stem cells, breakthrough, medicine

"Exploding Asteroid" Theory Strengthened By New Evidence

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:40:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

ScienceDaily (July 3, 2008) — Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America -- when the end of the last Ice Age unexpectedly turned into a phase of extinction for animals and humans – to a cataclysmic comet or asteroid explosion over top of Canada.

A comet/asteroid theory advanced by Arizona-based geophysicist Allen West in the past two years says that an object from space exploded just above the earth’s surface at that time over modern-day Canada, sparking a massive shock wave and heat-generating event that set large parts of the northern hemisphere ablaze, setting the stage for the extinctions.

"The kind of evidence we are finding does suggest that climate change at the end of the last Ice Age was the result of a catastrophic event," Tankersley says.

Tags: ice age, catastrophe, asteroids, comets, climate change

Torture and Imprisonment of Children

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:42:27 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dci-pal.org

Israeli military continues to torture Palestinian children

On the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

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Clip Source: www.dci-pal.org

In one case, Israeli interrogators beat 15-year-old Ibrahim S. over the course of several hours. Ibrahim was then threatened with sexual assault for the purpose of extracting his confession. The accusation, which Ibrahim kept denying, was that he had thrown stones at the Israeli army when it invaded his village the day before. A Military Court accepted Ibrahim’s confession and he was imprisoned in Israel for five months.

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A 10-year-old boy was subjected to physical abuse amounting to torture for 2.5 hours by Israeli soldiers who stormed his family’s shop on 11 June, seeking information on the location of a handgun. The boy was repeatedly beaten, slapped and punched in the head and stomach, forced to hold a stress position for half and hour, and threatened. He was deeply shocked and lost two molar teeth as a result of the assault.

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case, 14-year-old Mohammad E.

Tags: israel, torture, children, prisoners

Weirdest and Ugliest-Looking Animals on Earth

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:09:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.scienceray.com

Their weird appearance is probably one of the ways they sustain their species on earth. Therefore, we should pay equal treatment to then while dealing with these weird animals just like we would treat other living organisms. They do have their rights to ensure their continuity of species on earth. Neither graceful nor beautiful, these animals are nonetheless very unique and remarkable animals.

Matamata Turtle

Dobsonfly

Monkfish

Russian Wheat Aphid

Almiqui

Weevil

Clip Source: www.scienceray.com

The Big Head Turkey Vulture

Hawaiian Hoary Bat

Warthog

Muscovy duck

Ayer-ayer

The Philippine Tarsier

New sucker-footed bat

Star-Nosed Mole

Frilled lizard

Clip Source: www.scienceray.com

Komondor

Yeti Crab

Axoloti

Angora rabbit

Dumbo octopus

The Blobfish

The Proboscis monkey

Hagfish

Purple frog

Oyster Toadfish

Unknown creature

This creature is unknown to date. It has all its body enveloped with a muscular flesh. It is not only weird at its appearance, but also has an ugly look that no one will wish to rear it as a pet. It likes to lay its body upon a bulk in a cool and moist place.

Japan Creates Mega Solar City -Leads World

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:06:39 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

In an effort to create one of Japan's greenest urban areas and clean up its air by reducing CO2 emissions, Japan announced that two gigantic solar power generation plants will be installed in Sakai City.

The title of the project is quite a mouth full – the Sakai City Waterfront Mega Solar Power Generation Plan. Say that three times fast. I guess the title has to be fitting for the size of the project, however, because the two facilities will have a 28,000 kW combined maximum capacity and will help to reduce CO2 emissions by a whopping 10,000 tons annually. The city will work in conjunction with Sharp Japan and Kansai Electric Power, with Sharp planning on using thin-film silicon solar modules.

Japan is fast becoming the world's solar capital. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., leaders in the U.S. solar energy industry blasted the U.S. government on Monday for a freeze on applications for new solar projects on public land in six Western states.

Tags: solar power, japan, energy, co2