The BBC has a new program called Super Smart Animals. In their first episode they showed Ayumu, a chimpanzee that can memorise the location of a random sequence of numbers in less time than it takes a human to blink: 60 milliseconds. More »
Forget about the 1km high Kingdom Tower. There will be a building higher than that. This is it, the Azerbaijan Tower. It will be 50m higher, have 189 floors and looks like a beautifully shiny glass, steel and concrete monolith of crap. More »
Flight Global’s Jon Ostrower posted videos of three different kinds of aeroplane approaches and landings. The first one is the most spectacular, as a Airbus A320 approaches Bhutan’s airport zooming, close to 3000m mountains. Fast forward to 5:39. More »
This image was captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter while flying over the Bonneveille Crater on January 29, 2012. There’s a spaceship hidden in plain view, sightly red because of the planet’s dust. Can you see it? More »
Following iPad 3 introduction reports, Apple is trading at almost $US460 per share, a $US16 boost. That means it’s worth $US459.82 billion dollars. That’s more than Microsoft and Google combined. More »
Scientists believe that this is the animal from which everything else evolved. The first multicellular being that spawned every living being in this world through billions of mutations, from fish to amphibians to reptiles to birds to mammals to you. More »
I’m sure Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos doesn’t know about this, but he’s funding a seemingly ultra-Christian search engine that is anti-abortion and anti-evolution. It’s called ChaCha, and it powers Android’s most popular Siri competitor, Iris. More »
Screw the F-35 and the Navy’s railguns! This air cannon that can shoot marshmallows as far as 23m is what the Pentagon means. Or at least, that’s what Obama needs, perhaps his most powerful weapon to fight Romney. More »
